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Here is an old video from Oprah about cleaning products. Pretty eye opening…

With spring settling in and so much to do, getting the house clean can be somewhat difficult. Most people don’t even know where to start, which is why it becomes important to look into a few tips and tricks to get the ball rolling. If you’re wondering where to begin or what you should do, consider the following helpful ideas moving forward. You will definitely get your home looking great by considering the proceeding.

Start With One Room – The first tip that you’ll want to take, and one that is universally recognized as great is to simply focus on one room. Even if the whole house is a mess, don’t worry, start with one solid room and focus your efforts on accomplishing all you can there. Then move systematically across the home, room by room.

Select a Trash Spot – When you are working on picking up trash, or organizing, pick one dedicated area to put trash, and other things so that you are not moving things all around or getting lost in the shuffle. It can be easy to go from organizing into a chaotic mess again.

Learn To Multitask – When dealing with a large project, even if you’re focused on one room, try and have dual projects working. For instance, if you’re cleaning a bathroom, spray cleanser on surfaces that are particularly dirty so that the cleaning solution settles in, and focus on another aspect of cleaning. Trying to do more than one thing is the key to efficiency.

Dust Often – Invest in a high quality duster and use it often, especially before you’re going to vacuum or mop floors. This will help you get seriously clean, and will help maintain the cleanliness after you finish a large project.

Aside from the preceding, it’s imperative that you invest in supplies before getting started. Things like mops, brooms, buckets, and gloves will help you get moving into action and assist you with moving forward to completing a job.

Lifehacker posted on their website this handy infographic on stain removal.

This is pretty popular topic during the holidays. You have more people walking around in a relatively small area (such as a house) and, well, accidents happen. Wine, food, dirty dishes, everything gets dropped on everything. Basically, you WILL get a stain within the next 14 days, whether that’s on your shirt or on your carpet. So the only thing you can do is think about how you’re going to get rid of it.

That infographic is a gold mine for this and although I haven’t tested all of these, it seems to make sense. I would be careful with the dosage though, especially when using stuff that can damage your fabric (such as hydrogen peroxide).

So, has anyone used these tricks before? If so, please tell us about it in the comments.

Our new website enables you to easily get a quote for your business, instantly, right there on a website. Just click on the green button on top and enter the following information

Area to Clean

Square Footage of the Business: This is the main data that we require and the main modifier for the price. If you do not not know the square footage of your business, contact us at info@egimpecc.com (or click on the @ button near the logo above).
Frequency of cleaning: How often do you want the cleaning? The more often you clean, the easier it gets (it also means that it gets cheaper). You have to write a number, then choose whether it is per week or per month.
Comments: Write anything here! If you want something special, waxing, buffing, flying squirrels, etc.

As you click on the orange arrow, a price will appear, calculated based on the square footage. It will give you a good idea of what to expect, right away. If you feel that it doesn’t work with your budget, you don’t have to keep going, or you can click the “back arrow” and change some of the details. If you are happy with the price, then great! Let’s keep going and look at the next fields

Contact Information

First name and Last name: We need the information of the contact person at your business. That’s very useful for us when we call you and say “Hi Mr or Mrs.X, we see that you requested a quote from E.G.Impecc!”
E-mail: This will enable us to send you the finished professional quote which you can use in your financial files. Should you take our services, we will also be able to send you invoices through that e-mail (or any other you specify).
Phone: We will call you to confirm the details in the quote.

So that’s it for the contact information. Please be certain that we won’t sell your information to anyone. We are in the business of cleaning after all so we have to be a clean company.

Now, if you are ready, click on the arrow to continue on the business information. We need to know where you are located to see 1, if you are within our area of service (sorry, we can’t help you right now if you are in New Zealand) and 2, know where to send our cleaners.

Business location

Civic Number, Street Name and Office Number: Straightforward information. Just don’t forget the office number if it’s applicable. If you have multiple office, you can just put the one where we need to show up first or the contact office.
City, Province and Postal Code: Currently, we only serve the Greater Montreal Area. That’s bound, more or less by Laval in the “North” and Chambly in the “South”, if you aren’t sure if you are in our area of service, just fill in the form and we’ll work something out.

You can now click the green arrow to get to the final part of the quotation form. When you would like the cleaning to start

When to start

Date and Time: So, when do you need our Impeccables to come to your door, armed to the teeth with brooms, mops, vacuums and green detergents? In most cases, we are able to be there within 12 hours. If you require it faster than this, call us at 1-866-947-8885.

As you click the check sign, the form will be sent to our system and a file will be created for your business. An E.G.Impecc representative will be in contact with you within 24 hours (unless you have an imminent start date) to get further details and narrow your quote, applying discounts if possible. The professional quote will be sent using our Freshbooks quotation system.

So that’s basically it. By the way, you don’t have to follow this guide to fill in the form, I just wrote it to give more information as to why we have the different fields in the form and answer some of the questions you may have about how we treat your details. If you do have any more questions, feel free to ask them by dropping us a mail at info@egimpecc.com or clicking on the @ button on the top left of the page.

Welcome to the new EGImpecc.com,

We have overhauled the website to make you, the customer feel more at home and make it easier for you to get information. It is now also easier than ever for you to book an appointment and make your home sparkle! If you have any questions, shoot us an e-mail by clicking on the “@” button on top. You can also comment by replying to this post.

Hope you have a good time on our website!