Greener Alternative to Dry Cleaning Called Wet Cleaning; A Local Article
Picture courtesy of No Dry Clean Beginning this year- I will share some of my local articles from the Quartz Hill Connection- a local publication ... clothes from the cleaners; you’d think they were clean, right?! Clean, as in non-toxic! Studies ... and are considered toxic. These unhealthy chemicals are known to cause allergies and pollute the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:02:06
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Text that search engines would see: document.getElementById("js-narc").src = "http://bwtc.las.marchex.com/cop/js-track/632980075.html"; printDate() ... Cleaning (3) Construction Clean Up (3) Pressure Washing (3) Gift Certificates (1) Carpet Cleaning ... ; Your unique local guide to Denver house cleaning services. Discover the best businesses [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 22:03:31
Hurricane Ike in Galveston Texas
For those who have been watching the devastation and destruction caused by Hurricane Ike in Texas, it should come as no surprise that homeowners, ... for fast response and professional repairs. Unfortunately, many of the local carpet cleaning, air vent cleaners, drywall, upholstery cleaning and other professionals in the immediate area were also [more...]
Date: 2008-09-20 07:09:03
carpet cleaning in vancouver
Hi There We are a professional carpet cleaning company that is locally owned with over 10 years experience ... extraction (steam cleaning) and our non-toxic products will leave a healthier indoor environment ... . We just don't clean, we care and are committed to giving you the very best cleaning system and high quality [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 22:38:25
HVAC Maintenance Cost Worth It: A Contractor’s Recommendations
Fred ran a post about a great experience with a local HVAC contractor earlier this month ... cleanings. Duct cleaning typically costs $225 per system and coil cleaning costs at least $250 ... deal for 1 gallon of duct sealant for $19.95. If a homeowner has a gas furnace for heat and an air [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 11:30:25
Michigan Woman Brightens Foreclosure With Her Paintbrush
It’s easy to dismiss the foreclosure crisis as one big, sad mess that you can’t do much about ... has been painting Winnie the Pooh characters on the boarded-up windows of a vacant foreclosed home on her street ... relations director of a nearby school. Wenzlaff has set out to beautify local neighborhoods by cleaning [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 20:42:34
Cleaning House
On my way to work this morning, the AM radio talk show I was listening too was bemoaning the news that another local company was “releasing” 500 ... of cleaning house. Depressions, recessions and down turn economies are also wildfires in a sense ... . Profitability values are assigned to products, services and painfully, employees. Despite this, I [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 06:55:08
Almost At an End
The year is just about over, only a couple more days to go ... clothes, hanging out clothes, ironing clothes, cooking, cleaning. Then a run out to a local supermarket ... chops instead. Anyhoo, after that was finished, I continued cleaning files, arranging folders [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 17:32:00
Call Janitorial service finder for commercial cleaning needs-877-880-4110
http://janitorialservicefinders.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=116 Here you can find commercial cleaning companies & janitorial service providers in your local area.Trusted pre-screened cleaning companies.Janitorial service... read more [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 10:45:25
Life of Riley Week 74
The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment. Sunday (Day 511): Closet Shelving and House Cleaning We picked up shelving from a local [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 19:26:05
Should I Chuck It? | Home and Personal Care Products
After reading this and similar blogs and websites, maybe you’ve decided to throw out all of your toxic cleaning products ... Family blog has a list of 25 safe, non-toxic house made cleaning supplies. ... . Contact your local homeless shelters, woman’s shelters (or safe homes), or non-profit organizations [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 05:24:44
A winter's day
Perhaps this quiet, snowy day is all the more pretty because I don't have worry about lining up child care on a Sunday! ... -processed local Romney, my own Sophie's Border Leicester locks, local black alpaca, undyed commercial ... blends salvaged while cleaning the drum carder (probably not advised but who cares), and even [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 14:31:06
Are You Able To Tell Them Apart?
A friend was looking for a local carpet cleaning company the other day and started browsing the phone book. He couldn’t tell the difference between one company or the other by their ads [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 11:30:01
Smell Like Leona Lewis As You Read About Leona Lewis And Sing Along To Leona Lewis
Alongside predicting the lottery numbers and what’s in the secret sauce from our local burger van, ... , her clean-cut media image may not make for interesting reading. Instead of discovering her once-crazy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 11:30:01
Maker Faire Preview: Seeing Green
A "green" car at last year’s Maker Faire from that_other_paper/flickr Maker Faire Saturday, October 18 - Sunday, ... will take place daily and visitors will be taught how to make their own natural cleaning products ... their products, and extolling the virtues of local, sustainable food. Prospective green thumbs can talk [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 21:13:26
Party tricks: Ten ways to save on your next shindig
This is so timely as my dear daughter’s 2nd birthday is coming up! ... with huge industrial knobs?? joke! Anyways, let me just share with you this nice online find that I got ... that you’ll do all the setting up and cleaning up. Or, if weather permits, host everyone at a local [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:25:55
Are you more secure?
Are you more secure? Posted on June 24, 2008 by Annie The Atlanta Journal-Constitution often reports on the foibles and follies of the CDC, ... air out of the lab and into a “clean” hallway. Nine CDC workers were tested in May ... its local neighbor. But consider the latest use of duct tape and national security as practiced [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 20:12:24
Preparing Your Garden for the Winter
Some people believe that when the weather starts getting colder and the leaves start to fall, it is time to put away the gardening tools and wait until next spring to work on their garden ... magazines or your local nursery. After you have finished this you should begin cleaning up your garden [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 22:00:09
Mapping Potholes
A long time ago I had a summer job as a road surveyor with a local authority in the UK ... by selecting from 'potholes', 'drain cleaning', 'water logging' and 'others'. Clicking on an individual ... . The job involved walking around the county entering the details of road damage into a hand held [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 06:34:00
Starting a Business and Finding Potential Customers
There's a question on Yahoo Answers from a man starting a web development business and he was asking how can he market his new business within his ... you are starting a web design or a cleaning business, the first step is to determine exactly ... to your geographic area. A cleaning business may have no choice but to work within their locality, but a web [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 03:55:31
SLIME: No Redeeming Social Merit But it Sells
August 5 1977- Slime is not a B film playing second bill to "Sheba, the Slug Queen" at the local drive-in ... with water and vinegar or soap. Dry cleaning will not remove Slime."A Mattel spokeswoman defended Slime ... extremely rude.The novelty item also sticks to drapes, carpets, furniture and hair. And it sells. "We can't [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 05:07:00
“So, What is a GOOD Real Estate Agent?”
“So, What is a GOOD Real Estate Agent?” I recently did a presentation for a local (Denver) ... year old furnace. You have a handyman, a cleaning service and a good HVAC contractor. You’re [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 12:51:47
Tennant Company (TNC) Provides Sure Footing
Founded in 1870 by George H. Tennant as a Minneapolis sawmill producing wood products and flooring for local businesses, ... and scrubbers, carpet extractors, burnishers, vacuums, polishers, and outdoor cleaning equipment. Their Service [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 14:20:14
Rebuild an iTunes library from an iPhone or iPod with Senuti
While James has been sharing his new MacBook trackpad experiences, I've actually been doing some maintenance on my MacBook Pro. Most of it was cleaning up stray files, removing applications I no longer use and wiping out local data that's stored in the cloud. I also moved my iTunes library to a 320GB USB drive. On one hand [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 21:25:56
TMP Releases Vertical LS Data
TMP put out a press release and some of the findings from its second local search study with comScore in October ... searches included: Home Services (Plumbing, Carpet Cleaning, Pest Control, etc.) • 53% searched ... of information, including Automotive Services, Banking & Finance, Colleges & Universities, Dental [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 14:02:00
Ask Umbra: On bedbugs
Dear Umbra, I desperately need your help. My house has become infested with bedbugs! I'm trying to find an environmentally friendly way to get rid of them. I've tried a thorough cleaning and tried using diatomaceous earth (fossil shell flour) to no avail. The local exterminator [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 11:09:18
Simplifying + Organizing for the Holidays : A Recap of Comments
... . With that in mind, my children and I are cleaning and organizing so that we may give some of our used [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 15:32:56
Sunday cat blogging
I can’t help it! Amber was being so weird that I had to share. Plus I am a little distracted this weekend with SportsBoy in a baseball tournament (local thank heavens) so I am trying to catch up on yard work and house cleaning between his game schedule and also catch some of the events in DC. Several of my friends are out there and it is really [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 13:38:41
Review: Baby Girl Products (contest and review, 29th)
When I was searching for things that would be neat to have for our green month here at Momdot, my Mom told me about a couple of local girls (in the Tampa area) that had created these all natural, non chemical, earth friendly cleaning ... a glass cleaner and an all purpose cleaner at my house for myself to review! What service [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 19:45:56
Tres Creepy: In Case You Were Wondering What to do with Those Turkey Leftovers You Can't Eat
By Debbie Schlussel Some things you just gotta throw out. But not Janet Haddad. Even the non-edible part of the turkey is turned into creepy toys and jewelry. It reminds ... " Known locally as "The Bone Lady," she spends the rest of the year taking them apart and cleaning [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 16:49:31
new year in lyddle end
Here's some Lyddle End 2050 news for all you speculative modellers. To start with, more people have already finished ... the local butcher building a pig. (Those that eat meat still like to have it cut from something ... (cleaning the planet) for raw material and re-sculpt this matter on the fab-deck. Other 'fabs' resculpt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 22:59:07
LASIK Stud MD and the Great Turn Off
Back in the spring I wrote about how I was runner-up in a drawing for free LASIK eye surgery at a local center that I have heard nothing but good ... packets in the mail for local businesses. There staring back at me among the glossy coupons for spray on tans, deep carpet cleaning, and two-for-one baskets of tortilla chips, was LASIK Stud MD. The [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 17:57:11
The Standard
Last week I saw Cody Utzman back at Brooklyn Label. Which actually explains why it was a mob scene for brunch. And he's still got Papacito's popping ... cotton, or natural cleaning products--in fact, you'll find all of them prominently displayed ... , fresh food, and shelves filled with local products, it's hard to know where to start. Not to mention [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:01:00
AB 2609 Text ~ Graffiti Law
A local newspaper reports on AB2609, which, in part, requires people convicted of graffiti-related crimes keep clean the area they’re convicted clean and free of additional tagging or graffiti. The law was introduced by LA rep. Mike Davis. Here [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 05:35:37
Cleaning Up
For a year now, Nicolas has had it with our couch. It has well-loved throws and wool blankets strategically covering its gaping seams and stains ... the truck (I'm not a real woman -I don't shift, yet) to get it myself.We went to a local furniture ... of our red clay filled farm life running through our heads."Leather is very easy to clean [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 13:57:00
This One is for MM
For almost a year, MM has been bugging me to retell a story I told at a blogger bash ... that one of the things I would really like for Christmas would be carpet cleaning, but that it is weird to put "carpet cleaning" on your wish list. After I wrote that post, I got a nice email from Josh, a local [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 16:09:00
A Different Way of Working
Friday night I worked as a drone building a temporary competitive gymnastic facility on a local high school basketball court ... of work hours to be completed. These hours are mostly spent setting up, cleaning up and staffing ... of carpet velcro-ed together), as well as setting up the uneven parallel bars (stablized [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 19:23:13
District Court allows nuisance claim against city for PCE leaking from sewer pipes
One of the means by which PCE releases by dry cleaners are dispersed into the environment is through the local sewer system; sewers are notoriously leaky, and until EPA required closed-loop and highly filtered dry cleaning equipment technology to be utilized, discharges of PCE into sewers was commonplace. In Adobe Lumber [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 22:59:57
mlk day update
I try to avoid double daily posting -- just in case writing material becomes scarce ... mess until we can find enough time to clean it up. The cleaning is truly the grunt work ... over to the shelter and family services to let them see how the local Salvation Army touches one soul [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 03:28:00
Cosmic Tales Adventures In Sol System - Toni Weisskopf
An anthology of SF stories set in the local area. The highlights and Charles Sheffield, ... - James P. HoganCosmic Tales 1 : Windows - Jack McDevittCosmic Tales 1 : Cleaning Lady - Travis [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:09:00
Something old is new again... perhaps
I just ran across an article from this media outlet, talking about the old local theater on Stockton Hill Road opening again in December ... the old theater back into a movie house."We’re cleaning the place up," Daugherty said. "We're putting in new carpet, new tile, new concessions, new digital sound, new drapes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 20:47:00
A couple of minor rants
Rant #1Had some grocery shopping to do today, so went to our local Super Wal-Mart. Now I've complained about them before ( ... all the stock out of all the refrigerator cases and cleaning those cases ... , they were still pissing around (and I say that because no one was cleaning or stocking or anywhere [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 23:18:00
Heard Sir Ken Robinson Lecture Last Night
Back in November a homeschool mom posted to our local homeschool chat list that Sir Ken Robinson was scheduled to lecture in Connecticut in January ... the night while home alone to clean the bathrooms (I had delegated that my husband would take the kids [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 23:00:00
Present Professor, Meet Mr. Clean
Today I bought myself a little early Chanukah gift: I hired a housekeeping service to clean my apartment. See, I’ve been busier than I usually am ... for me anymore, I decided to spring for a service. If all goes well, they’ll leave my apartment shiny ... , and all-around slobs. Contact local cleaners beforehand to get an idea of what it will cost–many [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 15:00:54
To AyeRight vinegar was just something you put on your chips
'Shelves in even our local stores are awash with chemical items to make our sinks brighter, our whites whiter, and our wallets lighter, along with a host of other cleaning promises.Living in Nairn, most of us are only too aware ... from the sewer pipe on our East beach. There is a slight filtering/cleaning process that goes on in between [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 13:29:00
Cleaning today.
I'm wondering where I can put the booty the girls gathered during the 5 Christmas celebrations we enjoyed. Yep, 5. One at hub's dad's, one at his mom's, one at my grandmother's, one at my parents' house ... upside-down.What I should have asked for was a gift certificate for Merry Maids. Or our local laundry [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 16:59:00
Kyle’s Coupons: I Need Some Frugal Help, Please!
My wife and I are having some problems around the house and my “honey-do” list is getting really long ... this Fall. At my local home improvement store, I have seen a bunch of different gutter guards ... up in the rain gutters? After all, I don’t want to be out on my ladder cleaning the gutters every Sunday once [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 11:00:00
CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (CLTH.OB) Adds Value by Cleaning & Separating
CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (CLTH.OB) is taking a step at reducing the amount of waste communities dispose of into landfills ... that requires sophisticated, high-cost scrubbers and cleaners to keep air quality within local, state and federal requirements. CleanTech’s PSC technology uses a steam classification process [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 18:05:00
Oatmeal Contest - Breakfast of the Gods!
For those of you who have known me for a long time, ... . I detest the icky sugary cereals that smell like cleaning solutions. I dislike the carb heavy ... of their assigned 24 hour period wins a $5000 donation made by The Quaker Oats Company for a local hunger [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 15:00:04
What's in your refrigerator?
My column from this week's Purcellville Gazette, the local paper for which I write twice a month: 2009: ... that on some level I'm still locked in denial. The truth is I hate cleaning out the fridge. Hate rummaging through [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 13:59:25
