The top 20 cleaning tips below compilled by Total Home Care Maid Service of Mississauga GTA may or may not be familliar with you but take a look through the list and you'll be sure to find a few cleaning tips that can actually help your cleaning cause! We've put this list together over the span of a 1.5 years. We obtained the information from the web, our customers and even some of our brilliant employees. We hope it helps you out too - in the case that at the moment you can't afford a maid or if you simply want to keep your home sparkling clean when the maid hasn't been there for a week or two.
Top 20 Cleaning Tips for the Home Owner
- Always and we mean always vacuum your vacuum cleaner parts and what them too.
For those of you that don't clean their vacuum cleaner or vacuum it's parts, take a really close look at all the parts and pieces of it. You'll be suprised to see possibly years of guck and grime that has caked on and baked on over the years. The best solution is to wash your vacuum's detachable parts in hot water with environmentally friendly products and - Always use ice to remove sticky gum from your carpet, furniture or even your clothing.
The easiest and most accepted way of cleaning anything that has gum stuck to it is by using ice to freeze it. It's simple and after a few seconds of the gum being pressed against with gum it gets hard and crumbly and can easily be scraped off. - Sweep your rugs or carpets before you vacuum clean them.
By taking a broom to your carpets and rugs before you vacuum them you cause the tiny fibers to become filled with static electricity and stnad up straight which will give your vacuum cleaner a clear path to a lot of the dirt that is embedded in your carpet. Try it and you'll see the difference in the look and texture of your carpet right away. - Don't rub spills, blot and scrape.
When you spill a liguid other than water on your carpets the last thing you want to do is make it worse by rubbing it in and spreading it all around. The best way to clean up a spill is to quickly get a towel or sturdy paper towel with a large glass of water handy and blot the spill. After a few blots pour some water on it to dilute the original spill and continue blotting. - By a squeegee and use it in the bathroom.
One way to make sure the walls in your shower stall stay shiny and new looking is to squeegee them down after each shower. At first the task may seem daunting but after a few times it becomes second nature and you can really tell the difference in a home that has clean bathroom stalls compared to ones that don't. You'll even begin to notice a nicer smell in your bathroom than before because the hardwater and grime doesn't get the time to make a grimy family. - What's that smell? I thought my sinks where clean!
You may not know that sometimes - ok a lot of the time stuff that is supposed to go down the sink doesn't. Over time there can be a buildup of the vast array of things that go down a sink and that buildup can not only clog your sink but it can also smell like someone has...
The easiest and most environmentally friendly way of getting rid of that smell is to pour a cup of baking soda mixed with a cup of vinigar slowly down the drain and then wait about 25 minutes before you flush it down. Repeat the process one or two more times just to make sure. - Is there a bleach type substance I can use to get rid of Mildew?
Yes you can mix hydrogen peroxide with water, about 50/50 and spray down areas of your home that you are finding the mildew. No one likes mildew but no one likes it when we hurt the environment either. - Use Vinegar to polish stainless steel or remove heat stains from cutlery.
Vinegar seems to be getting popular these days and now we've discovered that it can be used to clean hard stains on stainless steel and it removes the heat burns we find on our forks and spoons. Great for when Grama is coming over and we have to impress but we don't have a lot of time to clean. (That's when you call a maid service). - Use the same peice of paper towel twice or even three times.
Well this tip isn't so much about cleaning as much as it is about saving money and the environment. You know after you wash the dishes you grab a peice of paper towel and dry around the sink and counters? Later on when you need to wash a knife or something and decide to dry around the sink that same paper towel you used an hour ago still works AND its clean. One more thing - it also reduces the waste of paper towels. - Sprinkle baking soda on your box-spring and matress before you put on the sheets.
Baking soda on your matress does a really good job of removing smells and odours from your matress and keeps the smells away from your sheets. I'm not too sure but I think it may even eat those little mites that like to make homes in your matresses. Cleaning for thought? - Use the hottest water possible.
I know most of us know this but sometimes people with less cleaning experience as ours may not know everything there is about cleaning. Hot water is the best for cleaning dishes for two reasons. One reason is that if the water is hot enough, after it rinses it evaproates and doesn't leave a water stain. Do you want to drink milk in a water stained glass? I don't! The second reason is the hot water also helps remove or evaporate the possible linguring soap suds into obvlion? Do you want to drink soap sud residue with your orange juice? I don't. Cold water is ok, hot water and washing dishes is better. It's just a fact. - Don't scrub out the dried up bird droppings.
Look around your home at all the places you've had caked on bird droppings and tell me if you'd don't see scratches. Well you did if you ever scrubbed the bird-poop out. OK this may not be much of a tip for house cleaning but it is in the sense that you car is a part of your home. Yes your car. When a bird plops on your car and you've let it try up for 6 weeks fill a bucket with warm water (not hot because hot is apparently not good for car paint coatings. We're still looking into this) and keep the dab on the spot for about ten seconds and rinse. Repeat this until the offending bird-matter has vanished. - I need my caked on - baked on and dryed in the sun-shine pans and pots cleaned!.
Easy - mix two cups of water, one cup of vinegar and 3 tablespoons of baking soda and simmer this solution for about 6 minutes. After simmering throw out the waste, rinse the pan or pot with cold water whilst having your soaped sponge handy. The rubbish you've been wishing to remove will now come off quite quickly and even more easily. - Vacuum those computer's of yours.
You'd never know how much dust accumulates in the back of your computer and all around where the computer tower is stationed. The worst part though is the dust on the inside of your box. Not only is this stuff terrible for the environment but it's brutal for your PC as well - it seriously over-heats it. The easy way of getting around this problem is to get our your clean vacuum with your clean vacuum parts and vacuum all around the back of your tower. Thats the easy way. The best way is to get a screw-driver and open the back of your tower and vacuum inside it. Watch the performance of your PC inprove too! : ) - Unplug the lamp and remove the light-bulb.
This is a cleaning safety tip and can't be said enough. It may not seem feasible but if you're ever cleaning your lamps near the top where the bulb goes un-plug the lamp. One can never be too careful around electric objects when it comes to using liquids for cleaning. OK I will give you one tip related to cleaning your lamp-shade - Glass table with a wooden frame need not be sprayed on.
If your glass table is inlaide in a wooden frame do not spray water or detergent directly on to the surface because water or detergent that seeps between the grove of the glass and the wood attracts dust that can build up and cause long-term corrosion plus it starts to look really dirtly. Another reason is because the constant moisture or cleaning solution could and usually does ruin the detergent. - I'd like to dust-clean my ceilings.
This is easy too. Purchase a roll of lint remover and stick it to the end of your painting stick. Then apply it all over your ceilings. You'd be surprised at how much small particles of dust you'll pick up plus it's better to do this first if you're going to wash your cealings because there will be less dust to condent with and breath into your lungs. - Oh Oh, the dreaded lip-stick stain. How am I going to clean this out?
Well we tried many things. I tried many ways of cleaning lip stick off of clothes and furniture - my own and some of my clients. The best remedy we found was not in the home, we had to purchase somethng and that was Motsenbocker's Lift Off. It worked wonders and it also get's rid of shoe-polish, candle-wax, pencil-marks, oil-stains and a whole lot more! Most importantly It's safe on most surfaces (seriously). - My caked on - baked on microwave oven.
It took us some time to find out the placing a lemon in a microwavable bowl of water and nuking to over a boil so as to create a lot of steam will help soften the guck in your wave and also help to steralize while you clean. - Get your kids involved.
If you have kids one of the best things to teach them is how to be clean. Like the old saying goes, cleanliness is next to Godessness! Cleaning with you kids your own way and in some of the ways we've listed today can not only be a really fun time for your family but it also sets a standard in your kid's minds about how clean your home should be.
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