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Regardless of what region in which you live, if you have running water through faucets in your home, your faucets probably develop some buildup over time. There are different types of buildup from various minerals and substances such as calcium, limescale, magnesium, sodium, silicate, phosphate, and more. In places where there is a high mineral concentration in the water, buildup can happen very quickly and can be difficult to clean and remove without damaging your faucets. While there are many different (and expensive) ways to try to manage the mineral concentration in your water and reduce buildup the fact of the matter is that faucets will develop scale or buildup over time no matter what efforts you make to stop the buildup. But, just because your faucets will develop buildup it does not mean you just have to accept unsightly buildup, reduced water flow, or damaged plumbing hardware – there is an answer – steam cleaning!
Summertime is upon us and that means the kids are home all day. And, that also means, the kids have much more opportunity to make a huge mess around the house! But, do not fret! The idea of having to clean a spill or splatter every 10 minutes may sound like your worst nightmare but it does not have to be. With a portable steam cleaner, cleaning is made easy, effective, and efficient!
The kitchen is a place where many people gather to mix, mingle, prepare a meal and enjoy company. But, because the kitchen is often a hub of gathering and food preparation, it is often filled with many germs, bacteria, stains, and dirt. The last thing you want to introduce to your kitchen where food is prepared is harsh chemical cleaners. Those chemicals could get onto the food you are preparing or breathed in which can lead to many different health conditions and illnesses. A steam cleaner is an ideal cleaning tool for cleaning throughout your home including your kitchen. Below are 4 areas within your kitchen that you can easily and effectively clean with a steam cleaner.
Messes can arise at any time of the day, in any location. Some are easy to access and fairly straightforward to clean. Others, are challenging because they have been spilled on a difficult-to-clean surface such as upholstery, fabric certain types of flooring or countertops, drapery, or more! And, sometimes a mess, stain or spill has penetrated into the fibers or tiny crevices of a surface, making it nearly impossible to adequately clean. The ultimate cleaning tool that is easy-to-use, portable, lightweight, and extremely powerful is a handheld steam cleaner. The Vapamore MR-75 Amico Handheld Steam Cleaner is an outstandingly powerful tool in a compact package.
If you are not taking this year’s flu outbreak seriously, you should be. Reports keep coming in about how strong this flu virus is and just how many people have been affected. The flu virus is highly contagious and can lead to extreme illness and, unfortunately as we have seen, even death. ABC News reports on just how bad the flu is this year, “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said 14,676 people have been hospitalized with influenza since the flu season began in October, double the number from all of last year and the highest ever recorded…The CDC’s latest influenza report shows that at least 53 children have died from the flu this season, including 16 just last week.” There are many person hygiene precautions such as washing hands and covering when you cough or sneeze that should be taken to help prevent the spread of the flu but many times that simply is not enough. If your home, school or office has been hit by the flu it is imperative that you take every precaution to stop it in its tracks. Chemical cleaners use harsh chemicals that are often not safe to be breathed in by adults or children and should not even be touched for fear of skin contamination. And what about carpeted areas? What do you do if bodily fluids such as vomit are in the carpet – can you truly clean and disinfect carpet? With a steam cleaner, you can!
When you are installing new flooring you usually have to rip up the previous flooring first. But, as any homeowner or contractor who has done this before knows – it is no easy task. It may seem easy at first but soon you realize that all of the adhesive used to hold the flooring to the sub flooring is still stuck. That adhesive usually doesn’t just lift right up. Nobody wants to spend painstaking hours scraping and applying harsh, chemical-filled solvents that may or may not remove the adhesive. But, unfortunately, starting with a smooth, clean surface is a critical step to properly installing new flooring. Without doing so, the bond between the new flooring and the sub flooring may be subpar and could lead to problems with your new flooring down the road.
If you are not taking this year’s flu outbreak seriously, you should be. Reports keep coming in about how strong this flu virus is and just how many people have been affected. The flu virus is highly contagious and can lead to extreme illness and, unfortunately as we have seen, even death. ABC News reports on just how bad the flu is this year, “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said 14,676 people have been hospitalized with influenza since the flu season began in October, double the number from all of last year and the highest ever recorded…The CDC’s latest influenza report shows that at least 53 children have died from the flu this season, including 16 just last week.” There are many person hygiene precautions such as washing hands and covering when you cough or sneeze that should be taken to help prevent the spread of the flu but many times that simply is not enough. If your home, school or office has been hit by the flu it is imperative that you take every precaution to stop it in its tracks. Chemical cleaners use harsh chemicals that are often not safe to be breathed in by adults or children and should not even be touched for fear of skin contamination. And, what about carpeted areas? What do you do if bodily fluids such as vomit are in the carpet – can you truly clean and disinfect carpet? With a steam cleaner, you can!
Steam cleaning is the best cleaning method for a variety of applications from industrial settings, to hospitals, to schools, to homes. It is quick, efficient, and effective for cleaning just about anything. But, steam cleaning is more than just a great cleaning method, it can actually disinfect surfaces. It doesn’t just get rid of some of the bacteria like a lot of cleaners, it gets rid of up to 99% of bacteria without a single chemical! Because it does not use chemicals to disinfect it is ideal for use in hospitals, food preparation areas including both industrial settings and kitchens, and more. People are often skeptical that just water can actually disinfect so well but it is actually the safest and most effective way to disinfect just about any surface. Below we explain how steam cleaning disinfects things like bacteria and even MRSA.
If your home has already been hit by cold and flu season, brace yourself, it might not be over. This cold and flu season has proven to be particularly bad and many are saying it could be very severe. Today describes how bad cold and flu season is, “The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that the flu is spreading across the country: Activity has increased in twelve states, compared to just seven last week. There was “high activity” of flu in four states: Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. And it’s still just the beginning of the season. Dr. William Schaffner, who is involved in the CDC’s flu surveillance network in Tennessee, has noticed cases of influenza picking up “dramatically.”Even worse, it appears the dominant strain will be H3N2, which can produce more severe illness, said Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center…“It is possible that we will experience low vaccine effectiveness against influenza A (H3N2) viruses and a relatively severe influenza season if they predominate,” Fauci and colleagues wrote in an article published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.”