3 Ways to Maximize Holiday Clean-Up With Your Vacuum
This time of the year often stimulates a lot of crafting. You want to make cards for every occasion, cook the finest foods and decorate your whole home. However, cleaning up after crafting is no easy task. There are many tools you can use to clean up the messes you’ve conjured, but using an Oreck seems like the best option. Here are a few ways you can maximize your holiday clean-up.
Find Lost Items
When constructing complicated crafts, you may discover that you lose items amongst the messes more easily. Sometimes these misplaced items have been moved elsewhere, but in other cases, certain accessories are around but remain unseen.
Find lost items easily by strapping a pantyhose over your Oreck hose and push the hose over the area where you suspect you’ve lost the item.
You can also use this method to find rings, earrings, coins, wires, beads, screws and more.
Clean Tight Spaces
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Reaching small spaces with a wide, circular Oreck hose is impossible, especially if you’re trying to vacuum up glitter or small pieces of paper struck in difficult areas.
The store sells additional parts to combat this issue, but if you want a quick and easy clean-up without spending anything, try taping a toilet paper or paper towel role onto the vacuum hose and shaping the end into whatever design you need.
You’ll find that using this method is useful when removing dust, pine needles, pumpkin seeds, food scraps, glitter and tinsel from under your stove, against your floorboards or between your couch cushions.
Battle Hard-To-Clean Messes with Ease
When it comes to cleaning up difficult messes, you will often find yourself reaching for the strongest spray cleaner or harshest tool you can find. Sometimes messes require the big guns, but other times you have to work smarter, not harder.
If you’ve spilled glitter on your carpet and vacuuming it up simply doesn’t work, try instead to work rubbing alcohol into the glitter-laden area and use your Oreck to remove the mess.
Most things can be cleaned using a vacuum, even if they’re wet. If you’ve spilled pumpkin innards on your carpet, you can simply wait until they dry, scrape them loose and vacuum them up. However, with most messes, you may also want to use a quality carpet cleaner to lift stains.
The holidays are often accompanied with massive amounts of stress, but at least you can now have an Oreck at your side and a handful of cleaning tips that will make the holidays easier to deal with and much more enjoyable.
Natalie New is a home improvement writer for Fusion 360, an SEO and content marketing agency. Information provided by Shop Oreck. Follow on Twitter.
