PM Promises a £50m Deep Clean for Hospitals, But is it an Empty Gesture?
January 15, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : News , add a commentCleaning contractors are concerned that Gordon Brown’s policy to spend £50m on deep cleaning hospitals, will be an “empty gesture”.
At a Labour conference in September the Prime Minister promised that all hospitals would undergo a deep clean, that would see hospitals as clean as the day they were new.
This is to be put in place in the fight against superbugs like MRSA.
Andrew Large of The Cleaning and Support Services Association (CSSA) said: ”These deep cleans will be an empty gesture unless they are backed up with long-term investment in cleaning”.
He continues: “We will not make any progress in the fight against infections like MRSA, if we do these deep cleans and then let the situation go back to what it was. It will have been a futile exercise.”
The 1,500 hospitals in England have until the end of March to complete the deep clean programme.
Useful Everyday Cleaning Tips!
January 8, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : Cleaning Advice , add a commentHere are some general tips for cleaning, because you never know…
- Permanent marker on your favourite top or shirt…The solution, a squirt of hairspray, with a wipe of a cloth and the stain has gone.
- Getting rid of those annoying window smears. After cleaning your windows wipe them with a scrunched newspaper and all smears should disappear.
- Not keen on the shiny effect on your suit trousers?…Then wipe a damp tea bag over the seat of your trousers. Preferably wihout wearing them, otherwise you might get a few strange looks!
- Remove sticky label residue effectively, by sprinkling a little talcum powder on the sticky area and rub it with a dry cloth.
- Now here’s a good one! Ever heard of polishing your shoes with fruit? You have now. Apparently a cost effective way of shining your shoes is to use a banana, yes really. Use the soft, inner skin to polish leather shoes. Wipe it softly over, then buff.
- And finally…Removing water stains from polished wood not as convenient as the other tips but effective! Smear olive oil or vegetable oil over the stain and then, using a generous amount of cigarette ash, rub to a paste with oil. Leave over night if the stain is old, otherwise wipe clean with polish!
I hope these tips come in useful to you!
Bosch in Trouble Over Dishwasher Claims!
January 3, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : News , add a commentA recent Bosch dishwasher advert has been taken off the TV because it implied their machine always used less water than washing up by hand.
A voiceover said: ‘Did you know that washing up by hand uses up to three times more water than if you used a fully loaded Bosch dishwasher?’
The advert was not entirely accurate and Bosch was forced to stop the TV advert being shown in it’s current form.
The commercial did not make clear that in some cases washing up by hand could be more water-efficient than using a dishwasher, said the Advertising Standards Authority.
So it seems Bosch did not do their research properly, the research that was done, only used small samples and wasn’t enough to back up Bosch’s claims.
Watchdog said that in general, AAA-rated electric dishwashers used less water than washing up by hand, when the tap was left running.
But Bosch had not made this clear in the commercial and it’s implication was that it’s fully loaded dishwashers, always used less water than washing up manually.