Hints and Tips for Household Cleaning Reviews

Here's a tip that will save you time and money ... use colour catcher with your washing and wash whites and colours together without worrying about the colours running! A Colour Catcher sheet will catch any running dyes and keep your washing the colour it should be! I used have to constantly replace my husbands white work shirts after a washing mistake but not I don't need to worry. I also don't have any half loads so I'm not wasting energy and the work at 30degrees so its better all round! Its a brilliant product for anyone who does their washing I wish it was invented sooner saving me more money on all those white shirts!!

Being a bit of a skinflint (lol) and trying to make 2008 a "save as much money as possible" year I have been searching on the internet for ideas to save money. I am registered on a money-saving website but that will wait for a separate review lol. This is my own recipe (tweaked from one I saw online!) for fabric ...  Read the complete review

Housework is a something everyone needs to get done, regardless of the size of the home, or the amount of time spent at home. Let the little things slip and you end up with mountains of stuff to do, do when you only have “free time” and you end up marvelling at the amount of washing and dust that appears as well as the dust bunnies that appear to ...  Read the complete review

With all the lovely sunshine recently I have noticed several areas in my house which could do with a spring clean. BOTTOMING I dust and vacuum every room in the house weekly, but every couple or months or so I give the house what I call "a bottoming." This means furniture has to be pulled out and dusted underneath, ...  Read the complete review

I've used this stuff to clean my windows. it works very well, even in highly diluted form. The only problem I have with all of these products is that they take time and effort - and I'm too busy and too lazy. Recently, I decided to try a new approach to ensuring I have clean windows. Actually my neighbour got it first and she told me about it and ...  Read the complete review

*****Hints and Tips for Greener Household Cleaning***** Shopping List Must remember to buy: Oven Cleaner – Mr Muscle - £1.88 Furniture Polish – Pledge – 89p Carpet Cleaner – Vanish - £3.98 Washing Up Liquid – Fairy Antibacterial - £1.26 Floor Cleaner – Dettol - £1.98 Window Cleaner – ...  Read the complete review

I first saw "Cilit Bang " advertised on t.v several months ago, and decided to give it a try, the advert said it would leave everything sparkling clean. The cupboard under my sink used to be full of cleaning products - Cleaners for the bath - cleaners for the kitchen - toilet cleaners - stainless steel cleaners for my cooker and ...  Read the complete review

Occasional you find a product that is just so useful you really have to share it with other people. This is one product that everyone will find some use for. When I first saw the advert for Flash Mark and Stain Eraser I knew I would have to try it. When we moved into our new home we found various stains on the walls which I had tried to ...  Read the complete review

i am afraid i have to complain about fairy liqiud. every time i use it i get very painful infections under my nails. this does not occur with any other dish washing liquid at all. i stopped using it and my neighbor complained she had a very sore thumb with similar infections under the nail and she also uses, now used to, fairy. this cant be ...  Read the complete review

Here is an easy and quick way to clean mirrors, TV and computer screens, windows and anything Glass. First of all, spray a little glass cleaner on the surface that you are cleaning. Next get an old newspaper and tear out a sheet. Scrunch it up and then use this to wipe the cleaner off the surface. Hey presto in a few moments it is ...  Read the complete review

I have my own house, my own cat and a lot of cleaning to do. It seems to me that you are always cleaning something! Whether it is the kitchen, the lounge, the bedroom or whereever. Our cat tends to jump onto the work surfaces when we are not there and we find little paw prints all over it. So every evening when I come in I have to scrub the ...  Read the complete review

Lets get one thing straight I HATE HOUSE WORK and I HATE WASTING MONEY. Having said that I thought I would let you into a few of the ways I try to save time and energy on housework and money on cleaning products. My favourite tip has to be how to make a cup of coffee and at the same time make a much hated cleaning job a doddle. ...  Read the complete review

A tip from my grandmother - if you spill red wine on your carpet/furniture, throw LOTS of salt (not the rock kind, the normal, fine-grained kind) onto it. It absorbs alot of the wine and the colour and you can leave it overnight and then wash it in the morning when you're sober again - it works! Other tips from granny - for grease ...  Read the complete review

If there is such a thing as a domestic gene, then I was born with a deficiency. While careful to see that the bathroom and kitchen are hygienic, the rest of my housework is sporadic to say the least. I rate ironing and vacuuming well below digging the garden or scrubbing garden paths, and dusting and tidying are only done every few days when I ...  Read the complete review

First off, in spite of all the dirty ideas that the thought of a childless couple + baby oil + kitchen might bring into your filthy minds - no, I didn't actually discover this nifty trick myself 'by accident', nor did hubby have anything to do with it (he rarely does when it comes to cleaning, but he's fairly good at making a ...  Read the complete review

For years I hated cleaning windows whatever I used I would spending ages going in and out and there would always be a smear.I would shout at the window ,what is the matter with you don't you want to be clean!I tried every so called smear free window cleaner on the market and nothing worked. The old fashioned remedy vinegar and newspaper, what ...  Read the complete review

I have recently had a greater and more distinguished flow of visitors through my front, and occasionally if they're either lost or just plain rude, back, doors. This has meant that I have started doing things like buying superfluous items whilst in Asda ready for when I get guests. Extras I don't even like - milk for example. ...  Read the complete review

Well, I`ve been shopping again. This time the reason for my shopping trip was because I woke up with the urge to clean. No, I`ve not been taking drugs, I do clean sometimes you know. Even though I`ve just done a fairly big spring clean, and yes, I do know it`s November, I thought the house was still looking a bit grubby. You know the kind ...  Read the complete review

I am a carpet and upholstery cleaner by trade, and am always looking for ways to improve my cleaning. I recently found out about the marvelous cleaning capabilities of old, common garden vinegar! Some of you ladies will already know about this and are probably using it in your cleaning. But, for those who don't know about it's ...  Read the complete review

I have been using Mr Muscle KITCHEN cleaner to remove a whole host of stains around the home. It is cheap, needs no rinsing off surfaces and smells okay too. here are the following things I have used it for and it works.... kitchen, bathroom sinks/baths paintwork, doors doorframes ets floor linos (I mix it with ...  Read the complete review