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Asthma And Allergies
Q & A on Asthma, Allergies and Carpet
The Carpet & Rug Institute provides answers to commonly asked questions about carpets, asthma and allergies.
Remediation
Protect Yourself When Removing Mold
What to wear when removing mold from your home.
House Cleaning Tips
Tips to Cut Your House Cleaning Time in Half
16 tips to save time.
Donations
Warm Hands, Warm Hearts – Helping Those Affected by Superstorm Sandy
ACI and AAFCS have launched "Warm Hands, Warm Hearts," an effort to gather gloves, mittens and hand soap for those affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Safety
Poison Prevention Pointers for Spring
It is important to keep safety in mind as you begin your spring cleaning and gardening.

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Spring Cleaning
What do you intend to clean this spring?
What modern homes need in a good spring cleaning.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?
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.
Asthma And Allergies
Cleaning with Allergies - Quick Tips
Fall allergy season is here. Use these quick tips to prevent the build-up of allergens in your home and to effectively remove them.
Steam Mop
Review: HAAN Slim & Light Steam Mop
How does this simple steam mop fare against messes? Find out!

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Latex gloves
These indispensable tools help guard against infection and chemical exposure.
Rubber Gloves
Rubber gloves
Some jobs require greater hand protection than others.
Protective gloves
We use this term often in describing how to perform various cleaning tasks safely. Here’s what it means.
Personal protective equipment
It sounds like a big term, but it’s not. Personal safety is easy and inexpensive to ensure.
Caulking
Tub caulk
Durable and easily applied, caulk makes repairing cracked or broken grout easy.

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Green Cleaning
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Cleaning (2nd Edition)
Focuses on cleaning each room of your home the "green" way and without harmful chemicals.
Squeaky Green
The Method guide to detoxing your home room-by-room.
Green Cleaning
Cheaper, Greener, Cleaner: Ceiling to Floor Savings
Easy-to-follow recipes for inexpensive, homemade cleaners that are better for the environment and for your health.
Green Cleaning
Green Cleaning for Dummies
Provides sustainable and healthy solutions for every room in the house - from the kitchen and bathroom to the laundry room and garage.
My House Is Killing Me!
A step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling and often eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens.

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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.
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.
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.
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.