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General household cleaning

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

A number of items that our cleaners need to clean are throughout the house:

1. Carpets and hard flooring
2. Doors and wall-coverings
3. Panelling
4. General woodwork
5. Various kinds of glazing

In the following section (General household cleaning) our home cleaners would cover you the most effective ways of cleaning these surfaces and fittings, using both maintenance and more vigorous techniques for dealing with stains or frequently neglected areas such as attics and basements.

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Attics and Lofts

Our expert cleaners give the attic an annual clean which prevents dust, mould and other potentially hazardous substances building up in your home.

Instructions for cleaning the attic:

*Wear special mouth-nose dust mask, especially if attic hasn’t been cleaned for a while.
*Wear an apron to protect their clothes.
*Wear googgles and heavy rubber gloves.
*If the attic is used for storage, our home cleaners would make sure everything is organised beforehand by storing small items in labelled boxes, grouping them together that contain like items and creating paths so that cleaners can get at any item.
*Use an extension lead, so that you can vacuum and suck up dust from the top down – ceiling, beams, walls and floor.
*Clean around and under stored items.
*Once the major grime has been dealt with, give the area a light once-over with damp cleaning cloth dipped in a solution of water and washing-up liquid.

Basements and Cellars

When our home cleaners deal with a dirty or recently floored basement – it’s a daunting cleaning task but it can be done!

Instructions for cleaning the Basements and Cellars:

*Make sure you are well protected with a dust mask and strong rubber gloves.
*Knock down cobwebs with a long-handled broom, sweep the floor and brush away debris from the walls.
*In a bucket, mix hot water and an all-purpose cleaner.
*If the wall need cleaning, wash them first, using a strong-bristled floor brush with a long handle.
*Start at the bottom and work upwards.
*While standing in one spot, wash as much as you can reach, then rinse with warm water, from a second bucket.
*Scrub concrete floors using hot water and household detergent – because concrete is porous, strong odours can be hard to eradicate.If a hard scrub doesn’t get rid of them, you can seal the floor concrete sealer, which is stronger than wax.
*Follow the label directions and spread it on with a mop.
*Repeat the application for really tough odours.
*After cleaning, open any doors or windows to air out the room and help the drying progress.
*If mould or mildrew is a problem take an extra step after cleaning.
*Mop the walls and floors with a solution of 100ml chlorine bleach to 15 litres of water, then rinse well.

Note: Keep in mind that the bleach will kill existing mildrew, but it will return unless the source of the moisture is addressed.

Banisters

A beautiful staircase and banister rail can be the centre piece of a home’s entrance, so our professional home cleaners won’t let everyday grime diminish its impact.

Instructions for cleaning Banisters:

-Painted banister
*Dust with a soft, water-dampened cloth.
*If it is especially dirty, add a couple of drops of mild washing-up liquid to warm water.
*Then wash and rinse a small rection at a time, keeping the cloth well wrung out and wipe with a dry cloth.
*Oil polish is best avoided on painted wood, since it can dicolour it.
*Wax is rarely needed, but if used, choose a light coloured wax for light-coloured paint.
-Wooden banister
*Dust with soft and furniture polish that will store moisture to the wood and keep dust collected on the cloth from floating back onto the balusters (the posts or spindles that support the banister).
*When dust collects in intricate carvings on the balusters, use a cotton bud to get into crevices and clean out the tight spaces more thoroughly.

Customer Notice: Our home cleaning experts never mix cleaning substances due to following high safety standards.

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The ‘Four Zones’ Home Cleaning System (Part 1)

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The household is divided into four zones. We completely clean each zone before moving to the next. Our cleaning experts don’t have the practice going over the same ground or cleaning surfaces twice, make extra trips around the house or counterproductive moves like wiping dust onto a just vacuumed floor.

Here are the four zones:

Zone 1: Bedrooms, bathrooms and halls.
Zone 2: Kitchen, informal dining area and family room.
Zone 3: Formal living room and formal dining room.
Zone 4: Laundry room, home office and other miscellaneous spaces.

A lof of cleaning companies don’t take home cleaning services seriously and professionally as cleaning for them sounds easy and straight forward but HomeCleaning.org.uk have the knowledge, competence and experience to provide 100% customer satisfaction. Our companies’ professional cleaners work in a specific and organised way which allows them to be very precise, quick with what they do. With our cleaning system ‘The Four Zones’ HomeCleaning.org.uk cleaners have an efficient step-by-step cleaning process.

Zone 1: Bathroom, bathrooms and halls

Cleaning starts with areas which need the most ‘laundry’. Our home cleaners will go to each bedroom and follow strict rules of cleaning:
* Strip the sheets of the beds, throw them into the hall;
* Go into bathroom and throw towels, washcloths and bath mats into the hall, too. Then they will gather washable items in a laundry basket, put them near the washing machine and start a wash load with the bath mats and couple of towels.
* Empty the all the bins in the bedroom;
* Move furniture in the centre of the room, starting from the entrance of the room, moving from left to right;
- Remove any dust from the walls using lambswool duster, working from top to bottom, including pelmets, window frames, pictures and furniture.
- Vacuum around the entire bedroom starting at the far corner of the room.
[Moving from the bedroom to downstairs]
* Put away the upstairs cleaning caddy’;
* Vacuum the upstairs hall, moving backwards toward the stairs;
* Take a rubbish bag and back down the stairs, vacuuming;
[Moving from the downstairs to the bathroom]
* Our cleaning experts’ next job is to start spreading around cleaning chemicals;
- Spray cleaner around inside the toilet bowl.
- Spray all-purpose cleaner on the basin, surrounds and bath.
* Empty the rubbish bin;
* Spray a clean rag with window cleaner and clean all mirrors;
* Scrub the inside of toilet with the toilet bowl brush and flush;
* Wipe down the basin, bath and surrounds;
* Rinse basins and baths;
* Spray purpose cleaner on the toilet seat and exterior as well as showel walls then wipe everything down;
* Mop the bathroom floor;

Note: Our home cleaners never mix cleaning substances due to following high safety standards.

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Ten Golden Rules of Home Cleaning

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

HomeCleaning.org.uk’s primary goal in Home Cleaning is to remove dirt and keep your home clean and tidy. Our professional cleaners are trained to give you cleaning services up to a satisfactory level by following ten golden rules of home cleaning:

1. Clean up immediately – Spills and stains are generally much easier to clean up when it’s dealt with them immediately. That’s why our cleaners are trained to ask home owners specific questions of the areas they are about to clean up. For example: tomato sauce stain on your carpet – carpet stains are easiest to remove when they are fresh. The longer you wait the more chance the stain has to set. The rare exeption is mud tracked onto your carpet. Our experts would know the easiest way to clean the mud is when it is let to dry first then vacuum it.

2. Clean from the top down – Gravity could make life very difficult when it come to home cleaning. Our cleaners always clean surfaces working down from high to low. For example: when we do overall cleaning of a house we start on the top floor and work our way down to avoid tramping dirt through the rooms we’ve already cleaned.

3. Think dry, then wet – When cleaning a room our expert cleaners start using dry methods first such as dusting, sweeping and vacuuming. After dry method is applied then it’s time for using multi-purpose cleaners, mopping, ect. By following this golden rule we prevent dirt floating around the house which would benefit customers who are allergic to dust particles and also would be much easier for our home cleaners to do their job properly.

4. Start with the least harmful approach – We use our gentlest cleaning methods (in every cleaning situation we have the right cleaning tools) in order to protect sensible surfaces in your home. We would always like to leave your place shiny, clean and tidy so you feel good after using our home cleaning services.

5. Let time do the work you – Our cleaning expets are trained to do multitask clenaing services using a method called ‘time management trick’. This method makes cleaning easier and faster. For example: when cleaning furniture, our cleaners spray chemicals throughout the room then leave them for a small period of time so they can do their magic. Meanwhile the cleaner would start cleaning another room by following our ten golden rules for home cleaning.

6. Carry supplies with you – Our home cleaners always keep the core cleaning products close to them when cleaning the house. This saves the cleaner alot of time and allows to be precise and quick. The most important cleaning equipment is always placed in a safe place, a large plastic bucket with good handles. This makes the work of our experts easier for them and safe for any other people in the house.

7. When in doubt, get an advice – There are home cleaning situations when our cleaning experts hit a rock and may beunable to complete their job or are having difficulties for some reason. We have trained our staff to be flexible at all times. In such situations they would contact other professional cleaners from our company HomeCleaning.org.uk and ask for an expert advice.

8. Don’t soak, go easy on the spray – Our Home Cleaning Experts are trained to have the knowledge of safety hazards on fragile items such as electronics, computer screens, framed artworks and furniture that can be harmed by applying cleaning sprays or liquids.

9. Read the directions – Our cleaning professionlists are instructed to check all expensive items manufacturers’ cleaning instructions if unsure of the origin of the surface. They also advice all customers to keep these instructions where possible. This makes our cleaners life easier and quicker because HomeCleaning.org.uk tends to keep 100 % customer satisfaction.

10. Get protection or don’t start cleaning – Last but not least we have trained our home cleaners to take care of themselves and people around them. Many cleaning products contain acid, bleach, abrasives and other ingredients that can damage their eyes, skin and even their lungs. We never allow our cleaners to mix cleaning substances together. When applying hazard chemicals our cleanig experts are instructed to always ventilate the places they clean.

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