Get Your Home Ready For Listing: How To Eliminate Home Odors Completely

Filed Under (Miscellaneous) by Rick on 11-30-2009

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Difficult home odors plague homeowners.  Ground into rugs, absorbed into walls, and clinging to furntiture, some smells are slow to fade, leaving lasting impressions on both guests and potential buyers. Often, that impression is unfavorable.

Do something about it. 

In this 4-minute piece from NBC’s The Today Show, you’ll learn how to eliminate bad smells and prevent them from returning.  It’s all basic direction, too:

  • How to use the porous nature of wood to your advantage
  • How to remove get “smoke smell” out of a wall
  • How to improve a home’s air quality by cleaning carpets

For more serious offenses, the video covers in-home air purifiers, too.

“Smelly homes” are undesirable and can make your home less attractive to buyers.  Watch the video, follow the instruction, and declare your home an Odor-Free Zone.

Posted by Rick Bosl on November 30, 2009 | Tags: Home Cleaning

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How To Remove Stains From Granite Countertops

Filed Under (Miscellaneous) by Rick on 11-16-2009

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Granite countertops can be handsome additions to a kitchen, but are a challenge to clean sometimes — especially when they’re stained.

In this 2-minute video from eHow.com, in addition to granite-cleaning basics, we learn how to remove wine and marker stains from our granite countertops. Unfortunately, not every household will have the video’s recommended cleaning compounds on hand, so prepare yourself for a trip to the hardware store.

Printable, written instructions for cleaning your granite are available on the eHow.com website.

Posted by Rick Bosl on November 16, 2009 | Tags: Home Cleaning

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