We are Maid to Order and we hope you have a beautiful and clean spring!
The outside of your home is where you will be spending much of your time as the weather continues to warm up and the leaves start to come back. Clear gutters and downspouts of debris and leaves that have collected throughout the year. Consider some new landscape projects: tree planting, designing the garden you’ve always wanted, adding a deck, or adding rock landscape. It’s time to start planning these projects and preparing the ground and clearing out old plants, bushes, trees and weeds to make way for your outdoor dream yard.
Don’t forget the top of your house, which protects everything inside. Inspect the roof for loose, broken or missing shingles or tiles. You may want to have a professional roofer do an inspection so that you are confident that you are ready for the summer monsoon season. If you have a wood-burning fireplace, this is a good time to have the chimney swept and checked for excessive soot, leaves, bird nests, etc.
And don’t forget windows, windows, windows! How else can you enjoy the outdoors while you are inside other than to have beautiful, sparkling clean windows. Make sure that the window cleaning includes cleaning out the tracks and cleaning the screens. Look up high and down low. Other interior spring-cleaning tasks would include cleaning the fans and light fixtures, getting up and getting all the dust off of those high pot shelves and cleaning doors and door frames. Down low would be cleaning under beds, couches and scrubbing those baseboards that collect so much dust.
Finally, but very importantly, would be to test all of your emergency systems including fire and smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Replace batteries and make sure all systems are clean, charged and in working order.
Hire professionals that are bonded, insured and businesses that are locally owned. They can make sure the jobs are done correctly and safely, and you can feel good that you are contributing to the health of our Quad Cities area economy.
We are Maid to Order and we hope you have a beautiful and clean spring! QCBN
By Lucy Leyva
Lucy Leyva is the owner of Prescott Maid to Order.
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