| Confuse on how to start the house cleaning? This | | | | the soaps and synthetic detergents she uses, but to |
| article will give you guidance on basic house cleaning | | | | make the best use of them she should know how |
| equipment and storage. | | | | they differ and which job each one does best. |
| GOOD BASIC HOUSECLEANING EQUIPMENT is not | | | | CARE OF EQUIPMENT. Cleaning equipment includes |
| expensive and no one can do a really good job | | | | those elusive hand tools that are always disappearing; |
| whatever his profession without the proper tools. If | | | | also dust mops and wet mops, brooms, and a score |
| you have been struggling along with beaten-up | | | | of accessories. When you have finished using them |
| brooms and brushes and old-fashioned mops and | | | | put them away properly. Vacuum cleaners and carpet |
| pails, take inventory. Then investigate the prospects | | | | sweepers should be emptied and their brushes freed |
| of new streamlined models. On the page facing this | | | | of hair and tangled bits of string. Dust mops, |
| you will find a checklist of cleaning equipment which | | | | vacuumed clean, and wet mops, rinsed and dried, |
| map help you make your selections. | | | | should be suspended from hooks. Brooms will do a |
| STORAGE. Good equipment deserves proper care | | | | better job and last longer if they are given a |
| and storage. If you have a wide shallow closet with a | | | | thorough wetting now and then, or washed in suds |
| shelf, where you can keep these things, you are | | | | and rinsed. If you use oiled mops on your floors, |
| lucky. If you haven't it might not be as difficult as | | | | store the heads in a tin can with a tight cover (oiled |
| you think to provide one or to adapt a corner | | | | dusters, too) as a precaution against fire. Cleaning |
| somewhere for storage space. On the shelf store | | | | pails should be washed before they are put away, |
| your mothproofing materials, insecticides, cleaning and | | | | upside down on the floor. (Have you seen the gaily |
| polishing waxes, metal cleaners, and (in a special box) | | | | colored ones with pouring spouts, or the |
| stain-removing supplies as you accumulate them. You | | | | two-compartment type for cleaning solutions and |
| will never have to hunt for the things you need if | | | | rinse water?) Dust brushes and dust pans should be |
| you have a well organized cleaning closet or special | | | | hung up too, the edge of the dust pan facing the |
| corner for your equipment. And if you duplicate | | | | wall as a precaution against denting. Scrubbing |
| essential equipment upstairs you won't wear yourself | | | | brushes should be washed, dried, and aired before |
| out dashing up and down to get something you need | | | | being stored. |
| and have forgotten. | | | | We need good housecleaning equipment, it's not |
| READ AND FILE YOUR INSTRUCTION BOOKLETS as | | | | expensive, but is really a great help when we clean |
| you purchase equipment. The average woman | | | | the home. And the cleaning equipment also deserves |
| cannot be expected to know exactly how her | | | | a proper care and storage. Keep them as per their |
| electrical gadgets work, but she must know a few | | | | function. Keep your instruction booklet whenever you |
| basic rules for their care. The fundamental care of | | | | purchase the equipment, this will help you on basic |
| electrical equipment is outlined in a separate chapter. | | | | rules for their care. |
| No housekeeper needs to know the composition of | | | | |