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3 Awesome Natural Substances that Will Change the Way You Clean Your Home

What can make you quit your favourite brand of fabric softener or dishwashing liquid? They smell great, leave everything spotless, and are tried and tested in your home cleaning routine. However, if you knew how dangerous are most of the commercially sold cleaners, you would probably re-consider your current products of choice. For a start, most detergents and solutions nowadays contain toxic ingredients, harmful for both human and animal health. Many big brands are selling products labelled as “bio” or “green”, but they still contain questionable ingredients like colourants and scents that can be dangerous for small children or asthma [...]

April 28th, 2017|Blog|
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10 Common Cleaning Mistakes and Why to Avoid Them – Part II

Last time we have posted the 1st part of this article and we wrote about some of the most common mistakes people do when cleaning their home. Check the don'ts of home cleaning and learn how to avoid them in order to get the best results when doing the chores. Washing Windows with Circular Motions Window cleaning is a tricky task – if you don’t do it right, the glass will still look dirty. When you move your hand in in circles, there is a big chance there will be a lot of soap residues and traces on the surface. [...]

September 2nd, 2016|Blog|
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10 Common Cleaning Mistakes and Why to Avoid Them – Part I

Being experts in our work the proper way to clean anything – from carpets and upholstery to windows – seems obvious and self-explanatory. However, when we are hired for a cleaning job we often stumble upon ruined furnishings, scratched floors and deteriorated rugs, all results of improper treatment. This is why we decided to dedicate a special post in our blog to the most common mistakes in cleaning, why to avoid these bad practices and how to choose the best methods and cleaning products when doing the chores. 10 Mistakes That Make Cleaning Inefficient (and More Difficult) Most people don’t like [...]

August 21st, 2016|Blog|
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7 Ultimate Tips to Clean Safe and Easy

The New Year is finally here and it is time to start with a clean slate. After all the cooking, dinner parties, guests and relatives most of us have to deal with stains, dirt and mess to put our homes in order. 7 Ultimate Tips to Clean Your Home in a Safe Way As you know we’ve already posted 9 great tricks for after the holiday season here on our blog, an article to help you clean your home before and after a party, as well as 10 great professional tips on how to ease your home cleaning routine. Today we [...]

January 3rd, 2016|Blog|
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7 Green and Easy Green Recipes to Clean an Iron

3 weeks ago we’ve shared nice tricks for cleaning a spot on the upholstery using iron. But what if the iron also needs to be cleaned? Dirty or scorched iron is an unpleasant problem – no matter if you burned a garment and there are pieces left on the metal plate, or there are mineral spots on it. When the bottom of the iron is not perfectly clean the risk of burning your cloths rises. This is why we picked 7 of the most efficient methods for DIY cleaning the iron. Clean a Scorched Iron The burn spots on [...]

July 29th, 2015|Blog|
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How to Remove Stains from Upholstery with Iron

If there is something most people hate to do it may be cleaning a stain, especially if it is on sofa, armchair, or other item, that is impossible to cram in the laundry machine. It is just awful when you have to deal with a food or beverage spill on the freshly cleaned sofa, right? But if you are familiar with Murphy’s law you already know that a stain occurs MOSTLY when the upholstery has just been cleaned. However, our cleaning experts shared a little secret: there is a way to spot-clean a stain without having to treat the whole [...]

July 8th, 2015|Blog|
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6 Tricks for Removing Pet Hair from Furniture and Clothes

Lint rollers are the best tool to use when removing hair, fluffs and lint from clothes. However most rollers have very short life and quickly become useless, especially when you have to deal with pet hair. Some dog and cat breeds like Siamese cats and Doberman dogs have really short thick fur, which is really difficult to remove once it gets deep into fabric’ fibres. […]

June 23rd, 2015|Blog|
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10 Spring Cleaning Tips From the Pros

Professional cleaners master the art of fast and efficient cleaning – they don’t cut ends, don’t waste time – just do the job – and do it great! If you want to tackle with spring cleaning chores the easiest way, then take advantage of tips from our best professionals Schedule Every Cleaning Task Assign exact cleaning date. Schedule every step of the whole process, right down to the second. Stick to your spring cleaning checklist until you get the work done. Pick Comfortable Clothes The better you feel the faster you’ll be done with all chores. Take example from professional [...]

March 7th, 2015|Blog|
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How to Clean and Maintain Different Types of Upholstery

No matter how much effort you put in cleaning and maintaining your armchairs or sofa, accidents happen. When spill occurs the time of reaction is of essence. In fact, upholstered furniture is bound to get dirty from general use over time – that’s inevitable! Stains, dirt and accumulated dust can make the fabric look worn out and scruffy. Learning how to clean and maintain your furniture is important if you want to keep it looking beautiful, clean and well cared of. This is why we’ve gathered some useful tips on cleaning the most common types of upholstery fast and effective. [...]

February 27th, 2015|Blog, Upholstery cleaning|
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The Ultimate Cleaning Checklist When Moving Out

If you are reading this you probably need to clean your home impeccably in order to get your deposit back. Deposit Protection Service published data, which reveals that cleaning has been one of the main causes of disputes over deposits. This means it’s in your best interest to leave the property in an immaculate condition. A spot on the carpet or scuff mark the wall could count against you when it comes time for the final checkout inventory. How to start? Arrange the end of tenancy cleaning as close to the inventory date as possible to avoid any possible cause [...]

February 20th, 2015|Blog|
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