How to Get Rid of Dust in Any Room
One of the biggest offenders when it comes to keeping a clean home is making sure that all of your surfaces and furniture are free of dust. Keeping up with dust can be a daunting process, but [...]
Housekeeping Tips for All
Just because we’re Northeast Houston’s #1-rated cleaning and housekeeping service, doesn’t mean we want to keep all our cleaning expertise to ourselves. To be honest, we find that customers who have some of the cleaning basics down get better results when they hire a professional cleaning service.
In between your regular cleanings, use our tips, advice, and how-tos to make sure that your house is clean, healthy, and happy as can be.
House Cleaning Basics
When it comes to regular maintenance and every day upkeep, the tips below are designed to make sure that you’ve got all the basic cleaning skills down, from making your bed like a pro to properly folding and breaking down cardboard boxes.
One of the biggest offenders when it comes to keeping a clean home is making sure that all of your surfaces and furniture are free of dust. Keeping up with dust can be a daunting process, but [...]
Cardboard boxes can quickly pile up in your home during the holiday season. Whether you’re receiving gifts sent from friends and family or ordering gift items for others, these boxes can easily [...]
All of your stuff can grow on you like vines on a tree. If you want to see your life better or make it healthier, you’ll need to prune it on occasion. That will free up space, allowing you to [...]
We are calling on all Houstonians to get in the habit of making their bed every morning! There’s a theory out there that if you want to drastically change your life for the better, you [...]
Picture this: it’s the day after New Year’s Eve. You wake up and walk out of your bedroom only to find that your friends and family have gotten glitter and confetti all over the place [...]
It is critical for you to keep your microwave clean. As a place where food is prepared, using a dirty microwave can cause issues with your food preparation and potentially cause health issues. [...]
Have you ever tried to soak up some water or wipe up a mess and found that your run-of-the-mill towel can’t soak up the liquid? Maybe it leaves residue after you wipe it up? While it’s been a [...]
If you want your clothes to get as clean as possible, you need to use the right laundry detergent. What is the right laundry detergent for you? Take a look below. How Laundry Detergent Works [...]
One of the most used surfaces in your house is the kitchen countertop. Not only is it a place where you prepare your food – kitchen countertops often end up being a place to place the [...]
When you think about cleaning your home, you probably think about breaking out the standard cleaning products that you might buy when you go grocery shopping. You might have never thought about [...]
Floors are such a fundamental element of a home that it makes a big visual impact when they can look their best. While tile floors can handle a nice wet mop, you don’t want that anywhere near [...]
If you live in a house with pets, you understand the significant amount of joy they can bring to your life. At the same time, pets can also bring with them a lot of dirt, debris, and hair that [...]
Cleaning Services Insight
Maid Zen is a cleaning service company and we’re dedicated to ensuring that our customers and the cleaning industry overall has plenty of helpful knowledge at their fingertips. This section covers topics that are unique to the needs and interests of cleaning service companies and their customers.
Today, homeowners are extremely busy – multitasking between keeping younger children active, carpooling, daily meal planning, shopping, cooking, careers, along with a list of daily errands [...]
Keeping your home clean can be a never-ending blur of time-consuming chores. You’ve got daily chores, weekly to-do lists and monthly routines for heavy jobs. Add housekeeping duties, and annual [...]
THE FINANCIAL DEFINITION OF VALUE Warren Buffett’s investment strategy is to pay a low price for a stock relative to its value. Buffett said, “price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” [...]
If you are interested in home cleaning services, you want to be able to budget accordingly. Therefore, how much do home cleaning services cost? Of course, there are a number of factors that will [...]
You spend a lot of time and money taking care of your property. If you decide to rent out your property, you expect your renters to take care of it. Unfortunately, not every tenant is going to be [...]
Here at Maid-zen, we specialize in home cleaning and maid services with green cleaning products. Our clients love our service because they get to come home to a clean house without having to take [...]
When you hire residential or office cleaning professionals in North Houston, you should be getting a great experience, not just a great service. At Maid Zen, it’s our goal to provide you with [...]
When you think about cleaning your home, you probably think about breaking out the standard cleaning products that you might buy when you go grocery shopping. You might have never thought about [...]
Survey Says… Housekeeping Is Stressful A 2016 survey by Huffington Post found that keeping their home clean and tidy is a major source of stress for people. In fact, 47 percent of people [...]
Seasonal Cleaning Tips
In Northeast Houston, the weather can turn on a dime. From surprise thunderstorms, brutally hot summers, to catastrophic weather events like Hurricane Harvey, the weather and change in the seasons can have an impact on how clean your home is. These tips below are designed to help you cope with the changes that Houston weather brings.
For those of us in Texas, summer is here. May was one of the hottest months on record and that sets us up for a real scorcher this summer. That means it’s time to start worrying about keeping [...]
Photo by Jody Domingue As the Houston metro area begins to rebuild after the flooding brought by Hurricane Harvey, many homeowners are returning to homes that have had several feet of floodwater [...]
Cleaning for Holidays & Special Occasions
Whether you’re moving into a new house or the holidays are coming around, Houston residents are often cleaning their homes before such major life events. The tips below are designed to help you prepare for said special occasions.
You’re moving and probably have a million things on your mind. From packing all your belongings to making sure everything is taken care of in your new city, it can be easy to forget that [...]
The holidays are here, which means it’s time to clean up and get ready to host and entertain. For some people, cleaning is fun but for others, it can be a daunting task. To help those less [...]
Halloween is really a holiday for the kiddos. It gives them a chance to dress up as their favorite characters, hang out with their friends, and stuff themselves full of candy. There’s not [...]
When the holidays come to an end, it’s time to safely dispose of all those Christmas trees that have been drying out over the last month. Once dried, Christmas trees essentially become [...]
Cleaning Lifestyle
In a lot of ways, cleaning is a state of mind. It’s a lifestyle. The articles below outline ways that you can incorporate cleanliness into your life in a more meaningful way.
When you think about the dirtiest places in your home, you probably think about the garbage can and toilet. Even though you probably clean these areas regularly, there are other areas in your [...]
All of your stuff can grow on you like vines on a tree. If you want to see your life better or make it healthier, you’ll need to prune it on occasion. That will free up space, allowing you to [...]
(Courtesy of doTERRA) Essential oils contain natural cleaning properties. They do not contain harsh chemicals and are environmentally friendly. Use them in the bathroom to keep it smelling fresh [...]
As a homeowner, you might be proud of the property that you have purchased and turned into a home for yourself and your family. If you’re proud of and happy with your home, it is probably [...]
Organizing your kitchen allows you to arrange everything you need in order to make meal preparation easy, food storage safe and the design of your kitchen appealing. It’s an essential space [...]
Cleaning your house isn’t usually difficult, but when you add it on top of all the other things you have to do in life it can become a big source of stress. You work, you may have children [...]
Because Maid-zen is a green cleaning company, we like to help our customers maintain a clean home without using toxic cleaners and chemicals. Luckily, there are a lot of ways you can put together [...]
Some people seem to have the knack of keeping everything in order. Having a clean, orderly home isn’t magic. There are a few steps that people who value cleanliness and order at home have [...]
Cleaning Guides
Looking for a big picture approach to getting something cleaned properly? We have put together a few helpful guides for our readers to ensure the cover all their bases with their next cleaning project.
Despite their smaller square footage apartments still require the regular cleaning and upkeep that you would need for a house twice the size. In fact, sometimes, the smaller square footage can [...]
Halloween is really a holiday for the kiddos. It gives them a chance to dress up as their favorite characters, hang out with their friends, and stuff themselves full of candy. There’s not [...]
When you’ve got a busy work, social, or family life, typical house cleaning chores and tasks tend to fall by the wayside, or worse, they become these tedious obligations and start feeling like a [...]
It is critical for you to keep your microwave clean. As a place where food is prepared, using a dirty microwave can cause issues with your food preparation and potentially cause health issues. [...]
Floors are such a fundamental element of a home that it makes a big visual impact when they can look their best. While tile floors can handle a nice wet mop, you don’t want that anywhere near [...]
If you live in a house with pets, you understand the significant amount of joy they can bring to your life. At the same time, pets can also bring with them a lot of dirt, debris, and hair that [...]