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How to disinfect a room?

Problems of disinfection of living quarters from time to time visit all people without exception. Conducting an antiseptic treatment of a room in which someone permanently lives is more difficult than disinfecting a non-residential building. This is due to the fact that most disinfectants tend to evaporate and saturate the atmosphere of the room with harmful substances.

Disinfection of living quarters is carried out according to a certain scheme and includes:

Treatment of walls, ceilings, floors, plinths, panels, arches, borders with liquid disinfectants (wet cleaning);
Furniture processing - dry and wet (including soft);
Processing of carpets, blankets and curtains, pillows, mattresses;
Processing of household items (household, kitchen and household equipment, toys, bed linen, room decoration elements, decorative ornaments).

Sanitizing the room walls, ceiling, floor, etc. it is convenient to carry out using a solution of bleach (common name - "bleach"). Work with a bleach solution is carried out with open windows, as well as in protective gloves. Residents who are present in the room at the time of processing will not be disturbed by a protective mask or respirator, since chlorine vapors in a highly concentrated solution are very toxic. If it is not possible to put on a mask, the concentration of the bleach solution is reduced. A high-concentration bleach solution is prepared (10%, that is, 1:10 "bleach powder: water"), and diluted with water as needed.

A cloth, paper, wood, decorative whitewashed and other quality coatings, walls, ceiling and all mounted interior elements are thoroughly wiped with a cloth, paper, wood, decorative whitewash and other quality of wall coverings with a well moistened and wrung out to the limit with a cloth rag (you can wipe only washable surfaces with a sponge). Do not forget that chlorine is a universal instant chemical bleach, so that drops falling from a rag will leave whitish marks on any colored coating (with a stable and unstable color).

Upholstered furniture, mattresses and carpets that cannot be taken outside the room to the air are treated as follows:

The first method (suitable for light-colored monochromatic fabrics). Spray a thin layer of bleach powder on the surface, leave for 15 - 30 minutes, cover with a well-moistened and wrung out unnecessary sheet and knock over the surface of the sheet. Rinse the sheet and repeat the action until all the chlorine dust is collected by the sheet from the surface of the upholstery or covers. Collect the remaining bleach (visible and invisible to the eye) with a vacuum cleaner.

The second method (suitable for all types of fabrics). Moisten an old sheet in a highly concentrated solution of bleach, squeeze until the water does not drain from the sheet, cover the fabric surface to be cleaned, leave for half an hour and beat thoroughly over the sheet. Remove the sheet, rinse in the solution again and repeat the procedure. The more knocking out you succeed, the more thoroughly the selected items will be sanitized.

In winter, in frost and in the presence of snow, you can hang carpets, rugs and curtains on the balcony (street) and / or knock them out in the snow.

In summer, in the heat at noon, hang carpets, covers, bedspreads, pillows in the sun - this is a natural ultraviolet that will kill harmful microorganisms within 2-4 hours.

Ironing is another way to disinfect furniture covers, carpets, mattresses, pillows, curtains. For natural threads (cotton, flax, coarse calico, burlap, wool, natural silk, satin), ironing is used at the maximum temperature for this type of fabric. For fabric surfaces with synthetic threads, velvet, thin fabrics, velor, suede, use the steam generator of the iron as close as possible to the surface to be treated.

Furniture upholstery made of natural and artificial leather is wiped with a damp, well-wrung out cloth with a solution of bleach. The fur upholstery of furniture and natural fur rugs are cleaned with bleach in a dry way (sprinkle with a thin layer of chlorine dust and clean with a vacuum cleaner after half an hour) or with a damp sheet with bleach solution.

All natural fibers such as 100% cotton, flax, coarse calico can be boiled if you can remove the fabric and dip it into a vat of boiling water for half an hour.

Bed linen of light monochromatic colors made from natural threads can be soaked in a weak bleach solution before washing for a few minutes (15-30 minutes, depending on the stability of the light color).

Pillows that have the ability to remove the cover are disinfected as follows. The cover is removed and ironed with a hot iron or treated with steam, the filler is taken out into the cold or in the sun at the zenith with a high air temperature and ventilated, previously covered with a mesh so that it does not scatter from the wind. If it is impossible to remove the cover, the sheathed pillow is treated with a hot iron or steam according to the filler (feathers, down and batting can be ironed; synthetic winterizer, holofiber, husks, silk ribbons or other fillers can be steam treated).

Soft toys are machine washed or dry cleaned on the principle of upholstered furniture (see above), and then washed in running water to remove chlorine residues (it is poisonous).

Washable household items are washed in a weak bleach solution and rinsed with running water, all other non-washable household items (not food items) are wiped with a damp cloth with bleach solution.

Dishes requiring sanitization are boiled in ordinary water for half an hour. Food-grade plastic that cannot withstand heat treatment is thrown away. The same procedure can be carried out using a dishwasher, where the temperature of the water jets can correspond to the antiseptic.

The final chord of disinfection of a living space can be carried out using UV radiation (fluorescent lamps), which will neutralize the microflora that has managed to rise from the surfaces into the atmosphere of the room.

Complete disinfection of the room is needed in cases where any of the residents is sick (had) an infectious disease at home, with bed rest for the elderly and disabled people who do not go outside the premises, and in many cases that may seem hazardous to health.