
The DIY Guide To Cleaning Your Furniture
Furniture is there to be used, and that’s just a fact. A couch can sit against the wall in any home, but if nobody sits in it, what purpose does it serve? If you’re like us, at the end of a long day, your couch is where you can kick back and take a well-deserved...
How To Clean Your Carpet By Hand
Here at Bear Carpet Cleaning and Water Restoration, we take cleaning carpets seriously. When we clean your carpets, we come prepared with carpet cleaning vans, professional cleaning solution, industrial grade vacuums, and thousands of dollars worth of equipment to...
Bear’s 2019 Home Spring Cleaning Checklist Part 1: Kitchen
Spring is in the air, and with warmer weather, you’re probably opening some windows to let that spring air into your home. With open windows comes sunlight, and let’s be honest, if you haven’t cleaned your home thoroughly in a while, sunlight might not be as...
5 Secrets Of Carpet Cleaning
You know how they say that a magician never reveals their tricks? Well, we’re here today to reveal some of our coveted carpet cleaning magic that you can use in your home. Does this make us bad carpet magicians? We don’t think so. Will this upset other carpet...
Winter Home Tips #5: Ice Dams, And How To Prevent Them
If you’re reading this, you are most likely wondering what exactly an ice dam is, how they happen, and what you can do to prevent them. Here at BEAR Water Restoration and Carpet Cleaning, we’ve got over 20 years serving the Mid-Michigan area, and we’ve all about...
Zen And The Art Of Reversing Your Ceiling Fans
Here at BEAR Water Restoration and Carpet Cleaning, we’re always looking for easy ways that you can make your home more comfortable and save a buck in the process. Today we’re going to talk about one that you don’t hear too often, as a matter of fact, you may not even...
Winter Home Tips #3: Thermostat Wars
We’ve all been there. If you don’t have kids of your own, maybe you remember the days of one or both of your parents telling you sternly not to touch the thermostat. Maybe now you are that parent gatekeeping the thermostat, maybe you are the rebellious...
Winter Home Tips #2: Prepare A Winter Storm Kit While Stores Are Still Stocked
Well Michigan, the snow may not be here yet, but it is on it’s way. For all we know, we may have a mild and easy winter this year, but as we all know, if Michigan weather is one thing, it’s unpredictable. See, Michigan people are just a bit tougher than most. We...
BEAR Winter Tips: Part 1
Well, winter is finally upon us. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and though it’s snowed once or twice, the ground is still green outside, and most days you can still see it, assuming you’ve kept up on your leaf raking. But that won’t be the case for...
BEAR Fall Home Tips #3: Dryer & Heating Vents
By now, we’ve gotten pretty deep into the trenches of Fall. Halloween has passed, the leaves are changing colors and falling from the trees, and temperatures of course, are plummeting. The time has rolled back, and the sun sets earlier, in conditions like these,...