Whether you want to keep your home spotlessly clean all of the time, or your business, the best way to achieve it is with regular cleaning, but if you hire a professional cleaning company, a weekly visit might not be enough. Fortunately, most cleaning companies offer bi-weekly services, meaning that you can keep your home or business as clean as it can possibly be, every day of the week. Here are 4 great reasons to start enjoying a cleaner home or business, all of the time, with a bi-weekly cleaning service:
For anyone with a property that they rent out to paying guests on vacation, this can be a profitable business venture or side hustle, but it doesn’t come without its responsibilities.
For many, cleaning services are viewed as anything but essential; something only the very wealthy, famous or lazy would spend their money on. But the reality is really quite different.
You may think you do a good job of keeping your home hygienically clean, but could there be any areas that don’t get the attention they deserve? Or any spots you simply forget to clean during your usual routine?
We deliver happiness through home cleaning and other home and lifestyle services. We offer simple flat pricing based on the size of the home given the number of bedrooms and square footage. Unfortunately, at this time we don’t do any partial cleanings. Please note, a “Deep Clean” is required for the first cleaning.
No matter how clean you think you keep your home, sometimes it just doesn’t smell fresh, and you’re left scratching your head wondering what to do about it. While having your home regularly cleaned by a cleaning service is a great way of ensuring that dirt and bad smells are kept to a minimum, there are a few simple things you can do yourself, to guarantee a sweeter-smelling home:
Pets really do make a home feel like a home, but as much as we love our pooches, we don’t want our homes to smell of them. Whether you clean up after your pets yourself, or hire a cleaning service to help, one way or another, those nasty odors have got to go!
For as long back as historians care to remember, women either employed a maid, or they were one, and both roles gave a clear definition of their standing within society. Maids or servants, often lived in the home in which they worked and were responsible for a wide range of tasks, from cooking and cleaning to childcare.
Water is a primary feature of bathrooms, and to that end, they can quickly become damp environments, and perfect breeding grounds for mildew and black mold. If surfaces aren’t cleaned regularly, mildew forms and if left, soon becomes mold.
Oftentimes, unless your pets are furless (and some breeds are!) no matter how often you clean your home, or even if you have a daily home cleaning service, you’ll never be able to stop some pet hair from invading your home. However, there are a number of simple things you can do to keep it to a bare minimum, and some of them are listed below:
Whether your kitchen cabinets are made of wood or are painted white, we’ve got a solution for keeping them spotlessly clean. However, if your kitchen cabinets are covered in cooking stains and goodness knows what else, it might be quicker – and a whole lot easier! – to hire a cleaning service to come in and clean them for you.
Keeping your washing machine clean and well maintained will work wonders for preventing for a buildup of mold, mildew, dust, dirt and soap deposits, and don’t forget that these can be harmful not only to your laundry, but to your health, too.
While we all do our best to keep our homes clean, all too often we focus only on the bigger cleaning tasks and tend to forget about the other, smaller but no less important cleaning tasks. To make sure your home is thoroughly clean, try to focus on the following 13 things along with your other, regular tasks:
It can be easy to forget that your washer might need cleaning once in a while, and it’s often only when we notice that our laundry isn’t smelling quite as fresh as usual, that we even think about whether the washer itself, might be dirty.
Hate cleaning? Join the club! However, unless you’re fortunate enough (and wise enough!) to already be using the services of a professional cleaning company (or have a really busy household and need help in between their visits), you’ll need to do some cleaning to prevent your home from becoming a health hazard, and with these 7 simple tips, you could get the job done in half the time:
If you value your health and relish the thought of a clean home that won’t trigger allergic reactions in you or guests, then you really should keep it as clean as possible. If it’s too much effort or you don’t have the time to do it yourself, then simply use the services of a professional cleaning company.
Dust is everywhere. In our homes, at our places of work and in the atmosphere all around us, but can it be harmful to our health? The answer is a definitive yes, it can be harmful to our health in the form of an allergy known as ‘dust mite allergy’, and can cause a number of irritating and harmful reactions in sufferers.
Since a washing machine is there to wash our dirty laundry, it can be easy to forget – or not even realise – that the machine itself should be cleaned, too. However, despite the fact that we use detergents to keep our clothes clean, these can in fact build up over time inside the machine, causing a combination of soap residue and minerals to clog it up and prevent it from washing as efficiently as it should.
For modern folk, lives have become busier as the years have gone on, and as technology has developed at a rate of knots, home lives are no longer kept separate from working lives. This has led to a growing population of working people who quite simply, never stop. Not only are they working around the clock for their paid jobs, but they’re increasingly expected to take care of the many varied aspects of home life, too. For some, this leads not only to a deterioration in the quality of their lives, but to a decreased fitness and general health level, too, mainly due to the limited amount of time people can spend exercising.
With modern lives becoming increasingly busier, allowing for less time for such activities as cleaning and tidying, we have all had to learn to adapt and devise new ways of getting important tasks completed efficiently. With more and more of us working to support ourselves, less time is available for housework, and for those who don’t employ a cleaner or use the services of a cleaning company, finding the time to keep a clean home is a constant battle. However, with these simple tips and methods, cleaning your bathroom and the floors in your home need not take a lifetime:
Dust and dirt can wreak havoc even in those homes that are cleaned regularly, and doesn’t take long to build up. However, with dust in particular having the potential to aggravate allergies and respiratory illnesses, it’s important to try your best to keep it out of your home as much as you can.
For anyone with a dust allergy, keeping their home free from dust can help minimize their symptoms and make the air inside, much cleaner to breathe. But, dust can be hard enough to keep to a minimum, let alone eliminate altogether, and the amount of dust you have in your home can depend on a number of factors, such as whether you have pets, frequently open your windows or don’t clean very often.
In a lot of multiple occupancy households, dishwashers are used at least once a day, and while they get our kitchen items shiny and clean, have you ever thought about how much grime and debris passes through them on every cycle?
As well as looking downright unsightly, hard water staining can tarnish glass and other items in your home, and cause permanent damage. The glass often becomes discolored, and unless the issue is tackled early on, it can prove impossible to remove. Unfortunately, hard water (water that has a high mineral content) is very common in certain areas of the country, and for a lot of homeowners, it’s difficult to avoid the staining that comes with it. However – as with many types of stains – treating it before it spreads is advisable.
As well as looking downright unsightly, hard water staining can tarnish glass and other items in your home, and cause permanent damage. The glass often becomes discolored, and unless the issue is tackled early on, it can prove impossible to remove. Unfortunately, hard water (water that has a high mineral content) is very common in certain areas of the country, and for a lot of homeowners, it’s difficult to avoid the staining that comes with it. However – as with many types of stains – treating it before it spreads is advisable.
You’d be surprised at just how quickly mold can accumulate in a refrigerator, even if you make an effort to keep it clean. However, while it might be common, mold is always unwelcome, and here are 6 tips for making sure your refrigerator doesn’t play host to any potentially dangerous contaminants and furry green or black things!
Keeping a clean and healthy home is necessary if we’re to keep ourselves clean and healthy, too, but with harsh chemicals often used, could we be doing more harm than good to ourselves and the environment?
Airborne allergens are difficult to eliminate inside any home, and if you suffer from asthma, Hayfever or experience any breathing issues, they can quickly and easily aggravate your symptoms.
Keeping a clean and healthy home is necessary if we’re to keep ourselves clean and healthy, too, but with harsh chemicals often used, could we be doing more harm than good to ourselves and the environment?
From toasters and juicers, to waffle grills and coffee makers, the average person uses a variety of small kitchen appliances on a regular basis, but because they’re used so often, cleaning them sometimes gets forgotten about.
If you or anyone in your household suffers from itchy skin, a runny nose, painful facial pressure, nasal congestion or post-nasal drip when inside the home (even when not carrying out any cleaning tasks), this could be a clear sign that dust mites may be prevalent and out of control in your home.
It’s common courtesy for most of us to clean our homes before the new owners move in, and even if we’re not obliged to, we still do it so that they can move their furniture and other items straight in. After all, if the shoe were on the other foot, we’d want the same from our new home.
Just because a certain eco-friendly substance is an effective cleaner for use around the home, doesn’t mean that it can be automatically be mixed with another substance that shares similar properties, or any other cleaning solution, chemical or otherwise; in fact, some combinations can be downright hazardous.
Sometimes, even the tamest of parties can create the biggest of messes, and whatever your reason for hosting a party at your home, these tips can help you clean the place up in next to no time:
Drains becoming blocked is an extremely common but often smelly and inconvenient problem for many households, and while we often turn to chemicals to fix the problem, this isn’t great for us, or the environment.
Even if you’re not particularly aware that your home is cluttered – or are aware and simply don’t care – it will inevitably be having an effect on your state of mind, and could mean that you’re living in an unclean home, too.
Pets are cherished by many, and while we may be happy to share our hearts and homes with them, we may not be quite so thrilled about the mess they can make, and the smells they can leave behind!
Stainless steel appliances are incredibly popular thanks to their heat, rust and damage resistant qualities, and when they’re cleaned properly and maintained well, they can look great sitting on a kitchen countertop. When they become grubby, stained and covered in smears and fingerprints, however, nothing can let a kitchen down more.
With a little bit of organization, and just a pinch more dedication, you can get your home spotless, and keep it that way! Sound too good to be true? It doesn’t have to be.
While some parents choose to wait until their kids are older to get them involved with household chores, others prefer to start them young. Whatever your preference, here are some ideas for appropriate chores that your kids can help you with, whatever their age:
Welcoming a new baby into the home is a wonderful occasion for the whole family, but it’s important not to neglect cleanliness, and to remember that tiny tots have extremely delicate bodies and weak immune systems.
Most of us, irrespective of how much we love or hate to clean our home, have a number of cleaning products that we regularly use and rely on. Whether they’re store bought items or things that we find in our kitchen pantry, we use them because they’re effective, and ideally, cost effective.
Aside from placing an open tub of baking soda in the fridge to absorb offensive odors, there are plenty of other ways to use this wonderful little product to your advantage around the home:
Every time you take a shower, hard water and soap scum will leave traces behind, and before you know it, your shower is anything but gleaming. With regular cleaning, however, you can get your shower doors looking as good as new, and here are some top tips for doing exactly that:
There’s nothing new about making resolutions as the next year approaches, and there’s nothing new about not being able to stick to them, either! With all the best intentions in the world, millions of resolutions get made and broken every year, and if you’ve decided to make 2022 the year that your home gets properly cleaned, and stays that way, you can break that trend by following these tips to make your new year cleaning resolutions, stick:
Every time you take a shower, hard water and soap scum will leave traces behind, and before you know it, your shower is anything but gleaming. With regular cleaning, however, you can get your shower doors looking as good as new, and here are some top tips for doing exactly that:
While your kids are at school, there are ample opportunities for them to pick up germs and bring them home with them, and in light of the ongoing COVID-19 health pandemic, more and more focus has shifted to disinfecting potentially contaminated items.
Every time you take a shower, hard water and soap scum will leave traces behind, and before you know it, your shower is anything but gleaming. With regular cleaning, however, you can get your shower doors looking as good as new, and here are some top tips for doing exactly that:
There’s nothing more attractive in a home than a beautiful, clean tiled floor, but when dirty, stained grouting becomes a problem, it can quickly spoil the look of it.
For anyone seeking to lose weight and get a bit fitter, there’s no need to shell out on expensive gym memberships or hire a personal trainer, you can simply be a bit more active, every day.
Depending on how many people are using your kitchen, and how messy they are, kitchen cleaning can be an arduous task. But, with a little planning and use of the following tips, it doesn’t have to be quite such a chore: