Product Choice: Disinfectant
When the entire world is collectively feeling major anxiety because of an air-borne virus, the ability to ensure our clients that we’ve done the proper research on this product, above all, matters.
We offer a few different packages that include disinfecting of some kind. The Routine Clean package will get your light switches and door knobs disinfected, for example. The most important part of your disinfecting strategy isn’t really what product you use, it’s that you use it as directed. Why? Because if you don’t use it as directed, you might as well use just water and vinegar, which would be just as effective as using a disinfectant without following the directions and the former option would mean a lot less chemicals in your home.
We choose Clorox for our disinfectant of choice here at SCS. The reason is pretty simple. Clorox has to remain wet for less time than alternatives in order for it to disinfect. Clorox must remain wet on a surface for 4 minutes in order for it to properly disinfect, whereas Lysol takes two and a half times that long. Waiting ten minutes for a surface to be disinfected would seriously slow down our cleaning teams.
We provide bins that look like these full of all of the possible supplies a cleaner could need for the room(s) they’ve been assigned to for that day and allow them to choose which products they want to choose. Some cleaners prefer wipes such as these whereas other members of our team opt to use Clorox spray and rags.
Reading labels is an integral part of the decision process. If the product you’re considering is able to kill the virus that causes COVID-19, it will almost certainly be listed on the front of the packaging, as that is a huge selling point currently.
We opt not to disinfect everything we clean because some germs are useful for building a healthy immune system. For that reason, we choose to disinfect specifically the surfaces that see the most traffic from the highest variety of sources. Doorkbons and light switches are touched by almost everyone that enters your home and can hold onto germs you may not want to be exposed to so those are the two most popular surfaces to regularly disinfect.
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