If you're a keen follower of fashion and interior blogs and Instagram profiles, you will no doubt have been left wondering how on earth bloggers and social media influencers manage to keep their homes looking quite so perfect all of the time. When you're browsing through their posts surrounded by piles of laundry and a floor that's needed sweeping for more than a week, it can seem impossible to imagine ...
Easter egg meltdown? Chocolate stains removal guide
The long Easter bank holiday weekend is just around the corner; a welcome chance for a break to spend quality time with friends and relatives, celebrate religious traditions and, of course, eat a lot of chocolate. If you gave up chocolate for Lent, the latter is likely to be your most pressing concern over Easter, and after a 40-day and 40-night break from the sweet treat, you'd be forgiven for ...
The ultimate spring cleaning checklist + Infographic
Although you wouldn't necessarily know it from the exceptionally cold and snowy spell we're having at the moment, spring really is just around the corner. It's a beautiful time of year, as the first spring flowers begin to appear, the nights start to get longer and it's lovely and light as we set out for work in the mornings. There's a real sense of renewal in spring, perhaps even more ...
Let mum put her feet up this Mother’s Day
It's Mother's Day this weekend (Sunday March 11th) - a chance to show your mum just how much you appreciate everything she does for you, spoil her and let her put her feet up for a change. Often, it's not until we become parents ourselves that we begin to fully understand exactly how much our mums have done for us over the years; teaching us right from wrong, comforting us ...
Our CEO knows how to win over a client
FastKlean is a company that is rapidly gaining more and more popularity in the UK. Our cleaning services have helped numerous people across London and surrounding areas enjoy their free time far more. Over many years we have built a huge client base but numbers have never been that important to us. The most important detail for FastKlean is client satisfaction: always has been; always will be. Nothing makes us ...
Are You Allergic to Your Own Home?
As a reader of the FastKlean blog I’m sure you’re already convinced of the benefits of having a clean home. Thanks to the fact you make use of professional cleaning services, the accessible areas of your house are likely very hygienic. However, if any part of your home is at all cluttered the chances are high your living space isn't as healthy as you'd like. Cluttered areas are very efficient ...
Furniture upcycling: Your guide to this crafty trend
An introduction and guide to furniture upcycling and reupholstering for beginners who want to add their own creative stamp to their home. Upcycling is a growing interior design trend, as it's a great way to give a new lease of life to an old piece of furniture, letting you put your own individual stamp on your home's style. Doing up furniture and reusing it rather than throwing a piece away ...
FastKlean’s guide to thoroughly cleaning the bathroom
If you were asked which room of your home you least like to clean, the chances are you will say “It is the bathroom!” There is just something about cleaning the bathtub, toilet and every inch of tiled surfaces from all sorts of nasties that doesn’t exactly motivate you. However, it must be done. The bathroom is one place of your home you visit several times every single day. As ...
5 housework-related new year’s resolutions for 2018
Is your housework schedule all in a pickle after your Christmas and New Year celebrations? That's to be expected, but if you're adopting the 'new year, new me' mantra for yourself, why not adopt it for your home too? 'New year, new sparkling home': that sounds pretty good to us. With this in mind, we've put together a few cleaning-related resolutions for you to adopt as 2018 gets underway to ...
Red wine, gravy and cranberry sauce: Christmas stain removal guide
Christmas is a time for joy, love, giving, good food, family and, unfortunately, stains. All of that over-indulgence, cooking, drinking and merriment can lead to spillages - often on your best tablecloth. But getting gravy, cranberry sauce, grease or mulled wine on your floor, furniture or soft furnishings doesn't have to mean that they're ruined. If you're willing to put in a little time and effort to get rid of ...