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It may sound extreme but when you really think about it, everything in your home needs to be cleaned. In fact, house cleaning goes way beyond the basics of dusting furniture and keeping your floors clean; this is why spring cleaning your home is absolutely necessary. Even so, different cleaning tasks that are done daily, weekly, monthly, and annually, often leave out some crucial things that the average homeowner forgets about.

As we mentioned, everything in the house needs cleaning yet a couple of them are overlooked far too often. This means there are things in your house that are not just dirtier than ever, but carry bacteria too. Well, …

You can’t have a pet without having pet pee on your floor at some point! In fact, this is a very common occurrence when house training dogs and cats because it takes a while for them to learn what and where an appropriate indoor toilet is for them! In homes with a pet door or even a backyard where your pets can go outside to relieve themselves, peeing in the house is not much of a worry since they quickly become accustomed to going out to do their business. In apartments, on the other hand, having a litter box for your pets to pee and poop in is important because …

It’s a question that almost every individual asks at some point in their adult life! Everyone wants to know what the right temperature of water is to safely and effectively clean household surfaces, different floor types, do laundry, kill bacteria, etc. Well, the fact is that using room temperature water when cleaning virtually anything in your home is doable in the sense that it will work and not cause damage; however, changing the temperature of the water can make it 10x more effective or damaging. Therefore, knowing the appropriate temperature of water to use and when to use it is an absolute game-changer in household cleaning!

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Now, more than ever, maintaining a germ-free home is the NEED of the hour! Along with other precautionary measures that follow protocol during a pandemic such as social distancing and good hygiene, sterilising your home on a daily basis is highly recommended by both, medical and house cleaning experts. As the old saying goes “prevention is better than cure”; however, when you are at the mercy of a global virus outbreak like COVID-19 (coronavirus) for which a cure is yet to be discovered, prevention is critically important. With that said, another popular saying comes rushing to mind – “better safe than sorry”.

By now, we all know why and how …

Although many consider doing laundry to be a dreaded task, someone’s got to do it! On the other hand, some individuals enjoy laundry day and don’t just pop in and out of the room as quickly as possible! For those of you that belong to the latter group of people, your laundry room is likely to be clean and organised while those who don’t stick around long enough to put the detergent bottle back in place, it’s safe to say that your laundry room needs cleaning! 

With that said, it is important to also mention that all laundry rooms require deep cleaning from time to time because mould and mildew …