Home Cleaning Tips
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Green Cleaning Tips: How to Naturally Clean your Oven
A lot of products out there claim to offer the solution for stubborn oven stains. Some of them work, but they also have chemicals. It's much safer in home cleaning, to use natural products, which are just as effective.Potential homebuyers love to look inside every thing. They will open up cabinets in every room, open the...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Tub and Tile
When getting your home fresh and clean, don't forget the bathroom! Use the green cleaning recipe below to get your bathroom clean the Green way.Step 1Sprinkle baking soda like you would scouring powder into the bathtub/shower area. Rub with a damp sponge. Rinse thoroughly.Step 2To remove film buildup on bathtubs, apply white...
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Home Cleaning Tips: How to Get Rid of Mildew
Part of the home staging process is to clean the house thoroughly. Mildew is no fun to have around. It can cause problems on fabric, walls, curtains and furniture. To avoid problems in the future, use a dehumidifier in storage areas that tend to have high moisture levels and air out the bathroom after taking showers to allow the...
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Home Cleaning Tips: How to Get Rid of Flies
Any insect infestation is frustrating and unpleasant but flies have their own particular brand of annoying. They're noisy with all that buzzing and they seem to invite their friends over to the party. In short, not fun to have around! Use the cleaning tips below to help detract flies from hanging out around your...
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Home Cleaning Tips: Bring Your Bathroom Up to Speed
Home staging is all about details. Each detail in every room counts. Bathrooms can make or break home sales, and do, all the time. So, here are some bathroom updates that payoff.If you don't want to spend the time and money to replace your bathroom tiling, try updating it by giving it a paint makeover. Use a high-adhesion...
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Home Cleaning Tips - Out with Dirty Grout!
Stone and tile both make beautiful flooring but when the grout becomes dirty and stained it can end up looking grimy and detract from the overall look of your house. There are cleaning solutions to most grout stains that will save you the money of having to replace your grout. A pH-neutral tile cleaner can be found at any tile...
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Home Cleaning Tips: How to Get Rid of Moths
Moths are possibly the most frustrating insects to have in your home as they multiply very fast and get into the seams of clothing where they are then hard to find. The larvae eat the fabric leaving your clothing unwearable. Herbs are your best friends when it comes to ridding your house of moths and preventing them from...
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Home Cleaning Tips: How to Get Rid of Ants
Insects are a big no-no when showing a house for sale. Obviously it's best to keep them from ever entering your house but sometimes they just sneak in. If you already have an insect problem, you should get rid of them before they settle in for the long run. Ants, in particular, are hard to deal with as they build a nest...
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Home Cleaning Tips: Kitchen Cleaning Basics
Home cleaning starts in the kitchen - When cleaning your kitchen, it's important to clean from the ceiling down. Start with the appliances, move to the counters and finish with the floors. Use appropriate cleaners to eliminate bacteria, cut through grease, remove food particles and eliminate odors. Give a busy kitchen a...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Save some Green and Clean
Save some green and clean When it's time to stage a home, cleaning is a no-brainer. But you don't have to break the bank or harm your health to get the job done. While commercial cleaning products can help you get your home spic-n-span, they can be costly. A recent trend, and a helpful trend for people who are trying not...
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Home Cleaning Tips: How to Deodorize Your Garbage Disposal.
Learn how to clean and deodorize your garbage disposal in a natural and economical way. By using ordinary household items, you can freshen your garbage disposal without dangerous chemicals, safe for the environment, and economical. You'll be helping your family (by reducing chemical usage and monetarily) and helping the...
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Home Cleaning Tips - How to Keep Your Pool Clean
Pools are a big attraction when you have a house for sale, but only if they're kept nice and clean. This doesn't have to be a full time job but it will take some continuous care. If you choose do it yourself pool cleaning, make sure you start yourself off by getting the best tools possible. These will lower you time...
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Home Cleaning Tips - Spilled Candle Wax? Relax!
If you have a house for sale or for lease, there may be some things you need to fix to make it ready. Here's one great home cleaning tip. While candles are beautiful and make for a romantic setting, when that excess wax spills over, they can cause more problems than it's worth. If the wax merely spills onto a hard...
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Home Cleaning Tips: Refrigerators
Kitchen staging can make or break the sale of your home. Since people and their families spend a lot of time in their kitchens, it's important to make every detail in yours count. Refrigerators are very large and, therefore, grab attention. They can do this in a positive or negative way, so make sure yours gets it right! Use...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Green Carpet Clean
Carpeting can be a beautiful and comfortable addition to a house, making it look fancy and giving your feet that happy feeling they deserve. But when that carpet gets dirty it can be a scarlet letter on your entire house, not to mention a hazard to your lung health. It's very important to keep your carpeting clean....
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Home Cleaning Tips: Bathtub Scrub
Scrubbing a bathtub is not the most sought after activity but having a gritty tub is much worse. Here is a simple and effective home cleaning technique to get it done fast so you can get back to work and play. Turn up the music and dance while you work. Make it fun and you'll get more done!First, you'll need to get some...
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Home Cleaning Tips: How to Eliminate Pet Odors
Home Staging Tips - How to Eliminate Pet OdorsWhen showing a house to potential buyers, you want it to not only look good but smell nice, too. If your house has lingering pet odors, that alone could turn buyers away. One of the first things to handle when doing a home staging project is pet odors. Here's how!Start at the...
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Home Cleaning TIps: How to Clean Cabinets
If your cabinets are made of solid wood or high quality veneer over a solid base and aren't terribly nicked or scratched and have drawers and doors that still work well, all they need is a little TLC. In fact, a good cleaning could be just the trick to make their surface look new again.To give fine wood cabinets (or...
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Home Cleaning Tips: Daily Bathroom Cleaning
Bathrooms and kitchens sell homes, so everything has to be organized and in its place. When buyers see an unorganized home, they think the home has not been maintained.Tidy up daily - a few minutes a day means no marathon home cleaning sessions weekly.Step 1Spray the counter tops and sink fixtures with a disinfecting or foaming...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Metal Cleaners
Using green cleaning methods is not only good for the environment - it is also good for your health and pocket book. When cleaning metals, use the easy recipes below to get a brilliant shine.BrassMix equal parts of salt and flour with a little vinegar, and then rub.ChromeRub with undiluted vinegar.CopperRub with lemon juice and...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Air Fresheners
Commercial air fresheners can be very expensive and contain materials that can prove harmful to the environment and tend to mask odors rather than eliminate them. Using green cleaning alternatives is not only easy, but it is also a good way to rid your home of toxic chemicals. All the ingredients below are inexpensive and can...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Homemade Drain Cleaner
So many people are involved in Going Green theses days. Most of us know that Going Green and working to preserve the environment involves every aspect of our lives, including clogged drains. Fortunately there are a couple effective green cleaning ways to unclog your drains, without using the frightening chemicals.Step 1Add 1/2...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Furniture Polish
Going green doesn't mean you have to give up the healthy glow and scent conventional furniture polishes provide. But despite the shine and fragrance many furniture polishes provide, many feature toxic chemicals that threaten the environment and indoor air quality. Use the green cleaning steps below to make your own Go Green...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Going Green in the Bathroom
In today's environment going "Green" seems to be the buzzword. In the worlds rapidly growing population, something has to give when it comes to polluting the environment. Green Cleaning is rapidly becoming more and more popular with big cleaning distributors like "Clorox" are coming out with green...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Floor Cleaner
If you're looking for a safe and economical alternative to commercial floor cleaners, read the green cleaning steps below. This will reduce the chemical usage in your home, help the environment and also save you some money.Step 1Add 1 cup white vinegar to a bucket.Step 2Add 1/4 cup washing soda.Step 3Add 1 tablespoon...
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Green Cleaning Tips: All Purpose Cleaners
Commercial cleaning products are among the most hazardous products sold to consumers. The best alternative for the health of your family and the planet is to make your own non-toxic Green Cleaning products at home. This can be done easily with just 6 household ingredients, a couple spray bottles and a glass or plastic bottle for...
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Green Cleaning Tips: Green Cleaning in a Nutshell
In our war on dirt and germs we may often make things worse. Most of the conventional cleaning products we grew up with are petroleum-based and have dubious health and environmental implications. Instead of opting for cleaning products that annihilate everything in their paths, there are plenty of natural products and methods...
