I love the result of a good spring clean, hate the effort it takes to have it looking schmick. I don’t mind vacuuming – probably because of the love I have for my Dyson – but everything else? Noooooope. Scrubbing showers, washing windows and de-greasing stovetops is my idea of hell. I’d much rather do ANYTHING else. All that time I could be spending with the kids! Shopping! Cooking! Returning emails! Sitting in the sunshine!
Fantastic Services must have known this when they offered to do a one-off clean of my house. Christmas had come a few months early.
I could tell my dream clean team what parts of the house I wanted them to focus on and once they arrived they got straight into it. A previous job had delayed them, meaning they were unable to arrive at the time we arranged, however I was sent a message to let me know their revised arrival. I left the house so we weren’t in the way, but seeing the age of Finn (3) they told me they were happy to stay out of our way if we wanted to stay home. We had things to do so it was much easier for everyone that we left them to it.
The bathroom, kitchen, windows and mirrors were the areas I wanted clean and when we returned home I was so excited to see them sparkling. We have mirrored wardrobes and these haven’t been completely free of grubby fingerprints since Millie started crawling. The windows were left so clear that the kids ran over and stared outside like they’d never seen the garden from inside before. I’ll admit everything looks brighter and greener out there now. Our kitchen isn’t filthy, far from it, but I ask you this: how many times do you wash the outside of all your kitchen cupboards? Well mine were spray and wiped to look like new and the biggest cleaning pest – the rangehood filter – is now ready to get greasy all over again but for now I’m very much enjoying looking up and smiling because it’s another thankless task I don’t have to tackle for a while.
The bathroom, particularly the shower, is a soapy, foggy, streaky cube that ironically gets dirtier as we get clean. Well the Fantastic Services team blitzed it. I don’t know their secret, but despite multiple products, tools and hours of scrubbing I’ve never been able to get my shower screen as clean as it looks right now. You wouldn’t believe what a diffrerence a clear shower screen makes to your mood in the morning.
Not only has this cleaning spree completely saved me hours of scrub-a-dub for the next couple of weeks, it’s given me more time to do what I want to do and has changed my attitude when I’m at home. I’m not as grumpy because I have a million housekeeping jobs hovering like a cloud over my head and I’m not telling the kids to go and do something without me because I have the floor to mop or bathroom tiles to scrub. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
The three cleaners that visited were courteous, friendly and efficient. I received a phone call to let me know the job was done and I could return home. I have had a skip in my step ever since the clean because I don’t have to do it for a little while. Only wishing this “one-off” clean could occur every few weeks instead. Not too much to ask is it?
I’m realising that having a cleaner come to the house is an exceptionally smart move for tired, overworked and under-appreciated mums who would rather spend their precious time enjoying their families than elbow-deep in a bucket of soap suds.
*MillieMummyMelbourne was provided with domestic cleaning worth six labour hours as part of a collaboration.