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Welcome to one of my first articles on the subject of keeping house!

Many people know what works for them in the home, but could you be saving money if you didn't buy all the brands or even the shops own brand? The answer is yes, of course you can! This could mean it's at least 50% cheaper and a whole lot healthier for your family.

The well known secrets that the trade and many establishments use on a regular basis are of the age old traditions of vinegar, lemon and soda of bicarbonate (used separately or together).

I have worked for many cleaning companies before I set up my own business and the experience I gained from different workplaces has enabled me to find the best of the bunch that are the quickest and cheapest available.

When I survey a house and look around, I have to take into consideration the different rooms and materials I use to know what suits the home. If you have marble, natural stone, slate or any other specialist materials on any of your surfaces, it's important to follow the manufacturer's guidelines and not necessarily what I state in this article.

The MOD used vinegar and water on all their surfaces apart from the kitchen. We used the mix of normal brown vinegar and water for polished wood, mirrors, pictures, dusting, cleaning tables and bars. For the kitchen we had to use specialist catering standard chemicals to stop bacteria and abide by industrial regulations.

When I worked for a domestic cleaning company, they had customers that did not require any chemicals due to allergies in the family or their beliefs on chemicals in the home. In these homes we would either use damp cloths or a specialist Australian product called Enjo. Enjo is total green cleaning and environmentally friendly microfibre cleaning - no chemicals at all, using revolutionary Enjo fibre technology. Both these options worked just as well as using products.

So why do we continue to listen to the advertising telling us to use this or that when you don't need any chemicals at all?

I think its because we are used to using products and haven't tried cleaning without them.

If you want to go back to the natural way of cleaning, I would suggest you find the book that accompanied the TV series 'How clean is your House?' called 'The Cleaning Bible: Kim and Aggie's Complete Guide to Modern Household Management' as there is so much information and tips on every cleaning and mending duty that I can't possibly fit here.

As for the main products i use to cut through the worst mucky house, here's my 'choice' products. I either buy these at Booker (for trade in bulk) or from places like Savers, Wilkinsons and Robert Dyas as they always have pretty good deals.

For Kitchen and bathroom use, you can get separate Mr Musle products and they work so fast and last well. You can use them on toasters to toilets. Any polish works well if you like the smell. We use Mr Muscle glass and window cleaner. We love microfibre cloths to dust, polish and clean windows, glass and mirrors that we dry off with a tea towel or microfibre cloth. The trick to everything looking like a show home is using the window spray on everything or shower shine that you buff with a dry towel.

For floors, we buy general multi-purpose cleaner that can be a basic non-brand at 35p!

Now oven cleaning is the worst job for some. If you have left it a long time, that's fine, we all do it. The best product in the world for ease and results is 'Oven Pride' and at £3.51 at Sainsburys at present, its great value! You can use this product on BBQ's too. You put the gloves on, get the racks out, put them in a bag and pop half the gel in. Leave it over night, wash off and voila! Like new! Inside the oven you pour the rest of the gel in and with a cloth/sponge spread it on all the surfaces from glass to all metals apart from Aluminum. Leave 2 hours and everything comes off.

For carpets we use professional spot cleaners you can't buy unless you're lucky on eBay! Carpets are something you have to be careful with because the colour can run and sometimes even shrink! But if you know what made the mark, you're lucky! It means you can find the right product to take it out.

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Kitchen Furniture Extravagance or Austerity

There has always been a clear distinction between modern kitchen furniture that is basic cheap and purely functional and that which costs an extortionate amounts of money with all the top end design features, superior materials and luxurious trimmings such as marble or granite worktops and state of the art technological innovations including integrated cooker, microwave oven, electro- mechanical waste disposal unit, video/audio systems, online integrated computer station facilities and integrated TV, to mention but a few.

In fact, extravagant kitchen furniture is the realm of the very wealthy whose budget can buy the most expensive available whilst we would associate austere furniture with budget kitchens that are functional and of inferior quality comparatively speaking. We remember the retro styles of the sixties, the kitchen chairs, cupboards with their Formica/ melamine finish and doors with translucent glass centres. They were sparse in comparison to the average kitchen furniture of today and had little if any integrated appliances. They were however functional as regards providing food storage space and work top area and represented satisfaction in meeting the requirements of the average family. Strangely we see similar shape kitchens in minimalist styles today with smaller eye level cupboards and base units finished in glossy paint colours. The worktops are however can be in granite or marble and the kitchens themselves can be extremely expensive as they are now the cutting edge of latest kitchen designs and represent innovation. These kitchens are at the top end of the market as regards kitchen furniture and bear only a fleeting similarity to its predecessors of some fifty years ago.

On the other hand we can scrutinise the austerity of solid wood kitchen furniture and see that it is cheaper to buy than the new retro styles and provides better value for money.

Bespoke kitchen furniture can be both extravagant and austere depending on what the customer wants. If we associate austerity with lack lustre looks and minimal quality and design then we are looking at cheap kitchen furniture, however in modern design we can have a combination of plain looks with top end materials and fully integrated equipment with all the mod cons. Many associate extravagance with what is beyond the normal requirements in any kitchen. There is a way however of achieving this apparent dichotomy. By installing individually chosen kitchen units you can design and create your own bespoke kitchen furniture being as extravagant or as austere as you wish. This method achieves a mixture of both extremes and can be very effective in providing kitchen storages furniture that bridges the divide between extravagance and austerity.

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Damien Ryan is a professional author who has written lots of articles on various topics for one of the biggest online furniture store in UK. For information please visit: Cheap Kitchen Tables

sculpy + action figure- oven?

hey there my question is for anyone who has done action figure mods.
i took a Hasbro darth vader and chopped him up a bit and added sculpy to the point that it looks like the character that i want.

As Tiro said, the figure will melt - it's plastic.

I've modified many figures over the years and the best way (for me at least) was using Milliput. It's an epoxy putty that will harden about 3 hours after you mix the 2 parts together - so you have at least that much time to sculpt your parts directly on the figure. Milliput can also be sanded, shaved, drilled, etc. after it has hardened. It's available at hobby stores, hardware stores and automotive shops.

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