- Aggie MacKenzie has created a comprehensive guide to keeping your home clean
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- Starting used by the bathroom and the most important tools in cleaning
In the past, women have made their homes on the head to make sure it was perfect for Easter (photo)
While there is nothing as cheerful as the spring sun is the window streaming by, take a look at your home, well, just a little dirty, with all fingerprint and score expresses suddenly obvious.
Once women in the UK have the first sweet 15 days of sunshine a year spent repay - their homes upside down and clean from top to bottom, so everything was perfect for a family Easter.
But with more women in full-time and employ modern life leave less time for housework work, it has as good as in the annual spring cleaning disappeared.
And now we are paying the price. This month, English Heritage has warned that all of our homes - our own as well as historical ones - are affected by mite infestation by slippage of cleaning standards.
Several species are involved common moths - and no clothes that is harmful, but the carpets, curtains and furniture.
The moths are both small - only 5-8 mm long - and insatiable. Generally, they avoid light and hide in dark areas and cracks, such as under the beds to baseboards and in cabinets and drawers, with batches of eggs wool, furs, feathers and skins.
When the larvae hatch, they begin the fibers in the material to eat, bald patches on the carpet and holes in the clothes cause.
Last year, English Heritage has 40 times more attracted moths in their sticky traps historic properties, as ten years ago.
Bernstein Xavier Rowe, director of collections conservation organization, said: "suspected Any property that can be seen the numbers increase in general that the problem is that we do not clean as we .. in ancient times
Well, no one could spring clean like my mother, Joan. Two weeks in April, the task was dedicated were a whirlwind of activity for her and our father Tommy Purgatorio, a blacksmith, my three sisters and me.
Each bedstead was angry and scoured; Rugs were beaten, washed pillows and blankets, drapes, valances dry cleaned and give rooms tore a fresh coat of paint.
The task was huge, and mother walk with great determination, sweeping across his bristle broom and fly. At that time sucker almost never seen, and the houses were elegant sweeper Ewbank.
At the end of the two weeks, every drawer in the house were again lined emptied background screen and clean content.
Aggie MacKenzie (left, with Kim Woodburn in his TV show as you own your home) were a few simple tips to cleaning properties
Rothiemurchus infected swash all households in the highlands of Scotland where we live. Nothing has been lost. Old clothes were torn to pieces, or for cleaning fabric mats; Ex-pilots were carefully unpacked and carefully stored wool for later use.
It was a matter of honor for every housewife that her house was clean and tidy, and those who censored briefly had fallen. However, our house was literally flawless.
Of course there was a practical reason. In the fifties and sixties, we rely on coal fires to heat our homes, which pumps the black dust all winter.
Therefore, at the first sign of sunshine, he started spring cleaning. We arrived at the school and found our bedroom furniture bedroom into the hallway and mother angry a mattress or carpet beating.
that all were to help recruit, and my job was to ensure that no speck of dust in the crevices of our crept carved chairs or corners of closets.
Despite a two-week spring clean for most families is already out of the question, I do not think we should completely forego the annual ritual.
And intelligent products - and some good old household tips - you can create a surprising amount in one day.
I have a mantra: a house should be clean enough to be to be healthy and pretty dirty happy. Spends a valuable lesson from my mother: You can not have two weeks, but once a year, could one day dedicated to the entire home to give a good cleaning. I promise you can do anything to get this time.
We have therefore Femail partners have this valuable guide to produce, with other expert advice you plan to help your day and exactly what to do in each room. Here is my guide to spring cleaning. , ,
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Before you begin, gather your detergent in a bucket, to make them easy to carry. You need rubber gloves, microfiber and other cleaning cloths, towels cleaner duster, floor cleaning more surfaces, a pierre ponce, white vinegar, baking soda, bleach, paper, lint roller, black garbage bags, a toothbrush and a pair of old socks (for blinds dusting). You are ready to start with a mop and a vacuum source.
Rubber gloves and other cleaning cloths microfiber duster (picture), needed more surface cleaner and floor cleaner
AND BEFORE firmly in ...
- Work "top down". Start at the top and work your way up. clean first with a feather duster, and the last vacuum mat in each room, ceiling panels and light. In this way, the entire dirt is swept dislodge later.
- Large windows open to allow escape of vapors.
- To ask for help. Get clean family members outside windows and provide blankets to the laundry.
21.00: ROUNDING OF WASHING
For starters, picking up everything to go in the washing machine. Linens, towels, mattress pads, bath mats, pillowcases and stuffed animals can be washed out and dried. Use scented detergent lavender - the smell repels moths.
9/15: FLASH BATHS
Dealing with a first bath. It will use chemicals toughest cleaning here, so you need time to look after it ends.
It starts in the kit, you will be surprised, lurking not currently see the items! Remove all, clean the shelves and back only what you will use.
Spray the sink, tub with an all purpose cleaner and soak.
Dust and clean the walls and cleaning toilets. Sprayed with spray and wipe with a disposable cloth multifunction handle, so that the first and the last seat of the spread of germs to prevent.
Guru Aggie MacKenzie reported Cleaning television that the owners have to make their bathrooms
Bin fabric, then jet cleaner bathrooms around the container and soak used. Then all surfaces clean sprayed few hours. Rubbing the shower head, faucet and plug holes with a toothbrush and rinse well. Shower doors and valves buff to remove traces of water with a microfiber cloth or paper towel.
After the jet wash operation when the joints always look dirty, 50:50 mixture of bleach and water, then brush with a toothbrush. And if your faucets shod calcified? Cover with paper soaked in vinegar. Leave a few hours, then rinse thoroughly. For enameled sinks, tubs and toilets, take a pierre ponce wet rub, rub, rub the scale (pumice getting scratched, defaced).
Clean mirrors and windows with a little vinegar and light clean microfiber cloth. Finally, a rub and flushing toilets.
10:30: Conquer ANNOYING MITES
Start by cleaning to mention the clutter and dust of the room, not the top of the doors and windows. Pictures below and mirrors clean with vinegar and hang up.
Get rid of all the clothes you have not worn all year round. Take the time to a charity shop or recycle if they are in poor condition. Winter clothing store empty space saving bags.
then attack the moths. They are a major problem, and the best way to get them is to keep to stay on top of cleaning. A dry cloth is useless: try with a damp cloth and be amazed at what you want.
If you have ringworm, each piece take natural clothing, including cotton and linen, and wash or dry clean. Empty from all corners of cabinets, where butterflies lay their eggs. Make the mattress. Empty vacuum in the outer container when larvae lurk.
Most pillows and comforters can be washed and hair dried. Check the labels first, and to prevent a third of the normal amount of detergent you gushing.
Finally, the ground empty furniture as it progresses. Then a well-deserved lunch break is.
13 hours Hoist - that the stairs
Stay in, it's time for landing and stairs. The large amount of dust down and clean paints, doors and radiators. Paraphernalia marker on the walls with a damp microfiber cloth, sprinkle on yeast to cut through stubborn dirt.
Carpet vacuum attached to the cracks at the corners.
If you have not already ban in the shoes now make a rule.
Dust and cleans paint, doors and radiators and with a vacuum cleaner on the carpet, advise Aggie
13:30 living in difficult areas
Your living room is probably uses in the home to give him special attention. Pull furniture away from the walls and remove carpets and sofa cushions outside them a good beating with a clean broom to give. Vacuum the floor and on top of the carpet and let the air out.
Washing windows with hot water plus a drop of washing liquid, and dry with a microfiber cloth. With sparkling clean glass, soon dirt is more visible to prepare terrorist. For general dust with a damp cloth and soap soft sponge - old towels are ideal.
Clean shade cloth with a lint roller. Clean ornaments and lamp base with a damp cloth.
Empty chairs, sofas and curtains upholstery. Venetian blind, an old sock Rinse with warm water and soap, it stuck in your hand and run your fingers on the fins.
A damp white cloth can be used on the upholstery to debug marks, but still a test in an area which is not the first show is the case.
Empty behind furniture and replace.
Pull the TV and dust, then wipe to reduce static electricity with a sheet dryer. This prevents dust from screen to collect back too quickly. Vacuum, mop hard floors and breaks a cup of tea!
15.30: SPARK cook
In the kitchen, the powder can be sealed with a layer of fat cooking. Section with a solution of hot water through and washing soda, soda a beaker with 500 ml of warm water.
empty shelf or on a shelf at a time, from top to bottom. Throw away any day of the meal or nuts. Shelves clean with a damp cloth, are in the corners and dry polishing.
To clean your microwave by two slices of lemon and two tablespoons of vinegar in a bowl with water. Microwave for two minutes, then let the door closed for 15 minutes.
Clean kitchen utensils with hot water and soap, and then remove and dry the microwave.
If regular oven requires a thorough cleaning, use a commercial oven products or coating the inside of a thick paste clean of sodium bicarbonate and water. (Both methods have to stay overnight.)
To clean your dishwasher, a special cleaner or a cup of white vinegar runs empty, the soapbox. Now sprayed with a spray multipurpose cooking.
Disconnect refrigerator to wash the contents into a bag empty and cold shelves in hot soapy water. Clean the seals and inner door, then with a dry, clean cloth.
Pull the refrigerator, cooling elements vacuum (coils) with furnishing accessories and damp cloth with soap.
Place a dry old sock on a broom, fasten it with a rubber band, then use the powder under the refrigerator. Pushing of the refrigerator in position and fill light.
Kitchen surfaces clean and clean the hood. dry stainless steel surfaces with a kitchen towel.
Clean your sink - including ceramic - with clear vinegar. Use a toothbrush to scrub media.
Start the washing machine, vacuum, is washed with hot cup of white vinegar in the bowl. Clean with a cloth in diluted bleach soaked to the door seal.
17:30 the finals
Dust, clean the vacuum through the hallway, and clean the front door.
Reward yourself with a well deserved snack and a gin and tonic!
- Additional reporting: Mandy Francis
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