Cleaning Tip: Establishing Your Clean-Cred

Gain clients’ trust by giving them expert cleaning tips like these. A social media post, a video or a blog creates more ways for clients to find you online. Professional home cleaning services have a system for everything they clean in your home. Wouldn’t it be great if you could clean as efficiently as the [...]

Cleaners Corner: Microfiber Use and Care Best Practices

Keep your microfiber investment alive for up to five years by asking some key questions before you purchase and using an effective and consistent laundering rotation. With the use of microfiber increasing among cleaning businesses from residential to commercial to window cleaning, everyone wants to make sure they get the most out of their investment. [...]

By |2013-09-11T13:48:35-05:00September 11th, 2013|Cleaning Science, Cleaning Tips, Operations, Readers' Choice|

Cleaning Tip: Using All 8 Sides of a Microfiber Cloth

This technique is part of a three-pronged approach that improves efficiency and helps to prevent cross contamination of germs.One of the biggest pet peeves we hear about from prospective cleaning clients has to do with what we at Castle Keepers do to make sure we don’t spread germs from one room to the next, or [...]

By |2013-08-29T18:29:27-05:00August 29th, 2013|Cleaning Science, Cleaning Tips, Green Cleaning|

Download: Best Practices in Sustainable Vacuuming

8 tips for vacuuming that extend the life of carpet and help protect the health of building occupants. 1.       Check the filter bag before vacuuming and replace when more than two-thirds full. 2.       Select areas to be vacuumed based on the amount of traffic received. Clean high traffic areas regularly or with each cleaning. For [...]

New Surfaces, New Challenges for Cleaners

From bamboo to soft wool, you had better know how to clean it right, or be ready to pay for damage. With the increasing interest in sustainability and natural products, many new surfaces are being introduced to the home environment. Easily damaged by use of the wrong pH, cleaning agents or even by water, many [...]

By |2013-08-19T14:37:53-05:00August 19th, 2013|Cleaning Tips, Technology|

Book Review: The Professional Cleaner’s Personal Handbook, by Don Aslett

Aslett puts the profession of cleaning into new perspective and discusses it as a career to take pride in, one of great responsibility which requires strong people skills.Every once in a while it’s exciting to stumble across a book which changes how you view the world, especially the part of the world which consumes most [...]

By |2013-08-13T15:40:06-05:00August 13th, 2013|Book Reviews, Cleaning Science, Cleaning Tips, Green Cleaning|

Ten Facts about Bacteria in the Home

We are like Pig Pen from the Charlie Brown cartoons, dragging a puffball of shedding microbes everywhere we go: surpising finds that may help with the "wildlife management" of indoor spaces.Two years ago, I sent out a call to communities around North Carolina State University to voluntarily swab various areas in their homes, document the [...]

By |2013-08-13T13:19:16-05:00August 13th, 2013|Cleaning Science, Cleaning Tips|

Cleaning Tip: Using a Feather Duster to Clean Horizontal Window Blinds

In this cleaning tip from Castle Keepers of Charleston, we learn proper technique for dusting horizontal window blinds with an ostrich feather duster.Whether you're cleaning procedure features the classic feather duster or you’re a heavy-duty vacuum dusting team, dusting horizontal blinds is becoming a more common addition to the standard cleaning expectations. Before you decide [...]

By |2013-08-07T13:45:33-05:00August 7th, 2013|Cleaning Tips, Operations|

Infographic – Pet Hair Removal: Tips of the Trade

"Pet owners love their pets, but not the hair," said Derek Christian, owner and founder of My Maid Service. "We've discovered some tips that work really well."To download the complete infographic, click here or on the image below. Derek Christian is the owner of My Maid Service with locations in Cincinnati, OH and Dallas, TX, as well as a business coach [...]

Infographic: Cleaning With Kids

Enlist the kids to help with house cleaning chores. Here are some tips to inspire and motivate. This handy infograpic about getting kids to help out with house cleaning chores comes to us via My Maid Service in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is owned by Cleaning Business Today's Publisher Derek Christian. To download, click here. Derek [...]

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