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Insider Guide from the Jacksonville, FL Cleaning Experts

We’re sure you do not walk inside your home and immediately begin to look for spots where germs and bacteria can accumulate. However, it is good to know the hotspots in your house so you are aware of the areas you need to tackle more than others or if you should bring a professional in to clean those areas on a regular basis. You would be surprised where germs and bacteria like to live.

We know that keeping your home sanitized for your family’s health and personal well being is very important. It’s easy to overlook certain areas but hopefully these tips will help you to remember to clean the parts of your home that you usually forget (or have never cleaned before).

• Changing out the kitchen sponges or hand clothes. Either throw them out or put them in the wash with bleach. This will definitely ensure that they are clean and ready to be used on your dished.


• Kitchen counters should be wiped down with watered down bleach nearly every day. It is very easy and common for bacteria to fester on your counters, especially after raw food touches these surfaces.


• Doorknobs and handles definitely need to be cleaned as often as you think about it. This is usually where bacteria can fester and get passed along to everyone else. Think about it, everyone touches the doorknob.


• Remote controls for your television and the telephone and other appliances should be cleaned once a week with something as simple as Windex. This is another item that everyone touches which makes it easy for bacteria to travel from one person to another.


• Pillowcases and sheets are household items that should be washed every week. This will prevent dust mites from being on your bed and also moving to your carpet.


• Toilet tanks are also a household item that most people do not think of when they think of sanitizing their home. Poor a half of a cup of bleach into the tank and the rest will fill with water. Doing this weekly will keep the pipes running smoothly and ensure that your toilet is being cleaned with bleached with every flush.


• Doing the same thing with your shower drain will ensure that your drain is clean and running smoothly.

Following these easy and simple ways to sanitize your home will help reduce in icky bacteria. It may surprise you that you and your family can breathe easier and you feel better when inside your house. Bacteria can really bring a person’s health down, especially children. These tips are easy ways to prevent your home from being a living kingdom for bacteria. Call us at (904) 383-7721 for more tips on how to sanitize your home.

It's summer, the kids are home, and the house is turning into a pigpen. Clothes are piling up, the garbage is accumulating at a frightening pace, and all you want to do is relax, take a breather and enjoy your summer vacation. So how do you get your kids to help along with the chores, and to help make your house a better, more livable area?

Kids have a notoriety for shunning chores and house duties like the plague -- we all did it when we were younger -- but with a few easy and simply steps, ones you might not have thought of, you can have your kids running along with you, getting chores done in no time, leaving plenty of time for fun activities in the summer sun.

Ever wanted to know how to keep your house clean during your kid's summer vacation? Or do you just want to know some insider tips on how to keep your home clutter free and clean all year round? At First Coast Home Pros, we employ only the finest in the industry to ensure you get the best possible cleaning service. To better serve you, we’ve compiled this list of tips from our team to keep your home looking its best – even when we can’t be there!

We love our pets, and they are inevitably members of of our family. Unfortunately, unlike fellow humans, our furry friends leave behind various odors that are not pleasing to our olfactory sense. Before pet owners make the decision to simply grin and bear it, however, they should consider how the right choice in carpet cleaning can remove the odor and return the home's original, pleasant aroma.

No matter how clean we think our home is, there are always tasks that we forget about if they don’t scream “clean me” every day the way dirty dishes and cluttered floors do. It is only when we visit others that we are reminded, for our eyes seem automatically drawn to the lonely spider web in the top corner of a room, the dust and dead flies in the overhead light fixture when it gets turned on or the layers of dust on the ceiling fan blades when they are at rest.

Everybody likes to breathe in fresh, clean air. However, clean air is not always what homeowners are getting in their home, especially if they haven’t had their air ducts cleaned recently. If you’re concerned about the quality of air in your home, there is a simple solution. Many readily available products such as air purifiers, specialized air conditioner and furnace filters, plug in air fresheners, and similar products can be purchased easily and promise to clean up your indoor air.

Over time, your driveway can take an extreme beating. Think about it. Your driveway deals with falling limbs, motor oil leaks, paint, mold, grime, dust, and mud. This doesn’t even mention the beating that it takes from the elements on a daily basis. That’s why as time goes by, your driveway’s clean look may become stained and dirty looking. However, you can ensure that your dirty driveway looks brand new again by pressure washing it. A pressure washer is a high pressure sprayer used to remove layers of dirt and grime from certain surfaces and objects.

No one enjoys doing chores. After a long day at work or with the kids, the last thing you want to do is pick up a mop and get to more work. What’s worse is spending your entire weekend indoors with a broom in your hand. After four hours of deep cleaning, do you ever stop to think, what is your time worth? At First Coast Home Pros, we believe that your time more is more valuable than to spend the whole day cleaning your home. Leave the deep cleaning to the professionals.

You work hard to keep the interior of your home clean. You scrub, you mop, you sanitize and at the end of the day, you’re satisfied with the work you’ve completed. However, what about windows in your home? Home window cleaning provided by First Coast Home Pros is an optimal solution to ensure the exterior of your home is as sparkly clean as the inside.