Cohousing-L Mailing List: More on keeping a place clean...

[Racheli&John (jnpalme]

** Reply to note from "Peg Blum" <pegb [at] cambridgecohousing.org> Sun, 2 Sep 
2001 00:19:20 -0400

>From Racheli
Sonora Cohousing

Another point regarding cleaning (in the CH, or elsewhere): The 
vacuum cleaner one uses should have HEPA filters, otherwise the
 cleanliness achieved is only visual, while the air quality is made
worse.  The reason is that regular vacuum cleaners take in large 
particles, and spew out small ones.  The smaller particles are especially
bad, because they get lodged deep in the lungs.

To make the guest room (or any room) accessible for people with
allergies/chemical sensitivites, it's important to use non-conventional
cleaning substances (namely: ones which don't contain chlorine,
perfumes, etc.) - these are better for other environmental reasons,
too. 

R.
(Today and tomorrow our kitchen, dining room and living room
will be cleaned up, so that - if everything goes well (it ususally doesn't) -
we can start having common meals in the CH within 2 or 3 weeks.
(That's over a year after some of us have moved in).


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