General Household Cleaning Tips
If your floors could talk, what would they say? After all, they are walked on, dropped on, dripped on, spilled on ? they live through it all. What do you think they would say? Basic house cleaning must include attention to your floors or your cleaning efforts elsewhere will seem that much less rewarding. There is nothing complicated about keeping your floors clean. Follow these general household cleaning tips, and both you and your floors will be happier you did.
Multi-Floor Cleaners
At least once a month, your floors need to see the light of day through the haze of dirt that has built up on them. Using a simple, earth friendly floor cleaner (FULLER Multi-Floor Cleaner) will do the trick to return your floors to their naturally shiny state.
But be sure to check the cleaner's label for words like biodegradable and environmentally safe.
Earth friendly products are preferable because they will not hurt the environment and will not cause problems in sewage systems. It's just the responsible thing to do. Multi-Floor cleaners are safe to use on most floors including hardwood, linoleum, tiles, marble, vinyl, and many others. They are gentle cleaners that leave no residue behind.
Just spray onto your floor and pass a damp mop to clean away all visible traces of dirt, grease, and grime. Easy and quick.
When You Need To Mop
Spot cleaning is always advisable when it comes to maintaining your floors' cleanliness. Best to wipe up a spill immediately before it has a chance to dry and becomes a sticky, dirt-attracting mar on your floor. But passing a damp mop once a week is the simplest way to keep built up dirt in check.
Standard mops designed with at least 4-ply, 100% cotton strands (FULLER Wet Mop) are still considered the best for absorbing water as well as for cleaning surface dirt from your floors.
To maintain the life of your mop though, be sure to hang it away from all surfaces so that it is allowed to air dry properly. This will avoid the problem of mildew growth.
When A Quick Sweep Will Do
Once a day, if time allows, a quick sweep will do to keep your floors from crunching under your feet. Sweep up food crumbs, hair, pet fur, and other visible dirt particles with a lightweight, easy-to-use broom (FULLER Kitchen Broom). Brooms with split end bristles are known to be the best at picking up the most amount of dirt in a single sweep.
Do your best to sweep under counters, tables, and in corners. These are the places dirt loves to run and hide in. When you feel the time has come, though, to move the furniture away from the walls and attack what lies underneath, it would be more efficient to forego even the best broom and pull out the vacuum cleaner.
Clean floors are paramount when it comes to maintaining household cleanliness and health. Once a floor is thoroughly clean, maintenance becomes quick and easy. And if your floors could talk, they would say "thank you".
Author Vincent Platania represents the Stanley Home Products.
Stanley Home Products has been in business since 1936, and offers high quality home and personal care products to keep your home and your body clean.
Visit http://www.stanleybeautycare.com
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The Stomach Vacuum
Copyright 2006 Karen Sessions
The vast majority of people who engage in countless sets and repetitions of abdominal exercises such as crunches, leg lifts, and twists fail to see dramatic improvement, as if something is lacking.
Are you among those who religiously train your abdominals, yet still fight the distending gut syndrome?
I can teach you a simple technique to reduce your midsection in as little as three weeks! By incorporating this technique, with your regular abdominal training and proper diet, it will reduce the size of your waist, and help to give you a carved midsection!
Prerequisites
This is exciting news, but it does come along with some prerequisites which are, pre-established clean eating habits, adequate water intake, and a low to moderate body fat percentage. Depending on how you hold your weight, anywhere from 12 to 15% is acceptable.
Some Background
Before we jump in over our heads...
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Re-Define What "Clean" Means for You and Your Home
There's an old saying - A person doesn't buy a drill because they want a drill. They buy the drill because they want a hole. The same is true for vacuum cleaners. A person only buys a vacuum cleaner because they want their home to be clean. They care about getting rid of dirt and airborne irritants - even if they're too small to be seen.
The measure of a vacuum cleaner is the quality of "clean" it delivers. Time to bring Old-fashioned Notions about Cleaning up to DateNot that long ago, most women still worked at home as full-time homemakers. Cleaning was hard work. Today's fast-paced reality is very different. Most people are not willing to work that hard on housework.
We have other priorities and demands on our time. Sure, we still want a clean home, but without such time-consuming drudgery. Our Expectations for Air Quality are Higher than they Used to beIt's not just the dirt you see that needs to be eliminated. Old-fashioned vacuums sucked up the dirt, but stirred it...
Re-Define What "Clean" Means for You and Your Home
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Carpet Cleaning Equipment
To clean a carpet, first have all the equipment in place. This includes carpet cleaning supplies, machines and accessories, which can make the job simpler. Select equipment depending on whether you want to 'clean'
or 'deep clean' a carpet or simply remove a stain. Additionally, the equipment and supplies should be appropriate for the carpet fabric.
For 'cleaning', which is typically a reference to surface cleaning, use a vacuum cleaner. There are
four types that can be used: the 'upright,' the 'canister,' the 'handheld' and 'spotters'.
The 'canister' is different from the 'upright' mainly in design and not in functionality. Most people prefer the 'upright' as it is more convenient to handle. 'Handheld' ones are
convenient for stairs and other small carpeted spaces. 'Spotters' are ideal for removing spots and stains, and very effective if used shortly after something's been spilt or a stain has been caused.
For 'deep cleaning',...
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Time travel: sci-fi?
When you look at the clear night sky, you see stars-those tiny diamonds suspended in the vast pitch-black emptiness. But stars shine because?? Our own sun, which is a star, emits light. Stars are like giant bulbs but are much more powerful.Light travels at a speed of 3.0*108m/s in vacuum and space is mostly vacuum. In other words light can cover a mighty distance of 300 000 000m in only 1 second!The thing is that 300 000 000m is a just one of those small amounts in space. Other stars are billions of kilometres-let alone metres-away.
Astronomers in fact use light year as the unit for distance. One light year is the distance travelled by light (in vacuum) during one year. Therefore one light year equals (300 000 000*3600*24*365)m.A single light year is definitely huge: 9.46 trillion kilometres-no need to put this in digit form-in fact. But where exactly do I want to converge? A star that you see in the night sky is not one but many light years away. This means that it is very far...
Time travel: sci-fi?
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