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Various functional rooms in the house III
Care of sitting room and food store in the house
Sitting room: It requires daily cleaning e.g. airing, sweeping, and dusting of the room at every interval.
Daily cleaning/care of the sitting room
- Open the doors and windows to air the room.
- Empty the wastepaper basket and ash tray.
- Sweep the floor. Reach under all places of furniture.
- Tidy up the cushion and arrange arms and head rests on the chairs.
- Arrange furniture and other items properly.
- Put fresh flower in the vase if necessary.
Weekly care/cleaning of the sitting room
- Open the doors and windows to air the room.
- Remove curtains, table clothes, and cushion covers. Wash them if they are dirty. Otherwise air them properly.
- Take all small pieces of furniture outside, clean each according to type.
- Take out the floor covering and remove dirt,
- Remove larger pieces of furniture from the wall.
- Sweep down the ceiling, walls, doors, doors to remove dust and cobwebs. Pay attention to the ceiling fan
- Remove and clean all pictures and wall ornaments.
- Clean the window according to type.
- Clean and polish larger pieces of furniture in the room.
- Clean the floor according to type.
- Lay the floor covering when the floor is properly dry.
- Replace all the pieces of furniture neatly.
- Hang the curtains neatly if they were washed, remember to iron them properly.
- Clean the flower vase according to type. Put in fresh flower and water.
Food store: It requires daily and weekly cleaning e.g. airing, removal of cobwebs, sweeping, dusting, and arranging the food stuffs
Cleaning/care of food store
- Sweep the store every morning.
- Arrange food items and containers properly.
- Clean the store very thoroughly once every week
Bathroom and toilet: It require daily and weekly cleaning e.g. sweeping, airing, scrubbing, using disinfectant.
Cleaning/care of bathroom
- Remove all items from their usual spot.
- Dust and sweep to get rid of dust
- Apply cleaner to shower and bathtub.
- Tackle other surfaces.
- Mix cleaning solution for floor.
- Hit the shower and bathtub.
- Finish the shower and bathtub: Replace all items you removed, wiping them
- Clean the vanity area. Spray the all-purpose cleaner on the sink,
- Clean the toilet.
- Mop the floor: Submerge your mop into the bucket of cleaning solution, squeeze out excess water, then clean the bathroom floor. Once dry, replace the trashcan and your freshly laundered rugs.
Quiz
- Write the cleaning/care of the following rooms:
- Store
- Sitting room
- Bathroom
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