Cleaning Tips
Cleaning tips: plain answers before you book anything
14 guides on the questions we hear most on the phone. Each one explains what the job involves, what you can do yourself and when it makes sense to call a professional.
- Checked against CDC and EPA guidance
- Written for Connecticut homes and businesses
How these guides are written
Every guide is written and kept up to date by Viola Nash, our Cleaning and Disinfection Guides Editor, and checked against CDC, EPA and Connecticut public health guidance and against the way our crews actually do the work.
Where a guide gives a number, such as a bleach strength or a price range, it links to the source, so you can check it yourself.
All guides
Every cleaning tip, in one place
After an Unattended Death at Home: What to Do First
The first call, what to leave untouched, how the medical examiner works and when cleanup can start.
Who Pays for Crime Scene Cleanup in Connecticut?
Insurance, landlords and Connecticut's victim compensation of up to $1,000 for cleanup.
Cleaning Up Blood Safely: What OSHA Accepts
The disinfectants OSHA accepts, the bleach dilution and when a blood spill needs a professional.
Sewage Backup: What to Throw Away and What to Keep
What Connecticut's health department says to discard, what can be cleaned and the insurance side.
Cleaning vs Sanitizing vs Disinfecting: What Changes
What each word means, where each one belongs, and why contact time decides whether disinfecting works.
What House Cleaning Costs in Bridgeport, CT
Per-visit and hourly prices from local data, and what makes the same house cost more or less.
Electrostatic Disinfection: What It Does and Does Not Do
What the charged mist actually does, where it helps, and the label rules it still has to follow.
Stomach Bug at Home: What to Clean First
The first hour after someone is sick, the bleach strength CDC recommends, and what to clean next.
Found Mouse Droppings? How to Clean Them Up Safely
Why you never sweep them, and the soak-and-wipe method from CDC guidance.
Move-Out Cleaning Checklist for Connecticut Renters
A room-by-room checklist and how Connecticut's 21-day deposit rule works.
How Often Should an Office Be Cleaned?
Nightly, a few nights a week or weekly, and how to tell which one an office needs.
A Flu Season Cleaning Plan for Schools and Daycares
A practical October to May plan for classrooms, toys and shared touch points.
Winter Road Salt and Your Floors: Cleanup That Works
How road salt damages floors and carpet, and the cleanup that actually removes it.
Opening a Lake House in Spring: A Cleaning Plan
Airing out, droppings, mildew and the order to clean a house that sat closed all winter.
About our cleaning tips
Viola Nash, our Cleaning and Disinfection Guides Editor, writes and updates them, checking each one against CDC, EPA and Connecticut public health guidance.
For small jobs, often yes. Each guide says what you can safely do yourself and when it makes more sense to call.
Yes. Call and tell us what you would like covered; the questions we hear most often become new guides.
Rather have someone else do it?
Tell us what happened or what needs cleaning. We will tell you which service fits and when a crew can come.