The Secret to Happiness? A Great Housecleaner!

 

Given their druthers, almost everyone prefers living in a clean, tidy environment to living in one that is dusty and overflowing with clutter. Many of us live such demanding lives, however, that we just don’t have the time to keep up with the amount of work that’s necessary to keep a household well tended. Residential cleaning in Olney, MD, can permit you to enjoy the comforts of a neat and spotless home without cutting into recreational time. Cleaning services typically charge either by the hour or by square footage, so it’s easy to customize a service package that will work for you.

The Benefits of Hiring a Residential Cleaning Service

There are many advantages to hiring a residential cleaning service:

• A clean home: No longer will you feel overwhelmed by having to add housecleaning to all the other work and family obligations you have to juggle.

• You won’t …

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Building a Blackhouse in the Highlands and Islands

When your boiler goes it’s a real pain. It means no hot water or central heating. Luckily for us we can always give an Boiler Repair Gloucester firm like the ones at http://www.hprservicesltd.com/gloucester-boilers/boiler-repair-gloucester/ a call to come and sort it out. But what if a herd of sheep or cows were your central heating and your “boiler” was an open peat fire?

In the Highlands and Islands of Scotland the locals did not have much of a choice with what they could use so they developed and built something called a Blackhouse. These were homes made with natural materials of local stone, thatch and peat soil with any available driftwood that ended up on a beach. There was one section for the humans and the other for the animals kept on the croft which was a basic very small farm holding. This form of home was very ecological in some …

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