Pets and Cleaning
Homes with pets may warrant some additional cleaning steps or procedures. Commiserate with other CBOs and learn some great products and processes to ensure pets and pet messes are taken care of in a safe and healthy way for technicians, pets, and pet owners.
How to control pet hair
Here’s a useful infographic on how to control pet hair. Whether your beloved dog or cat has short hair or long hair, shedding on furniture, floors, and clothing can be annoying, embarrassing, and disgusting.
Handy Expands UK Services to Animal Fostering and Pest Control
In the UK, Handy's Mouser service invites residents to foster a shelter cat as part of a pest and rodent control option.In the UK, Handy's Mouser service invites residents to foster a shelter cat as part of a pest and […]
10 Secrets to a Successful Birdhouse
Birdhouses allow you to help your bird friends by giving them a safe shelter to nest. Try using these 10 tips to put up your own birdhouse.Even if it isn’t hot outside, now is still a perfect time to hang […]
American Maid Cleaning Owner Featured in Cleaning Business Today
An interview with Liz Trotter about her incredible team at American Maid ServicesHigh energy “Coach” Liz Trotter has built her successful business by rising to the challenge, always striving to be better and continually learning. Liz Trotter started her business […]
Lakewood, WA Loses Two Pets to Carpet Cleaner
On Saturday, February 28, a Lakewood, WA resident returned home to find his two pets - a bird and a cat - dead. An unnamed OTC powdered carpet cleaner was identified as the cause, apparently causing a toxic chemical reaction […]
The “Almost Perfect” Vacuum: Top Recommended Vacuums for Residential Cleaning Services
Solve your vacuum conundrum with these guidelines about uprights, canisters, backpacks and handheld models, PLUS download the 2014 Report on Professional Vacuums for Residential Cleaning Services. How to Choose the “Almost Perfect” Vacuum In 13 years as a Proctor & […]
47 Smart Uses for Salt (a series): The Kitchen
Here are just a few of the many ways you can put salt to good use in your homeHow many ways can you use salt? According to the Salt Institute, about 14,000! I can’t think of another more versatile mineral. The use […]
The Top Five Worst Household Odors—and Green Solutions
When Americans were surveyed to determine the five worst homeodors, more than eight out of 10 said rotting garbage or "garbage can" odor is the most offensive household smell. Rounding out the top five, in order, were pet odors, mold, […]
47 Smart Uses for Salt (a series): Laundry
With modern production methods, nowadays salt is the most common and readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world; in fact, the supply of salt is inexhaustible.Originally published at Care2.com on July 4, 2011 How many ways can you use salt? According to the […]
Cleaning For a (Four-Legged) Reason!
Sparky and Fluffy aren’t the only ones hip to the offerings of ‘Chez-Floor’; chemical residue is also a frequent, and potentially fatal, guest. An Introduction to an Issue To your pet, your household floor is the place to be! In […]

















