The American Cleaning Institute (ACI)

Cleaning at Home

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Your home is your castle. We can help you make it sparkle! Get tips for a clean home and clean living, starting with the cleaning basics and moving on to cleaning solutions for surfaces, dishes, laundry and hands.

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Home Cleaning Basics

What are the most important steps to keeping a home clean and healthy? This guide gets you what you need to know for cleaning, from the kitchen to the bathroom to the laundry.

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Room by Room Guide

The room-by-room tour in this section takes a closer look at some of the most common surfaces in today's homes ... the challenges they present ... and their cleaning solutions.

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Efficient Home Cleaning Guide

Cleaning quickly and efficiently can save time, energy and resources. It's all about starting out with a plan.

Don't Forget...

Always keep cleaning products up and out of reach from children, especially liquid laundry packets!

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Home Cleaning Problems and Solutions

Did something go wrong while cleaning? Our problems and solutions guide can help you get it fixed quickly!

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Laundry

Doing laundry sounds as though it couldn't be simpler, especially with today's "easy care" fabrics, automatic appliances and sophisticated laundry products.

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Dishwashing

Washing dishes is probably subject to more variables than any other household clean-up job. In theory, at least, any detergent or soap can be used for hand dishwashing, except an automatic dishwasher detergent.

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De-Cluttering

There’s no doubt about it: not only can clutter accumulate in your home, but it can seem to build up in your brain too. The more "stuff" that accumulates, the more daunting it can be to clean around it. But reducing general clutter can be liberating and bring a breath of fresh air wafting through your living space.

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Cleaning After a Flood

If your home has experienced flooding, here are some steps you can take to clean up.