Keeping your door jambs clean
There are a lot of different things that you have to worry about keeping clean in your house. One thing that is a hard thing to keep clean is your door jambs. The reason why door jambs can be so hard to keep clean is because they have grooves that get filled with dust and dirt. Plus they are not a thing that you might pay attention to even cleaning in the first place until they are so terribly dirty that you have no option but to clean them. Here are some tips to keeping your door jams clean so that you have an options whether you really need to clean them or not.
The first tip is to make sure that every time you clean a room on your house that after you are done washing the floor or vacuuming the floors that you take a damp cloth and wipe down the door jambs. This will help you to stay on top of them. If you do it this way it will only take you a minute or too because you will just be wiping off the little bit of dust or dirt that ahs collected since last time you cleaned.
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The second tip is to pick a day every other week or even once a month to go around your house and do a thorough wipe down of all of your door jambs. This will help you to take the time and to really get inside the different cracks and grooves that are in your door jamb. This will also help you to make sure that you get all of the little marks and scuffs that can be left behind.
The third tip is to make this one of your kid's jobs. For example if one job is to dust, add wiping down the door jambs. This will help make sure that it gets done at least once a week. Plus if your kids do a sloppy job at least they have gotten most of the dirt and dust off so that you can quickly go through and finish wiping it down.
The fourth tip is to use a damp rag to wipe them down with. This will help ensure that you get all of the dirt and dust off and that you are not just wiping it around and spreading it. If you have real wood door jambs that are stained you will want to make sure that you use some type of furniture cleaner that you can spray on that will help dust them. You will also want to make sure that you treat them with oil every once in a while so that they will not only look clean but also stay shiny.
The fifth tip is to make sure that if you have any nail holes or any other pieces of wood that are chipping off that you sand them down and do some touch up paint. This way your door jambs will continue to look new and won't start to look old and worn.
These are just some of the tips for keeping your door jambs clean. For other ways to keep them clean you can go online and do some research. You may also be able to find little tricks on how to remove difference stains that you might get on your door jambs along with other information that maybe helpful to you to help keep your door jambs clean. It is up to you and how in depth you want to get as to how much information you will want to know on keeping your door jambs clean.
