Spring Cleaning Has Arrived!
Finally – the days are longer, the temperatures are warmer and the sun is shining! This is the perfect prompt to deep clean and organize our homes. There’s no place like a clean home!
Better Homes & Gardens has compiled A Spring Cleaning Checklist: The Ultimate Guide to a Tidier Home. Complete with a printable check list, it even includes nooks and crannies of your home that might usually be overlooked. Our favorite tip is #5! Check out the spring cleaning checklist here.
BONUS LOCAL SPOTLIGHT #1: Don’t have the time or the energy to spring clean your home? Maid Perfect would be happy to help! Find out more about this 33 year-old, locally owned quality cleaning service here.
BONUS LOCAL SPOTLIGHT #2: Need help organizing your home or office? Emily Fitzgerald at OLS Organizing can help! Learn more about her services here.
Additional Items To Clean That May Normally Get Overlooked
- Mattress cleaning (we can help with this!)
- Upholstered furniture cleaning (we can help with this! Learn more here)
- Area rug cleaning (we can help with this!)
- Shower curtain & curtain liner
- Large comforters, quilts and pillows
- Moving and vacuuming under furniture
- Toys
- Reusable grocery bags
- Makeup brushes, tools & makeup bags
- Changing your furnace and humidifier filters
- Your cleaning tools themselves!
- Blind & drapery cleaning – locally, Blind Shine or CRDN can help with this.
- Garbage bins – a locally owned company called Wheatcraft Can Clean can help with this. Visit their website here.
- Dryer vent & air duct cleaning – a locally owned company called Quality Air Duct Cleaning can help with this. Visit their website here.
Find more tips below, including what NOT to use to remove spots from carpet, in our Tip Of The Month section
Don’t Forget to Spring Clean Your Garage Floor
Indiana winters can do a number on our garage floors. Whether your floor is concrete or has an epoxy coating, the dirt, mud, and muck from our cars and shoes can build up over time.
A clean garage floor means less dirt is tracked inside, which can help keep the rest of your home cleaner.
Did you know we’ve been cleaning concrete and epoxy garage floors for years? Spring is a perfect time to clean up your garage floor after the long winter.
Learn more about our process and pricing, plus see before and after pics of our work here!
Enjoy a cleaner, healthier home this season.
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“We have used Distinctive cleaning services twice in the past 18 months. Alan & Audrey are a great team to work with. They worked with us based on our schedule to clean our carpet. They do not charge per room but they calculate the precise areas they will clean so you do not pay for areas not touched, such as under beds & furniture. Alan has provided advice based on his 20+ years of cleaning experience on the type of carpet that holds up well over time. He was thorough & quick to keep the interruption as small as possible.”
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Neva
Neva is a 16-year-old lilac point Siamese cat. She’s a rescue kitty and was adopted in 2007. Neva has two brothers and one sister and is very protective of them all. She can be a independent during the day, but cuddly at night. Some of her favorite things are buttered toast, ice cream and whipped cream. We cleaned for Neva’s owners and she was very curious and sweet!
P.S. Do you have a furry family member that has had an accident or two recently? Are you noticing an odor? We can help with that! Learn more about our pet stain and odor removal services below.
Epoxy Garage Floor Cleaning – Before
Epoxy Garage Floor Cleaning – During
Epoxy Garage Floor Cleaning – After
This epoxy garage floor cleaned up great!
These new homeowners wanted to clean their beautiful epoxy garage floor after the winter mud and muck had ended. Now they can enjoy their clean garage floor all spring, summer and fall!
Despite What You Read On The Internet… Avoid Using These Products for DIY Carpet Spot Removal During Your Spring Cleaning
Baking Soda
While this may absorb some moisture which activates pet urine odor in your carpet, the powder will clump up and becomes difficult to remove. Baking soda treats a symptom (odor), but the real source of the odor will remain.
Real World Story – We Can’t Make This Up: When Distinctive arrived to clean a home, the carpet was cloudy white and caked full to the backing with baking soda that our client had applied! After lots of extra rinsing and extracting, the baking soda was finally rinsed away. Then, we used our professional oxidizing deodorizer solution to remove the source of the annoying bad smelling odor.
Dish Soap
While this may help remove a spot from the surface of the carpet, if the soap is not completely rinsed and extracted from the carpet, it will leave a sticky residue that will attract dirt later.
Real World Story – We Can’t Make This Up: Distinctive was called to help a client with blood spots on their carpet. Before we arrived, they tried to remove the spots with dish soap. Unfortunately, the blood spots were still there and the carpet around the spots was blue from the dish soap. When we began cleaning, the spots foamed and sparkled white from all of the dish soap that was still in the carpet. We applied a defoamer and rinsed multiple times. In fact, we ended up spending more time removing the foam than the blood spots. Thankfully, after some professional TLC everything cleaned up great.
Bleach
Some fibers like polyester and olefin may not be affected by bleach, but color will be removed from nylon and natural fibers like wool.
Real World Story – We Can’t Make This Up: The picture below shows the results of using bleach to attempt removal of pet stains from carpet. Unfortunately, the pet stains are still there and the color on the carpet fibers was permanently bleached. The carpet must either be re-dyed or replaced. Distinctive has professional specialty solutions to remove spots and stains without causing damage. (Bleach is not one of them!)
See our DIY Spot Removal Guide here to safely clean spots
Don’t Forget to Clean Behind the Furniture
Out of sight, out of mind! Sometimes we may think the area behind furniture stays clean because nobody ever goes back there and we can’t see it. The fact is, it can look just like the picture below – full of dust, dirt, lint, forgotten items and who knows what else.
When spring cleaning this year, move your furniture from its place to vacuum, dust and clean behind it. You’ll soon find that you’ll be breathing easier!
Some furniture isn’t always practical to move, but if it has legs and at least six inches of clearance, we can clean under it without moving it! Or we can move your furniture on sliders, clean under it, move it back into place and protect the legs/base of the furniture while the carpet dries.
Carr’s Lawn & Landscape
Now that spring has arrived, it’s a great time to clean up your yard and landscaping. Locally, we recommend Carr’s Lawn & Landscape for your outdoor maintenance needs.
Carr’s is a full-service lawn, landscape and property maintenance company and they’ve been serving their Fort Wayne area customers since 1999.
Whether you need professional assistance to beautify your lawn and landscaping or you just don’t have the time to dedicate to making your lawn beautiful, contact Carr’s for your outdoor needs!
See Who Else We Recommend…
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FEATURED EVENT: The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo opens on April 27!
Spring Fun in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne Parks Spring Fun Times 2024 Brochure
Visit Fort Wayne
Downtown Fort Wayne
Current Fort Wayne
Riverfront Fort Wayne Events
Arts United Events Calendar
Arts Campus Sites & Activities
Whatzup
Fort Wayne Trails
DNR’s Indiana Recreation Guide
From our family to yours, we wish you another month of health & happiness!
