Do you use the same mop for kitchen and bathroom floor...?

[Anonymous]

No, but I only clear the toilets with paper towels and the toilet brush. Everything else gets cleaned with cloths or sponges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I have a bunch of kids and the bathroom gets filthy. No, they don't shit on the floor but still. I also have a baby that spends plenty of time on the floor. Just wondering how other people do this. If the mop gets sanitized after each use I guess it's fine. If not - different mops. Because I'm one of those crazy people who prefer not to have bathroom germs on my kitchen floor.

But people use the bathroom and then walk through the house. Whatever is on the bathroom floor is on the bottom of their feet and gets carried through the house.

Right, that's why we clean the bathroom floor sometimes. Duh.

[Anonymous]

I don't use mops because I find it they stay wet and get stinky. So I use wipes and sponges and no my kitchen cleaning products have never met my bathroom cleaning products.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I have a bunch of kids and the bathroom gets filthy. No, they don't shit on the floor but still. I also have a baby that spends plenty of time on the floor. Just wondering how other people do this. If the mop gets sanitized after each use I guess it's fine. If not - different mops. Because I'm one of those crazy people who prefer not to have bathroom germs on my kitchen floor.

But people use the bathroom and then walk through the house. Whatever is on the bathroom floor is on the bottom of their feet and gets carried through the house.

Right, that's why we clean the bathroom floor sometimes. Duh.

NP here. Yes, but the point of this is that unless you clean the bathroom floor after every individual use of the bathroom, flushing the toilet will spread amounts of spray from the toilet. Over the course of the day as it is used, this will be on the floor, people will walk on it in the bathroom, then walk on it throughout the house. Anything you are worried about on the bathroom floor will spread pretty constantly.

I just use a disinfectant cleaner in the mop bucket and make sure to soak the mop head in disinfectant cleaner between uses. You sound like a very OCD germaphone if you worry so much about the dirt on your bathroom floor infecting your kitchen floor because you use the same mop. I've actually never heard of a cleaning service that kept more that used more than one mop, unless there were multiple people and they each carried a mop to be more time efficient rahter than sharing a mop. But the 2-3 person crews that have cleaned my house usually bring one mop and one person goes around and does all the mopping while others do other tasks.

[Anonymous]

Same mop but different mop heads. Not really worried about it though. I have a lot of kids so I do too many mop sessions due to accidents like spilling spaghetti sauce or soda or whatever. So I mop up the mess, then I figure I might as well do bathroom floors since I have the mop out.

Somehow I wound up with extra mop heads. And I have tons of those washable swiffer dusters and swiffer wet jet pads. Dd's Girl Scout troop did a service project where they made green cleaning supplies and gave them away on earth day. I figure since I have multiples of everything, and I'm washing them separately anyway, I might as well use as many as I want.

[Anonymous]

The way I was raised was with one mop but you mop the kitchen first. Change the water between rooms. Always us disinfectant in the bathroom. It must be disinfectant not a deodorizer like Faboloso. Bleach is the best thing ever to clean the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

My cleaning lady reports that households often have separate mops for the water rooms.

[Anonymous]

I have small bathrooms. I just use a chlorox wipe or two.

[Anonymous]

Mops seem gross to me period. Like kitchen sponges, which I also don't use (just use dish brushes). That said I have no idea how my maids clean my house, just that they do. Beautifully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God, this has never crossed my mind in my entire 40-year life.

Fellow forty-something, equally as baffled.

[Anonymous]

Unless you are a vegetarian, you have other fecal matter in your kitchen. Just sayin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, this has never crossed my mind in my entire 40-year life.

Fellow forty-something, equally as baffled.

OP here, I actually think its old-fashioned. My mother separated the mops for the kitchen and the bathroom. Same with the sponges used to clean the toilet. Its not like she used the same sponge for the kitchen counter. Bathroom stuff stayed in the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I have a bunch of kids and the bathroom gets filthy. No, they don't shit on the floor but still. I also have a baby that spends plenty of time on the floor. Just wondering how other people do this. If the mop gets sanitized after each use I guess it's fine. If not - different mops. Because I'm one of those crazy people who prefer not to have bathroom germs on my kitchen floor.

But people use the bathroom and then walk through the house. Whatever is on the bathroom floor is on the bottom of their feet and gets carried through the house.

Right, that's why we clean the bathroom floor sometimes. Duh.

NP here. Yes, but the point of this is that unless you clean the bathroom floor after every individual use of the bathroom, flushing the toilet will spread amounts of spray from the toilet. Over the course of the day as it is used, this will be on the floor, people will walk on it in the bathroom, then walk on it throughout the house. Anything you are worried about on the bathroom floor will spread pretty constantly.

I just use a disinfectant cleaner in the mop bucket and make sure to soak the mop head in disinfectant cleaner between uses. You sound like a very OCD germaphone if you worry so much about the dirt on your bathroom floor infecting your kitchen floor because you use the same mop. I've actually never heard of a cleaning service that kept more that used more than one mop, unless there were multiple people and they each carried a mop to be more time efficient rahter than sharing a mop. But the 2-3 person crews that have cleaned my house usually bring one mop and one person goes around and does all the mopping while others do other tasks.

I see your point but I wouldn't call it useless to clean. And why make matters worse by dragging the germs down to the kitchen myself with the mop...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have small bathrooms. I just use a chlorox wipe or two.

Your bathroom floor is not clean. For those wipes to disinfect you need to use enough wipes to wet the floors thoroughly and for it to stay wet for 10 minutes. You can might as well just use a paper towel and wipe your floor. The wipes only kills 99.9 % of bacteria when used correctly. They're not meant to be used on floors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mops seem gross to me period. Like kitchen sponges, which I also don't use (just use dish brushes). That said I have no idea how my maids clean my house, just that they do. Beautifully.

You can't see the germs.....