It’s incredible that although bins are the home of trash, we seldom consider deep cleaning or Trash Bin Washing until it’s too late. Too late, meaning a problem — usually a pest — has already been attracted to our garbage.
Deep cleaning doesn’t mean hosing down your bins frequently or using some other type of deodorizer because these only rid the trash bin of the scent, not the bacteria that makes it a breeding ground for pests and disease. Instead, you want to give your containers good pressure washing.
Despite trash bin cleaning not being at the forefront of property maintenance, it’s still necessary, especially if you’re trying to keep critters at bay.
Why Are Cleaning Bins Important?
It’s not that your trash bin is home to expired food, vegetable peels, and general household waste that attracts unwanted critters; it’s not clean. Wild animals like raccoons, a problem for many homeowners in Grand Junction, Colorado, are not drawn to the bags of decomposing food in your trash bags; but to the lingering smell. When you conduct a trash bin washing, you’re not getting into every corner of your bin, which leaves a residue that continues to decompose weeks later and attracts these creatures.
Beyond keeping raccoons at bay, trash bin cleaning also guarantees maggots, roaches, and other pests don’t make a home in your trash bin.
The purpose of pressure washing trash bins is to sanitize the surface, making it impossible for pests to breed because your chest becomes invisible to these critters.
But trash bin washing is also effective at eliminating maggots and germs.
Your trash bin is possibly home to Salmonella, E-Coli, and Listeria. While you’re not spending endless amounts of time at the trash bin, it takes one touch to transfer those germs to you. If you have pets, they can touch the trash bin and pass those germs to you, leaving you wondering how you got some disease, although you keep a tidy house.
How Often Should You Clean Your Bins?
How often you have your trash bins pressure cleaned will depend on the size of your family and the season. Large families with more waste should have their trash bins cleaned frequently. The trash bin cleaning will also increase in the summer when heat can accelerate the decomposing of food in the trash bin, and smells are more likely to decay.
Once a month, trash bin washing is essential if you’re a family with young kids and pets, but most other households can get away with quarterly cleaning, with an extra wash or two in summer and spring.
How Do I Clean My Bin?
Ideally, you would like to get your trash bin professionally pressure washed if you want an effective clean. The pressure washing we use at Curbside Cleaners heats to 200 degrees, effectively sanitizing and deodorizing at once. Our equipment also has rotating heads that eliminate all dirt and grime.
Beyond a good pressure washing once a month, you can clean it yourself. Instead, you can maintain cleanliness by only throwing items in the trash after bagging them first. This should keep the bin from becoming a festering ground for germs and stop it from attracting critters.
How Does Professional Trash Bin Pressure Washing Work?
Before you think of trash bin pressure washing as a messy operation, only transferring the dirt and grime from your trash bin to your curb, consider the Curbside Cleaners process. Catering to homes and commercial property in Grand Junction, Colorado, and its surrounds, we sanitize bins at 200 degrees, cleaning the inside and outside containers with specialized rotating heads that get into every corner. To ensure no mess is left behind, we use a unique catchment system that collects the dirty water from the cleaning and disposes of this water environmentally conscious.
Your trash bins are then returned to your garage door or gate.
Every week our trash bin washing services help homeowners in Clifton, White Water, Orchard Mesa, Fruita, Palisade, and Redlands keep their trash bins sanitized and deodorized. But, our residential service will go to homes within 100 miles of Grand Junction, Colorado, including homes in Western Slope and Grand Valley, Colorado.
To see the difference trash and bin washing have in the maintenance of your yard and overall family health, consider contacting our team.
