Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be spring cleaning for
you guys and I hope it gives you so much cleaning motivation. This is a follow on from my recent
deep cleaning videos. So if you haven't seen that one, I will link it down below in the
description. But there was still more around my house that desperately needed to be cleaned,
so I'm going to do that today. But before we jump into the clean, I just wanted to come
on and say that I hope you guys are all doing okay and staying as safe as possible at this
very difficult time.
I cannot believe how much COVID-19 has literally changed everyone's lives in the past few days.
I have so many friends and family members that have lost jobs, that have had hours cuts.
I'm personally really worried about my grandma getting this virus. I know so many of us are
quarantined and I just hope you're all okay. I'm going to try and keep things as positive
and as normal, on this channel. But if there's anything you guys need or want, please contact
me. I think it's just really hit me today and I'd actually tried to say this to camera,
and I just couldn't without weeping. So, I thought I would do it in a voiceover. But,
I'm sending you guys loads and loads of love, and... Yes. Anyway, into the clean.
So the first thing that I'm going to clean today, is my oven. It has been nearly a year
since I last cleaned this and it is in need of a good clean. So the way that I do this,
is an all natural cleaner. I used to use loads of chemical products but they used to hurt
my hands. And this actually works really well. So all I do is mix a cup of bicarbonate of
soda with some water, that makes a paste, which I then put into the oven, leave that
to set for about 20 minutes to an hour, however long you want. And then, I'll pour some vinegar
over top. And it fizzes up, but it works as a really good cleaner. Also the trays inside
my oven, they really need to be cleaned and the door as well. So I'm going to show you
how I take the oven door off and give that a clean with a glass cleaner as well. So I'll
just start mixing up. I'm going to do about a cup of the bicarb today.
Okay. So once I have my cup of bicarbonate of soda in a bowl, I'm just going to add a
little bit of water and give it a good stir to make it into a paste as I mentioned. And
then wanted to show you what the oven door is looking like. It's so very messy inside,
you can see all the smears and it's coming through now, so that really needs to be cleaned.
Also, the trays are pretty disgusting, I must say. I do use tinfoil from time to time, but
it's really getting quite bad and there are also so many crumbs in the corners. This is
the oven door as I mentioned, just getting really disgusting and on the inside as well.
That's where I'm going to put the majority of the paste. Oh a nice chip as well in there.
I'm going to try and soak the trays and then give everything I've really good scrub.
Okay. So as you can see on my oven, this glass at the front here is really dirty, it's dusty,
there are smears as well. So you can actually take the glass out of your oven door. With
mine, you have to lift it up and then pull it out. And now I can properly wash that and
then all of the stains on the inside should hopefully come out and it will look a lot
cleaner as well.
So as you probably saw there, I just added in the vinegar and it always fizzes up and
has a chemical reaction. And sometimes I'll just leave that to sit while I'm cleaning
the trays, but actually wasn't too horrendous today. So I managed to wipe the oven clean
quite soon after. The one thing that I really struggled with was the oven door. The stains
on it were just not coming off, so you probably saw that I tried washing up liquid. Then I
used a little bit of bar keepers friend and in the end, good old baking soda again did
the trick. So I left that on and because it is so abrasive it really did get the stains
off. So that was really good.
But now I'm just going to give the trays a good scrub. These really just needed some
elbow grease, so it did take a little bit of doing. But they are so much cleaner now.
So now I'm going to just clean the oven door again. Because I used the baking soda on it
to get the stains off, there were loads of streaks once it dried, so I'm just using a
glass cleaner. But vinegar and water would work for this as well. And I'm also using
my Marigold Squeaky Clean cloth. I love that. I feel like it never really smears. So I'm
just going to put the door back in and then I'll show you how much cleaner it's looking.
But I definitely need to wipe down the front as well. Because I used baking soda, the only
thing with that is that you can get some chalky smears. So I'm just trying to get those off
now with the glass cleaner but that is pretty much it. That is the oven looking so much
cleaner.
And I know there was a load of footage here, but every time I actually cleaned my oven
I'm always like," Oh it's actually not that bad. It didn't take that long." Now I'm going
to clean something that I have been putting off for absolutely ages and that is our bi-folding
doors. I've also noticed how very dirty they are recently, because it's been getting sunnier.
So the way that I clean it is a little bit of washing up liquid with some warm water,
a microfiber cloth and a scrubby, as well for any really dried on dirt. And then I'm
also going to mix one part vinegar and one part warm water and put it into a spray bottle.
I find that that works really well on glass or on mirrors as well. So I'm just going to
go out and get the main bits of dirt off, the football marks, etc.
And the reason that I'm doing this is we did actually use to have a window cleaner, but
when I looked at our finances, I realized we were paying about 15 to 20 pounds a month
for him. And the only windows that really did bother me were these ones here and I can
actually reach all of them. So we decided to cancel it and that I would do it myself.
But it's very rare that I actually get around to doing it. So I'm going to just bite the
bullet, do it today. So I just washed down the outside and I'm just going to leave that
to dry off a little bit, while I come indoors and wipe down the doors inside with the water
and vinegar solution. So yes, I'm just going to do that. And then go back outside and do
the vinegar solution as well.
(singing)
Yay. I'm so glad that I finally got that done. Now I'm going to move on to Jackson's outdoor
mud kitchen. We love this. We've had it since he was about 18 months old and he really does
love to make soups in the bowls and play with it. But for some reason there are toys, absolutely
everywhere. So I've been meaning to clean this off, so that he can use it a little bit
more. And the bowls themselves are actually quite dirty. So yes. There's also, you can't
really see on the camera, but there were little loom bands all over the deck. So I'm just
quickly sweeping those up and then I'm going to give the mud kitchen a good wipe down.
(singing)
Next up I'm going to give our kitchen cupboards a good wipe down. I'm also going to disinfect
all of the handles. With everything that's going on, I think that's a sensible thing
to do anyway. But I also really like this product. I found that when I use it, it doesn't
smear. It cleans really well. It even works on mirrors. Just found that out by accident.
But I really like using it so I'm going around doing all of the handles and then if I see
any little bits of dried food or stains on the cupboards themselves, I'm also going to
give them a wipe.
(singing)
Cupboards all clean and disinfected. So now I'm going to move on to our upstairs bathroom
and a job, again, that I've been putting off for ages. And that is the grout in our bathroom.
We have white tiles with white grout. If I could go back in time, I would have got gray
grout. Before this, I'm going to use my water and vinegar mixture, some baking soda again
and then I have this little Sonic. It's like an electric toothbrush, but for cleaning,
I found it on Amazon. I'll link it if you guys are interested. But all I'm going to
do for the grout is spray my water and vinegar mixture onto all of the tiles and then I'm
using a little bit of baking soda on the really dark parts, the really stained bits.
I would say if you do use a vinegar, water mix that it does really smell. My husband
was like," Smells like a fish and chip place in here." But as soon as it dries the vinegar
smell completely goes and it's such a good natural cleaner. And then I went in with my
little Sonic gadget. I started out using one of the smaller heads and then I switched to
a bigger one because I just wanted to clean as much of the tiles as possible. But if you
don't have one of these, I think a bit of elbow grease and a scrubby brush, will do
the same thing. And once I had gone round and actually scrubbed all of the grouts, I
then just wiped it down with a damp microfiber cloth and then left it to dry. And it definitely
did the look a lot cleaner.
But yes, anyway, I hope you guys really enjoyed this video. I hope it gave you some cleaning
motivation and yeah, I'm just thinking of you all and I'm hoping you're staying safe.
Literally, as I've been doing the voiceover for this video, I've found out that the schools
will be out in the UK from this Friday. So expect lots of homeschool content and activities
to do at home. Big love and... Yeah, I'll speak to you soon. Bye guys.