Spring Cleaning Tips to Avoid Allergies

5/19/2021 (Permalink)

Need a little extra help this spring? Give SERVPRO of Franklin County a call.

After a long winter, spring is finally here. If you’re anything like us, you have plenty of work to do around your house. 

Some of that work consists of making your home a safe environment against allergies.

Here are a few tips to help keep allergens out of your home this spring. 

• Hepa-Vac Your Home

Spring is allergy season, which means it’s important to suck away all the dust and dander that has formed over the winter.  

A hepa-vac is your best bet to get rid of all the dust that has piled up.  

Why use a hepa-vac instead of a standard vacuum? 

Hepa-vacs are much more effective in keeping in what they pick up. Dirt goes in, and it doesn’t come out. 

Hepa-vacs will get rid of all the cobwebs and dust in crevices and other hard to reach places like ceiling fans. 

If you don’t have a hepa-vac, at the very least use a vacuum with attachments like dusting brushes or hoses that can clean more than just your floor. 

• Purify the Air

It can be as simple as leaving your windows open for a few hours to release stagnant air that has filled your home throughout the winter, or you can use an air purifier to remove airborne particles.

This is also the time to swap out any dirty filters.

Also, if it’s been more than three years it may be beneficial to get an air duct cleaning.

• Clean Your Carpets and Upholstery 

Again, a standard vacuum won’t cut it here.

To properly deep clean your carpets and upholstery, it’s important to use more thorough methods like hot water extraction. 

Carpets need to be maintained regularly. Waiting until carpets look dirty can end up with the carpet being too damaged to ever be fully restored. Dirt builds up in layers, and when a carpet looks dirty you are only seeing the dirt at the tips of the fibers. 

While upholstery can be cleaned effectively by hand or by washing machine, it will pale in comparison to a hot water extraction cleaning. 

The professionals at SERVPRO of Franklin County can be used to thoroughly clean your carpet and upholstery. 

• Wash Your Pet’s Bed

An overlooked source for dust is pet bedding.

This can easily be cleaned, either in the washing machine on the highest setting, or by placing the bedding in the hot sun or the freezing cold at least once every two weeks. You may also want to consider switching your pet’s bedding to a wool material, as it is resistant to dust mites.