4 tips for Delhi on home cleaning after Holi

Holi is the festival of colours, and celebrated with great joy in Delhi. It brings gaiety, fun, and a lot of enjoyment. But just as every coin has a second side to it, it can leave back a lot of obstinate stains and marks on the walls, floors, wash basins, taps and faucets. Cleaning these stains can be challenging as at times they are too hard to handle. Here are some tips for home cleaning after Holi.

1. Floor stains

Dry colour is easier to clean than wet colour.

Holi festival can leave stains on the floors of your Delhi house; and the problem can become worse if your floors are tiled. So if you see coloured water on the tiles of your house, use a tissue or a paper to dab up the water instead of rubbing or wiping it straightaway. Do this immediately because letting the water remain on the floor for a longer duration can spoil your house’s tiles. However, if dry colour drops on the floor of your house, cleaning is easier because then you can simply sweep it away.

2. Stains on wooden furniture

Applying Vaseline to water stains can help lighten them to a great extent.

In Delhi weather, stains from wet colour on the wooden furniture can be more than a challenge to remove. However, here’s a tip to make your job easy. Use a cotton ball that has been made wet after dipping it in acetone to remove the stain. Be gentle when you do this because hard rubbing can remove the varnish off your house’s wooden furniture along with the colour stain.

3. Stains on the curtains and other upholstery

The fabric of the curtain is the key in cleaning the stains on it.

Wet colour on the curtains and cushions can lead to growth of fungus and mould. To clean it, soak the stained materials in a combination of water and white vinegar. This will help you to clean the Holi colors very effectively with the least amount hard work. Dry colours should not be directly dusted off with hands, instead a broom or a vacuum cleaner should be used to get rid of it.

4. Window and glass stains

Never use paper towels to clean stains on glass as they can leave marks behind.

Cleaning of the window and doors is very easy as the wooden part can be cleaned with acetone and the glass panes can be cleaned using a combination of baking soda and water. These are sure shot methods of getting your windows and doors cleaned of colour residues after you are done with your Holi celebrations and fun.
For more information or tips on home cleaning after Holi, you can reach out to us at Mr. Homecare

7 reasons why your regular home cleaning routine is failing you

We know you love to keep your home cleaning services. You have extensive cleaning routines and rituals to keep it spic and span not just for your family and guests, and also for your own personal satisfaction. But what if we told you that your regular routine is simply not enough?

Don’t hate us; we’re sure you do a great job! But how much ever effort you put to cover all bases, dust and germs are extremely sneaky creatures who find ways to settle in hard-to-reach corners of your home. To help you uncover all these secret hideouts, we have listed the 7 ways in which your regular home cleaning routine might be failing you. Tackle these problem areas, and you will be on your way to a truly sparkling clean home.

Items that are out of sight, out of mind
There are several nooks and crannies in your home which get missed in your regular cleaning routine simply because they are out of sight. The usual culprits include areas behind furniture, AC vents, and the tops of refrigerators, closets and doors. As these spots remain relatively untouched through time, they get severely accumulated with dirt, dust, pet hair, cobwebs, and all sorts of unpleasant gunk.

Items in clear sight, and yet out of mind!
Light switches, appliance controls, refrigerator handles, TV remotes, door knobs- these are some of the most frequently touched areas in your homes. But more often than not, they are skipped as we don’t realize how dirty they are. Most people go months or even years before giving these items a thorough cleaning, making them an ideal breeding ground for bacteria and germs.

Your mattress
You might be having more company than you think when you go to bed at night. Mattresses tend to be infested with dust mites- microscopic spiders that feed on the dead skin cells that you shed everyday. Even if you dust your bed regularly and change the sheets, these creatures thrive in warm, humid climates like ours and make your mattress their home. They can cause allergic reactions, infections, eczema, and wheezing problems. Bed bugs are another common problem. These pests hide deep in your mattress and leave red bites all over your skin.

Your curtains
Believe it or not, your curtains could be harbouring allergens, pet dander and dust mites. These microscopic pollutants tend to last even through a wash. If you don’t seek professional help to get your curtains steam cleaned, they can set off regular attacks of sneezing, asthma and allergies.

Your refrigerator
Most of you make it a point to maintain utmost hygiene in your kitchens, as that is where your food comes from. But sometimes, the place where you store your food the longest is not cleaned enough- the refrigerator. Starting with the insides, small spills or exposed food tend to spoil and harbour huge amounts of dangerous bacteria. Your refrigerator’s condenser coil is another ignored part, which can also lead to inefficient functioning due to the accumulated dust.

Your bathrooms
There are some parts of your bathroom that always get missed like cabinet knobs, toilet handles and faucets. Shower curtains tend to be the dirtiest due to the accumulated grime and soap scum, with a high chance of mould and fungus proliferating in the moisture-ridden environment. Finally, tile grouts pose a huge challenge as regular cleaning agents don’t have the strength to remove hard water and chlorine stains.

Your curtains and sofas
Are you snuggled into your sofa cleaning with your feet resting on your carpet cleaning? Chances are that you are sitting amidst tons of dust, grime and residue that has settled deep into your carpets and sofas. These don’t get out with a regular dusting, and generally requires a hot water extraction and steam cleaning to remove all the junk from the core.

We hope you found this post enlightening in terms of what’s getting missed from your regular cleaning routine. Your everyday cleaning agents, tools, and techniques are not enough to make your home as clean as you would like it to be. To get a truly finished job, you need to treat your homes to a deep cleaning service.

At Mr. Homecare, we offer deep cleaning services that fill up all the gaps of your regular cleaning routine. Click here to read more about what we offer, and call us to gift yourselves the sparkling clean homes you truly deserve!

Home Cleaning Services & Deep Cleaning of Commercial Spaces

 

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When we launched home cleaning services earlier this year, we did include deep cleaning of commercial spaces as an offering. In the industry, as a norm, you either have deep cleaning or have an old school facility management (housekeeping) service to take care of the property. Deep Cleaning is one time – a professional team arrives, cleans and leaves. In a Facility Management contract – we have stationed teams on the site offering end to end property solutions. Were we missing something?

They Asked For Smaller Cleanups

Throughout the run-up to the Diwali season and after that, many patrons inquired for smaller cleanups for their offices, and it’s something we were not equipped to provide, purely because we had not planned it that way. The need was quite interesting:

• Small, professional teams required on a daily/alternate day basis
• Scope of work was basic – floor, workstations, pantry, washrooms
• The duration was the key – our patrons were asking for 2 hour cleanups
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It was clear what they sought.

Outsourcing professional cleaning and keeping people for everything else. Since we were focused on deep cleaning sessions, developing this offering required taking time out and brainstorming a win-win solution. We realized that within half a decade of introducing professional cleaning to the market, patrons were now demanding these services on a daily basis for their workplace. This was revolutionary – broadly an alternative to an informal casual staff currently being hired and to the massive housekeeping contracts being doled out.

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Office Cleaning is mini Housekeeping

 

We are supper happy to launch our Office Cleaning Services packages! A team of 2 trained professionals would clean your office within 2 hours, making it sparkling clean again. The process would be hassle free, non intrusive and prompt. Industrial grade and cleaning solutions would be used.

The good things:

• Packages can be Customized – your preferences based on available options
• Packages are Flexible – use a 5/day, 6/day or even a 7/day week package
• Packages can be Designed – you can even have bi-weekly cleaning sessions
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What does the cleaning include?

 

The short 2 hour cleaning involves a small team of 2-4 janitors (depending on your office size) and the scope work can be customized as per your preferences, based on the available options.

• Floor – thorough dry & wet mopping to ensure no dirty footprints & spills
• Workstations – clean desks promising a fresh work day to your team members
• Cabins – right from the floor, to the desks and the corners checked for cobwebs
• Pantry – cleaning the platform, shelves exteriors, the floor and the sink
• Washrooms – probably the most crucial aspect of your office – made sparkling clean
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Our Dearest Happy Patrons

There are already quite a few, and Abhishek Jagasia (Managing Partner, Stratum Consulting) being one of the first! This is what he had to say:

“I use Mr. Homecare’s cleaning services for my office. Excellent work quality with immense detailing while cleaning. Highly recommended.”

We would love to understand your requirements and help you out.  Thank you!