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.
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 [...]
Tips and Advice on How to Break Down and Recycle Cardboard Boxes
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 [...]
How to Begin Decluttering Your Life
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 [...]
Houston…Here’s How to Make Your Bed!
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 [...]
How to Clean Up Confetti & Glitter
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 [...]
How to Clean A Microwave: A Straightforward Guide
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. [...]
Microfiber 101
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 [...]
What Type of Detergent Should You Use for Your Laundry?
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 [...]
What Type of Countertop Cleaner Should I Use in My Kitchen?
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 [...]
Should I Use Essential Oils with My Cleaning Products?
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 [...]
Floor Cleaning Tips for Different Types of Floors
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 [...]
Cleaning Homes with Pets
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.
How to Tell When It’s Time to Hire a Maid Service
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 [...]
How a Monthly Cleaning is Actually a Good Investment
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 [...]
How To Recognize Value in a Maid Service
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.” [...]
How Much Do Home Cleaning Services Cost?
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 [...]
Advice for Landlords: How to Handle Dirty Tenants
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 [...]
The Benefits of a Clean Home
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 [...]
The Maid Zen Cleaning Experience
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 [...]
Should I Use Essential Oils with My Cleaning Products?
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 [...]
Why You Should Get Your Home Cleaned (At Least) Twice a Month
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.
Cleaning Tips That Will Keep Your Home Cool & Comfortable This Summer
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 [...]
Home Cleanup Tips and Advice from Hurricane Flooding
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.
5 Things to Check During the Cleaning Out Process Prior to Moving
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 [...]
Holiday House Cleaning Checklist
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 [...]
Post-Halloween Cleaning Guide [2023]
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 [...]
Christmas Tree Recycling in Houston, TX
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.
The 5 (Surprisingly) Dirtiest Places in Your Home
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 [...]
How to Begin Decluttering Your Life
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 [...]
4 Best Essential Oils To Add To Your Cleaning Routine
(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 [...]
4 House Care Tips for People Who Love Their Home
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 [...]
5 Ways to Organize Your Kitchen Better
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 [...]
Reduce Your Stress: For Busy Neat Freaks
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 [...]
5 DIY Green Cleaning Products You Can Make from Household Items
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 [...]
10 Daily Habits for People Who Prioritize Cleanliness
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.
Maid-zen’s Guide to Apartment Cleaning 101
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 [...]
Post-Halloween Cleaning Guide [2023]
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 [...]
Housekeeping Guide: Everything You Need to Know
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 [...]
How to Clean A Microwave: A Straightforward Guide
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. [...]
Floor Cleaning Tips for Different Types of Floors
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 [...]
Cleaning Homes with Pets
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 [...]