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Problem: Dusty tile floor that don’t come clean. Charcoal litter
New home of 15 months. I currently have a bedroom dedicated “cat potty room” with 4 litter boxes. Only other furniture is a wicker/ metal stand and lamp and a germ guard air purifier.
Cleaning routine:
Most days I sweep the room for tracked litter.
Every so often I use a dry swiffer.
I noticed a couple of months ago the blinds were just caked like mad with litter and this started to open my eyes. I’ve started using a swiffer duster on the baseboards monthly.
Wet swiffer when needed. I’ve never wet mopped until this weekend.
Note on the air purifier.
I’m pretty sure it is helping some with the dust, the intake is always coated. However I feel a good amount goes right thru shooting back to the air/ wall it’s facing, as the front gets much build up as well.
The room smells dustier if it’s not on tho.
Issue:
I’ve started wearing flip flops when cleaning the boxes because the floors are getting so bad. Swiffer and sweeping not cutting it.
so this weekend I had used a paper towel to clean up some mess and the paper towel came up black! I use charcoal litter.
I decided to instead of mop, use a microfiber rag and mr clean so I could really clean the tiles. I did dry swiffer first the best I could to pick up.
within minutes my water is black. I feel like I’ve just spread a litter paste making it worse. Even trying to dump at the first signs of water you could not see thru ..was an impossible task.
Questions:
what do y’all use to keep your tile floors free of dust? Do you vacuum? Maybe a dedicated swiffer vac for that room? I don’t think that would be strong enough.
The wooden blinds. I’ve tried cleaning these with swiffer dusters. It’s not cutting it. Tried clorox wipes. Nothing wants to penetrate the film.
I’m wondering if I shouldput all the boxes closer together. They are currently on three walls.
one other troubling thing, the return to my air conditioner is right outside this room at floor level. I’ve noticed when when cleaning my windows thru out the house I have sticky black residue/film. May be a sign it’s circulating.
In my previous house they were in a large closet and I never really noticed this problem. In years past I had closed lid boxes , maybe that’s why the dust was more contained. my cats very long,maine coon style. One with long hair. She has to stretch up on the sides or she gets litter stick on her. Even with full back sanitary shave.
Some of this I’m sure is unintentional neglect on my cleaning efforts, not realizing how bad it was. I’ve never had them in a large open area like this. I also think litters are much more dusty these days.
I am embarrassed , ashamed even.
None the less I’m in this boat now , trying to fix , learn from my mistakes and do better moving forward.
New home of 15 months. I currently have a bedroom dedicated “cat potty room” with 4 litter boxes. Only other furniture is a wicker/ metal stand and lamp and a germ guard air purifier.
Cleaning routine:
Most days I sweep the room for tracked litter.
Every so often I use a dry swiffer.
I noticed a couple of months ago the blinds were just caked like mad with litter and this started to open my eyes. I’ve started using a swiffer duster on the baseboards monthly.
Wet swiffer when needed. I’ve never wet mopped until this weekend.
Note on the air purifier.
I’m pretty sure it is helping some with the dust, the intake is always coated. However I feel a good amount goes right thru shooting back to the air/ wall it’s facing, as the front gets much build up as well.
The room smells dustier if it’s not on tho.
Issue:
I’ve started wearing flip flops when cleaning the boxes because the floors are getting so bad. Swiffer and sweeping not cutting it.
so this weekend I had used a paper towel to clean up some mess and the paper towel came up black! I use charcoal litter.
I decided to instead of mop, use a microfiber rag and mr clean so I could really clean the tiles. I did dry swiffer first the best I could to pick up.
within minutes my water is black. I feel like I’ve just spread a litter paste making it worse. Even trying to dump at the first signs of water you could not see thru ..was an impossible task.
Questions:
what do y’all use to keep your tile floors free of dust? Do you vacuum? Maybe a dedicated swiffer vac for that room? I don’t think that would be strong enough.
The wooden blinds. I’ve tried cleaning these with swiffer dusters. It’s not cutting it. Tried clorox wipes. Nothing wants to penetrate the film.
I’m wondering if I shouldput all the boxes closer together. They are currently on three walls.
one other troubling thing, the return to my air conditioner is right outside this room at floor level. I’ve noticed when when cleaning my windows thru out the house I have sticky black residue/film. May be a sign it’s circulating.
In my previous house they were in a large closet and I never really noticed this problem. In years past I had closed lid boxes , maybe that’s why the dust was more contained. my cats very long,maine coon style. One with long hair. She has to stretch up on the sides or she gets litter stick on her. Even with full back sanitary shave.
Some of this I’m sure is unintentional neglect on my cleaning efforts, not realizing how bad it was. I’ve never had them in a large open area like this. I also think litters are much more dusty these days.
I am embarrassed , ashamed even.
None the less I’m in this boat now , trying to fix , learn from my mistakes and do better moving forward.