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Stone
Stone Care Tips - Before and After the Party
Protecting your stone surfaces — countertops, walls, vanities and floors — is a must before and after entertaining.
Granite
Caring For Granite Countertops
Granite requires special care and attention because it’s a natural stone. Here are a few tips to help you protect your investment.
Stone
Expert Stone, Tile and Grout Care
Inside tips for making these hard surfaces easy to maintain.
Stone
Stone Care Made Easy
Simple steps to natural stone care will keep it looking beautiful for many years.
Marble
Removing White Powder from New Marble Floor
Q & A with Fred Hueston

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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.
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.
Steam Mop
Review: HAAN Slim & Light Steam Mop
How does this simple steam mop fare against messes? Find out!
Organizing Strategies
Book Review - A "Pretty Neat" Guide
Organization is not about perfectly labeled boxes or sparkling bare surfaces, but having a system that keeps stress to a minimum and helps us get the most important things done.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?

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Corian
Corian
A solid surface countertop line for kitchens, baths, sinks and lavatories, manufactured by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington DE.
Quartz
Quartz surface
It's a lot more resistant to staining and damage than other stone or composite countertops. Cleanup is easy.
Wet (soak) mopping
What to do when damp mopping no longer effectively cleans a vinyl, tile or sealed-stone floor.
Wilsonart laminate
Countertops for kitchens, baths and other applications manufactured by Wilsonart International Inc., Temple, TX.
Marble
Solid as a rock? Not quite, if it’s unsealed marble.

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Real Simple: Cleaning
Room-by-room strategies for cleaning every room in your home.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning
Simple ways to clean better and healthier.
Cleaning & Stain Removal for Dummies
Time-saving techniques to take on the whole house, plus specific methods for conquering spills and stains.
Home Comforts
A comprehensive, classic work on housekeeping.
House Cleaning Tips
How to Clean Practically Anything
Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.

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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.
DIY
Green Cleaning All-Purpose Spray
HC Producer series winner Leslie Reichert demonstrates how to make your own DIY green cleaning all purpose spray.
Baking Soda
How To Clean With Baking Soda
When it comes to household versatility, baking soda is king. Here are just some of the many cleaning uses for sodium bicarbonate.
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.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Spot Removal
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.