Housekeeping Features
How To: Mop a wood floor
Cinderella's plight has given mopping a bad name—but don't let poor PR keep you from a bright, shiny floor.This video will show you how to mop a wood floor.
How To: Preserve and clean your antique silver
This is a video tutorial in the Home & Garden category where you are going to learn how to preserve and clean your antique silver. Tony Duke shows a fast and effective way to clean heavily soiled silver ware. Put the silverware in to the "silver dip" fluid and leave it for about 35 to 45 seconds. You will see that it is cleaning. Because it is a liquid, it gets in to the nooks and corners of the silverware and cleans them. Take it out of the liquid and wash it. You then got to polish it with ...
How To: Clean your microwave with just a few lemons and water
Is your microwave full of food and sauce spatter? You can easily remove all sorts of food detritus without using harsh or potentially toxic chemicals - all you need is to microwave a lemon in some water for a few minutes. Cleans easily, and your microwave smells fantastic!
How To: Fold socks
Did you know there was a proper way to fold socks? Get clean, organized, and have more space after you watch this video and learn the correct way to fold socks Fold socks.
How To: Fold a fitted sheet for perfect storage
Folding fitted sheets is always trickier than folding a conventional rectangular sheet. First, throw the sheet onto the bed. Then use your hands to tuck all the corners in on themselves. Then lay the sheet back down and straighten it. It makes a horseshoe shape with its elastic. Then fold one corner over the top so that all your elastic hangs over one hand. With the other hand grab the other corner so you can lay it down flat in a half moon shape with all the elastic together in one place. Th...
How To: Wash jeans
How to wash jeans, clean stains, dry and fold your pants to prevent wrinkles; get professional tips and advice on washing and drying any type of jeans in this free instructional video series.
How To: Make grouting look as good as new
Jacqueline Hansen shows us quick and easy tips on how to make grouting look as good as new. Video tips and tricks can be applied to grouting within tiling in bathrooms and kitchens. Make grouting look as good as new.
How To: Inspect a fireplace
In this video we show you how to inspect a fireplace.
How To: Iron a pair of pants
Just like a well-polished pair of shoes or a crisply starched shirt, a sharp crease in a pair of pants shows you're dressed to impress.
How to Kill bed bugs: Climbup™ Insect Interceptor
The Climbup Insect Interceptor is a new monitor for the use of detecting bed bugs. This is a new monitor. It's a passive monitor. You can place the monitors underneath one of the legs of a sofa or bed or other suspicious piece of furniture. This will not rid your home of bed bugs. This is a way of letting you know where the infestation is or isn't. It is a monitor, but it does not control them. Once the bugs fall into the trap, they can't get out. You will need to properly dispose of them, af...
How To: Fold a fitted sheet for neater storage
This video is a crash course presented by Murphy, Sam and Jodi on how to fold a fitted sheet for neater storage. The guy presenting the video picks up a fitted sheet and shows you how your fitted sheet usually ends up - like a ball in your closet. He then takes you through the steps to fold it neatly. First you have to take the long side of the sheet and put your hands inside the cover on the sheet edges. Next, stretch your hands with the plain side of the sheet facing outside. When you have ...
How To: Thoroughly clean tile grout
In this video Rich explains how to maintain a grout and tile floor. He uses a chemical cleaner which he describes as a "grout-smart type product." For regular maintenance of the floor Rich recommends using only 1oz of the product per gallon of warm water but for really badly stained floors using up to 12oz per gallon of warm water. Rich mixes the chemical into his water then applies the mixture to the tile using an ordinary deck scrubber, he then uses an angled scrubber which has bristles tha...
How To: Unclutter your kitchen
Is your kitchen out of control cluttered? Do you have paper work, utensils, and junk mail scattered in the one room in your house that should act as your sustenance sanctuary? In this episode of Real Women Scrap, the hub of every household is attacked as well as other ways to unclutter your kitchen.
How To: Remove a carpet stain and clean your jewelry
If you have ever spilled red wine on a light colored carpet, you know it is the last thing you want to do. You can use regular table salt to get that stain out. Just pour a good amount of salt over the wine and leave it over night, the salt will absorb the wine and you will be able to clean it right up.
How To: Clean cutlery
Sandra Redmond shows a great way to bring a sparkle back to your cutlery. Using tin foil, a bowl and a towel, Sandra adds bicarbonated soda to water and drops the cutlery into it. Watch video for best results. Clean cutlery.
How To: Easily sort your snail mail with wall hooks and binder clips
If you've been letting your snail mail pile up for days on end, there's an easy solution that won't cost you anything. Just rummage around your house and find some wall hooks or binder clips, and start sorting away. You'll be surprised at how much more organized this method is!
How To: Organize your closet with Kevin Sharkey
Organizing your closet can be tough work: What do you take out, what do you toss, and what do you keep and where? It's easy to just stuff all of life's little odds and ends in your closet, but you'll achieve a much more peaceful state of mind when things are in order.
How To: Clean the kitchen floor
Watch this video to learn the best and most effective way to clean your kitchen floor.
How To: Catch a mouse
A step by step set of instructions on how to catch a mouse.
How To: Clean and reorganize your room
With allergy season in full swing, this video can help you clear the clutter from your bedroom and add a fresh coat of paint to create a soothing sleep sanctuary. Learn alternatives to the traditional headboard and create a new one from faux wood contact paper.
How To: Make a red wine stain vanish, make a curry dish, & clean your jeans
If you're looking for a tutorial on how to clean your jeans without washing them, make a tasty curry dish, and figure out how to get a red wine stain out of your carpet, this next video covers all that! It's a quick, fast paced, detailed tutorial that is taught by Ninjas!
How To: Begin organizing your closet
Closet organization can be easy with the right strategy, and to discover where to start when organizing a closet, Meghan Carter visited professional organizer Cynthia Ivie.
How To: Organize your desk area with a plastic dish drainer
This is a cheap way to Keep your desk organized, especially if you have so many things and your space is limited. Find out how by watching this video. A simple dish rack is a great storage unit, as well as a way to dry out your dishes. Watch this video housekeeping tutorial and learn how to keep a desk organized.
How To: Clean glassware so it sparkles
Jacqueline Hansen shows us how to clean glassware. Using the soap, rubber gloves, sponge and a warm water and vinegar solution presents magnificent results. Clean glassware so it sparkles.
How To: Get up tough stains using things around the house
Bob Schmidt from Home Remodel Workshop teaches how to remove persistent carpet stains. Clean up the source of the stain as quickly as possible. Once the source of the stain is removed, mix one teaspoon of dish detergent with a cup of hot water. Pour the mixture on the stain. Soak clean rags in a bucket of hot water and place them over the spot. Place a hot iron over the rags and force steam into the carpet.
How To: Remove permanent marker
Ever written anything with an permanent marker on your magnetic blackboard? This is how to remove it. Remove permanent marker.
How To: Remove sweat stains with aspirin
Hard days at work and sweaty commutes home ruining your white shirts? Well don't let it, as there is one thing you can try, just grab that aspirin and we'll show you how. Remove sweat stains with aspirin.
How To: Remove scale crust with boiling water
This video demonstrates how to remove scale crust from an electric kettle with boiling water. This can be done in 5 minutes with virtually no effort.
How To: Deal with termites with This Old House
Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to get rid of termites. Steps:
How To: Wash & clean your hardwood floors
The best way to clean a hardwood floor is to make sure that you don't use excessive moisture. For the actual process, you should just get a dry mop. You should try to make sure that your hardwood floor never gets wet at all. In the event that someone steps on your floor with their muddy shoes, damp mopping is the way to go about dealing with that. Even if it looks messy, it is better not to douse the floor; the moisture seeps between the cracks in the boards and gets underneath it, doing dama...
How To: Pressure wash your house
In this DIY home improvement video series, learn how to pressure wash the exterior of your house—as well as the sidewalks, driveway and deck. Our expert will show you where to get a pressure washing machine, how to hook it up, what wands and tips to use, and how to start the pressure washer. Then follow him as he takes you around the house—from roof, to eaves, to windows, to exterior walls—showing you the proper pressure washing techniques for cleaning. After watching these videos, you should...
How To: Clean green
Learn how to clean green. Forget the industrial cleaners and acids: a few household basics are all you need to breathe fresh air into your home.
How To: Remove stickers
We have all had a sticker stuck on something that just will not come off. No need you scrape all day. Use a handy science trick and apply some heat to loosen up the adhesive and remove that unwanted sticker.
How To: Prevent mice from living in your house
In this tutorial, we learn how to prevent mice from living in your house. To start, you will need to inspect around your home and see if there are any holes that mice can get in and out of. Also, look for signs of their waste laying around. Get on the roof and make sure it's secure, with no holes in it where mice can get into your attic. If there are small holes, cover them up using small pieces of wire that they cannot push their way through. After you do this, your home will be safe from mi...
How To: Fold a fitted sheet like a pro
Fitted sheets can be quite a hassle if you are unsure how to tame the elastic edging and odd form. Cure Wrinkles, with Erin Bried, teaches you how to fold a fitted sheet correctly. Start by having the sheet inside out and place one hand in one of the corners and the other hand in the corner closet to the first corner. Then put one of your corners into the other corner so that one hand has two corners and the other is free. Watch the rest of the video to learn how to turn that clump of a sheet...
How To: Unclutter your CD & DVD collection
With the CDs and DVDs you want to do less purging and more organizing. A good way to unclutter your DVDs is to dedicate a bookshelf to your collection. Put the adult movies on top and alphabetize them so that they are up away from the kids reach. Put the movies for the family and kids down lower so that they can get to their movies and watch them. For the CDs a binder will hold a lot of them and allow you to get rid of all the hard plastic cases. You can put hundreds in just one binder. A gre...
How To: Organize your closet
To organize the closet you have to start with the donate or keep principle. Start your piles and get rid of the stuff that you no longer need. You can also have a "can't decide" pile that you put somewhere until you decide but the general rule is, if you haven't used it in a year you probably never will. There are six areas in a closet. First is short hang. It is the most common and includes shirts, blouses, and folded pants. Short hang can be hung in one level or double hang levels. Hangers ...
How To: Clean a microwave spotlessly
Jacqueline Hansen shows how clean a microwave spotlessly. Using rubber gloves, a microwave bowl, lemon juice, washing detergent, kitchen spray, a soft cloth and paper towels, Jacqueline provides a wonderful demonstration to remove the microwave stains. Clean a microwave spotlessly.
How To: Get rid of kitchen smells
Cooking fish and deep frying at home can be real crowd pleasers, but the smelly odors left behind aren't. These quick tips will help leave your kitchen smelling great.
How To: Make an safe edible household cleaner with Jenny Jones
In this tutorial, talk show host Jenny Jones shows you how to make a totally edible cleaning solution that is great around the house. The best part is that this is totally safe for kids and pets and can be used for so many different things. Jenny will also show you how to make a dispenser so that it is easier to keep this cleaner around the house and use it. Check it out!