Here, in all its glory, is the spring cleaning 2009 guide.
Spring-cleaning as you all know is the Olympics of cleaning. We’re reviewing our past posts on the subject and updating them. Although we’re not quite done (we should be by week’s end) the old guidance is still valid. Some of the links, however, may be [...]
If you have a working fireplace and use it, if you live in a city or near a coal plant, or perhaps if you frequently burn candles then you are faced with the challenge of removing soot.
Soot is a carbonized deposit of fine black particles that will smear and become all but impossible to remove [...]
Thanksgiving is a time not only to reflect on all that is good but ALSO to tackle cleaning chores requiring extra consideration–say “leaf stains” on the concrete patio for instance.
Prior to our final fall clean-up, wet leaves had stood long enough on our concrete-clad patio to produce a series of leaf imprints. Clean+istry believes that [...]
By patching cracks in sidewalks and driveways BEFORE they grow, let this be our first fall maintenance tip in preparation for winter.
Jay Romano, writing for The New York Times, in The Fix, gives advice for concrete walks and asphalt. May we suggest also examining stone terraces and the cement filling (or grout) between rocks [...]
Hmmm, it’s Thursday, so here’s an idea…let’s blog The New York Times Home & Garden. We’ve trolled today’s paper and found a couple of maintenance-related items of interest.
First off is a conversation with contractor Stephen Fanuka (Shopping for Renovation Materials With Stephen Fanuka) about materials used in high-end Manhattan jobs. He makes an excellent point [...]
For more on the radon and granite countertop controversy, read Consumer Reports’ blog posting.
CR is mostly skeptical regarding the issue’s scale, which might result in a massive run on CeasarStone (CeasarStone Blizzard pictured). Their review of the research uncovers a tangled array of special interests behind the research.
Still, testing is the ultimate step for [...]
It’s time for [best of] clean+istry: july ‘08. Links to our favorite posts of the month.
Know the life expectancy of home appliances with a new report by the National association of homebuilders. Would you be shocked to learn that cleaning and maintenance is the headline?
Will we ever bore of reading/writing/learning of new ways to clean grout? [...]
The New York Times greeted us this morning with ominous warnings about potentially elevated levels of radon lurking within our granite countertops. Great.
Depending on which expert you choose to believe, the risk has either “always been there and it’s no big deal” OR preparing your morning coffee poses identical hazards to a half-pack-a-day cigarette [...]
Clean+istry is not immune to the whims of nature and this season has confronted an onslaught of Common Grackles using its pool as a roadside latrine. Although Clean+istry grew up swimming in a rusty tank originally designed to hold water for livestock (another story for another time) and could easily paddle past occasional poop, we [...]
B_E_E_ (stands for Beauty Engineered for Ever) is a New Zealand based company committed to developing cleaning products that not only clean well, but excel “environmentally, ethically, and sensually.” Who could argue with that?
We like the packaging. Correction: we LOVE the packaging. For some time, Clean+istry has labeled all of our [...]