Glover Cleaning – Pet of the Month

Here at Glover Cleaning, a Utah maid service, we know that cleaning can be a chore.  We hope this tip is useful.

Stainless steel is the material that people want on their sinks, fixtures, and sinks.  The reasons are many, durability and resistance to stain is high on the list.  But it is the look and feel that gives your kitchen that extra zing to your kitchen.  Stainless steel requires a bit of a delicate touch, to ensure that the shine of that polish lasts.  Here are a few tips to help you take care of your home.

There are a few materials around the house that you should avoid when cleaning your stainless steel.  The first material is bleach or any product that contains bleach.  Bleach has a nasty reaction with the metal producing a grey blemish.  The long term effects of bleach is rust to the steel.  Abrasive cleaners are also a big no-no, so put away the steel wool and brushes as well.  The polish gets scratched and begins the descent of the metal.

The best way to clean your appliances and fixtures is with a clean and lint free cloth.  To remove fingerprints dampen your cloth and squeeze out excess water before you clean the surface.  Drying thoroughly will ensure that you don’t have water spots and a nice finish.

Now if there is food splatter or grease that won’t come off with the damp cloth.  Add a few drops of mild detergent and that should be sufficient.  Sometimes on a sink you will have food that is burned or dried on so you are unable to clean with the above methods.  Make a paste with baking soda and water to the constituency of toothpaste.  Be careful not to scratch the surface as baking soda is mildly abrasive.  Let it soak if the mixture is unable to clean sufficiently.

We hope you found this useful, until later this is Glover Cleaning signing off.

In April this year, Glover Cleaning attended a convention hosted by www.arcsi.org where we met successful business owners in the cleaning industry interested in collaborating and sharing ideas about how to improve their businesses.  One business owner we met, and knew we wanted to emulate was Teresa Ward of Teresa's Family Cleaning in Long Island, New York.  We were able to chat with her for maybe about half an hour at the event, but knew she was a wealth of information.

In hopes of improving our cleaning department, I sent Teresa an email to see if she’d be open to a visit by Eric Villarreal and me so we could pick her brain a little.  The answer wasn’t only yes, it was absolutely yes, and an invite to stay in her home while there and an offer to pick us up.  I couldn’t believe it.

Well, we just got back from New York and were blown away.  Teresa was named 2009, New York State Small Business Person of the Year by the United States Small Business Administration, and she deserved it.  Not only does she run a great business, she’s a great member of her community and provides an incredible amount of charitable services, integrating her efforts to do well, and to do good.  Her giving ranges from cancer patients to Habitat for Humanity.  The organizations she participates in range from the standard Chambers of Commerce to mentoring for women owned businesses.  She’s the epitome of the Golden Rule.    I highly recommend viewing her website, run by one of her great staff, Margaret, to see all that they do for their community, www.teresasfamilycleaning.com.

So, fresh from New York, we hope to bring some of this goodness to our community in Salt Lake, Utah.  You can expect from us to continue to provide great cleaning services.  What you will begin to see is more effective interactions with our office staff, and your patronage of us enabling us to both do well and do good.  Teresa’s, and many members of ARCSI, have shown us that this should be the case.

Thank you Teresa’s Family Cleaning and thank you ARCSI for the great examples.  We hope to measure up.  You’ve been awesome so far.