Bargains in Bloom: Employee Discounts on Spring Cleaning
Save on cleaning services for the yard, home, car and more
Twice a month, Diane Mangum takes her 2014 Ford Expedition to Bull City Car Wash in Durham.
She sits in an air-conditioned waiting area and watches through big windows as her SUV goes through the wash, followed by a towel dry, vacuuming and window cleaning. When she pays, Mangum receives a Duke employee discount – 10 percent off the Express, Deluxe or Ultimate wash by showing her DukeCard ID.
“They are quick and pay attention to detail,” said Mangum, a Duke Cardiology-Electrophysiology administrative assistant.
Springtime sets off a chain-reaction cleanup from removing pollen from surfaces to landscaping yards. Finish your spring cleaning with these Duke employee discounts:
Beautify the yard
Instead of worrying about what flowers to plant and where to place them, work with a designer. Durham-based Agape Lawn Co. provides landscape design and offers employees 20 percent off landscape design services, which are regularly $99. The service includes a one-hour consultation. Employees must show their DukeCard.
Combat carpet stains
To erase pet accidents or muddy shoe prints, call Spotless Clean & Carpet Care in Durham, which will carpet-clean four rooms for $149, a savings of $31. Receive $15 off each additional room.
Sondra Horn, grants and contracts administrator for the Center for Advanced Hindsight, used the company in November and saved $200. She was moving out of a rental house and wanted to make sure it was clean for
the next tenants.
“It gave me the peace of mind that I was leaving the rental in as good, if not better, condition than we found it three and a half years earlier,” Horn said.
Pressure wash surfaces
Rinse grime from the driveway, mildew from siding or pine sap from the roof. Team Todd Pressure Washing in Raleigh offers employees a $50 discount to pressure wash a home. Prices range from $125 for a home up to 2,000 square feet to $175 for a 4,000-square-foot home.