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• Vacuuming

  Carpet Cleaning Tips - Vacuuming

  Proper vacuuming is the easiest and most effective way to keep carpet clean, while having a positive impact on the cleanliness of your home and the air you breathe.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Carpet Preconditioning: Its Impact on Cleaning

  Whether you hire a service to clean your carpet or you do it yourself, be sure to precondition it.
• Closet

  Change of Seasons Signals Change in Closet

  Closet organizing is a seasonal adventure.
• Walls

  Child Hieroglyphics

  Remedy for wall murals. Young children often love to scribble and draw on walls, paneling and sometimes even paper.
• Housekeeping Tips

  Clean Like A Pro

  Basic cleaning tools that save time and money.
• Motivation

  Clean Up and Slim Down!

  Science says cleaning burns calories! Build a fitness program for you and for your home!
• Window Screens

  Clean Window Screens

  Don't put dirty screens back onto freshly cleaned windows.
• Grill Cleaning

  Clean Your BBQ for Sizzling Summer Cookouts

  Here's how to prevent your grill from getting dirty unnecessarily, and clean up before and after cookouts.
• Vacuum Cleaners

  Consumer Reports Finds Vacuums' Claims to Remove Allergens Mean Less Than They Suggest

  Extensive CR testing also finds some stylish vacuums to be sub-par performers.
• Countertops

  Corian, Earthstone, Pergo ... Oh My!

  HC asked makers of special surfaces how to clean their products. Here are their tips.
• Deep Cleaning

  Deep Cleaning Starter

  You shouldn’t merely scratch the surface. Do the thorough job that makes your home do more than shine.
• Food Safety

  Don't Let Foodborne Sickness Spoil the Party

  How to prepare, clean up and store your spread — without the bellyache.
• Saving Water

  Drought Or No Drought: Saving Water Is Important Year-Round

  Save money and prevent water damage with the same techniques used to preserve the water supply.
• Dusting

  Dusting

  Dust is everywhere, but you can keep it within healthy limits.
• Dusting

  Dusting Tips

  Surface area is the key to a good dusting tool.
• Dusting

  Dusting Wood Objects of Museum Quality

  Got fine wood or wooden antiques? Here's advice from the Museum Management Program of the National Park Service (NPS).
• Window Cleaning

  Easy Windows

  Learn how to use a squeegee and you'll be done with window cleaning in half the time or less.
• Vacuuming

  Eight Myths of Vacuuming

  Are you an informed consumer? Consider these eight myths, and corresponding truths, about vacuuming.
• Spring Cleaning

  Eleven Spring Cleaning Projects

  Take advantage of the seasonal impulse to get moving!
• Stone

  Expert Stone, Tile and Grout Care

  Inside tips for making these hard surfaces easy to maintain.

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