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• Tips to Cut Your House Cleaning Time in Half

  16 tips to save time.

• Expert Stone, Tile and Grout Care

  Inside tips for making these hard surfaces easy to maintain.

• How to Care for Wood Furniture

  Tips to make your wood furniture last for generations.

• Smarter Not Harder

  Speed is less about muscles than about busting time wasters and poor techniques.

• Consumer Reports' Latest Vacuum Tests Suck the Air Out of Product Claims

  Consumer Reports' tests of 81 models sucked the air out of some vacuum cleaner marketing claims.

• Weather The Dust Storms Of Remodeling

  Planning to remodel? Walls aren't the only things that will need to come down. Your cleaning standards and routine will need some retooling, too.

• Stop Pollution Indoors

  Ten steps to better indoor environmental quality

• Vacuum Cleaner Testing at Consumer Reports

  When Consumer Reports talks, people listen.

• 10 Truths About Wood Floors

  Protect your planks!

• 10 Tips for Less-Toxic Spring Cleaning — With Kids

  Safely mobilize your family task force this spring.

• Assailing Aluminum Frames

  Narrow enough to escape frequent notice, aluminum window frames need cleaning, too.

• Mud Mania: Cleaning Muddy Carpet

  Carpet cleaning advice for those really muddy, dirty carpet situations.

• Carpet Cleaning Tips - Do-It-Yourself or Professional Cleaning?

  Interim vs. deep cleaning: when to call in the pros.

• Avoid Shocking Experiences — Electrical Safety at Home

  Keep electrical cleaning appliances from becoming hazardous.

• 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.

• Bust Remodeling Dust

  Home improvement expert Danny Lipford lays out how to protect your home from construction dust.

• Dusting - The Science of Dust Buildup

  Why common household dust behaves as it does.

• Deep Cleaning and Selecting A Carpet Cleaning Professional

  If you find that no matter how much you vacuum, your carpet still does not look like it used to, it may be time for deep cleaning. While there are do-it-yourself cleaning methods on the market, hiring a professional is often the safest, fastest and easiest option.

• Floor Care Tips

  Here are some tips from the International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) on how to properly care for and maintain one of the hardest working surfaces in your house.

• Treat Your Rug Right

  How to care for high quality area rugs.

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