First of all, locate where the equipment has been stored in the back of the garage and remove the bike helmets, seed packets, watering cans, screwdrivers and tins of paint off it. Now get to work with a duster and some hot soapy water and a brush or three– you might actually be able to …
If you have trouble motivating yourself to get down to the intensive house cleaning, we all need to do from time to time, consider this: you can burn quite a few calories by doing housework and raise your heart rate. Some medical bodies consider a session of housework to be the equivalent of a light to …
The Dilemma of Keeping a Baby’s Environment Clean Most new parents become all too aware of their baby’s health and how vulnerable a little immune system is. The automatic reaction from most people is to try sterilising and boiling everything in sight in case a germ dares to attack their offspring. Children’s toys are cleaned …
In her classic book Superwoman, Shirley Conran claimed that housework constantly expands to fill all the available time plus half an hour. Hands up to everyone who has found that one to be true! Now that my hand is down again and touching the keyboard, I can say that it’s important to find a few “cheats” to help tame …
I once heard one of Frank Muir’s stories on that old BBC radio programme My Word! For his story, Frank was attempting to “explain” the origin of “The more haste, the less speed” and did so by turning this phrase into “The more Hayes’d, the less peed” after a story about How to Live with …
Q: How often should I clean my bathroom? A: Weekly is about right, unless someone has made a real mess. Toilets – if you have a toilet in the bathroom – may need cleaning even more frequently. Q: How do I clean the bath?A: Shake a whole lot of baking soda inside it. Then scrub …
Modern houses have bathrooms where we soak, splash, scrub and generally groom ourselves. The days of ancient Rome where bathhouses were state-funded and kept in good order by hordes of slaves are long gone, so what goes on in the bathroom is entirely up to us. Usually the more items there are, the more time …
We’ve all heard of spring cleaning – the big top-to-bottom scrub-up that everyone gave their house once the need for daily coal fires (with all that soot going everywhere) was past and the longer sunshine hours showed up all the dirt in dark corners that had got overlooked. But what about autumn cleaning? As the seasons change …
With prices of everything on the rise and income levels failing to keep up with the increase, people start to think of cost cutting measures to reduce the strain on their domestic budgets. One item that is frequently considered is the cost of home cleaning services. After all, the common argument goes, there is nothing high tech …
If you’ve been living at home up until now, you’ve probably been able to access all your parents’ cleaning gear and products. And if you’ve hired a professional cleaner, pros often have their gear. But now you’re on your own – either in your place or without the pro cleaner. What Do You Need? Cleaning …
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