Safe Ways to Care for Leather between Professional Furniture Cleanings
Leather furniture is always popular thanks to its beauty and durability. It’s also a more expensive choice than some fabrics, like microfiber, and an investment well worth protecting. Inbetween professional cleanings by Chet’s Cleaning, the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification offers some tips on things you can do to help your leather furniture […]
Spring Cleaning Done Right
Nearly all cultures practice some sort of spring cleaning in the home. In the Chinese culture, this spring ritual symbolizes ridding the home of the bad luck and misfortune that has accumulated in the previous year. Cleaning makes room for good luck to enter the home. For Americans, spring cleaning has more practical implications. It […]
Upholstery Cleaning & Maintenance Tips
Maintaining upholstered furniture is easy to do while following these few simple steps. They do not take much time and you keep your sofa looking great year after year. Choose the Right Fabric Where will the furniture be located, in a well-traveled area or in an area exposed to direct sunlight? Furniture pieces subject to […]
Healthy Home Cleaning Formulas
We all know that cleaning products contain numerous amounts of toxins. Over the years, questions regarding the hazards of chemicals in our environment have been largely overlooked. Evidence shows that what we put in our home to clean our house is just as important as what we put inside our body. Products that we use […]
4 Critical Factors You Must Know Before Letting Anyone Clean Your Carpet
1. “EPA Declares DIRTY Carpets, Rugs and other soft surfaces a Health Hazard” Carpet and furnishings collect and contain harmful bacteria, soil, dust, pollen, and other HARMFUL bio-contaminates. The EPA suggests carpets be cleaned every 6 months to eliminate these hazards. They also found truck-mounted, hot water extraction can be up to 15 times more […]
The Best Way to Clean the Windows in Your Home
Your Top Questions Answered 1. How do you clean windows so there are no streaks? There is nothing more frustrating than cleaning your windows and still seeing streaks. To get the see-through shine you desire, wash your windows with horizontal strokes on one side of the glass and vertical strokes on the other side of […]
10 Uses for Baking Soda That Will Surprise You
At Chet’s Cleaning, we are always on the lookout for ways to clean without using harsh chemicals. Baking soda is a cheap, all natural favorite of ours that you can use throughout the home to clean, freshen and deodorize your home. Protect yourself and your family from conventional cleansers that can expose you to multiple […]
Easy Way to Get Labels off Glass Jars
Glass jars are wonderful for storing all sorts of odds and ends. Having a jar with a lid is priceless. The only problem with saving a glass jar to store supplies, crafts or to use as a vase is the ugly label that remains on the jar. Cleaning the label off a glass jar can […]
Non-Toxic Solutions for a Clean House
There are better ways to clean your home than spending a fortune on chemicals that shouldn’t be touched, breathed in or found lying on surfaces in your home. To keep your family healthy, there are alternatives to chemicals like bleach and ammonia that will clean and disinfect your home just as well as the toxic […]
Promoting a Green Lifestyle: 6 Ways to Clean Using Olive Oil
Chet’s Cleaning is determined to keep their products as green as possible. There are so many chemicals all around us that can have harmful and lasting effects on our health. We take every precaution necessary to find products that are as safe as possible while still doing the best job of cleaning carpets, upholstery, curtains […]
The Importance of Clean Surfaces
Keeping countertops, tabletops, desktops and dressers clean means more than what you can see with the naked eye. It’s easy to dust, polish or wipe down home surfaces and assume they are clean. It’s what you can’t see that can make you sick. You can’t see germs that can cause illnesses like Salmonella, the flu […]
End of Summer Cleaning Tips
There are only a couple weeks left before the start of a new school year. It’s hard to believe that the end of summer is here. This is the time of year to focus on cleaning up from a long busy summer and packing items away for another year. Here are some handy tips to […]
5 Shortcuts to Make Cleaning Less Time-Consuming
Cleaning is a time-consuming chore, and these days between working, children’s activities and errands, there is little time to do a deep cleaning each week. Thankfully, there are ways to get the house clean quickly on weeks when you just don’t have much time to spare. The trick is to find shortcuts to minimize the […]
How to Clean Window Blinds
Make An Easy Job Out of Cleaning Window Blinds With These 6 Tips Let’s face it, cleaning window blinds can be a messy and tedious chore. How many times have you thought about cleaning your blinds and then decided against it because of the amount of work involved? The four most common types of material […]
How to Get Kids to Clean Their Rooms
You know the drill, it’s the weekend and the kid’s rooms are a mess. There will be arguments waged over trying to get the kids to clean up their rooms. It’s an exhausting practice that is all too familiar in too many homes. What can you do to get kids to clean their rooms? Why […]
How to Clean a Gas Grill
With summer in full swing, people are spending a lot of time using their gas grill. Keeping a grill clean is the key to great tasting barbecue. By cleaning it often and properly, your grill should stay as good as new for several years to come. What is needed to properly clean a grill? All […]
How to Prevent Cross-Contamination in Your Home
When bacteria is spread by people, cleaning equipment and food, cross-contamination can occur. People spend more time indoors than outside and that increases the opportunity for bacteria to transfer around the home. Illness and disease is lessened when proper cleaning methods are used, but cleaning properly is actually a detailed process. Think about all of […]
The Best Way to Clean Your Carpeted Stairs in 6 Easy Steps
Call Our Team Today For a Quote! Carpeting on a staircase is a popular option. People love the look of carpeted stairs, the safety that they provide and the sound barrier from all of the foot traffic. Let’s face it, a staircase in a high traffic area can get quite a workout and trying to […]