How do you store wet cloths and sponges inside your car between cleaning jobs?
We're going to talk about that today.
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Maria: Hi, Angela.
This is Maria, and I have some questions around the proper storage of cleaning cloths and
sponges that may have solutions on them.
Are there any laws or regulations requiring cleaning companies to store those items that
may have solutions on them in any kind of special metal containers as an example, and
if so, what are those containers, and where can they be purchased?
Secondly, how quickly do you need to tend to those items in your vehicle?
Is it safe to leave them in your vehicle all day while you may be doing other jobs and
running errands?
Can you potentially leave those in your vehicle a few days?
How quickly should you be tending to those items to prevent any kind of issues such as fires?
If you can provide some best practice around all this, I would certainly appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Angela Brown: All right, Maria, that's an excellent question.
What are the rules and regulations for storing wet cloths and wet sponges that may or may
not have cleaning solutions on them?
All right, I don't recommend a metal bucket.
That's going to create some rust issues, but the rule of thumb and the best practices that
you were asking for is that I would keep them in a plastic bin, and so just a great big
plastic tub.
There are all different sorts of brands.
I don't know that one brand is better than another.
If it's got a lid on it, that's great.
In the vehicles that we've used over the years, we keep the lid off while they're in our car,
and we do keep them there all day during jobs, so the wet rags that we bring in from one
job we put in this bucket, and then on the next job we have new ones, and then we bring
those and we put those in the bucket, and then at the end of the day we cart the bucket
in and we take those out.
We sort them, and then we put them in the washing machine.
Now, the best practice is that you do something similar to that
every day when you do your inventory.
Because you don't want wet rags in the back of your car for many days.
Because what happens then is bacteria builds up on those wet rags or you get mold, or you get
stink, or something like that, or they just dry out and they become crusty, and they're
not as easy to use again.
You've got to wash them, and sterilize them, and all those things.
If you'll bring those in at the end of every day, that's probably the very best practice,
because that way you're recycling the stuff.
You're cleaning it.
You're washing it as it's fresh, and it's not going to go moldy and stuff like that.
Now, as far as a fire hazard goes, I'm unfamiliar with rags catching fire, and for most of the
cleaning supplies that we use, they're non-toxic, environmentally-friendly products, so they're
not going to spark a flame unless somebody is smoking and lights a match to it, or drops
a cigarette, or something like that.
I don't recommend that at all.
I recommend that you just keep it in a plastic bin, in the back of your car is fine for the
most part.
Then when you get home and you do your inventory, or you get back to your office and you do
your inventory, my suggestion is that you bring those in at the end of every day.
I don't want those sitting out there for multiple days, so those are best practices, but everybody
has their own method, their own way of doing it.
If you have a particular method that you use, please let me know in the links below and
let's start a conversation about this because maybe there's somebody here that has an amazing
way of keeping track of their cloths and all these kinds of things.
All right, that's my two cents for today, and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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