How to Prep Your Home for Winter: A 20-Item Punch List There are many different methods for keeping your home cozy and warm in the winter, from inexpensive tactics to green remedies to expensive and more extensive upgrades. We’ve boiled down – from hundreds of home-prep ideas – a list of the best tips, preferred… Read more »
How To Keep Your Carpet Clean
10 Tips for Keeping Your Carpet Fresh and Clean Carpeting – we walk on it, sit on it, put furniture on it, and lounge on it. It absorbs fur and dander from pets, food and drink that are accidentally spilled, and dirt and mud on the bottom of shoes, as well as enduring general wear… Read more »
Air Duct Cleaning 101
Your heating and cooling system are the lungs of your home, and proper care of them is essential to a healthy living environment. Pollutants in the air come from many different places – foot traffic from the outdoors, cooking, smoking, moving around the home, and even cleaning. While the dust and debris in your environment… Read more »
21 Ways to Keep Mold Out of Your Home
While East Coast summer-humidity can be brutal for most New Englanders, floating mold spores thrive in it. When a spore has access to moisture and cellulose, one of the main components of plants, it multiplies and colonizes. Wet areas of your home are an ideal place for mold to collect, making mold removal a necessity…. Read more »
Common Types of Tile and the Best Cleaning Methods
Homes today feature all sorts of tiles and while most offer decades of beautiful use, it’s easy to damage certain types of tiles with the wrong cleaners. Don’t assume that a big bottle of industrial-strength cleaner is appropriate for your tiles. The best cleaning methods for each type of tile usually differs. Instead, figure out what… Read more »
Breathe Easier With These Spring Mold Tips
Molds are miniature, invasive fungi that take root in your home and breed in damp places like bathrooms and poorly ventilated rooms. Each spring when the days get longer and the weather heats up spring mold issues arrive. Mold is Dangerous for Everyone Mold isn’t something you can ignore. Disturbing mold spores and releasing them… Read more »
These 4 Mold Videos Show How Mold in the Home Can Turn Your Life Upside Down
Today we’re going to share a few mold videos that illustrate how devastating the health and financial consequences of untreated mold can be. People often imagine that mold damage is more of a cosmetic issue than a health problem. However, as we’ll see here, this is far from the case. Mold issues in the home… Read more »
Attic Mold: The Importance of Proper Ventilation
Getting rid of attic mold is crucial to protecting your home’s value and to protecting the health and safety of your family. At the same time, your home’s ventilation systems must be updated or improved to keep moisture out and away from your home. This is essential to prevent recurring attic mold issues. Attic Mold:… Read more »
Tips To Prevent Frozen Pipes in your Home or Business
Few things are worse than a major property damage disaster. Did you know that up to a quarter-million homeowners have their homes ruined and their lives disrupted each winter because of frozen water pipes? Frigid nights can very quickly turn to extremely expensive water damage ordeals. Here are Some Tips to Prevent Frozen Pipes in… Read more »
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At Octagon Cleaning and Restoration, our commitment to excellent customer service and customer satisfaction shows in everything we do, and it’s the reason we continue to be a top choice for homeowners, insurance professionals, corporations and property management firms throughout the great state of Maine and Seacoast New Hampshire. Customer feedback is huge to us,… Read more »