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January 9, 2012
We’ve Extended Our Service Area!
We’re proud to announce that we’ve begun servicing customers in Kemptville, Perth, Smith Falls, and Almonte. We’re offering our full range of regular house visits for our frequency clients as well as commercial cleaning services for small business.
As one of Ottawa’s premier house cleaning and house keeping services, we’re committed to creating awareness about the realities of commercial cleaning products and their dangers. You can clean your home without the use of bleach, and taking the environment into consideration is easier than you think. Contact us to schedule a booking for your house cleaning or request a quote.
June 16, 2011
Cleaning Tips: Things To Know About Your Dishwasher
Many people think their dishwashers are not prone to bacteria. Why would they be? The environment utilizes strong dishwasher detergent and hot water. The misconception is that it can be one of the least likely places to find anything.
Not true.
The U.K. Daily Mail reports that researchers found 62 per cent of dishwashers contained the fungi Exophiala dermatitidis and E. phaeomuriformis on the rubber band in the door. Both of the black yeasts are known to be dangerous to human health. Both bacterias displayed stronger than normal resistances to heat (hot water), active corrosives, detergents, and both acid and alkaline water. This sudden education on the characteristics of certain bacteria was surprising as these are a series of resistances not previously observed. One of the bacterias (Exophiala dermatitidis) is known as an agent of human disease and can affect the lining of lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis.
You can read the article at the U.K. Daily Mail here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2006329/Dishwasher-fungi-Dr-Polona-Zalar-finds-deadly-bacteria-household-appliances.html
Many people will run white vinegar through their dishwashers once a month. We recommend this practice, and even increasing the number of times you do this to twice.
As one of Ottawa’s premier house cleaning and house keeping services, we’re committed to sharing information about house hold appliance cleaning and general residential cleaning practices. Contact us to schedule a booking for your house cleaning or request a quote.
May 31, 2011
How ActiveIon Water Technology Works
ActiveIon Water Technology is arguably one of the most revolutionary products that’s come to market in the last 50 years. We’re proud to say we’re the only cleaning company in Ottawa who’s invested in ActiveIon and have been actively using it in all of our cleanings. The science behind it has actually been around for a while, but it’s typically been way too expensive to apply commercially. The process is actually quite simple.
- Water – regular everyday tapwater – is drawn through something called a Water Cell. The water cell applies a negative and positive charge to the water as it moves through a membrane. As the electricity is applied to the water, it causes the water molecule to break down, and allows gas bubbles to form between the molecules.
- These gas bubbles are mainly made up of hydrogen and oxygen. These bubbles also take on a positive or negative independent charge. This is called “water activation”.
- These bubbles are what attach to the dirt – which can have either a positive or negative charge themselves. Opposites attract.
- Like charged molecules repel from one another. The positive or negative charged molecules literally grab dirt off of surfaces. The bubbles trap the dirt in the activated water.
- While the water is leaving the nozzle of the Ionator – there is a small electrical field which is applied to the mist.
- This electrical field bombards germs and bacteria with enough electrical stimulation to destroy them – sanitizing any surface or area with the same, if not a better effect than ANY commercially available cleaner.
- Simply wiping the surface down removes dirt and bacteria that the activated water been applied to.
As one of Ottawa’s premier house cleaning and house keeping services, we’re committed to creating awareness about the realities of commercial cleaning products and their dangers. You can clean your home without the use of bleach, and taking the environment into consideration is easier than you think. Contact us to schedule a booking for your house cleaning or request a quote.
May 26, 2011
Greenapple House Cleaning on A Channel
We were on A Channel yesterday morning with Kurt Stoodley, talking about Cleaning Because We Care, the program we’ve launched with the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. You can see the interview in it’s entirety with the link above.
As one of Ottawa’s premier house cleaning and house keeping services, we’re committed to creating awareness about the realities of commercial cleaning products and their dangers. You can clean your home without the use of bleach, and taking the environment into consideration is easier than you think. Contact us to schedule a booking for your house cleaning or request a quote.
April 30, 2011
Greenapple House Cleaning Partners With the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation for Cleaning Because We Care
We’re pleased and proud to announce our partnership with the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation on a new program called Cleaning Because We Care
We reached out to the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation early in the year, and offered to clean the homes of cancer patients while they endure what is often the tiring treatments and therapies that follow a diagnosis. As a result, we put together a program to have Greenapple dispatched to the homes of those who need the service while the ORCF administrates the deployments. For every fan or “like” we receive at our Facebook page, we will donate $5 in free cleaning. You can find Greenapple on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenapple-House-Cleaning-Inc/182013505156489
You can find the press release here - Cleaning Because We Care – Press Release – April 27th, 2011
Contact us to find out more about the program.
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