A schedule that keeps things spotless.

Baseboards are often at the bottom of the list when it comes to cleaning. We rarely bend down to take a closer look, even though they serve as an extension of the floor. Baseboards become a repository ...

Plus, how often you should be cleaning them. Why is it that baseboards need to be covered in dirt and grime before we even notice that they need to be cleaned? If this is your experience, too, know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Liudmila Chernetska/Getty Images After a messy, frigid winter, my baseboards (and probably yours) are, in a word, gross.

Dark, shadowy, dirty lines on the carpet along baseboards, under doors and draperies, along the edges and in the crevices of carpeted stairs are visible signs of a problem called filtration soil. With ...