Easy Cleaning Tips and Tricks That’ll Remove Many of Your Household Headaches

Did you know that most people collect tips and hints to save time and money and make everyday home cleaning and maintenance tasks fast and easy?

Here is one such useful tip to jot down in your kitchen notebook. As we are now in the middle of winter, it’s good to know how we can keep our windows and glass doors from frosting. Take one quart warm water and mix it with half a cup of rubbing alcohol. Apply this solution on the glass surface and clean with a soft cotton cloth to view beautiful scenes of nature outside. No more foggy windows and glass door during winter!

The following collection of tips and tricks will help you greatly in day to day home maintenance: 

1. Pencil erasers can be used to remove sticky price tags, and clean buttons and keys on your mobile, laptop and remote control. 

2. Mix one tablespoon each of baking powder and salt and then add one tablespoon of water into the paste. Your stove top cleaning product is ready. Now take a clean cloth and use a little bit of the mixture to smartly clean the stove. This newly made chemical compound can also be used to clean your outdoor grill.

3. Use ice cube to remove stubborn carpet dents left by heavy furniture. Use a picking tool to drop an ice cube on the carpet where it is dented. Wait for the ice cube to melt fully and then use a toothbrush to fluff the area and the carpet fibres will expand and regain the original position.

4. Same ice treatment can be used to remove chewing gum from your carpets. Put few ice cubes in a small plastic bag and place it on top of the stuck gum. Wait for 15 minutes and you can see that the gum has hardened. Now you can easily peel the gum off without breaking.

5. Wood ash is a desiccant, so it can be used to remove oil or grease stains from stone and cement surfaces in your garage or elsewhere. Just rub the wood ashes into the stained area with a cloth and then apply water to clean up the stain.

6. Deep toilet stains can be easily removed with a pumice stone if you have to urgently clean the toilet due to the arrival of a guest within short notice. Normally such cleaning task is to be given to professional home cleaners to do it hygienically.

7. Are there water spots on your wooden table or other wood surfaces? Don’t worry- it can be easily removed with the help of your hair dryer. Use the blow dryer at medium heat and focus it on the water stain keeping the dryer about two inches away. Normally the stain mark will disappear immediately, but if it persists, use a napkin to wipe out the stain while applying heat. Afterwards use two drops of olive oil to moisturise the wood.

8. Did you know that cooking spray is a soap scum buster? Spray some non-stick cooking spray into the soap scum and hard water spots on your glass shower door and tiles. Wait for 5 minutes and then wash the area with mild soapy water to see that all blemishes have gone! 

9. Mix dry tea leaves into the litter box to prevent it smelling badly. The tea leaves also have anti-bacterial quality which is an added advantage for hygienic purpose.

10. Stain marks on the walls can be easily removed using semi-stale white bread. The gluten in the bread helps to remove the stain. Remove the crusts from two bread loaves and make it a ball of bread and rub it on the stained area after cleaning the spot with a cloth. Bread is highly absorbent and gradually the stain marks disappear.  

11. Artificial Sweeteners can be used to remove stains like red wine, coffee and tea from a tablecloth. Put the sweetener over the stain and keep it overnight. Next day brush off the remaining sweetener and rinse the cloth in cold water.

Importance of Professional Home Cleaning

One significant point to mention that there is no shortcut to keeping your home hygienic. You’ll have to spend considerable time washing and disinfecting your home. Here comes the role of home cleaning companies. A clean and orderly house itself will help reduce lot of stress.

Save your weekends and relax while an affordable and trustworthy cleaning professional comes and do all the home cleaning tasks with minimum disruption. Do call Select Home Cleaning Company right now on 0800 000 907 to experience that pleasant feeling. 

Select Home Cleaning Tips – Winter House Cleaning Ideas and Checklist

Keeping your home clean and free from dirt in winter is not a hard task at all if you rely on professional house cleaners like Select Home Cleaning. However, there are times when you wish to clean the home yourself to ensure the premises are maintained after professional house cleaners have finished their jobs.  

Given below are some simple winter house cleaning tips that will help you to keep your beautiful home and premises clean and free from dirt and germs-

• Keep the air ducts clean- For getting optimum heating during the winter months, you should ensure the air ducts of your premises are clean. For this you need to depend on professionals like Select Home Cleaning as they will do it quickly and precisely. If you care about the heating system of your home, it is important for you to enter into an annual cleaning contract for your home.
• Use doormats- Placing doormats at strategic locations of your home will prevent unwanted mud, grime, dirt and water entering the house. The need for frequent cleaning of the floor will also be reduced. Placing rough mats made of coir or rubber near doors will soak up the mud, dirt and grime effectively.
• Gutters- It is important for you to regularly clean gutters as it is the dry time of the year. This time you will find gutters getting clogged. This affects the flow of water. You should remove debris, twigs and stray leaves from the gutters to enhance the effective flow of water.
• Cleaning the carpets and rugs- For keeping the interiors of your home neat and healthy, it is important for you to clean the rugs and carpets in the home. The good news is that winter spots and stains are not hard to remove if you bank on the right professional cleaners to do it for you. They will remove even small traces of dirt and ensure your carpets and rugs are perfectly clean.
• Allergens and dust- It is important for you to have a safe home free from allergens and dust. This problem rises in winter as the air is dry. Keep the indoors of your home clean by removing dust from every nook and corner of your home.
• Furniture cleaning- You must also thoroughly clean the furniture and the upholstery in your home. Vacuum cleaners suck up the dust. Sofas should be cleaned well and take sufficient time to remove dust from chairs, cupboards, tables etc. For upholstery cleaning, you should remove them and place them in the washing machine.

Select Home Cleaning Services– affordable and professional home cleaning services

Select Home Cleaning is a professional and cost effective house cleaning company, servicing Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington & Christchurch. It specialises in all types of home cleaning projects. Their professionals are skilled and trained in the latest methods of house cleaning. They are reliable and dedicated to their work. For specialised home cleaning such as winter or summer cleaning, you can get in touch with them and get it done in a very professional manner without any hassles!