--- title: "Sanitize Your Home for Flu Season: Top Cleaning Tips" description: "Keep your rental home germ-free during flu season! Learn which overlooked surfaces to sanitize to reduce harmful bacteria and protect your health all year." url: https://realpmgold.multisites.ai/sanitize-waldorf-home-flu-season-661 publisher: Real Property Management Gold phone: +1-301-392-2172 assessment: https://realpmgold.multisites.ai/contact-us#assessment --- # Keep Your Home Germ-Free: Essential Sanitizing Tips for Flu Season in Waldorf OwnersPublished November 8, 2024Updated May 1, 20252 min read ![An individual using a cloth to wipe a light switch, highlighting the importance of cleanliness in everyday objects.](https://realpmgold.multisites.ai/media/b1-santize-home-6ae349.webp)Nearly all people grasp well that regular cleaning is an effective way to keep your rental home safe during flu season. Though, be aware, cleaning just the obvious dirt may not be adequate enough. Doorknobs, light switches, computer keyboards, smartphones, tablets, television remotes, and game controllers are easy to miss when cleaning the house. If you are not sanitizing them regularly, they may collect more harmful bacteria than your toilet. ## How dirty are standard handheld devices? It is very much recommended that you regularly clean your smartphone, tablet, keyboard, mouse, television remote, and gaming controller. Since these electronic devices are touched so often each day, particularly phones, controllers, and remotes, they can have [ten times the amount of bacteria](https://www.propertytalk.com/blog/how-many-germs-are-on-your-home-tech/) found on other surfaces in your home! Evaluate it closely: when, in any case, you touch something and then touch your phone or computer keyboard, you’ve transferred bacteria from one surface to the other. The more constantly you touch a particular surface, the more bacteria will collect there, hastily becoming a serious health hazard. In the period of flu season, it’s easy to pick up germs and, without knowing, pass them along to others by sharing devices, controllers, even the TV remote. This is what makes cleaning your dirty devices basically important. If you aren’t cleaning your devices every day or after every use, the chances are quite high that they might get you or your family sick. ## Surfaces you touch every day Have you ever tried to closely follow everything you touch around the house daily? You may be astonished! High-touch surfaces, first and foremost, get a lot of use but, in truth, may not make it onto your general cleaning lists. Take for example, doorknobs, cabinet handles, window blind controls, and light switches are all touched daily, often many different times daily. If you haven’t wiped these surfaces down with a germ-killing solution, they are more than likely harboring high levels of harmful bacteria. Studies have found these surfaces consistently contain far [more bacteria per square inch](https://www.initial.com/sg/blog/washroom-hygiene/10-everyday-items-dirtier-toilet-bowl) than your toilet. Sanitizing high-touch surfaces in your home is especially critical at the same time as flu season. But, in actuality, these surfaces cannot straightforwardly be sprayed with liquid cleaners or disinfectants. Spraying anything on your tech devices will harm them. Instead, you can procure wipes designed to clean electronic devices. These wipes typically contain alcohol, which kills harmful bacteria. For other high-touch surfaces around the house, put into use a microfiber cloth and spray a disinfectant solution on the cloth, not straightforwardly on the light switch or doorknob. A commercial cleaning solution that specifically says it will kill bacteria will work for your home’s plastic or other durable surfaces. Just don’t use harsh chemicals on painted surfaces, wood, or natural stone, as the chemicals will damage these areas. Aside from high-touch surfaces, the CDC recommends washing your hands frequently and [cleaning all surfaces in your home with a disinfectant](https://www.cdc.gov/hygiene/about/when-and-how-to-clean-and-disinfect-your-home.html) best for the type of surface you’re cleaning. Just be conscientious to have proper ventilation and observe the label directions, makes no difference what cleaning agent you like best. By taking these extra preventive actions, you can keep your home as germ-free as possible during flu season and year round. Are you in the market for a new rental home? 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