Guides
Notes from our cleaners
What eight people who clean homes all day have learned: small habits that keep a house easy, what to use on stone, wood and glass, and what not to.
The ten-minute evening reset
What our cleaners do in their own homes every night: five small things that make the morning, and the next clean, much easier.
Where vinegar does harm
Vinegar is cheap and cleans a lot. It also etches stone, dulls wood and eats the rubber in your dishwasher. What to use instead.
The stain chart for linen and cotton
Coffee, red wine, grass, candle wax and twenty more: what lifts each one, in which order, and the two things that set a stain for good.
A cleaning note each season
Four short notes a year from our cleaners: one habit, one product worth having, and one thing to stop doing. Nothing else.