What Every Pet Owner Should Know About Keeping Floors Clean?
If you own a dog, then you know about the kisses, hugs, and unrelenting devotion our beloved pets set aside for us. But come on with the wagging tails, sloppy kisses, and inexhaustible energy comes the catch that you must maintain your home, your floors in particular, spotless. Fur, dirty marks, spills, and the occasional mishap turn floor cleaning into a full-time job. No need to live like this.
Whether you're tackling hard floors or in need of carpet cleaning in Connecticut, we've got you covered. Here, we're learning effective, dog-tolerant strategies and techniques for cleaning your floors with dogs without losing your mind or your Saturday afternoon to cleaning.
1. Choose the Right Flooring
First of all before you can even start to think about cleaning strategies, you need to start with the basics: your flooring. Some are just more dog-tolerant than others.
Vinyl and tile floors: Durable, stain-resistant, and easy to mop.
Laminate floors: Sacrifice on appearance-and-feel but scratch-proof.
Hardwood : Engineered or sealed hardwood over softwood, which scratches far too easily.
Cleaning carpet is tough with pets: hair, odor, and dandruff get trapped deep in the fibers, making it a difficult task that demands constant effort and the right tools to manage. The pet-friendly floor option makes the rest of the cleaning easy so it doesn't take so long.
2. Grooming Is Cleaning
Daily grooming is quite possibly the simplest method to reduce pet hair and grime from coming into your home. Brushing your dog every couple of days or even daily, depending on breed, can significantly reduce shedding.
Brush your dog outside as often as possible in an effort to keep stray hairs from finding their way back onto your floor. And wash their paws as well. Clean your dog's paws with a damp cloth or pet wipes when bringing them in from outdoors. It prevents the dirt, allergens, and germs from traveling onto your floor.
3. Get an Amazing Vacuum
If you're seriously committed to clean floors, then an amazing vacuum cleaner is your new best friend. As you go shopping for your vacuum, remember the following:
Pet hair models that are specifically designed to handle pet hair
HEPA-filtered models to trap dander and allergens
Tangle-free brush roll and high-suction models
A robot vacuum will also clean daily hair accumulation with little effort on your part.
4. Mop Smart, Not Hard
Vacuum is best at cleaning up hair and dandruff, but mopping hides messes your vacuum can't get, such as grimy paw prints and slobber.
Repair a mop with:
Washable microfiber pad
Non-toxic, pet-safe floor cleaner
Slip-preventing, drying abilities
Choose tile and sealed floor steam mops, chemical-free and effective at killing germs without the toxic residue your pet can lick off.
5. Set Floor Rules and Zones
Dog training prevents a lot of floor destruction. Restrict pets from carpets and delicate floors with indoor baby gates or pet fences. Establish eating areas, play areas, and sleeping areas.
Examples
Use mats under food and water bowls to contain spills.
Position a washable plush mat or dog bed in front of your dog to reward your dog to stay still.
Display a wait at the door and wash your paws on coming inside your dog.
They are cleaner overall and not as much trouble to clean up.
6. Clean Spills As They Happen
Regardless of training, even very well-trained dogs, pups or adults, will make mistakes. Spills taken care of at the moment won't have stains or odors.
Correct cleanup procedures:
1. Blot with paper towels.
2. Drench with a cleaner which will dissolve pet accidents.
3. Don't scrub with ammonia-type cleaners, these have actually caused the dogs to return to the same location.
The sooner you can clean, the less the floor will stain or hold an after odour.
7. Design Pet-Friendly Entrance
Having a dog doorway or mudroom pays dividends, especially when clean floors are the dogs top problem.
Add these to your home:
Wipe mat or towel
Leash and grooming supply storage area
Sweeping dirt with washable runner or area rug
This is where the transition occurs from outside to your clean floors inside.
8. Plan a Cleaning
Frequency is the trick, as with all else in the house. With frequency, easy, fur and dirt pushed. Floor cleaning and disinfection are essential components of maintaining animal health status and meeting regulatory requirements, especially in homes with pets.
Sneak peek here:
Daily: Paw wiped, swept, or vacuumed high-traffic.
Weekly: Rug or carpet deep cleaned, floor vacuumed.
Monthly: Pet bed vacuumed and area rugs.
Breaking up baby work into daily tasks is less intimidating than trying to scrape by in deep-clean hell.
Conclusion
You don't have a dog to dream of a germ-free house with no germ bubbles. A little creative futzing and some good old-fashioned maintenance, and pet-occupied clean floors are a heck of a lot less hassle and your home will be warmer for all claws.
It's not perfection, it's a clean, snuggly, cozy home for you and your pet.
Barking mad to even suggest dog messes as a step! Contact us today at Uncle Sam’s Contractors for your queries.
