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Archive: Cleaning Tips, Articles, and More!
Archive: Cleaning Tips, Articles, and More!
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What makes Heaven's Best one of the best carpet cleaning companies is the local operator. The local franchise owner is the one that talks with you, cleans your floors, and answers any questions you have. We love hearing how customers feel after having Heaven's Best clean the carpet.
Darrell Arrant, the local operator for The Woodlands, TX, works hard to clean your floors and to treat you right. Read below what The Woodland Events Blog had to say about their experience with Darrell.
"Have you ever found yourself in a total time crunch to get the house looking top-notch? You know the drill, your husband comes home from work on Friday evening and proclaims, 'oh, by the way, Mom called on my way home; she and Dad will be here Monday afternoon, you'll be home, right?'...
"Most of us can relate to the arduous task that is getting your carpets clean. You rearrange the entire house for the better part of a day or more, dragging all the furnishings you can move and/or fit into the portions of the house you don't plan on getting cleaned. Then after waiting around for the carpet cleaners to show, and waiting around for them to finish their job, and waiting around for them to figure out how much more they need to charge you for the job they only 'soft-quoted' on the phone... and finally, waiting around for the carpets to finally, finally dry...
"We made an appointment [with Darrell] for 9:30, and sure enough, at 9:28 there was the Heaven's Best van, driven by Darrell himself, in our driveway. He was accompanied by his associate, Tony. They began with a tour of the house, assessing what areas we needed cleaned, then immediately began moving furnishings around for us (not the giant entertainment center, mind you, but all the chairs and side tables, anyway) while carpet-raking the edges of the rooms to clear loose debris and then giving the entire rooms a thorough vacuuming. Next, Tony sprayed the carpet with Heaven's Best signature 101 cleaning solution...
"Darrell and Tony were prompt, courteous and careful with our furnishings and belongings...
"So would we use them again? Absolutely. And would we recommend them to others? Absolutely..." Read more.
Visit Darrell's website for The Woodlands carpet cleaning.
So you've decided to take out the ugly green shag carpet from the living room or the worn out linoleum in the kitchen that's from the 1980's. What type of flooring should you put in? Since we deal with all sorts of floor types, we decided to share our thoughts about what to consider when choosing to install a new floor covering.
When deciding on the type of floor to install, there really is one question you should ask yourself. What do I want to accomplish with my flooring? You may be thinking, what? Let us explain with more in-depth questions that will help answer this question.
- What kind of look do you want for the room?
- What kind of feel do you want the room to have?
- What is the main purpose of the room?
- What is the main purpose of the flooring in that room?
- How durable does the floor need to be?
- What is your personal preference? (This is usually the most important.)
When considering these questions we thought it best to choose two rooms to consider, the kitchen and the living room. The kitchen and living room usually have different purposes and so that means keeping those different purposes in mind when choosing a type of flooring. Also, the options for covering the floor that we have limited ourselves to are carpet, hardwood, and tile & grout. There are a few other types of floors that we could talk about, but these are the most common types used in a home.
First, let's start in the kitchen. In some older homes you actually may be taking out carpet from the kitchen. There are good reasons that most kitchens don't have carpet. When in the kitchen, carpets are hard to keep clean, hard to get the grease from food out of, and hard to sanitize. One of the few reasons for having carpet in the kitchen is so that the floor is warmer then a wood floor or a tile & grout floor.
Although carpet is warmer than hardwood floors, for a kitchen a wood floor has lots of advantages. First, the rich colors of hardwood will make a room feel more inviting than tile. If the floor was installed with a coat of polyurethane (most hardwood floors are), then it will hold up to daily wear relatively well and be easy to clean. However, if moisture is allowed to stand in one place over a long period of time, the wood floor will begin to warp or buckle and the water will actually stain the floor. What this means, is just be careful to clean up spills quickly and make sure there is not water accumulating around windows, doors, or refrigerators. When compared with tile & grout, hardwood requires a little more maintenance.
Tile & grout, however, is more durable than both a wood floor and carpet. When your kids spill or drop something on the floor there is less of a chance of permanent damage. If the grout between the tiles is sealed with a grout sealer yearly, then it's easier to clean as well. One thing to consider, too, when deciding on flooring for your kitchen is if there is an entrance from the outside into the kitchen. Tile & grout will stand up to the dirt and sand that will be tracked inside from everyone's shoes better then hardwood. That's why having a rug outside and inside the door is always a good idea to catch as much dirt as possible.
So you've decided what kind of floor to put in the kitchen, what about the living room? Now there are very few homes that have tile & grout in the living room, except for as a section of the entry way. This helps as a place to take off shoes to prevent the moisture from snow or rain, salt from the road, dirt, and other debris from being brought further into your home.
Usually the types of flooring in a living room are either carpet or wood floors. Having carpet in the living room will make the floor warmer, softer, quieter when walking on, and actually absorbs a lot of noise. One thing that carpet also helps with is keeping the air in your home cleaner. The dust in your home will settle into the carpet and then it gets trapped, unlike wood floors where the dust will just continue to blow around the room. Keep in mind however, that with carpet, the furniture will need to be rearranged periodically in order to change the paths that your family uses to move around in the room. Doing this prevents traffic lanes from appearing, which are caused by walking over the same area of carpet over and over.
With a hardwood floor there is no need to rearrange the furniture, unless you feel like it. Although, when you do move your furniture around you'll have to be careful not to scratch the floor. A hardwood floor, even though it may not be as warm on your feet, does create more of a richer feel in a room than carpet and can always be accented with different types of rugs. It also holds up better to spills and is easier to clean up then carpet.
We've talked a lot about the benefits and drawbacks of the different types of flooring you can have in your kitchen and living room, but in the end it all comes down to what you want to accomplish with the room. How do you want the room to feel, to look? What is the purpose of the floor, of the room? How durable does the floor need to be? But the biggest point to consider when choosing a floor covering is what you personally prefer (if it's the husband deciding then it usually means what his wife prefers).
Every year around the 4th of July I reflect on the great sacrifice that so many have given that I may enjoy so many freedoms. I express my gratitude to all of the brave men and women that have put their love of country and freedom above their own lives.
On the 4th of July I pay tribute to all of those who daily put their life on the line for me and for you. Everything carries with it a price. Regardless of our individual political views, we owe so much to so many. Not just those who are fighting for our freedom today, but also those who have fought in years past. Dedicated people who do what they are asked even at the cost of their own life. It can become very easy for us to criticize views and opinions of our leaders, but we can never really judge them until we have walked in their shoes and had to make the decisions they have had to make.
I would hope that each of us will pause from our busy schedule and pay tribute and honor to all those in our military as well as those who try to lead the countries we live in.
We want to pay tribute to the founding fathers of the USA. We appreciate the vision they had in providing us the freedoms we enjoy today. We understand the sacrifice that the brave people in our military make each day for us. We also trust in God and ask for His blessings upon our Military and upon each of you. Each of us that live in the USA has so much to be thankful for. We truly live in the land of opportunity. We hope each of you have a safe July 4th celebration.
- Cody Howard
CEO Heaven's Best
Father's Day is June 20th and you're not sure what to get your dad. He already has more ties than he can wear in an entire year and enough socks to fill a few drawers. So what could you get him?
How about having Heaven's Best come and clean his favorite recliner? He uses it all the time, to take naps, to read the paper, and don't forget about watching the Super Bowl (there is still that stain on the arm of the recliner from the nacho dip).
You know your dad loves you and he'll really be happy when he sees that you were so thoughtful that you had his favorite chair cleaned for him. Besides, do you really want your kids sitting in his chair, when was the last time it was cleaned?
Say thanks to your dad for all those long hours at work to pay for the time you broke your arm, for reading bedtime stories to you at night, and playing tea time with you, by having Heaven's Best come over and clean his recliner.
You've used Heaven's Best and told a lot of your friends about us, now you can let everyone know how much you love Heaven's Best.
In order to help spread the word, we've created a Heaven's Best facebook fan page and a twitter account. We hope you'll 'like' us on facebook or 'follow' us on twitter. We are using these social websites to let everyone know when there is a new post on the Heaven's Best blog, about news that is happening with Heaven's Best, and other important updates.
So please help spread the word about Heaven's Best on facebook and twitter.
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