Home Management – Keeping Your Home Safe and Healthy

By: Low Jeremy

Good home management simply put is enhancing your house first to make it attractive followed next by keeping it safe and healthy to protect it from natural and biological threats.

1. Make your home safe; eliminate clutter. Good home management is freeing the house of clutter that not only spoils the interior of the house it is also a potential for accidents. Whether you are expecting a potential buyer or a visitor a house free from clutter is a relaxing sight. True the house may be clean but unless clutters are not stacked away, the home still looks disorganized and could cause irritation that affect the well-being of the occupants. Often too disorganization starts from here and creeps up until home management becomes less of a desirable task. Besides ridding the house of eyesores improve its value to the beholder.

2. Clean up. No house is more pleasant, no home management is that effective if the house is not truly clean. A house that has been subjected to cleaning overtime not only polishes the house and make it sparkle, rust and rots are easily discovered and remedied, insects and rodents are less prone to multiply and clog and worn out areas are immediately identified and repaired before it builds up where home management will already mean more than expected expense. Older houses have been preserved in this manner and fared better in the market place when the decision to sell the house comes.

3. Carpets could occupy large spaces and are on the top of list of the highly visible items in the house. Carpets are very good dust gatherers aside from attracting unwanted microbes, mold, and bacteria. Another danger here is that toddlers usually play, roll and could sleep in the parts of the house where there is carpeting. A shabby carpet, aside from inviting possible illnesses could make the house look old and worn. Carpets and rugs however could define the house and its spaces very well. Good home management should always have carpets on the top of its list. So if carpets and rugs are essential to your interiors have it cleaned periodically by professionals. For most carpet cleaning though, the do it yourself method is fine.

4. Effective home management involves cleaning up the air passages to the house. This is particularly true to houses that use screens on their doors, windows and other openings. Unclogging screens from dirt and grit freshens up the air and improve its circulation around the house.

5. Repaint. Painting not only beautifies the space it also makes it a little healthier. Paints aside from prettifying a space also repel insects and bugs. Repainting also often reveal spaces that are possible breeding ground for roaches and ants.

6. Get an electrician to check your wiring periodically. This is more important if you find traces that rats could be around.

Every homeowner wants to manage their house the best they can. In reality, houses today are more complex. Not minding a little grit, dust, and grease on your hands is fine but micromanaging a home could also result in unrealistic list of things to do that often results to having to be put off for later. Hiring professionals from time to time not only helps with better home management, it could cost you less.