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Office Refrigerator Etiquette
The office fridge: it’s less a modern marvel and more a mythological world. With both hope and fear, you and your employees gaze into the chilly, glowing compartments. Inside, you see a festering pile of long-forgotten lunches, sticky lagoons of spilled drinks, and passive-aggressive notes like X’s marking the spot on a mysterious…
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Is Your Cleaning Company Really Cleaning Your Office?
You own an office or a commercial building and pay for it to be cleaned on a weekly basis. Trash has been removed and office knickknacks have been straitened. But how can you be sure your cleaning company is actually cleaning your Columbus office the way you intended them to? The following checklist is intended to give you an idea…
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How a Clean Workspace Boosts Productivity
It may not come as a big surprise that clutter breeds distraction in the workplace. If you’ve ever had to stop what you’re doing to dig through files on your desk, you already know that those minutes of searching are compounded by another 10 minutes of trying to regain your focus. What may be surprising is that there is a lot…
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Not Your Average Obligatory New Year Office Cleaning Checklist
You've probably heard this dismal statistic before: only a meager 8 percent of people achieve their New Year's resolutions, according to a study by the University of Scranton. Where does that leave the other 98 percent of us? Usually fizzling out before the end of January and dreaming up creative excuses for our failures. Well,…
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How to Remove Rock Salt from Your Office Carpet
We've mentioned before that winter can wreak untold havoc on your Columbus office. Between the melted snow sludge and rock salt, your office's entrance and lobby may not look much better than a gravel-strewn road after a heavy rain. What's worse: if left unattended, rock salt can discolor your carpets, causing unsightly…
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5 Places Around the House You Don't Clean but Should
For germs and dust bunnies, there's no place like home. Your home, to be exact. These unwanted guests like to hunker down in places you may pass by all the time but forget to clean on a regular basis. So what five places should you pay attention to if you want to improve your Columbus home's cleanliness and air quality and…
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How to Clean Common Child-Induced Messes
Some parents say that you can have a clean house or you can have kids – choose wisely. But at Two Men & A Vacuum, we know that you don't have to choose between your sanity and keeping a clean house, even when your expert mess-makers are on a particularly messy streak as of late. In the interest of preserving the little free…
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Why Your Large Office Space Requires Deep Cleaning
Think about your Columbus office. Don't just draw to mind the workstations or lobby. We want you to imagine the entryway, the corners of each cubicle, and the walls. Picture the hard-to-reach shelves, storage rooms, and bathrooms. If you have a small commercial office, chances are this quick experiment wasn't too challenging.…
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Can a Clean House Fight the Winter Blues?
Winter: for those with seasonal affective disorder, this time of year can feel like a march of endless gloom. And when you live in Columbus, Ohio, the sleet and ice storms don't help improve anyone's mood. But unless you're going to pack up and move south of the Equator, there's not much you can do to escape winter in the Midwest. There…
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