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You probably give your home a deep clean in the spring, but you should also show it some love at the beginning of fall. Here's where to start:

The carpeted areas in your home need regular cleaning in order to keep them looking and feeling good.  With numerous methods of carpet cleaning available, how do you know the best carpet cleaning method for your home?  Here we’ll break down each method to help you find the best way to clean your own carpeting:

You love your house a little more when the windows are clean.  When the windows are clean, the sun streams in, your view is crystal clear, and your entire home looks cleaner inside and out.  The question is whether to clean the windows yourself or hire a great professional window cleaning company. Here are five reasons to hire the pros:

Before you begin weaving your own Oriental rug, consider this. Rug weaving is an art. A skilled weaver in India can tie about 6,000 knots per day. Thus the time for one person to knot a 9′ x 12′ rug in several common qualities works out like this:

(Note that usually more than one person works at a time on rugs from about 4′ x 6′ and larger. To get the actual weaving time for a carpet, you’d need to divide the “Time required” shown here by the number of weavers working simultaneously on the rug).

We all love our pets, but do you know what they bring into your home?

Saliva:  A dog has at Least 20 species of bacteria in its mouth. All of these bacteria are left behind when your pet slobbers on your upholstery, rugs and carpets.

Pet waste:  There are 20 million fecal coliform bacteria in a single gram of pet waste - urine or feces!  These bacteria remain on carpets and rugs even after you clean up the waste.                                             

Here are a few tips to help keep that carpet dirt outside and off your carpet and rugs:

ADD A WELCOME MAT
The larger the mat the better. Something nice and thick in front of the door. If that doesn’t work, you might try a mat that says BUZZ OFF!

TRY A ‘NO SHOES’ POLICY
It can be tough to enforce, but once family members get used to slipping off their shoes at the door, it can make a huge difference with carpet dirt.

USE JUST ONE DOOR
Especially during bad weather or dusty days, you only have one area to keep clean.

No matter what you do, you’ll still need to vacuum regularly and have your carpet professionally cleaned at least once or twice each year.

“Speed Cleaning” is growing in popularity.  After all, by spending only a few minutes tidying each room in the house, you can stay on top of the housework, maintain a clean home, and devote more of your personal time to the things that matter.  Here are our simple speed cleaning checklists to help you get started. Plan to spend 5-20 minutes on each room and add (or remove) steps to each checklist depending on the specific needs of your own home.

Tile covers many of the most-used surfaces around your house: kitchen flooring, backsplashes, countertops, bathroom flooring, showers and tubs, mudroom and sunroom flooring… the list can go on and on.  Here are our best tips for keeping the tile and grout around your home clean and looking great!

Crumbs on the kitchen counter, dust on the TV, gunk in the bathroom sink — We can't stand our houses when they are a mess. But the thought of spending an entire day cleaning it from top to bottom sends me running to the sofa for a nap. After all, in a week, it's just going to get dirty again.