A clean home should also be a home that smells great, but in hot summer months when you start to smell something unpleasant wafting through your home, you want to track it down and deal with it.
Here are a few ways to make sure your home smells great all the time and you’re not constantly wondering what the mystery scent is.
Check the Garbage Disposal Regularly
Not everything that gets put into the garbage disposal gets passed out with the grey water like it’s supposed to. Some of it gets stuck in the disposal, jamming it up and causing problems. On top of that, stuck food can start to smell bad pretty quickly. It’s a good idea to wash the disposal out from time to time, to make sure food isn’t clinging to the sides. You also want to peer inside the disposal if you start smelling something unpleasant in your kitchen. There may be something jammed in there that needs to be removed so that the disposal smells clean again.
Take Out Trash Often
Anywhere you have a trash can in your home will be a potential odor problem. If you’re putting any biological materials like food into your trash cans, that’s going to smell bad after a day or two. Most trash cans can benefit from being changed out every day or so. To keep the trash cans smelling good, you want to keep food covered, occasionally spray them with an air freshener, and then clean out the inside and outside of the garbage receptacles as well. Sometimes, bits of garbage can fall outside the bag or outside the garbage bin and need to be cleaned off to keep everything smelling nice.
Sweep the Kitchen Every Day
When you’re cooking or eating in the kitchen, little bits of food can fall and end up under the counter in little cubbyholes throughout the kitchen. Some may even make their way behind or under your appliances. By sweeping the kitchen every day, you’ll pick up most of these crumbs and other food particles, which means there will be fewer pests in the house leaving behind their unpleasant odors and less bits of food to create unwelcome odors as well.
Limit Dining Areas
One of the best tips that we’ve heard is from an NYC cleaning service that stresses to their clients the importance of not eating food in the living room. If you allow food to be eaten in every room of the house, then you will attract pests into all of those rooms, and you’ll probably end up with crumbs and other food particles all over your house. To minimize the cleanup, limit where pests will want to hang out, and to keep your home smelling nice, you’ll need to limit which rooms of the house food can be eaten in. That makes it a lot easier to chase down unpleasant smells and do something about them.
Set Up a Laundry Schedule
Other than garbage and food, the biggest contributing factor to unpleasant odors in the house is probably dirty clothes. If you have a set time each week to handle the laundry, that will keep unpleasant odors to a minimum.
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