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Washing Walls
Washing Flat Paint or Enamel?
Attack a wall with the right approach.
Cleaning Strategy
Before Guests Arrive: A Checklist
Here is a short checklist to help make sure you are prepared for company.
Tile
How To Clean Bathroom Tiles
Moisture makes a fertile breeding ground for mold and mildew.
Window Cleaning
Painless Window Cleaning
Professional Window Cleaning Tricks
Toilet Bowl
The Bare Bowl Method
Key to removing tough toilet bowl deposits.

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Spring Cleaning
Why you don't have to spring clean
Spring cleaning doesn't necessarily have to be done in the spring.
Window Cleaning
Cleaning windows: Shedding daylight on a dirty subject
How to choose the best squeegee and use it to make window cleaning quick and easy.
Automatic Soap Dispenser
simplehuman Automatic Liquid Soap/Lotion Dispenser
While some technology can be a real letdown - this automatic liquid soap/lotion dispenser did not disappoint. Find out why.
Organizing Strategies
September Signals a Change in Seasons
As the season changes, we consider getting warm clothes out of the closet. But September is also a great opportunity to organize the closet.
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.

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Bucket
Bucket
Do the job the easy, safe way — follow these tips.
Wet (soak) mopping
What to do when damp mopping no longer effectively cleans a vinyl, tile or sealed-stone floor.
Damp Mopping
Damp mopping
Used where lots of water could damage the floor or the subfloor.
Wall, painted
First, vacuum or dry-sponge walls. Wash if necessary with the following method.
Mud
Spatters, spatters everywhere? Whatever you do, don’t spread them around.

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Green Clean
Step-by-step guide to ecological housekeeping.
Laundry
Talking Dirty Laundry With The Queen of Clean
Strategies and tips for cleaner laundry from the Queen of Clean that includes a complete stain removal guide.
How to Cheat at Cleaning
Gives time-slashing techniques to save time on cleaning.
Organize Your Office In No Time
An organized office and more productive day is just a book away.
House Cleaning Tips
Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean
Here comes the Queen of Clean®, and her down-to-earth housekeeping guide for those of us who live in the real world.

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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.
Carpet Cleaning
Special Tools for Green Carpet Cleaning
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 Ring From Your Bathtub
Save hand-washing houseguests the horror of having to stare at a line of dirt and dead skin ringing the bathtub.
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.