Cleaning and restoration tips

Few natural disasters cause more destruction to a home than a flood or fire and they each tend to occur with very little warning.  The top priorities after such a disaster are to make sure that everyone is fine and to call for restoration services to secure your home, but what about your personal belongings within the home?  Chances are if the damage is severe, you may have to temporarily leave your home with only a few personal items.  Restoration companies that provide fire and flood damage restoration services typically provide content pack-out services to safely pack up and store your contents as your house is being restored. When restoration crews arrive to perform water or fire damage restoration, they typically start by inspecting the property to assess the scope of the work.  Just...

While heating food quickly, microwaves tend to cement food residue with each new jolt of radiation. This is why they need care and cleaning just as much as anything else in the kitchen. Microwave organic cleaning check list 3-4 lemons a clean porcelain bowl a clean kitchen knife a clean fork a clean microfiber cloth a double-sided sponge Step 1 - Prepare the lemons While it pays to have at least 3-4 lemons on hand from the beginning, you will likely only need 2. Make 4 lemon halves by slicing the 2 lemons with a clean kitchen knife. Always ensure your tools are near-spotless before attempting any procedure. Grab a porcelain bowl and fill a third of it with tap water. Proceed to juice each sliced lemon half into the bowl, holding the lemon firmly over the bowl as you ...

Dealing with the sudden death of a family member or friend is a traumatic experience, especially if you are the first person to find them.  Elderly family members who live alone can pass away without anyone knowing for days or weeks.  Homes can also become crime scenes, when homicide is suspected.  Finding the deceased’s remains is physically and emotionally jarring experience that requires special care.  There are professional technicians dedicated to providing after death clean up services and help you and your family recover from the event as best as possible. Death of an Elderly Person Finding the remains of an elderly person who lives alone is not an uncommon experience.  It can, however, be quite traumatic.  When a person dies, their body starts to decompose and produce foul odors....

Winter is here in Illinois, and with the holidays comes the cold weather and the snow – and with the snow comes the perpetually salted sidewalks and roads.  Salt is of course great for driving, as it melts ice and snow and helps you get where you want to go safely, but when it comes to keeping your home clean road salt can lead to staining and damage. Winter cleaning tips to combat salt stains When crushed by your car’s tires or your feet, road salt becomes a very fine powder that sticks to basically everything it touches.  This means that if you’re walking on salted sidewalks or roads, you’re inevitably going to bring road salt into your home and end up with salt stains.  Salt can also come in through half-melted snow.  Besides being unattractive, salt stains can actually harm the inter...

Your office is a vital part of your business. If it is a safe and clean place, people will feel more relaxed and be able to work better. Complying with all standards of safety and accessibility allows you to welcome anyone and show that you care. If your building is decorated well and is stylish and modern, then it can give a strong impression of your firm to others and attract new customers. These are just some of the benefits of caring about your workplace. Every positive aspect of a building can be let down if it is messy. No matter how elegant, spacious and well equipped is the office space, if it is cluttered, messy, dusty, dirty and strewn with stains. Here are some tips and guidance on how to take care of your workplace and keep it clean and organized. Declutter One of the firs...

There are many cleaning companies, but not all of them offer the same quality of service and professionalism that we may need. Regardless of whether you are looking for an office cleaning service or a home cleaning one, you will need to keep a few things in mind before you call a service provider. The following tips will give you a good idea on what to expect when you search for a qualified cleaning company. We begin with number one: •    Research the company Do a research online to make sure the company has good expertise and experience in cleaning and specializes in the services that you need, because there is a wide range of cleaning services. One of the best ways to determine whether you have found a qualified company is to ask their customer support about your specific needs. Make...

Deep cleaning or spring cleaning your kitchen is going to be a tedious and back breaking job, it is likely to take more than two hours of your time and almost all of your energy, but once you have completed it and know that your kitchen is completely clean, you will feel much better. The trick to getting everything done and in a decent time is to carefully plan what you are going to do and in what order.  This guide is designed to help you to thoroughly plan, whilst also giving you some useful tips along the way. • The first thing you need to do is spend 15 minutes having a general tidy.  This involves de-cluttering work surfaces, washing up and putting away any plates, dishes, cutlery and cups and basically giving yourself space to clean. This should not take you any longer than 15 mi...

No matter what your local climate may be like, air conditioners are something seen more and more often as the years go by. We take them as part of our homes and rarely think about the possible maintenance involved in their operation. No matter how well we take care of a machine, it will eventually suffer wear and tear and it will break down. If you take care of your air conditioner the right way and by doing regular maintenance, then it will be by your side for a lot longer than usual. Most of the tasks involved are simple and easy to deal with, however from time to time you will need to do some more serious work. The following article will help when you need to get things done. The first thing that has to be done is to replace the air filter inside the unit you're using. You can easily...

For many years, people have used chemical cleaning solutions and those cleaning products were harming the environment. That`s one of the factors for the high level of pollution. In the past few years, though ‘green cleaning’ has become very popular. But what does green cleaning mean? What are the benefits of using green cleaning products? And where to find these products are only few of the questions that come up. All these questions will be answered here: • Green cleaning refers to using cleaning solutions and methods that are environmentally friendly. This can be interpreted in more than one way though: some people prefer to use homemade products such as baking soda, vinegar, rubbing alcohol, lemon juice, etc. And there are also people who prefer to buy eco-friendly cleaning products....

A working individual spends lots of time in the office – usually around 40 hours a week. Depending on the type of work we execute, we can spend more time in the office than at home. When you spend long time sitting on a desk, the desk usually becomes messy. Did you ever search for your keys or your phone under tons of documents and paper of all sorts? In this article we will give you several very simple tips on how to keep your workplace in order. These simple tips can save you both time and nerves. Even though we live in an era, where most of the data that surrounds is digitalized, there are still piles of documents in the offices. You should not be an absent-minded person not to remember where you have put your, let’s say, car keys. It just seems like the paper folders swallow every s...