With the cold, with the news: Spring Cleaning Tips

Spring is finally here and with the new season comes the desire to clean the beds terrace and flowers and put a new face at home inside and out.

Let's start with the court and in front of the house.

Before buying flowers and other garden products, take the time to clean their beds and think about how you want your landscape to appear. Maybe it's time for a change to a type of flower or shrub to another floor or you just want a new color scheme to your flower beds. Consider the amount of sun or shade the area receives during the day, in the purchase of plant and the best plants in our climate zone. Here are some basic tips on how to get your new landscape in the form after the long winter months.

Be sure to shrubs and plants clean dirt. This will remove the foliage and leaves, while the old mulch and weeds are removed. Take a walk around your property and collect fallen branches and limbs. Check the trees for all broken branches and cut the growth of wild plants damaged winter.

If the square and the desire to create a compost pile, put the old leaves, foliage, old mulch and other plant cuttings in a stack. Search the web for tips on how to build a compost pile, or ask your gardener or nursery.

If you have an irrigation system, check the lines and sprinklers for all necessary repairs. You can also see the limits of their beds for repair or alteration. Be sure to check the lines of fences and trellises and do not replace rotten or broken wood. It is also a good time to replace the gravel or sand between the pavers and trampolines.

Now is also the time to determine whether the exterior of your home needs a good cleaning. Using a pressure washer mold, cobwebs and other accumulations of particles is removed upwards. You can to remove pressure washing sidewalks, patios and pool decks spots.

Spring is also a good time to put a fresh coat of paint to warm your house or garden furniture or a new stain on wooden decks before temperatures and the humidity is too high, you can keep the paint to dry well.

And what is the interior of your home? Prioritize to make your spring cleaning to a more efficient use of their time, because those who spend the day in the house when it does not even want.

Make a list of what you achieve and make their task is. It may be that some projects such as the renovation of a cabinet supported in winter. How do you go to clean, apart items you no longer use or want. These include home decor, clothes, old bedding, curtains and curtain rods, whatever. Start a stack, and then you can decide if you want to donate items or a flea market.

Window cleaning is not an easy task, but one that is worth it.

My brother deceased father, a mixture of vinegar and water and newspapers to clean windows. With a paper towel, wipe the glass with vinegar and water and then glass "dry" with a sheet of paper. Although it seems irregular, because the ink, let Newspapers their windows practically free of streaks.

If you rearrange the shelves need new books that shed of size and theme and all the torn book covers, unless it can be a value in agreement. Keep your books in a row, but both vertically and horizontally aligned in a certain pattern. This specifies the size of the shelves and interests and accent home decor items can be used to more color and shape design.

Get rid of the stains on granite can be difficult, but the key is to remove stains as soon as possible. Also sealed his desk a few times when mounted. You know it's properly sealed when the water droplets are formed on the surface of the beads. Did he then closed a year later. You can walk to remove rust and soap residue or envelope shape with a solution of 1/2 cup ammonia to a gallon of water. For most coffee stains or juice, use some hydrogen peroxide into water and a few drops of ammonia. For everyday wear, small scratches buff away dry super steel wool, as the "Year 0000" for all other tasks, see the Marble Institute of America website or call a professional.

Bathroom and kitchen tiles with a cleaning agent, the "pH balanced" features on the label, you can mix baking soda and water for a clean home. Pour mix 1/2 cup baking soda 2 gallons of water and good. Then apply wipe the liquid with a mop or sponge. Grout, use baking soda and mix the water itself, but also for stubborn stains, call a professional.

Keep light devices and services and clean stainless steel, use a light spray wax or twice a week. Do not use too much, you do not want to enjoy the surface and making it oily. Clean the fog with a clean, lint-free cloth and do not use oils protects against fingerprints, lint remain to oil. Also do not use detergent with bleach after setting the layer of wax or dry out and you lose some luster. And finally, do not use abrasives. Even mild abrasive scratching or damaging the surface.

To clean painted walls, use a cloth or sponge and clean water. If this fails, mixed damp cloth or sponge in water with a little detergent, the softer the better. If the stain remains, a few drops of soap used directly on damp sponge or cloth. Other refractory cases a little to the right of soap on the stain. If necessary, a strong detergents to be aware that they use strong solvents in them and can soften the paint surface. Make sure that what you do to remove the stain, rinse the wall by clear water.

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