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Lack of cleaning can make us sick

Translate from : Manglende rengøring kan gøre os syge

For a long time, the debate about health and well-being has focused on things like sleep and exercise, with a wealth of apps and gadgets to help track our exercise and sleep.

However, the new research indicates that we should also look at the immediate surroundings of our homes, as this is an area where we have become worse off despite the great focus on health and well-being.

Over the past 20 years, the proportion of people who wash floors every week has dropped from two out of three to just one in two. At the same time, we have also become less good at airing out, despite the great focus on it during the pandemic, and we also don't use the hood as much as we should.

The results appear in the report “Health and Indoor Climate” from Aalborg University. The report also points out that our lack of cleaning and poor indoor climate can lead to more respiratory diseases and even increase the risk of depression.

Fortunately, there are ways to fix this without having to spend a lot of time on it. Robot vacuum cleaners have evolved a lot in recent years, and now floor cleaning is also becoming a normal feature.

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Here at Tweak, we have looked at many robot vacuum cleaners and have seen for ourselves how they can make everyday cleaning easier.

Based on the new research, Roborock has created a series of easy tips that can help reverse the negative trend of our lack of cleaning and poor indoor climate.

“Floor cleaning is often downgraded because it requires vacuuming first and feels like hard manual work. But it is one of the most important routines if you want to create a healthier indoor climate. Danes have long since left trivial tasks like washing dishes and laundry to technology. Therefore, it makes sense that more people are leaving cleaning to smart home solutions like robot vacuums,” says Monique Dugarte Ramos, Nordic Brand Manager for Roborock.

Although the report indicates that Danes have become less good at taking care of their indoor climate, a lot can be done to improve it with a few measures, emphasizes Monique Dugarte Ramos, who is not surprised that it is floor cleaning in particular that Danes have fallen behind.

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5 good tips for a better indoor climate

1. Air out three times a day - Open the windows in short intervals so that the air is properly replaced.
   
   
2. Use the hood consistently - Turn on the hood every time you cook and let it run for a while afterwards to remove moisture and particles.
   
   
3. Keep your floors clean - Floors collect dust, bacteria and allergens that cannot be removed by vacuuming alone. That's why floor cleaning is an important routine, and robot vacuums with integrated floor cleaning can help here because they can both vacuum and clean in one go.
   
   
4. Create regular routines - Set regular times for cleaning so that good habits don't slip into a busy everyday life. This can be done, for example, by programming a cleaning program on your robot vacuum cleaner that runs while you are at work.
   
   
5. Automate the boring tasks - Many everyday chores can now be done automatically, so you don't have to think about them. For example, Roborock's models can empty the dust container or fill it with water, making cleaning even easier to maintain over time.

About the report

The report was prepared by Aalborg University's BUILD institute and the National Institute of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark and maps the connections between the residential environment and health status.