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Home Cleaning Service in Clearwater, FL

European Maids offers rental property cleaning Service in Clearwater and St Petersburg, Florida. We are the owner operated Clearwater cleaning service company. European Maids Cleaning Company offers over 20 years of experience in providing excellent professional home, residential and vacation-rental cleaning service in Clearwater, St Petersburg and Tampa Bay Florida area.

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Managing Time and Housework

Managing Time and Housework

A modern housewife has a lot – cases, plans, gadgets in the kitchen. Children, hobbies, household affairs – all this requires attention and most importantly – time. There are tried and tested tips that will help not to be scattered on the secondary and have time to be important.

Love the rituals

Rituals or routines are a term that has become popular with the emergence of the author’s order system Flylady. In fact, this is a sequence of actions that we perform day in and day out.

Despite the fact that everyone has a sequence of cases, there are common points – morning rituals are devoted to the beginning of a new day, evening rituals are devoted to its completion and preparation for the next.

Our task is to bring these rituals to perfection. Knowing what and in what order you need to do in the morning, you will spend less time and energy on throwing and gathering (especially moms with children).

At the initial stage, it’s best to fix your rituals in the phone or a diary to check. After a while, this will no longer be necessary.

Start a daily schedule

The habit of regularly keeping a diary can be safely called the starting point on the way to order and organization. You can read books on time management as much as you want, organize space, make rituals, but if you do not plan your time, you will constantly slide back to chaos and hecticness.

It is very important to choose your own diary format, such that it will be convenient for you: handwritten variants like bullet journal, dated tables, online applications, good old tablets in Excel – experiment and try.

Schedule the days when you plan your time and try to stick to the schedule. For example, on the 1st of every month you write a list of 5-8 big tasks for a month, every Sunday – make plans for the next week, in the morning or in the evening paint tactical tasks for the day.

Organize space

Each of us knows how long it takes to look for a second glove, a bag with a second footwear for the child, a necessary contract or a receipt for payment.

All these problem situations have one cause – things do not have a permanent, convenient, understandable place for everyone.

If you set the goal to manage – without the organization of space can not do. Take a room, write out what activities are going on in it, what things are needed for them. Place the items so that it is convenient to take in the process and return to the place. For example, you read books on the couch, and the bookcase is located far enough away from it. As a result, a bale of books and magazines is constantly formed near the sofa. The solution is to allocate a place for these “fugitives”.

Put a beautiful wicker basket where it will be convenient to put what you are reading right now. A simple reception that will add order and coziness.

Replenish resources

The secret of success is very simple – you have a feasible plan of action for you and the strength to do it. If everything is clear with the first, then at the second moment many people do not pay attention.

Meanwhile, the task of remaining “in the resource” is one of the most important.

Consider and make up your list of ways to make up for strength. One needs to be alone, others need a regular physical load, someone sews, reads, or works on creativity.

It’s a bad practice to try to charge an already-sown battery when there’s a lot of noise and a lot of things around, but there’s no time. Caring for yourself should become for you an indispensable item worthy of entering into your diary.

Delegate

Carrying a lot of things on yourself and doing it for a very long time – is fraught with at least chronic fatigue. The modern mistress can be compared with the leader, in whose management the whole family: her life, plans for the future, holidays, shopping and much more. And if we draw an analogy with business, then the company where the director does everything himself, will not last long or will become inefficient with time.

Exit – delegate what takes a lot of resources from you. If someone considers this a luxury, look how much money on average goes to small (only at first glance) spending – going to a cafe or restaurant, buying unnecessary or unnecessary things. Even an approximate calculation will show that such spending will more than pay for cleaning your home or washing the windows.

Do not hesitate from time to time to use courier delivery services from shops, babysitter or a professional cleaner, rest and stick to a comfortable schedule for yourself – and then you will definitely be in time!

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Rental Property Cleaning Service in Clearwater, Florida

European Maids offers rental property cleaning Service in Clearwater and St Petersburg, Florida. We are the owner operated Clearwater cleaning service company. European Maids Cleaning Company offers over 20 years of experience in providing excellent professional home, residential and vacation-rental cleaning service in Clearwater, St Petersburg and Tampa Bay Florida area.

Below are photos of before and after cleaning of rental property in Clearwater FL.

Rental Property Cleaning Service in Clearwater

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Rental Property Cleaning Service in Clearwater

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Rental Property Cleaning Service in Clearwater

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Rental Condominium Cleaning Service in Clearwater, Florida

European Maids offers Condominium and Home Cleaning Service in Clearwater and St Petersburg, Florida. We are owner operated Clearwater cleaning service company and offer 20 + years of experience in providing excellent professional home residential and vacation-rental cleaning service in Clearwater, St Petersburg and Tampa Bay Florida area.

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Residential and Rental Home Cleaning Tips

Residential and Rental Home Cleaning TipsEngaging a professional home cleaning service can surely keep your abode perfectly spic and span throughout the year and also keep you completely free for attending to your own business. But hiring a holiday rental cleaning agency on a long-term basis could also burn a hole in your pocket. You can go DIY when it comes to maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of your home or an additional abode that you let out as a holiday accommodation to tourists and travelers.

You can abide by the following home cleaning tips that are taken advantage of by professional cleaners and speed up the tidying process in your own home without compromising on the quality of course.

Always schedule before getting started

Almost all skilled and experienced professional cleaners always follow one golden rule when it comes to home cleaning or rental cleaning and that is drawing up a schedule. Preparing a plan on how to wish to go about the entire process will help to complete the job sooner than you expect and believe it or not, you’ll be surprised at the results.

Invest in essential cleaning kit and tools

When we talk about home cleaning tools, we do not mean the ones that you see in sci-fi movies and TV ads that are shown with monotonous regularity in between sitcom breaks. Dump the rackety and worn out sponge mop and go for cotton or terry cotton wipes and dusters. Buy a handy vacuum cleaner with additional attachments for pulling out the dust from deep inside sofa covers and underneath the wardrobes.

Investing in versatile and resourceful house cleaning implements will stand you in good stead for years to come.

Dress up

You could be forgiven for having the impression that employees under the payroll of professional cleaning company wear uniform largely to appeal to your aesthetics. Most people think in a similar manner. Contrary to what you and most people think, home cleaning professionals dress up to do the job effectively and also to feel comfortable while they’re at it.

Just check out the items they put on starting from knee pads to shoes and from gloves to goggles to protect themselves from toxic chemicals. An apron is indispensable for housing tools and keeping supplies handy so that you do not have to run helter-skelter in search of the same. Garb yourself in a proper uniform that covers you from neck to ankle.

Keep all your cleaning tools ready

Any rental cleaning project is back breaking and hectic in itself. On top of that if you have to run up and down the stairway, and from one room to another umpteen times, you’ll get bogged down much before you’re done with cleaning. Keep a tote-box or tray handy where you can store all necessary tools including rags, mops, brushes, and cleansers.

Declutter and organize first

Ask yourself honestly whether you’ll be able to proceed with the cleaning project smoothly if the floors, furniture, counters, tabletops, and other surfaces are in a state of absolute mess. First clear the paper shreds, toys, soiled dishes, and dirty clothes from each and every horizontal surface before you get hold of the cleaning brush.     

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Useful Tips for Cleaning Hardwood Floors

Useful Tips for Cleaning Hardwood FloorsThere’s no denying the attractiveness of a hardwood floor that immediately arrests your attention the moment you step into a home. The beauty and elegance associated with a hardwood floor are unmistakably timeless. On the other hand, a hardwood floor is extremely durable that can retain its originality for years and also has the ability to withstand wear and tear for long periods.

However, a hardwood floor is bound to lose its texture and capacity to withstand wear and tear if proper care of the same is not undertaken regularly. Any home cleaning project is incomplete if the floors of a house or dwelling are not cleaned and maintained periodically. Following are some of the recommended ways when it comes to floor cleaning.

1. Sweep up and mop daily

One of the simplest floor cleaning tips that you can take advantage is to ensure that the floorings in your home are swept and mopped on an everyday basis. Use a good quality broom with soft hairs (the bristles should be hard-wearing and should not come off easily) for sweeping the floors thoroughly. Investing in a broom that’ll serve you for years will be a practical decision and will not cost much either.

A broom will enable you to sweep out tiny and microscopic particles that get deposited over time and may cause scrapes on the hardwood floor. After you’re through with sweeping, use a moistened mop or swab (preferably of fabric) for wiping the floors. This’ll keep the floors spic and span.

2. Take out the vacuum cleaner once in a while

There are areas in your home that you won’t be able to access with the broom. Spaces beneath cupboards, settees, beds and other household furniture are some of the areas that the broom won’t be able to reach. However, specks of dirt and microbes easily find their way into the most impregnable of areas and settle down. You can conveniently clear the dust from areas that a broom cannot reach with the help of a vacuum cleaner.

Any standard portable vacuum cleaner comes with extender attachments and accessories that can help in drawing out dust particles from parquets, tile grouts, and other difficult-to-reach areas.

3. Either wax or wash clean the floors

Whether you’ll use wax polish or detergent water for retaining the glossiness of the hardwood floor will depend upon nature of the surface sealing.  Surface sealing could comprise of synthetic resin like polyurethane or urethane that lends toughness to the parquet, cork, timber or amalgamated flooring. Once the sealing dries up completely it makes the floor highly resistant to water, oil, alcohol, dilute acids, and alkalis.

The interior decorator or the company that you engaged for doing the flooring in your residence may have suggested you a premium quality cleaning product for holding on to the patina. However, high costs might act as a deterrent from using those products on a routine basis. The safest and the most practical option for you are to use water and a mild detergent as far as surface-sealed hardwood floor cleaning is concerned.

You’d just need to mix a quarter or a half cup of mild cloth-washing or dishwashing detergent to a pail containing water. Thereafter dip a swab and squeeze the cloth fully before mopping the floors. If you want to avoid the floor picking up smudges or stripes, better stick to using distilled water.

4. What if the floors are untreated or treated with shellac or varnish?

Floors that have been left untreated or shellac, varnish or oil has been used for surface sealing are vulnerable to humidity and not as durable as floorboards treated with synthetic resin. In such a scenario, you’d have to take out the old waxing from the tiles using a stripper. After the panels have dried fully, apply a fresh wax coating.          

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Pet Stain Cleaning Calls For Power!

Pet Stain Cleaning Calls For PowerWe love our pets, but to be a responsible owner one must take care fo the pet and any damage it produces. This is why pet stains are something that calls for quick action and patience.

First of all, you’ll need to be on the ball when a stain occurs. The pet doesn’t know it’s wrong and can get confused. It might even use the same spot over again as it doesn’t have the intelligence to know that you don’t want your expensive rug stained. They stain areas to show territory and that’s millions of years of evolution talking. So when it comes to pet stains you need to be armed with the right materials and follow a precise regimen

Paper towels or other absorbent cloth must be put down on the fresh stain first. Tap the cloth slowly and then put on more pressure to absorb the liquids If it’s a dry stain, you’ll have used a solution to break up the stain so that saturation and absorption are possible. Add fresh paper towels and cloth to absorb all the liquid and then repeat after you’ve put a bacterial/enzyme digester down and repeat the process Next put a piece of clear plastic over the stain to allow the solution to work. Time depends on size and severity of the stain but usually, an hour should do. Now you can use towels or cloths even brushes to remove any remaining solution and let the arm dry. If need be you might have to vacuum excess dirt or residue granules. Wait to see if any discoloration has occurred and if need be, start over to remove more if the stain is a major cleaning challenge.

The old standbys like vinegar and warm water do wonder. There are commercial products available that one might want to check out and for the Green folks out there, they are environmentally friendly products you just have to search for them.

Different pets make different messes so what a cat does is definitely different from the dog. Both urinate and drop feces but the two species are unique in how they do so. If things get out of hand and you need more cleaning power, it’s best to think about hiring a professional cleaning expert They’ll know what materials to use and how to handle the damage without creating more. They may also have better advice on how to prevent such things and how better to remedy situations before having to call them in.

You want your house to look and definitely smell good. Pets can make that impossible when they get out of hand. There’s just so far you can go with controlling an animal and that means being prepared for accidents. So keep cleaning supplies around in a handy way and then do what’s needed to keep your home neat and sparkling fresh.
Don’t forget to get a good pet trainer if things really get out of hand. They can do wonders with our furry friends.

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