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In How Clean is Your House Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie "The Nation's Dream Cleaning Team" continue the mission of their popular Channel 4 television series--to educate, inform and generally browbeat us all into cleaning properly. The double act (dubbed "Trinny and Susannah on Domestos" by one pundit) need little by way of introduction. Kim, who wears pearls and sports the type of ridiculous Beehive-cum-wasp-nest hairstyle that hasn't been seen on the box since Bet Lynch graced the Rovers Return, is the bruiser. To ladle on the 70s TV trivia, Woodburn is Bodie to the finicky wee Scot Mackenzie's Doyle--if The Professionals had been a pair of hygiene-obsessed middle-aged women and forgone the pleasures of driving Ford Capris through cardboard boxes choosing instead to give the u-bend a good going over.
Here Kim and Aggie do actually include a series of Crime Files; factoids of horrifying information, usually about "beastly bacteria", which are destined to make you at least question, briefly, the wisdom of opting to leave your dishes soaking overnight after that joyously wine, port and a whisky or seven-for-the-road-fuelled dinner party. "When you let dirty plates sit for a long time the food contributes nutrients for bacteria, so they will rapidly multiply". It's therefore best, they suggest, to "wash all dirty dishes in hot soapy water as soon as possible." (Paper plates are, of course, always an option.) Divided into chapters that cover each room and full of astonishing top tips, such as using a banana skin to dust plants ("the dust" apparently "clings to the skin and the juice nourishes the leaves") it will have you on the way to meeting their notoriously exacting standards. But, a note on the back of the jacket kindly reminds us to give this volume "a dust every now and then" and under no circumstance use it "as a coaster or a dinner tray." --Travis Elborough --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Doing the housework is the new going out."
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125 of 126 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Contrary to some other reviews here, I would like to personally vouch for this book as advice for everyone! It has some fantastic little tips and hints on how to keep your house sparkling!
Yes it has advice for the really filthy people like on the TV show, but it also has some great little bits of advice for those of us who want to be able to make chores quicker and easier, and dare I say it, more enjoyable, from little simple things you might not think of, such as using two buckets when mopping the kitchen (one with clean water, one to drain out into), and putting cut lemons in the microwave on full power for 3 minutes to loosen dirt and make the microwave smell lovely, both simple little things you might not think of, but which will help your routine, to help for specific little problems, such as how to get fingerprints off walls and how to stop bathroom tiles getting watermarks!
So go ahead and give this book a try, it's got lots of solutions, suggestions, as well as general little bits of advice from Kim and Aggie personally, it's certainly helping me on my path to becomng a domestic goddess... or at least it's helping keep my home clean, fresh, and pleasant, in a new easy and enjoyable way after changing my thinking to that of Kim and Aggie!
68 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
How clean is your house? is such a fantastic book to have, as it contains lots of really useful tips and advise on how to keep your house nice and clean. Aggie and Kim don't just use comerical cleaning products, they use things like lemon, white vinegar and newspaper to clean things in the house. If you missed out on the show get a copy of this book, it will change your life! If you watch the show (like me) get a copy as well, as it's nice to have their tips close at hand.
123 of 126 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I loved the TV series and I enjoyed the book, which was written in a similar vein. I cannot believe that people really live in the disgusting mess that the TV series portrayed, so think that probably they may have been encouraged to do no housework for weeks before the recording -however....if you want to stop buying expensive chemical rubbish to clean your home with and go back to more natural products that are to hand in the kitchen anyway - this book is for you. The cost of the book will be saved many times over each year thanks to not having to buy 5-10 different advertised products a month to clean your home. Many of the tips I have tried clean far better than preparatory ones and quicker.
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How Clean is your House
I ordered the book as a gift for a friend who was interested in having a copy of it. It arrived quickly and was in good condition.
Published 2 months ago by E Brown
My House is Cleaner
love this book. easy to read through, but also easy to dip in and out of. just need to put it ALL into practice now.
Published 7 months ago by Cathy
how clean is you house.
Excellant value. Mother in las well pleaed with this book. good service receieved as always,Keep her quite for a while!!!!
Published 8 months ago by Mr. J. Funnell
FANTASTIC - perfect for students or first homeowners
I bought this book when I moved in with my boyfriend and we had our own house for the first time. I knew the basics - how to wash up, do laundry, iron, just about clean a bathroom... Read more
Published 8 months ago by A. Philipson
Recently bought this product.
I have enjoyed reading this and refer to it now and again for tips on how to clean particular areas in my flat.
Published 11 months ago by Ms. R. E. Tedstone
Not all it could have been
I was really quite dissapointed as I did expect to have a lot more information about cleaning items and objects with natural products and things found easily in the home and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mrs. S. Butler
Cleaning tips
Although have been doing housework for over 50 years this is the one book that has been a blessing - plenty of good workable tips and humour. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Nan
Universally useful
Although this book was published several years ago as a sequel to the Channel Four series, it is still very valuable. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Artsreadings
How Clean Is My House?
Now spotless, not quite as good as Kym and Aggie coming through the front door with their marigolds on, but all the hints and tips are really good. Read more
Published 22 months ago by cw1997
'Our' house is now cleaner....
This book is excellent. It tells you how to clean of just about any dirt or staining with relative ease. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2010 by John Knight
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