After Chinese New Year, spring is in the air
How we can tell? Well, if it’s not the fresh air, flowers, and spring showers—it’s the delightfully refreshing scent of all those sanitizing, disinfecting, and cleaning chemicals that really gave it away.
That’s right, everyone, it’s not just spring, it’s spring cleaning time, and we can’t tell you how excited we are that the time has finally come. If you feel overwhelmed just thinking about where to start on your spring cleaning, we’ve gone ahead and made it easier for you this year.
Meet our Spa Spring Cleaning Checklist, the best tips when it comes to really giving your spa, spa, or shop a proper Spring spruce.
This little spa guideline will help take you to a new level of spring-cleaning enthusiasm in no time!
Out with old
Purge the Expired, Dirty, and Outdated
If you’re one of those people that gets overwhelmed with the idea of a total spring clean, we recommend starting with all the old and outdated products and equipment in your spa. Take inventory. Check all your product and all tools and equipment. What’s broken? What’s leaking? What’s not relevant anymore? Purge your spa of all the bad, expired, or outdated stuff. This step is simple and it doesn’t require any deep cleaning skills—not yet, anyway.
Once you get all the gunk and junk out of your spa, you’re ready to move onto phase 2 of the spring clean checklist. Sanitize!
Clean & disinfect
Obviously, you should have sanitation on the radar at all times, but if you’re spring cleaning, now is the time to truly do it properly.
Why is sanitizing your spa and everything you touch a must? We will explain this with just five words: microbes, yeast, viruses, fungi and bacteria. These gross little fellas are microscopic and exist everywhere around us. They make us sick, they wreck immune systems, and they can even be fatal.
An important thing to note here is that sanitizing is different than cleansing and disinfecting.
When you disinfect, you’re using antibacterial substances to destroy microbes and fungi. Cleansing is more of a soap-and-water take on cleaning. When you sanitize, though, you’re disinfecting, cleansing, and sanitizing – all of it.
You should always be on top of the industry standards for sanitizing your spa. Remember, this isn’t just friendly advice that you could follow. This stuff is an absolute must. If you don’t meet codes or regulations, you can put yourself at risk of fines, lawsuits, and damage to your reputation. Worst of all, you could put your clients at risk.
Once you’ve disinfected everything, it’s time to clean in the more traditional sense. Sweep, mop, vacuum, laundry—whatever you do to clean your space, do it now! This applies to all aspects of your spa—from the bathrooms to the office. No room should go untouched.
In with the new
Organize, Decorate, Add the Finishing Touches
Now the best phase of spring cleaning, the finishing touches phase.
Once you’ve gotten rid of all the gunk and you’ve sanitized your space to the max, it’s time to add in any finishing touches to give your spa a new and improved look.
This phase should be dedicated to organization. You’ve got a spotless spa, so use this time to upgrade your organization.
Switch your filing system to digital storage, buy new cabinets for your tools and equipment, re-arrange furniture and optimize flow through the spa.
Spring cleaning shouldn’t just be about cleaning up, it should also be about revamping and improving too.
Draw up a new weekly cleaning schedule
Now that your spa is spotless, you want to keep it that way. Draw up a new cleaning schedule to ensure all of your hard work wasn’t for nothing! Have a meeting to get your staff on board and make sure everyone is aware of who is responsible for what. Make sure you have an accountability system in place, too!
Spring cleaning can be a cleansing experience for the spa and for you! Follow with this checklist and we guarantee your space will feel refreshed, clean, and beautiful in no time!
