While some people actually enjoy cleaning, for the rest of us, it’s just a necessary evil of being an adult and owning a home. Keeping up with daily chores can be overwhelming, and who likes to spend their entire Saturday cooped up inside when you could be outside enjoying the fresh air and sunshine? Besides hiring a cleaning service, there are other ways to make cleaning your house less dreadful. The cleaning experts at Layla’s Maid Service have come up with a list of ways to make house cleaning fun. Don’t believe us? Read on!

Turn House Cleaning Into a Game

What better way to make house cleaning fun than to turn it into a game. There are so many ways you can do it: score points for each task you check off your list, compete against your partner or child to see who can finish cleaning a particular room first, or set a timer and see how much you can get done in a period of time. The possibilities are endless and you might have so much fun that you actually forget you’re cleaning.

Invest In Fun Gear

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In our last blog, we discussed how you can keep your home clean by offering several ways to prevent dirt and dust from entering your house. Even if you enlist the help of a home cleaning service if you don’t put forth some effort each and every day, your home will get dirty quickly. Today, the team at Layla’s Maid Service would like to discuss additional ways you can maintain the cleanliness of your home for a longer period of time with some easy ideas and by changing your daily habits.

Encourage Daily CleaningKeep Cleaning Supplies Handy

You’ll find that it’s much easier to clean on the fly when you don’t have to spend 30 minutes rounding up the gloves, sponges, brushes, and cleaners you need to do the job. Consider putting a small carrier with cleaning supplies in several closets around the house. At the very least, make sure you have at least one on each floor of your house. Making it more convenient to clean will naturally encourage you to do it more often.

Set a Timer

Set a timer each night (or morning, if that works...

Who doesn’t love the look and feel of a freshly-cleaned house? But, isn’t it disappointing when, a week later, it’s a complete mess and you can’t tell that it’s been cleaned at all? It feels like a full-time job to keep up with all of the dirt and dust, but who really has the time? You could hire a professional cleaning service, but unless you want them to become a permanent addition to your family, you’ll have to find ways to keep up with some of the cleaning on a daily basis.

At Layla’s Maid Service, we’ve been in the cleaning business for over 15 years and we’ve learned a thing or two about how to keep a clean home. In today’s blog, we’re going to share some simple ways that you can make your house stay clean for longer. We know you don’t have hours a day to dedicate to cleaning, but you can still make real progress with just a handful of minutes. Keep reading to learn more!

Prevent Dirt From Coming Inside

How do you reduce the frequency or amount you have to clean? Prevent dirt from showing up in the first place! This may sound harder than...

Spring is naturally a time when everything feels fresh and new. And for most people, it’s the perfect time to open up the windows and sweep out the dust bunnies that have accumulated over the long winter. Spring cleaning is different from your everyday cleaning in that you, or your professional cleaner, take the time to perform some really deep cleaning. It usually involves moving the furniture and cleaning behind things or in corners that you don’t usually have time to get to.

Even if you did a full spring cleaning just a few months ago, the team at Layla’s Maid Service wants to share with you why spring cleaning isn’t just for spring. As we start to turn the corner from summer to fall, now is a good time to consider doing another deep cleaning before the cooler weather sets in. Keep reading to learn why.

More Traffic

During the summer, most people’s homes experience a lot more traffic. Your kids and all of their friends are constantly coming and going, family is dropping in more than usual, and your neighbors are stopping by as they walk their...

When you were a child, what did you learn about keeping a clean house? Were you told that you had to clean your room without any explanation as to why? Or maybe you learned that cleaning was something that was only important to do when the arrival of house guests was imminent. Unless your parents enlisted the help of professional cleaning services, being told to “pick up your toys” or “make your bed” was something you probably heard on a daily basis.

Regardless of what you were taught about cleaning, most of us know that having a clean house is a good thing, and it takes a lot of time and effort to make it happen. But why should we put so much energy into it? There are actually many reasons for keeping a clean home that extend well beyond the poorly motivating theme of “because that’s what you’re supposed to do.” Our blog will help you learn about them — from the simple and common sense to reasons that you just may have never thought of before, our blog will surely give you more motivation to keep your home clean!

Improves Allergies

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You put a lot of time and effort into keeping your home clean for your family. Unfortunately, some of the house cleaning products you’re using day after day contain potentially toxic chemicals. If you’re trying to rid your home of dust, allergens, and bacteria, you probably don’t want to replace them with something even more harmful. If you’re ready to make a switch that will support the health of your family as well as the environment, why not try using safe, natural, alternatives in place of your usual cleaning products? To learn more, read this blog from Layla’s Maid Service, a family-owned cleaning company servicing Fredericksburg for over 15 years.

Why Choose Green?

More and more people are becoming aware of the products they are using and how potentially-harmful ingredients are not only poisonous, but how they can affect indoor air quality, and harm the environment. Common household cleaners are a big culprit. Ingredients such as chlorine, ammonia, lye, and artificial fragrances have been implicated in a wide range...

Spring has passed and summer is now upon us, meaning that there is no shortcoming of airborne pollen and dust. Because of this, keeping up on home cleaning in Stafford, VA can be a little difficult in an effort to help you stay on top of cleaning this summer, your Source of home cleaning services, Layla’s Maid Service, has compiled a short list of easily dirtied places in your house that we would be willing to bet that you seldom remember to clean.

The Ceiling Fan

Often overlooked because — well — nobody really spends their time looking up, the ceiling fan is often one of the dirtiest places in Stafford homes. The reasoning behind this is that even if the fan is moving, it can accumulate dust and other airborne substances. Sadly, when a fan is full of dust, pollen, and dirt it doesn't just accumulate and hold the substances, but rather holds and redistributes the airborne substances back around your house. If you hire Layla’s Maid Service for home cleaning in Stafford, VA, you can rest easy knowing your ceiling fans will get the attention that they...

Everyone wants to think that they can effectively clean their own homes without needing the help of a professional cleaning services company. While we wish that was the case (because we clean our own homes as well), we know that in order to fully clean a home it takes high-quality maid services. Here at Layla’s Maid Service, we offer house cleaning services to the King George, Stafford, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania areas so that people can focus on more important parts of their lives instead of cleaning two to four hours a day. So instead of googling “ house cleaning Fredericksburg VA,” just contact us for our home cleaning services.

In today’s blog, we will be discussing the things that you should consider when looking for a home cleaning company.

Do Your Research

When you are looking for professional house cleaning services online, it is important to do proper research before settling for a cleaning company. If you live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, you can start with...

Spring is in the air, and you know what that means. Yes, it means the flowers are starting to bloom and the trees are beginning to bud, but that isn't what we are talking about. What we associate with spring is not a pleasant as flowers and leaves, but is rather tasking and monotonous. Of course what we are talking about is spring cleaning.

Today, Layla’s Maid Service your local home cleaning services company is going to discuss a few simple tips that may make spring cleaning a little easier.

Clean Your Cleaning Tools

While this may seem like a counterproductive measure, if you want your house to become fully clean, your cleaning tools have to be clean as well. Smack your broom on the sidewalk outside to knock loose dust and debris that it has accumulated. Carefully clean the collection receptacle, as well as the bottom of your vacuum. Lastly, clean your sponges and washcloths. Now you are ready to clean.

Cleaning Your Stovetop

Arguably the easiest place in your house to get dirty is the stovetop, as they usually...

Hello, and welcome to our Layla's Maid Service house cleaning blog. Here at Layla’s Maid Service we have been serving our customers in King George, Stafford, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and their surrounding areas for close to 15 years. During our company's existence, we have cleaned countless homes with our professional cleaning services, so the odds are that you may have already heard of us. If you haven't heard of us and are interested in the services we provide, or what our previous customers have to say about us, please feel free to check out the rest of our site.

Why Cleaning Is Important

Having a clean home is important, in fact, a study at the University of Indiana found that there is a direct correlation between clean homes and healthy people. Having a clean home is a great way to stay healthy because cleaning actually physically slows down the replication and movement of contagious viruses, not to mention that a clean home just makes you feel good. Also, being able to sleep easier at...