If you are concerned about any of these areas, you have a few options. The point I’m trying to make here is that the faucet, the coffee maker, the microwave, the water cooler, the fridge, even the vending machines and the water fountains – they all get touched by you and they get touched by everyone else in your office. So we’ll count this as an umbrella point, cool? Unlike the items in your home kitchen, all of the items in the office kitchen are communal and that means they are used by everyone. Now, I know I said we were covering 5 things here – but there’s a bunch of things in the office kitchen which I feel I should bring to your attention. If you notice dust built up on the bottom of your mouse, use a small and sharp item like a toothpick or a corner of a sticky note to scratch it out. Once done, take a microfiber cloth sprayed with disinfectant and wipe the mouse down. This is great to to around track wheels and buttons. Hold the mouse upright and brush down so that you don’t re-populate your mouse with its own debris. If you have debris stuck in the mouse, use some compressed air to blast it out or a dry cleaning toothbrush. Just like the keyboard and phone, the mouse is another great example of something we use every day, but something we probably don’t clean nearly as much as we should! If you indeed would like to clean your computer mouse, we’ll apply the same principles we did to the other two items to the mighty mouse. Note – if your keyboard is cordless, remove the batteries so that whatever buttons you press, your computer won’t know the difference. Now, wipe up that terrible crumb collection and plug your keyboard back in.
Finish up the job by spraying a cloth with disinfectant and wipe the keyboard. Once this is done, use a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol to swab around each key (this is an alternative to removing each key, which is terrific but time-consuming). Let them all fall to the surface, you’ll wipe them up after. Starting at the top, blast your keys starting from top to bottom with a can of compressed air (don’t keep your face too close, or else you’ll get blasted with your own nasty keyboard crumbs!). Unplug your keyboard and stand it upright. To see an in-depth keyboard cleaning tutorial, watch my video on it here. I wish I had a dime for every crickle and crackle that has fallen between the keys of this keyboard…I eat way too many meals and snacks directly overtop of it. Now, it’ll be all yours!Īlso probably no surprise to you, the keyboard is crumb king of the office. If you take over a new office space and notice (unthinkable) ear wax built-up in the receiver or gunk in the mouthpiece, take a dry cleaning toothbrush, gently brush out the debris and then proceed to clean the phone as described above.
Then, spray a microfiber cloth with disinfectant, and wipe the entire phone down including the body and the entire receiver. To keep your phone clean, use a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol and swab the area around the button, the receiver and the mouthpiece.
The more buttons, the more areas for gunk to build up! Further to that, the phone is designed to sit right by your face, so if it is not tended to on the regular, it can become filled with a lot of undesirable microscopic bits and pieces. No surprise here – I have one of those stereotypical office phones with a million lines and side buttons. Here’s my take on the nastiest things in your office, and of course, the best way to clean them! Last updated: OctoMany of us spend countless hours in an office, working away and doing what we need to do, to pay da bills.Īnd while many offices have regular cleaners (to some degree or another), offices are never really, truly clean.
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