Recent questions tagged housecleaning

Description : Upright vs. canister vacuum cleaners?

Last Answer : Canisters have significantly declined in popularity. Brands like Hoover and Eureka no longer make them at all and Dyson seems to have abandoned their one canister model. Uprights and stick vacs are what's in right ... won't fit (though I will say it's pretty heavy and took some getting used to).

Description : SFW: How do I get rid of the stickiness?

Last Answer : Sounds like the coating didn’t cure. Murphy soap may make it even stickier. Clean the surface with mineral spirits and use a non-metallic scrubber pad, remove scum with a paper towel. Now use a quick dry polyurethane varnish to seal the surface.

Description : I broke something in my vacuum.. Help needed?

Last Answer : My guess is the belt got hot and burned in two. What brand is your vacuum?

Description : Why do I have this feeling for a couple days after the house is cleaned?

Last Answer : There’s something to be said for that spotless clean, everything in its place feeling…maybe that’s what you’re experiencing…

Description : How do you get water spots off glass windows?

Last Answer : spit.

Description : Help removing pumpkin stink from a porch please?

Last Answer : The old tried and true Baking Soda treatment. Sprinkle a lot of it on the spot, leave a day or two, and wash off with water. If you still have an issue, sprinkle with a fine layer of cat litter.

Description : How Clean is your house.. and be honest..:O)

Last Answer : Clean enough to be hygenic and dirty enough to be happy.

Description : Couples and housekeeping. How do you work it out so no one gets cranky?

Last Answer : I used to be the messy one, and my wife the tidy one. Then she and I had two babies and I became much tidier - she was often too frazzled to do the housework. Our two babies turned into children, ... when you find socks behind your PC or something like that, it's time to tidy, but entropy will out.

Description : Is there a way to get rid of lizards from your room, besides chasing them out :P ?

Last Answer : Where do you and your lizards live? Most are harmless and non-venomous. A draconian solution is to bring inside kingsnakes and racers, hawks, roadrunners, (skunks and badgers will eat the eggs) or some ... beetles, spiders, termites - at least the ones in Missouri do Why not live and let live?