How Clean is Your House? is my absolute new fave show...

[bicentennial_baby]

:rofl: I love love love it!

:hi:

[spinbaby]

1. It does tend to repeat itself

You can only have so many kinds of dirt. But there are some mysteries I've never quite understood--maybe some of the Brits here can provide the answers.

What is biological washing powder?

What is sugar soap?

Are lemons cheap enough in Britain that it's practical to clean with them?

What's that greasy grill thing above the stove?

[texanwitch]

2. Mine to.

It is on now.

I need to turn on the TV.

Those houses are so dirty I wouldn't want to walk into them.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. I'm watching it right now...

This house has a rat's skull! :D

[MissMillie]

8. they showed that one last Friday night

That lady who's into all that spiritual stuff w/ the daughter who promised to buy her a dishwasher if she keeps the house clean... right?

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Yep, that's the one!

Ewwwwww...

[texanwitch]

11. I like the one's with dead mice and bugs.

This show proves that people can live with germs.

When I first started watching the show I thought this has to be the worst house, I was wrong.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. The state of people's kitchens horrifies me....

I mean really, how can you live like that? :o

[texanwitch]

13. I am a little lazy about cleaning but I could never be that bad.

I think most of the people in the show must eat out.

A lot of the people have kids and babies.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. I like it when they break out the petri dishes

:D

[billyskank]

14. Answers

Biological washing powder is so called because it uses enzymes action to assist the cleaning, so that you can wash at a lower water temperature. It is useful for washing garments that would be damaged by high temps.

I have never heard of sugar soap before. I only know this by looking it up on the internets: sugar soap is an industrial cleaning material, composed of sodium carbonate, sodium phosphate, and sometimes sodium silicate as an abrasive. The dry powder looks like table sugar, which gives it its name. The comparable product in the USA is TSP.

I don't tend to buy lemons so I haven't noticed the price of them, but I've never heard of them being expensive. :shrug:

As for that greasy grill thing above the stove, I must assume you are referring to the grill. :P Some cooker designs put the grill up high at eye level, above the stove. This would be gas cookers only, I never heard of an electric grill like that. But my grill is underneath the stove, inside the oven compartment.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. Thank you Billy!

You're a peach :loveya:

[spinbaby]

23. Thank you

I wonder if we have an equivalent to biological washing powder over here in the states.

And, yes, lemons are expensive. Every time those ladies sprinkle a lemon with salt and rub it on something, I scream, "That's a 69 cent lemon!"

[bicentennial_baby]

24. Wow, here in MA they are either 33 cents or 50 cents, most of the time...

[tjwmason]

26. Further Answer

Following Billy's excellent answer to most of your questions. I would expect to pay about 10-15p each for lemons, which is about 20-30c. There are certain things where I would use a squeeze of lemon juice to help with cleaning.

[MissMillie]

4. I like the show too

it makes me feel like I don't do too badly in the housekeeping department (really, I'm no slouch, it's just sometimes I feel over-run by cat hair).

I've always wondered what biological washing powder is.... maybe something like Arm & Hammer laundry detergent?

I also wondered how it is that people can honestly say, after learning that they're living in a slew of e-coli and salmonella, "I didn't think it was THAT bad."

Uh.... hello? You've got an inch of grease on your stove top, it's covered in mold and.... you didn't think it was THAT bad????

:wtf:

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Oh, the one I just saw was horrifying...

His house was full of salmonella, klebsiella, listeria...I would have dropped dead if I walked in there, I swear. :puke:

[carly denise pt deux]

18. was it the one with the bachelor who lived near the water?

if it was, WAS THAT NOT THE GROSSEST HOUSE YOU EVER SEEN? ICK

[DS1]

7. Voyeur

[bicentennial_baby]

10. You know me well

:D

[mzteris]

15. You could be a star!

I'll let you clean my house and I'll video tape you! 'k?

[carly denise pt deux]

16. I just watched an episode on BBC america

OH MY GOSH that man's house was GRRRROOOOOOSSSSSS
No way, there is no way they could ever pay me enough to clean that man's house. Squalor at its worst

[bicentennial_baby]

19. Wasn't it hideous?

Oh, the bathroom... :puke:

[carly denise pt deux]

20. yeah, that bathroom was pretty skanky, it sure looked better when they were finished

but....2 weeks later it was slowly going back to a pigpen, I would have strangled that man had I been the 2 ladies, all that work for nothing!
Carly

[bicentennial_baby]

21. Yeah, he seemed content to live in squalor...

:shrug: Good thing he's a bachelor, I guess.

[texanwitch]

22. I know someone who has a house like this.

We did clean it up, it took a 26 people two days to finish.

The house is dirty again, and it can stay that way.

[Polly Hennessey]

25. Learned something

I actually learned something from watching the show. Kim put some shaving cream on a cloth and was able to clean wallpaper without damaging it. I tried it and it works. Guess Brylcream will become one of my household cleaners from now on.

[Skittles]

27. THAT SHOW FREAKED ME OUT

I caught it at my boyfriend's house and immediately went home and scrubbed my toilet with an old toothbrush :o