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Advantages and Disadvantages of Hiring Maid Services

Thorough house cleaning requires time and effort and if you have a busy schedule, you may not have enough of either to adequately clean your home yourself. Many homeowners in this position may consider professional house clean service to keep their homes consistently cleaned and maintained. While a professional maid service can do wonders to keep your home in great shape, it is fair to wonder if the expense is worth the results. The following are the main advantages and disadvantages of hiring professionals for home cleaning services. Advantages of Home Maids Services Consistency: If you have a busy work schedule and kids that have after school activities, finding time to clean your home is very difficult. Even if you do find some time, a busy schedule will prevent you from being ...

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How to Remove Cooking Grease Stains from Protein Fire Damage

There’s nothing like having a home-cooked meal with your family and friends. Certainly, using the oven or stove provides healthier dinner options than the microwave, not to mention it tasting better. However, there are many risks associated with stove and oven cooking. If the cooking food is left alone at any point in time, there is always the possibility of risking what is called a protein fire. Protein fires occur whenever food burns, such as eggs, meats, or any other form of protein. Although it is not as commonly known, due to the fact that it does not always produce large or dark smoke. On the other hand, it can still cause significant damage to your household belongings and property structure. Although you may not be able to see any dark smoke or soot residue that is usually pr...

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How to Save Money and Time During Disaster Restoration

When a natural disaster strikes you property, it can be a very shocking experience as you may not know where to turn or how to proceed. However, the first moments that you recognize the damage are the most crucial in preventing additional costs and time in repairs. Insurance companies also want you to be able to stop the damage as soon as it is incurred. They can even deny the claim if there is any hesitation in initiating restoration process. This is why it is imperative that you do everything in your power in order to prevent the damage from spreading. While emergency restoration companies, such as ServiceMaster, are just a phone call away, it may take some time for them to arrive. In the meantime, there are a number of simple steps you can take yourself in order to save you time and mon...

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Quickly Clean Your House with These Spring Cleaning Tips

Although we are not quite done with winter, spring is just around the corner! As there are many chores to be done that will require both time and money, it can easily feel overwhelming. However, there is a simple way to do it just by committing to 10 minutes each day to get your house clean. If at least one chore is completed on a daily basis, you may have the entire property cleaned by the end of the month! The trick is simply to spread out the work. Check out these tips to get on the right track to a clean house in the least amount of time possible: 10 Minute Spring Cleaning Chores: Wipe off the ceiling fan of any dust and dirt that has accumulated throughout the winter. Don’t forget the A/C vents, using a soft cloth or vacuum hose to remove the dust. Clean off the light fixture...

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Steps of the Post Construction Cleaning Process

Whether it’s a new building or an extensive renovation project, once construction is over, the fun part begins – you have the perfect layout and you can unleash your designer genius to create the interior décor of your dreams. However, before you can furnish and decorate your new space, you need to make sure it is impeccably clean and safe to occupy. The scuffed-up surfaces, scattered debris, and layers of dust left after the construction work not only make your newly (re)built property look filthy and messy, but may also pose a variety of safety hazards to the occupants of the building. So, before you can complete your project and set up your new space, you need to have it thoroughly cleaned. If it’s just a small area that needs to be tidied up, you can complete the task yourself. ...

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4 Dirtiest Areas of your Home

If you ask about the dirtiest area of the home, most people would suggest the toilet, inside the front door or a child’s bedroom floor. Surprisingly, none of these top the list. These places are known for being dirty, so you think to clean them often. The worst offenders are the ones you don’t consider. These are the four dirtiest parts of your home, in no particular order: Light switches/door knobs/handles. These surfaces get touched by everyone who comes in and out of your home, multiple times a day, every day. If your dogs are big enough, they can get their paws on door knobs and handles too. The cold and flu posters in the restrooms at work may tell you to open doors with a paper towel, but who does that at home? That means that those surfaces are covered with all kinds of ge...

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Spring Cleaning Tips to Help You Clean your Office

Many people are concentrated on cleaning up their homes during the spring cleaning season but it is important to also clean up the other area where you spend the majority of your time, your office. Having a dirty or cluttered office can hurt productivity and employee morale, create an unhealthy working environment, and affect the impressions that people get of you as an individual and of your company as a whole. You should take some time this spring to do some office cleaning and make your workspace cleaner and more comfortable, and if you are an office manager, you can get the employees of your office to pitch in and clean up the entire space. The following are some office cleaning tips to create a clean and healthy workspace. Create Zones for Different Tasks Dividing your offi...

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Reduce Allergens in your Home this Fall with These Carpet Cleaning Tips

Between 10 and 30% of Americans suffer from hay fever during the Fall months, according to WebMD. Most of these allergic reactions are caused by ragweed pollen. While it is virtually impossible to avoid ragweed completely, there are a few things you can do to reduce allergens in your home this Fall. Seasonal Cleaning Have your carpets cleaned at the beginning of the Fall season to eliminate pollen and other allergens that have accumulated over the summer months. If you’ve kept your windows open to enjoy the warm weather, chances are good that microscopic grains of pollen have also wafted in. Be sure to hire a reputable carpet cleaning company, such as ServiceMaster of North Texas, and let them know that you are concerned about allergies. Ask about hypoallergenic cleaning methods. ...

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Avoid These 7 Top House Cleaning Mistakes and Do the Job Faster

Cleaning the house is a chore that must be done to improve the appearance of your home and contribute to a healthier environment, but it is also a chore that most homeowners do not want to spend a lot of time doing. House cleaning involves many smaller tasks such as floor and carpet cleaning, dishes, laundry, dusting, window cleaning, and cleaning plumbing fixtures and appliances among others. Completing each of these smaller tasks efficiently is the key to quick house cleaning but there are several common mistakes that homeowners make that will have you cleaning for much longer than you intended. The following are the most common house cleaning mistakes to avoid to make the job go by much faster. Ignoring the Top to Bottom Rule The “top to bottom” rule is an important rule of house c...

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Eco-Friendly Cleaning Tips and Tricks

A lot of times in today's world we seem to clean our homes with products that don't promote any useful ways of going green with our cleaning efforts. The following tips will allow you to figure out the best ways of handling that so you won't have to suffer ill-side effects of toxic fumes and chemicals. In many of today's households we have far too many cleaning products and not enough time. You don't need to worry about a thing however, as there are just a few natural products that get the job done with no hassle at all. Let's start with the first one on our list: • Cleaning Mirrors and Glass The first thing you need to do is to throw away all ammonia-based cleaners you've been working with so far. You can just clean your entire home's windows and glass surfaces with something as s...

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