General Chat

I absolutely detest ironing even to the extent of paying someone to do it

Pyrolytic ovens heat up to 500c (don't quote me on that seems abit high, gets very hot anyway) and literally burn the dirt off then all you have to do is wipe out the ash.
Think a pyrolytic house might be a problem....lol

Think I might stick to my ordinary cooker.............I do quite enough damage with it! :))))

xx

Oven, Stairs and Ironing. I have a self cleaning double oven but thats Pants its still needs doing three to four times a year - but admit do only doing it twice. Ive also got the glass inner doors and I cant get them clean for love nor money.

I hate hoovering the stairs as I get tangled up so although I hoover the front room almost everyday and the downstairs rooms a couple of times a week the stairs get done monthly. I have a Henry and he is wider than the stairs so I cant sit him on and the nozzle is not long enough to go all the way up.

I did buy a small hoover for the stairs but wore it out with cat hair as my cats like to sleep on the stairs.

I am toying with buying the Elextrolux bagless Pet one for the stairs that I saw for about £70.00 in tescos.

Maddie
Try a rubber glove, slightly damp....great for getting pet hair up

Thanks Jenny - Ill try that - i think I saw that on TV once.

An Anthea Turner tip ;o)
It works!

I hate doing Tax Returns

I wouldn't menace you Kitty, you might feed me something! lol. Even menaces have their weak spots. Anyway this menacing thing has only come about since the name change.
And damn, no clean itself house for me. Bah! (as they say in the Beano)
Helen S

putting on my kingsize duvet cover

julia x

My husband cleans the oven so i don't have to bend or kneel. I have to say the ironing is the worst job. I love hoovering and polishing etc tho. x

Filing

MaddieMoo, there is an extra long hose you can buy from I think it is the Betterwear catalogue which makes stair cleaning easier.


With kitchen cupboards, once they are clean or when new, get a roll of washable wall paper from a poundshop or similar and line all the shelves with that, using double sided sticky pads also from poundshop to keep the paper in place. Then when you have spills etc all you have to do is wipe the paper over or rip it out and redo, the shelves won't be all sticky and yucky. For the top of the cupboards which always get greasy, just lay newspaper or brown wrapping paper on the top or use clingfilm so the grease doesn't cling to the cupboard top, again, you can just throw the paper away every springclean and re do it, much easier.

Lizx

I detest ironing, in fact I'm looking at a pile of it now!! In the UK it used to go out of the house in carrier bags and come back on hangers the next day - I was a busy career woman then so could afford to pay someone to do it, now I have to - yuck.
Wow do you have to clean cookers???? thought all that black on the sides was always there...
Here its dusting, dusting, dusting - but thank god they have just laid a tarmac road outside my villa so the dust is not so bad now, phew!!!
As for toilets don't go there yuck, and I have 2 to do now - and you have to watch what you use to clean them as we do not have mains sewer just a pozo negro, which I have to keep topped up with some sort of bacteria things arrrrgghhhh.
Lesley x