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Computer screens, tablet screens, cell phone screens, TV screens,
how do you clean computer screens?
We're going to talk about that today.
Hi, there. I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
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All righty. On to today's session, which is about computer screens.
And if you live in today's society,
you probably have some sort of computer screen or tablet screen or smartphone screen or any
of this resistive technology that is touchscreen where you touch your fingers on the screen
and mechanical things happen.
Now, it's really interesting because a lot of the screens that are touchscreen, there
are actually 18 different types of sensors that do touch screen technology but there
are two that are really popular and basically, what it is, there's a piece of glass that
has electrical conductors and then there's a piece of plastic over the top of it.
When you touch the plastic, it goes through to the glass and that completes the circuit.
All right, so how do you clean these screens?
Because they get lots and lots of germs from lots of use.
The scary thing about the smartphone, it probably is the germiest thing that you have.
We eat food and then we touch our phones.
And then we jump on the subway and we hold onto
the handrails and then we touch our phones.
And then we put our phones up to our ears
to talk and we transfer those germs to our face.
If we touch our fingers and we touch the door knobs and handles in public places.
Then we touch our phones and then we rub or eyes.
Or we blow our nose or something like that,
we're transferring all these germs to our bodies.
That's really super gross.
My suggestion is that you clean your cellphone multiple times a day.
Just clean it multiple times a day and with a damp rag, wipe off all the germs and get
off all the fingerprints and make it nice and clean and sanitize it as frequently as
possible because you are transferring germs from your smartphone.
Now, that is a little bit more resilient than some of these non-glare technologies, so if
you have a computer and it has a computer screen that does not have a glass display,
you're talking about the kind of filament that's maybe a softer fabric filament, you
do not want to use chemicals on that because of the electrical conductors built-in behind
our screens.
We don't want to use any chemicals at any time on our screens.
Let's get that right out of the way right up front.
Do not use chemicals.
If you spray chemicals on an electronic device, those chemicals can seep in.
It can also leave spots and it can also fade the screen so that now, you have fading, which
is going to ruin your user experience.
How do you clean them? it's really simple.
Most products come with a little something that looks like this.
It's a little microfiber cloth that you can put in your pocket.
You can put it in your apron.
If you're not a professional house cleaner and you're just average Joe off the street,
which this customer comes from a just a regular consumer, okay so carry these with you.
If you have some kind of computer bag or you travel with your smartphone or whatever, there
are little things like this that fit in the back case like right behind your screen, the
cover that you use.
This fits right in the back of your screen and you can carry it with you.
There are some that have a little sticky thing on it and this side is the thing that you
clean with.
It just sticks right onto the back of your smartphone so several times a day, you can
just unvelcro that.
You can turn it around and clean the screen.
What I recommend is that you have one of these even for professional cleaning and you just
wrap two fingers like this and then you can go in small circles and you can wipe away
the fingerprints.
My suggestion is a dry, dry microfiber cloth.
If, for example, you have small children that have been using your smartphone or your tablet
or something like that and let's say, for example, they're eating a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich and they get some sticky fingerprints on there that are not going to wipe away,
you don't want to get that on your little rag but what you can do is you can wet this rag.
It's okay if you wet it. Nothing bad happens.
You can wet this rag and squeeze it out so that it's just damp and then you can wipe
away the stickiness and the fingerprints so that when you put that up your face or whatever,
you're not getting sticky stuff on your fingers
and that you're not transferring that to other places.
If it's sticky, you can use a damp microfiber cloth and
these just wash in the regular washing machine.
I don't recommend that you dry them but if you just put them out when they're done after
they come out of the washing machine, they will dry within a couple of minutes and you
can reuse them again.
You can pick these up, I'll put links in the show notes to them, you can pick up several
of these and just keep them in different places in your house.
You may have one near your television.
You may have one on the desk near your computer.
You may carry one in your pocket if you're a professional house cleaner.
I carry one in my apron all the time and so I have one with me.
If I come across the screen that has smudges and it's dirty, I just stop and wipe it off.
It's great for tablets.
It's great for smartphones.
It's great for computer screens, TV screens, a plain microfiber cloth.
In a really severe situation where there are fingerprints that are smudged that you can't
get off, a damp microfiber cloth but no chemicals whatsoever.
Please do not use chemicals on your computer electronics because your computer electronics
are so scientific but if you spray something on there, you're on your own.
All right, that's my two cents for today and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.