House Cleaning and Stain Removal Tips

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Cleaning Parquet Wood Floors

Cleaning Parquet Wood Floors Parquet floors lend warmth to your home that other types of flooring just can’t match. While most new floors are either regular hardwood or laminate, older homes often feature intricate parquet style floors, which are made up of smaller pieces of wood fit together in regular patterns or inlaid around the…

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Baking Soda, White Vinegar and Hydrogen Peroxide to Remove Pet Odors.

Removing Cat Urine Odor with Homemade Cleaners

How to Remove Cat Urine and Cat Urine Odor Cats make wonderful pets. They are affectionate (at least sometimes), they don’t need to be walked outside when the weather is cold and rainy, the way dogs do, and they are pretty low maintenance as far as animals go. If your cat stays home alone all…

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How to Wash Your Child's Stuffed Animals.

How to Clean Stuffed Toys

Cleaning Stuffed Toys If you’ve got kids, you’ve got stuffed toys. Not just a few mind you—mounds of them. Every child loves a good plush and soft stuffed animal, and as every parent knows, that one toy can quickly become a menagerie of stuffed toys that share in tea parties, conquering imaginary lands, going on…

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How to Clean Pergo Laminate Floors

How to Clean Pergo Laminate Floors Pergo is most recognized brand name in laminate floors. Because it was the first company to introduce the concept of laminate to the United States in the late 1970’s, many of us have come to use the brand name as its meaning, the way we do with Band-Aids or…

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Cleaning Stains from Foam Mattress.

Cleaning Stains and Odor from Foam Mattresses

Removing Spills, Stains, Urine and Odor from Foam Mattresses If you have had the luxury of buying a new mattress recently, it is likely that you have a foam mattress. Foam mattresses once were something that most people could not afford, but as the market for them has increased, the prices have dropped considerably. Now…

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Woman Washing Windows with Vinegar.

Cleaning Windows with Plain White Vinegar

How to Clean Windows with Plain White Vinegar I absolutely love those window cleaning commercials that show people walking into glass doors because the cleaner that was used on them was so thorough they couldn’t even tell that the door was closed. If you’ve spent a small fortune trying every commercial window cleaner on the…

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Removing Smoke Smells from a Car

Removing the Smell of Cigarette Smoke in the Car If you’ve got a smoker in your car, you might just have a nasty odor in your car. Cigarette smoke is one of the most pervasive odors you can encounter and it can be tough to get rid of once it’s soaked into the upholstery of…

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How to Remove Ink Stains from Leather

How to Remove Ink Stains from Leather Leather is a great, durable material for shoes, for purses and for furniture. Ink stains are among the most common and the most annoying stains on leather items. You might have left a pen in your purse and it exploded, the ink soaking through from the inside. Or,…

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How to Remove Blood Stains from Clothes.

Remove Blood Stains from Clothing

How to Get Blood Stains out of Clothes Blood stains can be a real pain and if you have kids, you know how wild and reckless they can be. So, it’s no surprise when they sometimes come inside with a scraped knee, bloody nose or scraped elbows and hands. After cleaning up the kids owie,…

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Tealight Candles and How to Remove Wax if Spilled on Carpets.

How to Remove Candle Wax from Carpet

How to Remove Candle Wax from Carpet Candles can make your home feel warm and inviting; they can fill your home with your favorite scent from cinnamon buns to evergreen and floral scents. Candles can also make a royal mess if you knock one over and the wax stains the carpet. Anyone who has burned…

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