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How clean is their house, I wonder?
How clean is their house, I wonder?
We all remember the ‘hit’ TV show ‘How Clean Is Your House?’ on channel 4, staring professional star cleaners Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie. This dynamic cleaning duo graced our screens in 2003, with helpful and handy tips on how to clean everything in our homes, from under the fridge to troublesome red stains on that brand new sheep skin rug. ‘Kim and Aggie’ advised us not just on home cleaning but office cleaning and industry kitchen cleaning to frequently highlight the risk of food poisoning if proper cleaning standards were not met.
The show followed the same obligatory pattern each week, of invading some poor messy soul’s hovel, camera crew in toe, and filming the degradation and filth, that fore mentioned soul had accumulated over the last few millennia. I m fully aware that some of the states of those houses, were beyond belief and almost borderline vomit inducing, but to subjugate them to even more humiliation by broadcasting there grubby habits and houses to the entire nations, just seems cruel and absurd!
Regardless, Kim and Aggie started their TV careers in 2003 with Talkback Thames Productions, airing 30 minute episodes on Channel 4 that were jammed packed with useful info and tips on how to keep your humble abode clean and sparkling all year round. Some of the more memorable episodes saw a man from Chichester having to have the entire downstairs of his house, gutted due to the amount of cat’s urine that had soaked into the walls and floor boards over the years. In another episode, one woman from Inverness had to have her whole house fumigated by the ‘How clean is your house’ team, due to a huge infestation of rats which was caused by leaving rubbish bags in the house and left over food being unattended.
The programme does highlight some important concerns about food poisoning, showing that if surfaces and food prep areas are not kept clean in the house it can lead to the spread of such bacteria as E-coil, Salmonella, Listeria, and Campylobacter which are the main sources of food poisoning in the UK today. As many of the people featured on the programme also had pets, illness that could be got from animal droppings and bacteria borne from their skin were highlighted as well.
However, some of the bizarre cleaning tip that were suggested, although not of the norm and a little off the wall, did indeed work…now and again! A handy bit of advice from the very Maggie herself, was to polish all your copper things (who even owns anything made from copper anymore?!) with tomato ketchup. Another whacky suggestion was, for when you absentmindedly leave some spaghetti hoops on the and they all burn to the bottom of the pan, Aggie suggested that if you boil up a cup of detergent in the pan and leave it over night, the horrid burnt blackness should all but melt away. I can tell you, although this tip kind of worked, I do not care for that woman’s derogatory manner whilst telling you about it, one bit!
So all in all, I m rather glad they got given the boot by Channel 4. Maybe they could go offer there ‘pearls of cleaning wisdom’ to some office cleaning services or something!
office cleaning article by Initial Cleaning
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