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May 31, 2021
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5 Ways to Help the Environment and Keep Your Home Clean

5 Ways to Help the Environment and Keep Your Home Clean

We live in times when our planet needs our collective efforts to sustain it and ensure its future. One of the biggest polluters of the environment is the cleaning industry. However, nowadays there are many solutions that are completely eco-friendly and equally effective as their chemical variants. In today’s blog we want to show you 5 ways to help the environment and keep your home clean at the same time.

Recycling

The obvious first step towards making a positive change to our environment is learning to recycle correctly and adopting this as our lifestyle. Minimise the use of plastics where possible. For example, cling film could be swapped for wax melted reusable sheets/napkins. They keep your food fresh and protected and last for up to a year.

For the items you can’t find an organic alternative, make sure you have designated bins, where you collect them separately. Colour-coding system is a great idea for recycling beginners and can get the kids excited about it too.

Recycling will help your home look better and neater. Ultimately, you will have less “stuff” lying around and get into the habit of keeping things organised.

Green Cleaning Products

Most of the cleaning products sold in shops are full of chemicals, which destroy our planet. Professional cleaners, however, have access to green cleaning solutions that work just as well as those strong and dangerous products. When you book a cleaner, you can ask for their eco-friendly options and choose your home to be treated with green solutions. At Bredon Hill Cleaning Services we have been proudly offering our clients natural and green products for several years now.

Steam Cleaning

Have you ever had your home or an area of it steam cleaned? If not, you are missing out on so much! Steam cleaning is 100% natural and completely environmentally friendly. What’s more, it is one of the best ways to disinfect a variety of surfaces. It is great for eliminating most common allergens and improves significantly the quality of the air you breathe.

Depending on the equipment used, steam cleaning can be performed without leaving any dampness and no waiting time is required after the treatment. Even on carpets!

Ironing Your Clothes

Just like cleaning products the majority of laundry detergents include strong chemicals that have a negative impact on the environment. Quite frankly, they are not good for your health either. Stubborn stains can be treated with green alternatives. As for eliminating germs and bacteria from fabrics, the best and most environmentally friendly way remains ironing. Just like steam cleaning, extremely high temperature kills a variety of allergens and harmful microorganisms. As an added bonus you look and feel extra crisp and classy.

Give Away What You Don’t Need

Decluttering is a big part of keeping your home clean and organised. Giving your old (but still good looking) clothes and furniture is a great way to make more space at your place and at the same time help the environment. Recycling of clothes and large pieces of furniture is a big issue environmentalists have warned us about. And there’s always the saying, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. So, by giving away your items you kill three birds with one stone. You do good to yourself, to people in your community and to our common home - the Earth.

Change Your Home Without Moving Houses

Change Your Home Without Moving Houses

Last year was the longest time most of us ever spent at home. The majority of people are bound to feel bored with looking at the same space every single day. That’s probably the reason why many families decided to spend some time abroad in their holiday homes or simply moved to a different place. But what happens if you can’t afford buying or renting a new property and staying outside of the country? Don’t worry! We know the perfect way to change your home without having to move houses.

Start by Decluttering

The first step of changing your interior is getting rid of all the things you don’t need and want. Spring is the perfect time to open up your space and let it breathe, but just so you know, there’s never a bad moment to declutter and deep clean. Start with the smaller things such as old toys, books you won’t read again, souvenirs that have lost their sentimental value, clothes and shoes. All these can be donated to charity shops or other organisations. If they are not in such a good condition, you can always book a slot for the local recycling plant and dump them there.

Then, you can move on to bigger and chunkier pieces that are using up space. Maybe an old chest of drawers or an worn out armchair. Bean bags and pouffes are very comfy, quite contemporary and take a lot less space. Then you can rearrange the position of the furniture that’s staying and voila! You already have a different-looking home!

Home Organisation and Colour Coding

Decluttering and moving stuff around is a great start, but you can take it further. Book a professional home organisation service and see your home completely transformed. Not only it would look entirely new to you, but will also be a lot more functional. Introducing organisation systems in your residence is a fantastic idea that has changed so many people’s lives for the better. It could be especially beneficial for people with OCD and those who find delight in order and perfectionism. Everything can be organised - the closet, the pantry, the bathroom, the home library, the documents, you name it really. It is very visually pleasing and as an added bonus the introduced systems make the maintenance of that appearance and order much easier. Next time you have to clean, it will take you a lot less time.

One of the best ways to organise and systemise your home is by using colours and of course, labels. The use of colours could be combined with feng shui techniques and energy healing. If you are a spiritual person or are open to spirituality, introducing specific colours in different areas of your home can help your inner energy flow better, lift up your mood and even improve some physical conditions.

Never heard of a professional home organising service before? That’s ok. It’s still new in the UK. Bredon Hill Cleaning Services is one of the local pioneers, who have been helping clients transform their living environment with the introduction of organised systems. Want to know more? Do give us a call or send us an email. We are always happy to chat and answer client’s questions.

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February 13, 2021
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How to Make Your Home COVID Safe

We are still expected to spend a lot more time than we usually do at home. And that makes a clean, safe and pleasant indoor environment extremely important. For millions of British families a COVID-safe home is a must, especially those who are essential workers or extremely vulnerable. If that’s you or someone from your family, keep reading how to make your home COVID-safe.

Regular Cleaning

You cannot disinfect an area before it has been thoroughly clean. It just won’t work. Regular cleaning of the most used home areas is vital. It reduces the spread of harmful bacteria and viruses and some recent studies show that a clean environment boosts your mental health, which also has a positive impact on your immunity. Obviously, after cleaning, you must disinfect the kitchen and bathroom, as well as the floors in all rooms.

Decluttering

Removing big, unnecessary and not often used objects from your living and sleeping space is part of making your home a safer space. It will improve the air quality, which is important for battling respiratory diseases and conditions. In addition, clutter provides lots of good hiding space for germs, bacteria, viruses and pests. You certainly don’t want any of those in your home during a pandemic.

Organised Systems

One of the best ways to make your home COVID-safe is by introducing organised home systems. Start by arranging what happens at the hallway. For example, everyone takes their shoes off when they come from outside and put them in a designated cupboard. The coats and bags go in the same area. They can later be disinfected before being used again in less than 48 hours. Your home slippers will be left in a separate area. Always remember to wash your hands thoroughly every time you come back from outside. If possible change your clothes and put them to wash immediately. Tumble drying and ironing your clothes is also a very effective way to kill any remaining droplets of the coronavirus.

Effective Disinfectants

The truth is the cleaning products you find in the supermarket are not effective in killing coronavirus on most surfaces. Professional cleaning products are the only ones that can guarantee quality disinfection but you can’t get hold of them. They are available to professional cleaners exclusively because the use is not as straightforward. That’s the reason why keeping your domestic cleaning visits is the best way to make your home COVID-safe.

Are you worried about calling your cleaning lady in?

It is a common concern for a lot of people who feel visits from the cleaning lady is taking an unnecessary risk. Let us reassure you that reputable cleaning companies will never send a cleaner who is ill or does not wear the appropriate PPE to your property. At Bredon Hill Cleaning Services we follow specific procedures to ensure that our work does not compromise the safety of the client or the staff at any point. We are fully committed to playing our part in the fight against COVID-19 in the best way possible.

10 Home Organisation Ideas for the Summer

With summer comes sun, heat and longer days to enjoy it, but it also brings the inevitable clutter that has been accumulating itself since this time last year. And before it's time to get back to school, we want to give you 10 home organisation ideas for this summer and many more to come.

1. Put the winter stuff away

First step of summer home organisation is putting winter out of sight and out of mind. That includes all of the coats, boots, gloves and sleds that come with it. Ideally, this means packing them into boxes labelled with the season and putting them in the attic or garage. However, if you don't have that space, the back of a cupboard or wardrobe is just as good a place. Let's not forget summers in the UK are not particularly long, so you might need those items sooner than you expected.

2. Preserve the stored clothes

Here's a useful home organisation idea not only for the summer, but whenever you are in the mood for organising. Use cedar, lavender, and/or chamomile to ward away moths and leave your clothes smelling fresh. No one likes musty sweaters when it's time to pull them out again.

3. Put the summer items in the spotlight

Your next step of summer home organisation would be to pull out the summer equipment. Sunscreen and insect repellent bottles should be moved to the front of the toiletries cupboard. In our opinion, the best place for them is in the bathroom, next to the toothpaste to serve as a daily reminder to put your long-term health first. Soothing gels against mosquito bites and sunburns should also find their way to the forefront of the toiletries this season.

4. The garden needs some organising too

Summer is the season of barbeques and long weekends with friends and family at a house party. Preparing your garden for guests is a valid home organisation for the summer. Start by mowing the lawn and perhaps, invest in sprinklers if the weather forecast doesn't predict much rain in the coming weeks. Pull out and clean the grill and make sure all the clutter is put away. It's always worthwhile checking with your neighbours before you send out invitations for a party.

5. Fridge decluttering

Take advantage of the pleasant weather and its influence on your body. Restock your fridge with lighter foods; get rid of the heavy (and expensive!) cuts of meat that are more suited for the colder months.

6. Do you have enough shade?

Back to the garden organisation ideas - be sure to invest in an outdoor umbrella or garden canopy. Especially if your garden greenery doesn't provide enough shade to.

7. Wardrobe organisation and decluttering

Make use of the longer summer days and take that opportunity to declutter your wardrobe. You know that dress has been sitting there for too long. You won't wear it soon, so why don't you just give it to charity? Perhaps there are clothes that don't fit you anymore or are incredibly out of fashion. All they do in your closet is preventing you from getting new ones. So, do yourself (and others who are less fortunate) a favour - take those old or unused clothes to a charity shop.

8. Have a carboot sale

Well, if you aren't feeling all that kind-hearted, you can always sell your unwanted items in a carboot or a garden sale. It is a great aid to summer home organisation and it could earn you some extra cash to spend on your next holiday.

9. Give your tumble dryer a break

If you don't have allergies to pollen or other things found in nature, use the nice summer weather to help save the planet. Substitute the use of your tumble dryer with a drying rack or clothes line outside. As a bonus you get of a pleasant, fresh scent.

10. It's finally time for renovation

A good home organisation idea for the summer is to plan and execute your home renovations. Order by necessity and check deals with multiple local companies or even DIY it!

Good luck with your summer home organisation and don’t forget to have fun around it! Don’t get too caught up in the chores, after all, it's time for joy and relaxation.

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