If Your House Smells Clean These Areas

Have you ever wanted your home to smell citrus? Like your walking into a luxury hotel? You want your home to smell good and clean but the truth is that life gets busy and yes you can get side-tracked we all do it.

Whether it’s the dishwasher or your plumbing drains that smell, kids, pets, there are just a ton of unwanted smells that life can hit you with that are inside your home. That’s why it’s always a good idea to inspect your home if you are having issues with certain smells they can be the least expecting culprit.

The trash can

Yes, this thing can smell bad. Little spills or crumbs over the weeks can add up and at the end of the week or month, it can make your home smell really bad. You should be cleaning or emptying your trash once a day or every other day I recommend every morning. You can use Febreze air which will eliminate any kind of smell.

To clean your trash can you should use diluted bleach and let it sit for a couple of hours and then clean it with a lot of water and soap. 

Your pets

Yes, they are family and treated as so but just like us, they can get smelly. Dog breathe that smells is the worst. When pets shed they can have bacteria grow and that can get ugly real quick. Bathing them regularly will help and cleaning where they sleep and hang out is going to help. You should be cleaning these areas of the house once a week and vacuuming under beds and couches so the odors don’t build up. In the North Oakland part of Michigan you can get a house cleaner weekly.

Your wet clothing

Don’t just let your wet clothes sit around for long or at all they will start to stink real bad. If you have wet clothes its recommended to do laundry ASAP because if you leave them in let’s say the bathroom the higher the chance bacteria will grow because bacteria grows in humid places. Just do the laundry as soon as you can.

Your bedding

Your bed sheets are going to smell like you after a while because your body has a certain smell and the oils off your body are going to absorb into the sheets. You should change your sheets weekly if you shower in the morning but if you shower at night you can wait up to two weeks.

Your washer

You should be cleaning this machine with white vinegar and baking soda. If you see that mold is growing. With the appliance always in contact with water and you’re always opening and shutting the front part of the washer with a front load washer, water and detergent can get trapped. The best thing you can do is to open the door and detergent opening after your last load of wash for a few hours to let the area air out.

Your dishwasher

This is a haven for mold to grow with it always warm and damp you can run into problems. The best way to clean a dishwasher is to use vinegar and lemon. You can cut up a lemon and put it in the bottom and the white vinegar in the top and run the dishwasher as a regular load of dishes.

For all the other attachments for the dishwasher, you can pull them out and clean them with warm water and bleach.

Your garbage disposal

If you a stink in your kitchen look at your garbage disposal or your dishwasher they can be large culprits of why your kitchen has a certain smell. There are garbage disposal cleaning tabs you can buy such as Plink or you can put orange peels, lime, or lemon peels down the disposal and run it. I just did mine this morning with orange peels for about ten seconds. Doing this does more than just maintain your garbage disposal it also leaves your sink area smelling citrus-like.

Take care of your new furniture

If the furniture you just bought smells new, that isn’t always a good sign there are VOC on new furniture and you may want to purchase an air purifier with carbon fiber to help get rid of the smell because it can mess with your health and you can get sick. It’s never a bad idea to have a house cleaner in Keego Harbor or Holly clean your furniture it might be best for your health.