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The recommended way to wash your hands

Proper hand hygiene is the number one way to reduce the risk of infection and it’s important to wash your hands frequently and properly, with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Here is the proper way to wash your hands as recommended by NHS: How to Wash Your Hands Correctly Wash your hands under […]

5 Ways To Upgrade Your Cleaning Routine

Now that the holidays are over and the New Year is upon us, it’s the perfect time to start upgrading your daily cleaning routine! Whether you’re a queen or king of cleaning checklists or just looking to get more organised in 2020, our cleaning experts at Merry Maids can help you stay on track with […]

Planning a Stress-Free Christmas Dinner Party

Whether you’re hosting a large group of friends and family at your house or cooking up a feast for your immediate family, it can be stressful to plan for a holiday dinner party – especially if you’re acting as head-chef, sous-chef and server throughout the event. After all, these meals most probably involve multiple courses, […]

Creep it Clean at Halloween

It’s nearly Halloween, where being scary is the norm, yet cleaning up after a Halloween party is sometimes the scariest part! Here are a few ideas to turn your Halloween into Halloclean! Creep it real and give ’em pumpkin to talk about, your party guests are dying to have fun! Blood on the floor… (fake. Usually […]

Fun Cleaning Games For Kids

Entertaining kids in the evenings and weekends is a difficult task, but have you thought about making cleaning fun for the kids? We’ve put our heads together and come up with a list of fun cleaning games that your kids will enjoy!   Fill Up Fun Fill Up Fun is all about recycling, although the […]

Back to School Organisation

With Summer coming to a close and the new school term edging closer, getting back into a routine can be challenging. The following tips can help you get your home ready for the upcoming days of homework, and other school activities within the next few months. Create a Homework Station It’s important for a small, […]

Merry Maids Kingston Win Franchisee of The Year Award

A Kingston based cleaning company is celebrating after collecting one of the most prestigious business awards in franchising.   Merry Maids of Kingston are left celebrating after scooping one of the most prestigious awards, the Dallen Peterson – Franchisee of the year award at ServiceMaster Ltd.’s annual business awards ceremony. Merry Maids of Kingston, is […]

Hiring a Cleaner is a Lifestyle Choice

A clean home is important for a number of reasons, but cleaning can be tiring and exhausting, let alone having time to actually do it! A lot more people nowadays opt for a domestic cleaning service like Merry Maids to do the main bulk of house cleaning for them. How would hiring a cleaner help […]

Making Your Bed Is Important For Your Health

There are a million and one excuses for not making your bed in the morning, here are a few common ones: “I got up late and I didn’t have time to make my bed.” “What’s the point? I’m getting back in it as soon as I get home.” “My pet is curled up on the […]

The Ugly Truths About Dust

Dust contains hair, pollen, soil, mould spores, textile fibres and dust mite faeces, amongst other matter. Fatty Dust Who remembers Marjorie from Little Britain saying, “Dust, anybody, dust? It’s actually very low in fat and you can eat as much as you like”? Marjorie is actually incorrect when it comes to dust being low in […]

How to remove mould in your home

The build-up of mould in your home is a certainty, but you can get rid of it with the right products and a little bit of elbow grease. The main two areas you’ll find mould are on the grout in between tiles, in your bathroom and kitchen and on your window sills. Why you get […]

5 Top Tips to Cut Your Cleaning Time

Nowadays, we all seem to be leading very busy lives and not having enough home time! This also means, that trying to keep your home clean and tidy in the short time you have, can end up being quite difficult. Try these 5 tips to cut your cleaning time: Freshen up in a flash You […]

Local business looking after local charities

A local Merry Maids business has granted his own Christmas wish to two charities in a vow to help the local community and give back. Gary Rolfe, owner of Merry Maids of Kingston decided he wanted to do something good for the local community and give two members of the public a Christmas and New […]

A New Beginning a Clean Start

Another year has passed and the start of 2019 is upon us. I hope it turns out to be a good and successful year for you. Anyway, here are some Merry Maids new year cleaning tips to help you with your clean start to 2019. Don’t be messy you’ll get stressy Take a walk around […]

5 Winter Cleaning Tips

To quote every character on Game of Thrones, “Winter’s coming”. Well, from today I think it’s already arrived, it’s freezing! The start of winter is the time to start cleaning specific items and areas in your house to get ready for the colder weather. Radiating radiators The most important items in your house during the […]

Your Halloween Cleaning Checklist

Your Halloween Cleaning Checklist It’s that time of year where being scary is the norm and we dress up as our favourite Halloween characters, a zombie maid or something along those lines. If you have a Halloween party at home it can get very messy, and turn your party it to a Halloclean party instead! […]

5 Ideas for Under Bed Storage

5 Ideas for under bed storage There may be a monster under your bed at the moment. If there is, then tell them to move because you need this area for storage! Just like that, you have solved the scary monster under the bed situation for your child! Anyway, this blog isn’t about the monster, […]

5 Tips On Keeping Your House Clean With Kids

5 Tips on keeping your house clean with kids Most parents sit down after a long day and remember how easy it was keeping your house clean before you had those precious little pains in the backside. However much you love your kids, cleaning up after them really is a chore in itself! There are […]

Kingston Merry Maids Celebrating Award

Kingston Merry Maids are celebrating after picking up a prestigious award for their staff members. Merry Maids of Kingston owner Gary Rolfe picked up the two awards at the national conference for ServiceMaster Limited held in June of this year. Merry Maids of Kingston covers Kingston Upton Thames, Richmond, Wimbledon, Putney, Wandsworth, Kew, Coombe, Ham […]

Hiring a maid will make you smile more

Hiring a maid will make you smile more! How would hiring a cleaner make you smile, you may ask. Well, are a few reasons you why you may want to consider hiring a maid . Do you have no time to clean? The average family now works more hours during the day, gets home to […]