Professional cleaners - what's in your artillery?

[MessyHouse91]

Having a massive clear out of the under sink cupboard and I've pulled out no fewer than 9 bottles of kitchen / bathroom spray, plus bleaches, cream cleaners, bottles of zoflora (last Christmas' ones!), window cleaners, antibacterial wipes, flash.

I'm hoping to cut down to 3 or 4 fab 'must have' products. I've never seen a professional cleaner turn up with this much shite gear. What do you have in your kit?

Thanks!

I'm not a cleaner, but have had many over the years from a good agency that has a steady supply of Brazilian women, and they all expect me to have a caddy with LOTS of clean cloths and :
-Viakal for bathrooms
-thick bleach for bathrooms

• mr muscle or similar for kitchens. Any brand will do.

-floor cleaner. Again, any brand will do and I alternate between Method, which smells nice, and Flash, which is cheap.

And that's it.

Wood polish (again, I love Method for the smell, but pledge and other brands seem to be just fine) and Windolene for windows get used if I provide them but don't seem to be essential.

HTH

I've reduced my cleaning products down to flash for general cleaning and a toilet limescale destroying gloop. Diluted flash is as effective as mr muscle for the work tops, and it doesn't take too long to fill a bowl with warm water.

I get a mr muscle oven cleaner box when the oven needs it. Maybe once a year.

Cif cream for bathtubs and hobs
Fairy for general cleaning and washing down worktops and cupboard doors
E cloth and water in a spray bottle for glass
Zorflora for floors and diluted on paintwork and skirting
Flash febreeze bathroom spray
Lots of cloths and microfibre cloths.

Ex contract-cleaner (no job too mucky or small!) -

1. Loads and loads of microfibre cloths. As many as you can cram into your caddy/bucket (and a few spares for your pockets).
2. Long duster on a telescopic handle - dust skirting boards without bending and ceilings and door frames without the need for a stepladder.
3. Mr Muscle window cleaner - it's very good.
4. Any multi-surface cleaner (diluted from neat so you can adjust the strength). I use it neat on a cloth for loos (I don't use bleach).
5. Cream cleaner - absolutely brilliant at shifting scuff marks on paint.
6. A Henry vacuum cleaner. Virtually indestructible and very reliable - mine has tumbled down many flights of stairs and hasn't got a scratch on him.

Cream cleaner - absolutely brilliant at shifting scuff marks on paint I've just tried this on my skirting with hoover scuffs, you've saved me from repainting, thank you!

Second the multiple microfibres cloths.

When I've had cleaners they always seem to expect lots of different cleaning stuff, but I CBA with most of it. Cif or cheaper alternative and disinfectant where needed do nicely for me.