help cleaning the house

leeegglestone

As posted here. just got my own house and need to give it a clean

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=2100061#post2100061

Any tips for me.

Maybe how to deodourise or give each room a Fresh Feeling?

Essex-girl_2

Firstly would recommend buying some stardrops cleaner - there is a thread on this - sorry cant do links. Excellent value and works really well - also buy some microfibre clothes these make cleaning a lot easier. (Loads pf places sell them)

In the fridges I would put an opened tub of bicab of soda in after youve cleaned them - this absorbs odours.

White vinegar (also brill for cleaning) is a deodoriser - just put some in a small dish overnight in any smelly rooms. Essential oils - chose one you like then put a small amount on lightbulbs you can do this on rads as well but guess they wont be on now.

You will get loads of replies to this - also if you look in the indexed collections there is wealth of cleaning info.

Good Luck

Oh and by the way I put half a lemon in a bowl of water and heat in microwave for a couple of minutes - makes the kitchen smell nice and the microwave is then easy to clean.

Linda32

If you want a fresh smell, us Flash Bathroom spray, it really does have a nice clean fresh smell. Which does linger.

As for cleaning the oven, what I do is use one of those metal curly thingies, abit like brillo but without the soap. That with hot soapy water or stardrops of course and elbow grease.

About once every three weeks I do one shelf each evening after washing up, then I do the door and base of the oven. Seems to help keep on top of things.

If you prefer a routine thats fine but make it one you can stick too.

Most of all though, enjoy your new home

leeegglestone

Is this stardrops stuff similar to cillitbang?
Will def look for it, seems pretty cheap

Benidormqueen

:T Stardrops is brill for everything even washing the car it will not harm the bodywork, CHEAP Only about 70p in home bargains, cillet bang not tried that yet so cannot coment on it. happy cleaning :rolleyes:

leeegglestone

can you get stardrops in Instore(poundstretcher) and those micro clothes, am goin there 2morrow and possibly Ikea

Benidormqueen

leeegglestone wrote:

can you get stardrops in Instore(poundstretcher) and those micro clothes, am goin there 2morrow and possibly Ikea

Not sure you can try, asda &morrissons sell star drops not seen starclean though, should get your micro-cloths at poundstretcher ,
happy cleaning.:j

leeegglestone

i got one of them microfibre Clothes, seems quite a big size, more like a T-Towel size.

I need to clean my Oven. Can I use this with the cillitbang?

Linda32

leeegglestone wrote:

i got one of them microfibre Clothes, seems quite a big size, more like a T-Towel size.

I need to clean my Oven. Can I use this with the cillitbang?

Yes I would have thought so.

henhog

If your feeling keen and enthusistic you could borrow the Kim and Aggie - How Clean is your House? book from the library. They have a section on cleaning a new house from top to bottom in it, which might be useful but makes me want to have a lie down just thinking about it!