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Winterizing
Getting Your Home Ready For Cooler Weather
A growing number of homeowners are realizing that it's a good idea to prepare their home for cooler weather - just as they would their wardrobe and vehicles.
Humidity
Hate the Humidity?
Check the humidity levels in your home to ensure comfortable breathing.
Air Cleaner
Air Cleaners 101
Air cleaners are usually classified by the method employed for removing particles of various sizes from the air.
Indoor Air Quality
Simple Steps To Improve Indoor Air
Homeowners can take a number of steps to improve air quality and create a healthier living environment.
Air Cleaner
What Types of Air Cleaners are Available?
There are three general types of air cleaners on the market: mechanical filters, electronic air cleaners, and ion generators.

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Air Conditioner
Keep your AC in tip-top shape
Just before the summer heat hits, it may be time to clean your air conditioner coils.
Houseplants
Thumbs-up to Indoor Plants
Get your “grow” on with houseplants.
Humidifier
Crane Cool Mist Humidifiers
These humidifiers are attractive, easy-to-use, safe, and provide needed moisture to dry indoor air and to treat cold and flu symptoms naturally.
Disinfecting
Q & A: To Disinfect or Not Disinfect?
Q: I purchased an all-purpose cleaner at a janitorial supply store that doesn't require rinsing, but I noticed that it makes no claims about killing germs. Do I need to use a germ-killing cleaner for regular cleaning of the kitchen and bathroom in my home? Or do I only need that occasionally? - Carolyn E.
Winterizing
Winterize Your Home
Prepare your home for winter before the snow starts falling.

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Vacuum Cleaners
Air watt
This standard measures the cleaning power of a vacuum cleaner.
Relative humidity
Even humidity is relative.
Air Purifier
CADR
Look for these numbers when comparing portable room air cleaners.
Ventilation
Another word for “airing the place out,” ventilation is one of the top three ways to improve indoor air quality.
Air Cleaner
Air cleaner
There are several different types, but these useful appliances are no substitute for good cleaning and other preventive measures.

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My House Is Killing Me!
A step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling and often eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens.
Houseplants For Dummies
Cultivate your green thumb.
House Cleaning Tips
How to Clean Practically Anything
Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.
Carpet Cleaning
Carpet Cleaning Tips for Dummies
How-to guide offers easy carpet cleaning tips.
Green Living
Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips
Whether you're a renter, a landlord, or a homeowner, Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips will help you keep your home a clean and healthy place to live.

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Organizing Strategies
How To Organize a Desk
Does your desk look like a robber rifled through it just before a hurricane hit the room? Organize it so that it gets under control and stays that way.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Home-Made Green Cleaners
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.
How To Clean a Toilet
The gross-out factor of cleaning a toilet cannot be underestimated—but the gross-out factor of not cleaning a toilet is even worse. Better clean the toilet.
Bathtub
How To Clean a Bathtub
Whether you shower in it or use it for long, luxurious baths, there’s nothing clean—or relaxing—about a tub full of grime, mold, or mildew.
Shower
How To Clean a Shower
If the grime in your shower looks like something that would be more at home in a horror flick than in, well, your home, it’s time to take control.