<p>I will be moving into dorms soon, and was wondering how to clean them?
More specifically, </p>
<p>Do I need to use some lice/crabs spray to clean the mattress? How do I clean the floor? Just vacuum it?</p>
<p>It should be pretty clean when you arrive… but yes you would vacuum the floor. Well, that would be the easiest way at least.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t need to clean them when you move in.</p>
<p>But every couple of weeks or so you should vacuum the floors. It also helps to bring disinfecting wipes and wipe down all the commonly touched surfaces every couple of weeks - door knob handles, mouse/keyboard, light switches, faucet/toilet handles (if you have a bathroom shared in a suite), etc.</p>
<p>You realize that schools often deep clean them before you get there, right?</p>
<p>Otherwise its just likecleaning your own room.</p>
<p>So people are saying the dorms are “deep cleaned” before school, but when I got there last year, it was gross and my roommate and I washed the floor and the drawers. I’m just saying, be prepared for anything.</p>
<p>We bring the tunes of Clorox or Lysol wipes. They can be used to wipe down everything including the plastic coated mattress.</p>
<p>Wlell, lily blame you school then. Mine has cleaners come in after we clean them upon move out.</p>
<p>Lysol, broom, vaccuum, and wipes should get you through.</p>
<p>Our dorms definitely are not deep cleaned before we get there… Some of them are in use the day before Move-In.</p>
<p>But yeah, if you have carpet, vacuum the floors. If you have tile, sweep (if you’ve got a swiffer, that’d be nice). Take some lysol and spray it over the beds if you want. Wipe off the desks, cabinets (inside and out), and counter-tops in your room.</p>
<p>You really shouldn’t have to do too much cleaning, but it can’t hurt to come prepared with supplies.</p>
<p>I sweep the floor, wipes out the shelfs and drawers, and disinfect the microwave and fridge. That’s about it. I don’t think you’ll have to worry about lice, and I’ve never even heard of “crabs spray”. Bring lots of Clorox wipes like another poster said they’re really good for just wiping everything down, from counters to desks to door handles.</p>
<p>The same way you clean your own room, dude.</p>
<p>When I move in, we clean the floor (which is tile) with one of those wet swiffer pads to get up any dirt before we put down the rugs. I don’t bother cleaning the mattress (unless there’s something wrong with it, but there hasn’t been so far) because I put my mattress pad on top of it. The desks usually get wiped down with a Clorox wipe. That’s about it. It’s not exactly an intensive cleaning ritual.</p>
<p>The room is cleaned before you move in, generally.</p>
<p>I didn’t have carpet in my dorm so I borrowed a suitemate’s Swiffer and would use that on the floor a couple times a month. That was about it. I would clean when my roommate would go out of town because she was a pig and had stuff scattered everywhere and it made it really hard to clean. I mostly did it to get up dead hair and makeup that was on the floor.</p>
<p>I would dust my desk with Clorox wipes and if I noticed someone in the suite getting a cold or something, I’d Clorox the $h!t out of random things out of paranoia. The mattress wasn’t made of cloth, it was like the stuff of school bus seats, so it didn’t need to be cleaned.</p>
<p>The rooms should be clean before you get there, but I wiped the closet and shelves again before i put my clothes in there. </p>
<p>I would vacuum the floor maybe once every 2 weeks (it depends on your roomate & you).
The toilet and bathroom in general gets very nasty when you have 2-4 people using it daily, so be sure to clean it once a week before it gets to nasty. I made that mistake and then used the hall toilet till the end of the semester.</p>
<p>p.s. Open your window often to get some fresh air, don’t just use the recycled airconditioning.</p>