It's New Year's Day, and you wake up on the floor of your home or apartment with jackhammers in your head and a stomach sour enough to curdle milk. Congratulations, your hard night of New Year's Eve partying has left you with one doozy of a hangover. You try to stand as the room gently spins around … [Read more...]
How-To-Guide: Removing Tough Stains From Your Carpet
December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It always seems that children or clumsy relatives have an uncanny knack for spilling every type of liquid or sauce on your carpet. It doesn't matter if you serve everything in a spill proof cup, because somehow they will figure out how to get it on the floor. The good news is there are ways to get … [Read more...]
Carpet Cleaning: Tips to Minimize Stain Appearances Quickly
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Occasionally, I like to go house-hunting to see what's out there, and if that “perfect” house is available. It's interesting to see the various layouts and designs, but the other day I saw something that was quite shocking. When you own carpeting, it's understood that at some point in time there … [Read more...]
Smells Be Gone: Garbage Disposal Cleaning
June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So, you head over to the sink to get rid of some of this evening's dinner remnants and are suddenly hit with an odor of decay so putrid you run away screaming in terror. Garbage disposals are meant to be self-cleaning but, occasionally, items that aren't supposed to go in there - admit it, you put … [Read more...]
Is It Time to Clean the Carpet?
February 23, 2011 By 2 Comments
If there is one aspect of home maintenance that is commonly overlooked, and sometimes forgotten on purpose, it’s cleaning the carpets. For many, it is a chore they dread, but for me, it’s a Zen experience that I actually look forward to. Your carpets get vacuumed regularly, but there is still … [Read more...]
Dealing With Cabin Fever: Scratching the Fix-It Itch
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The one thing about a blizzard that really annoys me isn’t the 20 inches of snow that fell and that I had to shovel out, or even the worry about the electricity going off. Rather, it's the idea of being stuck at home for days at a time. Many people, especially those in rural areas, are still surrounded … [Read more...]
Pure Essentials: The Importance of Clean Air in Your Home
January 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
It’s easy to take for granted the air that you breathe in every day. Breathing is an automatic function, and unless the air is stinky or fragrant, people generally assume everything is OK. It’s not until allergies start springing up or, in some worst cases, cancer and other life threatening illnesses … [Read more...]
Plumbing Help: Cleaning Up a Wet and Stinky Basement
December 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
There are few things more disgusting than trying to clean up sewage in your basement. Once the yucky poo water has been transferred out of the basement, the cleanup has only just begun. The sewage comes up from the drain and spreads outward, and anything in its path gets covered in… stuff. Cardboard … [Read more...]
