Ahh, spring! With that fresh air comes a host of cleaning tasks. Here are some great ways to get started.
I did a video on cleaning your dishwasher properly, and it’s a popular one. Dishwashers are NOT self-cleaning, at all. In fact, they are little storage containers for your dirty little secrets. Further, you can’t get a good clean load through when your dishwasher is dirty. They are known to…
When most people hear the words ‘spring cleaning’, they immediately formulate a list of about 15-20 excuses they can use to avoid the seemingly daunting tasks. Spring cleaning is a way to demonstrate pride in ownership (or rentership). A home and its contents are investments; money spent on something you…
“<yelly voice> Clean your rooooooom!” Man, if I had a dollar for every time my parents yelled this very phrase at me when I was growing up, I’d probably still be doing this but I’d be doing it from a big old beach house along the California coast. It seems…
Your refrigerator is one of the hardest working appliances in your home. Often overlooked, it endures spills, stinky odors and overcrowding on a daily basis and never gets a break. A clean refrigerator helps keep food fresher and is less likely to have issues down the road. There are various…
Cleaning expert, Melissa Maker, walks you through the products and tools you’ll need as well as the simple steps to cleaning a toilet quickly and effectively. Tools you’ll need Rubber Gloves Use separate ones for the bathroom (these ones are while, choose another colour for the kitchen). Cleaning Toothbrush Use…
Pillow talk.. ..is usually sexy and almost never about how clean or dirty your pillows actually are. I’ve investigated the situation and demonstrate the proper way to clean your pillows (watch the video below!), an often overlooked cleaning task. There’s also a fairly interesting quick test which will let you…
Happy Friday – may I just say, YAHOO! What a week it’s been here at CMS. Busy to say the least. I get a LOT of questions via private message on the YouTube channel, which is cool. I share the answers on the blog for everyone to see. This one…
Happy Fall, all! I got a great question from one of my YouTube subscribers (love them). It pertains to cleaning wood kitchen cabinets. I thought it was pretty helpful and that others may be wondering the same thing, so here we go! Here’s the question from my inbox: Hello, Im…
