Selling more than just house cleaning services

Your pets are your best friends. They offer unconditional love and companionship. However, none of us love the hair they leave behind. If you have shedding animals, you know how frustrating it can be to clean your floors only to find pet hair tumbleweeds in the corners the next day. Fortunately, you can reduce pet hair build-up on your furniture and floors. We have compiled an easy three-step guide for your best pet hair removal technique.

1. Prevent

The best way to avoid those pet-hair tumbleweeds that accumulate in corners is to make a preemptive strike. Groom your pets regularly. Brushing your animal will gather up all that excess hair and undercoat that eventually become fur bunnies. If you have a high-shedding dog, such as a Golden Retriever, you will want to brush your pet daily. A great brush to use is the Lentek Ionic Waterless Pet Brush. It uses odor neutralizing ions that waterlessly bathe your pet while greatly reducing the pet dander left behind.

2. Wet

Before you start working out all those stray dog and cat hairs, you will save yourself some grief if you wet it a bit first. Mist the area you’re trying to de-fur with a spray bottle of water. You don’t want it wet, you just want a light mist to help weigh down the hairs a bit. For an added boost to hair-clumping capabilities, put some fabric softener in your spray bottle. Liquid fabric softener and dryer sheets work equally as well. The static-removing agents in the fabric softener are like a magnet for stray pet hairs, so you can get to hairs deep in upholstery or carpet.

3. Remove

Once the pet hair is damp, then you can start the removal process. For floors, vacuuming is effective…as a first step. So run the vacuum over floors and upholstery. Make sure you change your bag often, as a full bag reduces your vacuum’s efficiency as well as creating a fire hazard.

Once you’ve vacuumed, you will probably need to go over the areas again. Running a damp sponge over your carpet will help clean up strays. Velcro works great to get deep into the carpet fibers, as well as latex gloves or an inflated balloon. The Velcro grabs and the latex in the gloves and the balloon attracts hair. Once you’ve completed this, you can enjoy your fur free floors and furniture!

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Selling more than just house cleaning services

Written by Safe Home Sam

Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:42

Professional Cleaners have an opportunity to do more than just provide maid services in residential homes. Pay attention as you clean the home for up-selling opportunities. You can generate a significant amount of sales and build a stronger bond with your customer because your customer will know that you are concerned for the well being of your clients.

Some areas that you could pay attention to are:

1. Furnace filters - You would be amazed at how many of us do not properly replace furnace filters as it is something very easy to overlook. Make it part of your cleaning service to offer monthly inspection of furnace filters and replace as needed. Most intervals range from every month to every 3 months depending on the household. The best part is that it gives you the opportunity to increase revenue and services. Check out our furnace filters at Safe Home Products.

2. Gas Detectors - There are several potential gas threats in the home including Carbon Monoxide, Natural Gas and Propane Gas. When cleaning pay attention to see if the home has at least carbon monoxide and either propange or natural gas detectors.

Where should detectors be placed?

If the home has a gas stove look above the stove for a gas detector
If the home has LP Gas or Propane Gas you should look for a detector to be placed 4 to 20 inches from the floor near the pilot light of the furnace. If the home has natural gas you should look for a detector to be mounted close to or on the ceiling and near a wall. If not, this could be a great opportunity to sell and supply detectors for these applications.
Look near water heaters and dryers as well. Or any appliance that has any type of gas connection.

3. Grill Cleaning - The barbecue grill is an item that does not always get cleaned. Order our Soy based green environmentally friendly barbecue cleaner to make the job easy. This product is non-abrasive and is excellent for cleaning Barbecue cookers, smokers, grills, stoves, Foreman grills, Webber grills, Holland grills, utensils and even pots and pans.

It will get the char, grease and burnt residue loose to simplify cleaning.

Stay tuned for more ideas on increasing revenue and services that professional cleaners and maids can offer.

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 December 2008 03:17 )

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