At You’ve Got Maids® of Northern Virginia, we love a clean home. So it’s only natural we’d want to keep the home we all share clean, too: our planet.
We are NoVA’s eco-friendly house cleaning company. Our cleaners use HEPA-filter vacuums, reusable wipes, and non-toxic eco-friendly cleaning products – part of why You’ve Got Maids® is a certified green business by Green America.
We clean green… and we want to empower our customers to enjoy a cleaner, greener spring too!
Do-It-Yourself Green Cleaning: Five Simple Tips To Be Eco Friendly
Do your part to keep the world clean – and your home too! This spring cleaning time, take advantage of these environmentally friendly hints and tricks:
1. Create your own window cleaner with vinegar.
Forget those harsh blue chemicals. Here’s an easy-to-make toxin-free solution that’s both effective and safe for your kids and pets!
Just mix two tablespoons of distilled vinegar with two cups of distilled or tap water, add a few drops of essential oils (that part’s optional), pour into a spray bottle, point, and shoot!
2. Remove stains from carpets and upholstery with club soda.
Take it from You’ve Got Maids’® own Queen of Green. Whenever coffee, Kool-Aid or red wine puts a stain in your couch or carpet, non-toxic club soda is your secret weapon!
Club soda works so well for two reasons:
- The carbonation separates the stain from the fibers of the fabric.
- The mineral salts prevent the stain from re-settling.
Don’t be timid about really soaking the stain with the soda. Make sure it gets down deep into the fibers to pull out the entire stain.
3. Take off baked-on grease with a little salt (and a lot of elbow grease).
Don’t spray another aerosol can of de-greaser into the air! Copper or cast iron, de-grease your pots and pans with just some kosher salt and a spritz of lemon juice.
Pour in enough salt to coat the bottom of the cookware, swirl in the liquid citrus, and scrub the grease away… the green way! Sometimes the most eco friendly kitchen products are already in your pantry.
4. Get rid of condensation rings with mayonnaise.
That’s not a typo. Mayo will actually help remove many water marks from wooden furniture.
Smear it on the water ring and leave it overnight. If that doesn’t do the trick, mix some cigarette ashes into the mayo (again, not a typo) and apply that for a night – that should take care of it.
5. How to clean grout with baking soda: Brush your tiles!
You’ll need a toothbrush for those tricky stains wedged between the tiles of the bathroom shower. Dilute some vinegar with an equal amount of water, and spray or pour it on. Then make a paste of baking soda and water, and brush it in.
Alternate the vinegar and the baking soda until the tile grout is clean, then rinse the area. For really stubborn stains, use a paste of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide disinfectant.
Certified Green Cleaning Products and Services That Protect Your Home and Our World
So what does “go green” mean for spring cleaning? It means America’s Finest Maid Service™ uses only eco friendly products, equipment, and techniques that are healthy and sustainable for your family and our environment.
And it’s by meeting or exceeding high standards for social and environmental impact that You’ve Got Maids is recognized as a Green America® certified business.
We clean green in three main ways:
- Green cleaning products
You’ve Got Maids® cleans your home with only natural eco-friendly cleaning products that have:
- no toxins
- no carcinogens
- no irritants
- no allergens
- nothing corrosive to teeth or skin
- no harmful ingredients left behind
- Green cleaning equipment
Instead of single-use disposable items, You’ve Got Maids® uses reusable bottles, and micro-fiber cleaning cloths. Not only do these sustainable and eco-friendly household products help the environment, they’re also better than paper towels for removing dust and dirt.
In addition to that, we use efficient washing machines with eco friendly laundry detergent to reduce contamination, and high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuum cleaners to filter out and capture micron-sized particles. A HEPA filter is rated to trap 99.97% of all airborne particles bigger than 0.3 microns.
- Green cleaning techniques
We purchase cleaning supplies in bulk to reduce plastic waste, and communicate electronically as much as possible to reduce paper waste.
Plus, since all our professional house cleaners are graduates of Maid University, they’ve been trained to use the correct amount of cleaning solution, to reduce water waste.
This Spring, Get 52-Point Spring Clean™: Complete Eco Friendly House Cleaning from You’ve Got Maids®
With springtime on the horizon, the spring cleaning services included in our signature 52-Point Spring Clean™ package is about to become very popular!
The 52-Point Spring Clean™ cleans essentially every surface in every room of your home – a true deep clean with chemical-free eco-friendly cleaning products, including:
- tabletops
- sinks
- counters
- doors & door jambs
- cabinets
- backsplashes
- ceiling fans
- window sills
- refrigerators (inside and out)
- ovens (inside and out)
- and a lot more!
Take a Step toward Going Green With You’ve Got Maids®
Why go green cleaning for spring?
There’s no beating a green clean, especially this time of year. Spring is the perfect season to go green – after all, St. Paddy’s Day is coming up.
You’ve Got Maids® of Northern Virginia is the premier Go Green cleaners serving Fairfax and Loudoun County, VA. Providing environmentally conscious cleaning services is part of our mission as a home cleaning company.
The Best Professional Maid Service in Loudoun!
Thank you! Readers of the Loudoun Times-Mirror newspaper voted You’ve Got Maids® of Northern Virginia as a Best Of Loudoun finalist! We’re in the Home Cleaning Service category of the People & Services section.
Final round of voting is March 12-26. Please cast your votes (everyone can vote in each category once a day) at LoudounTimes.com/Best.
Give to Our Spring Food Drive
Through the end of April, we’re accepting non-perishable food items from our clients and donating them to local food pantries.
Next time we visit for home maid services, leave a bag of canned goods for the cleaning team. We’ll make sure it gets donated to a food bank near you – Loudoun Hunger Relief in Loudoun County, and Cornerstones in Fairfax County VA.
Book Your Eco Friendly Spring Cleaning Today
So You’ve Got Maids® is Northern Virginia’s top-rated professional cleaning service for good reason. From McLean to Reston to Leesburg, we offer a personal touch to professional maid service – we even get on a first-name basis with the dog!
Call us at 571-732-2199 or connect with us on Facebook to get your free estimate today.
Our teams of professional maids are reliable, uniformed, background-checked and successful graduates of Maid University. And we always take all precautions to safeguard your family’s health against COVID-19, by wearing face masks, disposable gloves, head caps, and foot covers at all times.
Your family deserves a clean home… and a clean planet. Using eco-friendly cleaning products is just another way You’ve Got Maids® focuses on the clean, so you can focus on your life.
