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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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:
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.
Ovens can be a real drag to clean, but leave them dirty, and soon whatever you cook in it will taste tainted, not to mention the fact that the oven will be a real eyesore in your kitchen.
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?
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!
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?
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:
Whether you’ve got kids or pets, or both, it can sometimes feel like an upward struggle to keep your home clean every day, let alone all year round. However, with a little patience, planning and as much enthusiasm as you can muster, it is possible to keep your home clean and tidy all of the time.
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.
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.
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:
It can sometimes seem like an uphill struggle to maintain a cleaning schedule, especially with modern lives being so busy and full of other things much more important or fun than cleaning! However, keeping a clean home is important, and once you create a cleaning schedule you can easily stick to, you’ll find it less of a chore, and more of a victory:
The most effective way to keep your home clean and tidy for longer, is to quickly clean rooms according to a schedule. For example, Mondays might be the day you clean the bathroom, while Wednesdays is kitchen cleaning day, and you’ll soon find that if you stick to a routine and don’t neglect it, each space in your home will stay cleaner, for longer.
Bathrooms are used frequently, and let’s face it, a lot of grime passes through them every day! Keeping them hygienically clean is important, especially if we want to keep them as rooms that we can safely use and not risk picking up bacteria from, and not feel embarrassed about when guests ask to use it!
When your kids are little, getting them to help you clean around the home might be easy, especially as they are eward focused and often enjoy mimicking what their parents are doing. But as your kids get older, this can become a lot more challenging.
It might be easier to get rid of dust for good than you realize, and with the following 9, simple tips, you can enjoy a dust-free home, all year round:
Getting other members of your household involved in cleaning the home can make life a whole lot easier for everyone and can certainly lift the weight from your shoulders. Here are a few tips and tricks to get the whole family to help clean the home:
For those of you with busy schedules (and let’s face it, that’s most of us these days!), cleaning your bathroom every day simply isn’t realistic, and for some, even getting it done once a week can be a struggle. While some may hire a professional cleaner to help them keep their bathroom clean, others may prefer to do it themselves. For those individuals, the following guidance may prove helpful in determining whether you’re cleaning your bathroom often enough:
Sometimes, cleaning can become a bit overwhelming, and without any organisation and pre-planning, it can be a struggle to keep on top of everything. However, by giving certain cleaning tasks a schedule, it can be easier to organize your cleaning and keep your home spick and span all of the time.
Cleaning can be a real bore, and while there are some of us who enjoy it and find satisfaction in getting knee deep in dirt and grime, most of us hate it and look for ways to make it easier, or eliminate the need for it altogether! Hiring a professional cleaning company is the simplest way of eliminating cleaning from your schedule, but if this isn’t an option for you, you could try some of these thrifty cleaning tips to make the job that bit easier and more time and cost effective:
While in many countries of the world, COVID-19 infection rates are finally falling, that doesn’t mean that we should be complacent and start neglecting our home sanitizing measures.
Cleanliness is paramount when facing a health crisis such as the current Covid-19 pandemic, and it’s important to know what the best cleaning products are to effectively destroy the virus. Here are the top products to ensure that you, your home and your family members are kept safe from harm:
Your refrigerator is used so frequently that it’s not always easy to keep it clean, however, considering food items are stored there, it’s important that you make the effort to keep it as hygienically clean as possible. One way of ensuring that the entire fridge gets a thorough clean is by gradually emptying the food stored in it, so that cleaning it properly is made easier.
Do you struggle to come up with an innovative and useful gift for a friend or family member every time their birthday rolls around again? Are you tired of hunting high and low, looking for gift inspiration? Do you always come back empty handed? If so, then a cleaning voucher may be just the thing you’ve been looking for.
Your kids should probably be feeling lucky that you’re even asking the question of whether cleaning can be fun for them, since many parents inflict it upon them without stopping to think whether they might enjoy it!
If your kids moan and groan at the thought of having to help clean the house, especially if it involves a marathon spring cleaning session, then why not check out the following tips for getting the little ones actively involved and how to make it more fun for them:
Well, I guess it all depends on how you view the world and your place in it. For many of us, we appreciate that the environment is there for us all to protect, and that if we want a healthy planet for our kids or grandkids to grow up in, then we should all do our best not to abuse it. In our homes, we should all want to use less harsh chemicals, not only to try and protect the environment, but to keep our family’s safe, too.
In many households, dishwashers are used virtually every day, and sometimes multiple times a day. While they’re a remarkable invention that have undoubtedly made our lives easier, it’s important not to take them for granted. Dishwashers need to be able to clean the dishes properly, and so you must ensure that the machine itself is also kept clean and maintained well.
You don’t have to be a genius to clean your home, that much is true, but sometimes it does pay to put a little thought into how you do it. Haphazardly cleaning your home in a random fashion usually only means that you don’t get the job done efficiently, and some parts of your home get missed if you’re not methodical. Here are a few steps for cleaning your entire home quickly and efficiently:
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.
Moms these days are ‘jacks of all trades’, and are often expected to work, maintain a household and keep a clean home, all at the same time! While many moms revel in their responsibilities, others want to fulfil their multiple roles, but simply can’t find the time to fit them all in, and this can be frustrating and stressful. One simple way of staying on top of everything as a busy mom, is to follow these quick and easy cleaning tips:
Some days even just the thought of cleaning can make us want to take to our beds, but let’s face it, cleaning is a part of life and a necessity for most, so what can you do to motivate yourself when cleaning couldn’t be further from your agenda?
Mold and mildew can make the cleanest of homes look grubby and uncared for, not to mention the smell that is associated with damp and the risks to health that it poses. If you have areas of unsightly and unhygienic mold and mildew in your home, here are 5 top tips for tackling and eliminating it:
While we may each have different ideas about what a clean home really means, there are some standards that need to be met for hygiene purposes, and these should not be subjective:
Our kitchens are used so often that dirt, grease and grime can quickly build up, and keeping it clean can feel like a constant battle. The best and most effective way to keep your kitchen clean, is to clean up mess and spillages straight away, but even if you can’t manage that, here are a few tips for speed cleaning some of the most used areas or pieces of equipment in your kitchen:
Now, more than ever, you want your home to be smelling as fresh as possible. With pets and people staying inside more than ever before, your home can quickly play host to a wide range of unpleasant odours, but thankfully, eliminating them is easy, and here are some tips:
We’re a nation of dog lovers with many millions of Americans owning pet dogs, in fact, there are plenty who believe that a home is not complete unless it contains a dog or two (or three, or four!). However, few pet owners can deny that their homes can quickly begin to smell like a dog kennel if the odour created by the presence of pet dogs isn’t tackled often enough.
Many of the products that we use for cleaning our homes are synthetic, and derive from many different chemicals. From dishwasher solutions, to bleach and laundry detergents, most of these will contain harsh chemicals that can be harmful to both you and your home. However, there are 3 products that you may already have in your pantry, that are much safer to use, just as effective as chemical based products and are a whole lot kinder to your body and home:
While you may be a fan of store-bought de-greasing solutions, there is little doubt that homemade ones can be just as effective (if not more so) and are generally far better for the environment and your pocket. A good cleaning solution that is brilliant for de-greasing need not contain harsh, harmful chemicals, and here is a perfect example of one mixture that is effective and affordable:
It may sound like a bit of a cliché, that a clean home is a happy home, but I really believe that this is true; a clean home may not be all that makes a home happy, of course, but it can certainly help to make it feel happier.
Whether you love cleaning and set aside time to do it each week (or day), or whether you despise it and try your best to avoid it, it’s hard to deny that there are probably more valuable and enjoyable things that you could be doing with that time.
For many of us nowadays, we like to try and clean our homes using products that are not harmful to ourselves or the environment, and when it comes to windows, there is a very simple natural formula that you can apply to get them shining as bright as diamonds:
No matter how clean you try to keep your home, there will always be those hard to reach or forgotten about places where dirt and grime like to hide. And in fact, some of the dirtiest spots are the items we use the most, and it’s perhaps because we use them so often that we don’t always think about just how dirty they might be. Items such as video game and television controllers, and any other frequently used handheld devices can play host to thousands of germs per 100 square centimetres, which in many cases, amounts to more than five times the amount found on toilet seats, yuk!
Kitchens can be such hectic places, full of various bits of machinery and equipment, and often seeing a lot of footfall throughout the day and can prove tricky to keep clean. However, with a little guidance and a plan to stick to, there’s no reason why your kitchen can’t be clean and tidy every day of the week: