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5 Best K-Pop Songs to Listen to While Cleaning

5 Best K-Pop Songs to Listen to While Cleaning

Get in the groove cleaning your place with these 5 K-Pop songs that will surely get you moving, cleaning and disinfecting your place stress-free.

Doing a home cleaning chore doesn’t have to be a drag, cleaning while listening to great music will help you turn a chore into a dance party!

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1. NCT U 엔시티 유 ‘Make A Wish (Birthday Song)’

Top of our list is NCT’s “Make A Wish”. Start off slow as you sweep the ceiling and overhead cabinets for cobwebs. Sweep through the beat and next thing you know, you got the room covered. Always start on top and always be gentle so as not to strain your body while cleaning. Enjoy the beat and go ahead if you feel like dancing a little.

2. Red Velvet 레드벨벳 ‘Bad Boy’ 

Next on our list is Red Velvet’s “Bad Boy”. Let’s continue with the slow rhythm while sweeping or vacuuming the floor. Going slow with sweeping or vacuuming would mean making sure you are getting all those dust and “bad boys” down (pun intended).

3. NCT DREAM 엔시티 드림 ‘We Go Up’

Let’s get things moving faster with the next song, NCT’s “We Go Up”. This song will get you amped up and get you scrubbing walls and wiping counter tops like a DJ. After giving attention to your floor, time to go up back to table surfaces and kitchen sink.

4. TWICE “MORE & MORE”

Keep the energy flowing with our fourth song, TWICE’s “More & More”. Get some extra boost while you make the bed, fold those clothes and sheets, and getting your table organized. This song will get you cleaning “more & more”.

5. BTS (방탄소년단) ‘Dynamite’

Cool down and appreciate your work while listening to the last song on our list from BTS, “Dynamite”. After doing a hard work cleaning your place, after exploding your energy like “dynamite” to get things in order, you deserve doing a victory dance with this song.

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How To: Clean Up Your Home After Flood

How To: Clean Up Your Home After Flood

Cleaning up your own home is quite a challenge already, much more if you need it cleaned after it got flooded. A flooded home is a disaster in itself, but something you can manage with the right people and equipment.

Every year, the Philippines encounter 20 to 30 storms and typhoon, not including the days with heavy monsoon rains. Despite the speed of home development and road improvements, there are still homes that experience being flooded yearly. Here are some steps that can help you clean up your place after it gets flooded.

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START WITH SAFETY IN MIND

There are a lot of safety issues when your place starts to get flooded. You have to keep in mind the safety of your family, pets and other property. Typically some Filipinos start moving appliances to their second floor area (if they have) or start raising the base of their furnitures and appliances so that flood waters will not destroy them. Apart from these, make sure to remember these:

  • Switch off your circuit breaker to avoid electrocution and damage to your electronics
  • Wear boots to avoid wading in flood water during flood and during cleaning
  • Wear rubber gloves to prevent your hands from touching dirty flood water during the flood and during cleaning
  • Wear a mask to avoid inhaling bacteria and aerosol found in flood waters
  • Keep children and pets away from flood and debris left after the flood

Some of the hazards you can encounter cleaning after a flood includes:

  • Leptospirosis (still present even if there are very little flood water left)
  • Tetanus (bacteria called Clostridium tetani is very common in soil and flood water)
  • Electrocution
  • Cuts and bruises from glass and sharp debris washed in by the flood
  • Diarrhea (if you accidentally touch your mouth without washing your hands after cleaning)
  • Intestinal parasites like amoeba and worms
  • Respiratory diseases brought about by spores rising from the flood

Some possible property damage you can encounter after a flood:

  • Burnt out busted fuse in breakers and appliances
  • Water damaged engines in cars
  • Watermarks on walls and furniture
  • Floor erossion

WATER WASH

As soon as you have determined that it is safe to clean your place already, and after wearing safety equipments like gloves, boots and face mask, get a water hose and plug it to your faucet. Start spraying water from inner most part of your home going outside to wash away mud and dirt. Since water got those in, water should get it out. Make sure your curcuit breakers are still switched off so that you won’t have to worry about your power outlets. Use flash light if there is not enough light to work with, or better if you do this during daytime.

It may sound like a joke that after water comes in your home, you use water to flush it out, but this is easier than using a plastic broom or walis tambo to sweep out the debris. If the surface is still muddy and dries up, it would be harder to remove them, so keeping the mud and dirt wet will help you in cleaning and keeping your surfaces protected.

Flood in your home would most likely leave thick mud that is hard to remove. It is easier and faster to clean it using water.

SOAP AND RINSE

Once your place is clear of mud and other flood debris, you will then need to wash your flooded surfaces with soap. Combine 2 part all-purpose cleaner and 1 part bleach (chlorine or chlorox) with 10 parts water, and use this mixture to soap up surfaces. This will be your liquid cleaner and disinfectant. Spread out the mixture and scrub a little to remove other dirt that wasn’t washed away by the water.

This soap and bleach mixture can help greatly reduce the amount of bacteria and parasite eggs on surfaces, ensuring that there won’t be any health hazards left by the flood. Too much soap would make rinsing hard and too much bleach may cause respiratory problems, so it is best to keep these 2 dilluted.

Rinse surfaces to remove the soap and bleach by spraying water again. Rinse thoroughly to remove any other residue, be it the soap or flood debris. 

MOP DRY

Finally, at this point, things will look back in order, except everything is wet with clean water. Using a mop, wipe all floor surfaces, and a clean wash cloth to wipe walls to get rid of the remaining water. Mop at the same direction – from the innermost part of your home going out to your main door or gate.

Some traditional Filipinos use plastic brooms or walis tambo to sweep away water, though effective, can cause back problems and re-contamination. If you use plastic brooms or walis tambo to remove dirt, chances are, those same dirt are still in them, causing the newly cleaned surface to be dirty again.

Flood affects up to 700 areas across 6 regions in the Philippines, with damages amounting to up to P1.37 billion. (source)

FLOOD PROOF YOUR HOME

Finally your place is cleaned, and you don’t want to go through the same ordeal again, not anytime soon, not ever. Though you can hire a professional cleaning company to do your home cleaning after a flood, it is still best to make measures to prevent it in the first place. Here are some tips to help you flood proof your home:

  • Sandbag your entrance
  • Elevate your garage floor
  • Keep your ground floor exclusively for your garage only (all other rooms on the second floor or higher)
  • Join a clean up drive in your place to declog drainages

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Preparing Your Office for the New Normal

Preparing Your Office for the New Normal

The pandemic has already made things hard for everybody, getting back and transitioning to the “new normal” at work should be made easy, but can it? Depending on how prepared your office is, going back to work under the “new normal” would easy or difficult. This is why planning how to return to work under the new normal is important.

In our latest COVID-19 update, we have elaborated the steps we did before and during the time we transitioned to the General Community Quarantine (GCQ). Though this is us, and the approach we did may not apply to other businesses, we are going to share below common and helpful tips to help your business bounce back to the new normal. These are based on the InterAgency Task Force (IATF) guidelines and the good practices we observed during the time we did office cleaning to our clients.

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Audit what you have

Check what you have, in terms of available health related equipment and facilities, and which employees are willing to report back to work. This will help you sort out what else you need to buy and would be cost efficient eventually. The number of foot disinfection pad would depend on the number of entrance and the number of people reporting to work. Thermal scanner or infrared thermometers and alcohol dispensers as well would depend on the number of foot traffic.

There will be consumables like alcohol/sanitizers and disinfectant wipes you will need to consider. You might want to add batteries for the thermal scanner in the list as well

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Send out info

It is in the human nature that we take change very hard, but it can be less hard if we are informed at an earlier time. Send out an email (or a chat message) to all concerned regarding all the changes that are being made under the “new normal”. Let them know what they need to expect when they arrive at the office, from the door to their table.

The information may include steps like accomplishing the visitor’s checklist honestly (very important!), wearing their face mask (and face shield if needed) inside the office premises at all times, observing physical distancing, and reporting areas or instances that can pose as a health hazard to everyone in the office. If you are going to implement one-way traffic directions within the office premises, this would be a good time to orient them so they will be able to follow.

Requiring your employees to secure a health certificate from their respective barangay or city health office is also good, and you may opt to schedule a monthly rapid test if your office budget permits – including these details would be great in your email.

Do a general cleaning of your office

Your office may have been empty for at least 3 to 6 months, and may or may not have any coronavirus in it, but surely, there are already dust and other nasty things in there that could pose as other health risks like allergies and other forms of infection. Get your office cleaned thoroughly before returning back to normal or partial operations.

If you need a walk through or a checklist on what you need for your office general cleaning, check out our ultimate office cleaning checklist, or, if you find it very difficult to do, you can always outsource your office cleaning.

Do you want to learn more on how CMDA Cleaning Services can help you, your family, or your office fight against COVID-19? Send us an email at inquiry@cmdacleaning.com, or call/text us on any number mentioned above.

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Difference of Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting Spaces

Difference of Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting Spaces

Every time there is a health scare or crisis like this Coronavirus pandemic, we all get into panic cleaning of our place. We want to be sure that every inch of our space is cleaned, disinfected and sanitized. But what is really the difference of cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting? Are they all the same? Is one more important than the other?

Cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting is a broad approach in helping prevent the spread of diseases, not just COVID-19, but others as well. Though they are used interchangeably, the difference of each can help ensure health and safety of occupants in their respective spaces.

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Cleaning

Cleaning involves removing dust, dirt, visible stains and debris from surfaces and items. Basically it is ensuring that there are physical and visual changes in the surfaces and items being cleaned. Some of the common materials used in cleaning are brush, broom, dust pan, and vacuum for large debris, and mop, wipes and washclothes for small debris such as dust. 

When cleaning surfaces, the use of multi-purpose cleaners are used to help make cleaning easier. They may come in powder or liquid forms and may include anti-microbial properties, but not as intensive as disinfectants.

Regular cleaning is fine when there are no health concerns in the community, and the weather is sunny and dry. When there are health threats or when the weather is humid or wet, cleaning may not be enough to keep infections away.

Difference in Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfection

Sanitizing

Sanitizing involves in reducing the number of germs (such as bacteria, fungi and viruses) to a certain limit or level. Usually, sanitizing is done during or after cleaning with the use of “sanitizers”. These sanitizers are usually commercial grade and will kill 99.9% of germs as they have advertised.

Sanitizers come in powder (Chlorine powder) or liquid form, such as rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizers and commercial disinfectants. They are strong enough to kill germs but not completely. The remaining germs are in safe amounts that our immune system can handle them in case of infection.

Sanitizing after cleaning is always recommended to ensure that there will be less risk of infection. However, frequent use and skin contact of sanitizers such as alcohol may dry up our skin and may cause infection.

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Disinfecting

Disinfecting involves in killing germs and viruses by using chemicals that do such – disinfectants. Disinfecting does not include cleaning or the removal of dirt, and sometimes, it is better to disinfect first before cleaning a certain space before cleaning to avoid infection.  

Disinfectants come in powder (Chlorine powder) or liquid form, and may come in various strength and speciality. Some disinfectants can only kill bacteria and not viruses, while some can do both. There are disinfectants that are risky to use and may cause respiratory problems, and some are safe. 

We recommend frequent disinfection of spaces to ensure that the number of bacteria and viruses are always low, including disinfection prior to cleaning, and most of all, disinfecting when a suspicious case of infection has been reported.

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Sterilizing

Sterilization involves in the the removal of all microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and viruses) on items. This is often confused with disinfection, because you can disinfect spaces and areas, while you cannot possibly sterilize areas, only items. Sterilizing items involve cleaning (removal of dirt), sanitizing and heating the item(s) using steam for a period of time. 

Sterilizers are commercially available for bottles and jewelry cleaning. In laboratories and hospitals, they use auto-claves as sterilizers and uses the same principles.

Sterilizing spaces is possible if there will be little to no physical contact can be done and there are no movement of air in the area. These and possibly more factors can only ensure that a space is sterile or not.

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Applying the difference in cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting spaces

  • Cleaning can help reduce and prevent pests.
  • Cleaning and sanitizing helps protect your family from infections.
  • Cleaning and regular disinfection helps protect your employees and colleagues from infections.
  • Cleaning and regular disinfection helps make your office or business compliant with safety regulations.
  • Clean and disinfect surfaces that are touched more often.
  • Sanitize hands by frequent handwashing to prevent infections.
  • Disinfect common places such as toilets and pantry.
  • Disinfect spaces where food is prepared and served such as kitchen and dining area.
  • Sterilize utensils used to carry food such as spoon, fork, knives, food containers and water bottles.

Do you want to learn more on how CMDA Cleaning Services can help you, your family, or your office fight against COVID-19? Send us an email at inquiry@cmdacleaning.com, or call/text us on any number mentioned above.

Let’s all be well and healthy, wear a face mask, wash our hands frequently, maintain a 1-2 meter physical distance to non-family members, and stay at home if we can. Stay covid-free!

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As a company certified in Cleaning & Infection Control in General Facilities from the Cleaning Masterclass in UK, our clients trust and prefer our services in all their cleaning, disinfection and housekeeping needs. We deliver beyond the basic cleaning, disinfection and housekeeping services you require and expect. If you have any sanitation questions and request, we would love to hear from you! Contact us today and let us help you create a cleaner and safer future, together.

Home Cleaning: 5 Best Tips in Cleaning Bathroom Tiles

Home Cleaning: 5 Best Tips in Cleaning Bathroom Tiles

Cleaning bathroom tiles is one of the most challenging cleaning task at home or office, most especially if it is your first time to clean it for a long while.  You would have thought it was easy at first, until you notice those grime and stains won’t come off.

We have asked the experts on what are the best ways in cleaning bathroom tiles for you. Below, you can see what commercial products you can use to bring back the shine in your tiles.

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Commercial Bathroom Tile Cleaners

First off in our list is one that you can frequently see in most grocery stores. Commercial bathroom tile cleaners like Mr. Muscle or Domex do live up to their names, if applied properly. They have the right ingredients that can really remove grimes (surfactants) and stains (bleaching agent).

So how do you properly use them? Spray them evenly on bathroom walls and floor, and soak for 10-15 minutes. Scrubbing it immediately, which is a common mistake, will not help at all because the chemicals need some time to separate the grime and stains. After soaking, use your scrubbers or brush to remove grime and stains. Rinse the walls and floor thoroughly.

Pros:

  • Easy to use
  • Can be used on toilet bowls, kitchen sink and counters

Cons:

  • A bit pricey compared to other products for cleaning bathroom tiles
  • Some brands may leave a stain due to coloring
  • May have strong odor (not safe for those with respiratory problems)
  • Very acidic and may irritate your skin on prolonged exposure
  • Must be rinsed off completely (not safe for pets)

Vingegar

This is a cost effective way of getting those stains and grimes out of your bathroom tiles. On the floor, pour some vinegar and spread. Let it soak for about 10-15 minutes. For walls, stick and soak toilet paper damped with vinegar on stained tiles and tile grout for 10-15 minutes as well. Scrub with your usual all purpose cleaner and scrubber/brush, and then rinse.

Different types of vinegar have different concentrations of Acetic Acid (chemical name of vinegar). So if you are wondering which type of vinegar is the best, go for the commercial white cane vinegar which normally are more acidic compared to Apple Cider vinegar.

Pros:

  • Economical
  • Colorless (does not leave a different colored stain)
  • Gentle on your hand
  • Organic
  • Safe for pets

Cons:

  • Strong odor
  • may require repeat application as acid strength varries

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WD-40

Surprisingly, WD-40 is also good at removing tile grimes and stains. Aside from lubricating joints and removing rust on metal surfaces, you can use WD-40 to loosen up stains and grimes on your bathroom tiles. Most of the stains in your bathroom tiles are made by hard water deposits or lime deposits. WD-40 breaks the bond between those deposits and the tile surface, making it easier to scrub away.

To use WD-40, spray a small amount on affected tile surface. Let it soak for 5-10 minutes. Scrub using your scrubber or brush and only rinse when you are already satisfied with the cleaning. Rinsing it too early will remove the WD-40 and it would be difficult to remove the remaining stain without re-applying WD-40.

Pros:

  • Easy to use
  • Works faster
  • Colorless (does not leave a different colored stain)
  • Gentle on your hand
  • Organic
  • Safe for pets

Cons:

  • A bit expensive compared to other cleaning products
  • May leave a particular odor
  • If not rinsed well, surface will be slippery

Baking Soda and Liquid Soap

This is not a 2-in-1 entry, you will need both baking soda and liquid soap to make it work. If you are at it, this would be a great experiment in chemistry. You will need a ratio of 2:1:1 of baking soda, liquid soap and water. This means you will need 2 cups of baking soda for every cup of liquid soap and water. For starters, you can mix half a cup of baking soda, 1/4 cup liquid soap and 1/4 cup of water. Mix evenly and spray or spread on tile surfaces. Let it soak for 15-20 minutes and then scrub. Rinse thoroughly and that’s about it.

You might be wondering what kind of liquid soap is the best. Experts have weighed in and found dishwashing liquid soap to be the most effective.

Pros:

  • Economical
  • does not leave a different colored stain
  • Gentle on your hand
  • Safe for pets

Cons:

  • may be difficult to mix
  • takes more soaking time

Steam Cleaning

Technically a technique or equipment to use together with any of the above materials to make bathroom tile cleaning easier. Steam has been proven effective in cleaning surfaces such as clothing and walls. Steam helps to loosen up grimes, dirt and stains stuck on your tiles. 

If you have a steam cleaner already, this will be very helpful in cleaning your bathroom tiles. If you don’t have one, close your bathroom windows and toilet seat, turn off your exhaust fan/vent, and then open your hot water to fill in your pail or bath tub. Close the bathroom door and wait until your tub or pail is full. You can do other chores while leaving your bathroom closed for steaming. After 20 minutes, use the cleaning material you often use for your bathroom tiles cleaning or any of the above methods for a faster cleaning and soaking time.

Pros:

  • Sanitizes your surfaces as well
  • Colorless (does not leave a different colored stain)
  • Safe for pets

Cons:

  • Depends heavily on availability of steam cleaner or hot water
  • May cause burns and scalding if not properly done

Some bathroom tiles require different treatment, so feel free to combine any two or three methods mentioned above to help cleaning your bathroom tiles easier. If you are having some cleaning problems with your toilet bowl as well, check out our Toilet Bowl Cleaning tips. If you are looking for the best toilet and bath cleaner, check out our Toilet and Bath Challenge.

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Do you want to learn more on how CMDA Cleaning Services can help you, your family, or your office fight against COVID-19? Send us an email at inquiry@cmdacleaning.com, or call/text us on any number mentioned above.

Let’s all be well and healthy, wear a face mask, wash our hands frequently, maintain a 1-2 meter physical distance to non-family members, and stay at home if we can. Stay covid-free!

CMDA Cleaning Services - A trusted name in Cleaning and Disinfection Services

As a company certified in Cleaning & Infection Control in General Facilities from the Cleaning Masterclass in UK, our clients trust and prefer our services in all their cleaning, disinfection and housekeeping needs. We deliver beyond the basic cleaning, disinfection and housekeeping services you require and expect. If you have any sanitation questions and request, we would love to hear from you! Contact us today and let us help you create a cleaner and safer future, together.