the bowl is the easiest surface in the room. the floor around it is the one nobody touches on purpose. where the smell actually is, why bleach is the wrong tool for this one, and the twenty least satisfying minutes in your house.
Tag Archives: home maintenance
I Own A Cleaning Company. The Cheap Version Is The One You Buy Twice.
almost every expensive thing i walk into started as somebody being careful with money. the five mistakes i see over and over, the thirty seconds that prevents the most common one, and the one category where cheap and expensive fail identically.
I Own A Cleaning Company. Half Your Household Budget Is A Subscription Nobody Sold You.
a dozen things in your house renew themselves forever and nobody mentioned they were optional. the paper towel math, the fourteen bottles doing four jobs, and why the drugstore aisle is the worst offender of all.
I Clean Houses For A Living. The Dirtiest Thing In Your Kitchen Is The Thing You Clean With.
the sponge is warm, wet and full of food, which is a description of an incubator, not a tool. what i carry instead, why your cloths start smelling after three weeks, and the two jobs a cloth genuinely cannot do.
I Clean Houses For A Living. Washing Your Sheets Is Not Cleaning Your Bed.
the sheets are a cover. what actually builds up in a mattress, why protein needs an enzyme and not bleach, and the twenty-dollar thing that deletes the chore instead of adding one.
I Own A Cleaning Company. Half The Deep Clean You’re Paying For Takes Ten Minutes.
six things on a deep clean invoice that took me eleven minutes and a six-dollar bottle. what to stop paying for, what is genuinely worth hiring out, and the one shower problem no product can fix.
I Own A Cleaning Company. The Expensive Repair Is Almost Always A Cheap Chore You Skipped.
people talk about home repairs like weather. the furnace filter, the dryer duct, the drains, the mattress and the shower glass — what a hundred dollars of consumables actually prevents, and the honest limits of buying your way out.
