How do I clean my dust mop?
Question:I have a dust mop, I think that's what it's called, to sweep the floor. It's long and wooly and I just glide it across the floor. So, how do I clean all the crap off the dust mop?
Answers:
If you can remove the mop head off the frame you can throw it into the washer. Since it is made of wool you will want to use special washing to get it clean. If you wash in with your other cleaning rags you might get little "pills" (those little balls of knots) on the mop head. Plus washing it in hot water might make it shrink (as well as drying it out in the dryer on high heat); which will make it a pain to get it back on the mop. To reduce the risk of it shrinking lay it out flat, some where the air can circulate around it. On the other hand if you cannot remove it; use a vacuum hose to remove the dust/dirt off the mop head.
Edited: if you use the vacuum and there is still some dirt left on the mop, use a damp wet rag to gently wipe the rest off and then hang the mop to dry.
I use the swifter ones and they are disposable.
shake it outside (to get the loose dirt from it) then toss it in the washer...preferably with some rugs or something...not your clothes
It should have a removable head on it that you can throw into the wash with your dirty rags. If it's the old-fashioned kind with strings to tie it onto the metal frame, or a slightly more recent one with velcro attatchments. Check it out.
shake it off outside and it u can take it off and wash it in the washing machine i do
You can try a leaf blower and vacuum cleaner.
Put it in the wash.
Wash in low, delicate cycle, or in your wash cycle of hand washables, on cold temp. Then hang outside to dry, It'll be like new and most of all clean! Keep up the good clean job!
I know a couple of ways to clean it-- You can take it out side and shake it really well, You can use an air compressor on it to blow the dirt off of it and then you can put it into the washer with your rugs. I wouldn't put it in with your regular clothes.
take off the head and wash it in the washing machine
If it is cotton wash it and put in the dryer.If it is nylon or wool,wash and air dry.Cold water for both.
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