As a homeowner, you are probably keeping several cleaning chemical supplies in your home. You have a solution that you use as detergent for your dishwasher, two more bottles of chemicals that you use to wash your clothes in the laundry, another general purpose cleaner to wipe the surfaces in your home, and so on. You probably ended up buying them because they were recommended to you by a close friend, or because you have used these products your entire life. As beneficial as these chemicals are in sanitizing your home and making it a clean place to live in, you have to remember two very important things when handling them. Follow these two principles, and you will never have a problem with these materials in your house.
Keep Them Out of Reach of Children and Pets
This should be obvious to anyone who has done the research, but you should keep all of your cleaning chemical supplies in a place where children will not be able to access them in any way possible. If they accidentally swallow some, or get into very close contact with the solutions for a long period of time, the result could be catastrophic for a child’s short-term and long-term health. The only solution at this point is to take them to the emergency hospital and pump the chemicals out before they do some significant damage. This rule also applies to pets for the exact same reason. Although you can try to find chemical solutions that are designed to have a better safety profile for children and pets, it is better to simply build the habit of storing chemicals in a place that only you have access to.
Keep Them Stored Away from Heat Sources
Some of the chemicals in cleaning solutions are flammable in nature, and could cause a dangerous explosion if they are left near any heat source. For this reason, it is important that all these materials are stored in a place that will stay cool during any season of the year, especially during the peak of summer. Make sure that when you are finished with the cleaning solution, it goes back in the same place where all of the other cleaning solutions are. Your cleaning solutions will usually come labeled with the temperature limits that they can handle, and that will give you a better idea of where you should store them.
Ensure that your cleaning supplies are kept out of the reach of children and pets, while keeping them as far away from heat sources as possible. As long as those two criteria are consistently followed, you will not have a problem using these materials safely to give your home a fresh look and a lovely smell to make anyone feel at home when they walk in!
