How Hotel Housekeepers ACTUALLY Clean a Bathroom — It’s Not Scrubbing

How hotels clean bathrooms comes down to two things: dwell time, how long a disinfectant must stay wet on a surface before it kills germs, and a fixed order the housekeepers follow, from dry dusting first to the floor last. In this video: where to find the "must remain wet for" time under Directions on your cleaner, what EPA Reg. No. on a label means and why a bottle with no wet time is only a cleaner, what dwell time (contact time) is from a CDC doctor, how long a Clorox disinfecting wipe has to stay wet, sanitizing versus disinfecting on a can of Lysol, the eight-step hotel bathroom cleaning order from a Marriott manager and a W Hotel manager, what a housekeeping trainer does while the cleaner sits, why you rinse cleaner off, the color-coded cloth system, how to keep disinfecting wipes from drying out, and why you never mix two cleaners. If you spray and wipe in one motion, or you clean every week and it still never looks like a hotel bathroom, start here. Lysol Disinfectant Spray: 10 seconds only counts as sanitizing, disinfecting takes the full 3 minutes, and for norovirus the label wants 10 minutes. Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, about $6 a canister: keep the surface visibly wet for 4 minutes, then let it dry. Some bottles list 30 seconds; a bottle with no wet time isn't made to kill germs. Clean a visibly dirty surface first. The hotel order: dust and get the hair up while everything is dry, a couple of inches of the hottest tap water in the tub, spray everything top to bottom at once, wait, scrub (a melamine sponge for the gray tub ring), rinse, dry the chrome, then glass, mirrors and the floor. Cloth colors: blue for glass, yellow for the toilet, pink for tubs and sinks. Never mix cleaners, especially anything with bleach. Wear gloves and wash your hands when you're done. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 How do hotels keep bathrooms so clean? 0:26 Where to find the wet time on your cleaner label 0:54 What does EPA Reg. No. on a cleaner mean? 1:12 What is dwell time for a disinfectant? 1:40 How long should a Clorox wipe stay wet? 2:04 Sanitize vs disinfect: Lysol 10 seconds or 3 minutes? 2:31 Hotel bathroom cleaning order: dust and hair first 2:52 Why hotels run hot water before cleaning 3:10 Spray everything at once, top to bottom 3:36 What hotel housekeepers do while the cleaner sits 4:00 How to scrub and rinse a tub like a hotel 4:21 Dry the chrome and use color-coded cleaning cloths 4:40 How to keep disinfecting wipes from drying out 4:56 What if the disinfectant dries too fast? 5:27 What hotels clean every day, and the whole method Today: turn your bathroom spray around and find the number after "must remain wet for". 👉 What's the wet time on your bottle? #bathroomcleaning #disinfecting #housekeeping