Have you ever wished you could click your fingers and have all the dust, lime and grime gone so that you could enjoy your family instead of scrubbing the shower cubicle on your hands and knees with a toothbrush?
A few weeks ago, Fantastic Services got in touch. They offered to clean my house (yes please!) and I told them I would write about their services if was happy with them.
After booking, I had a quick phone call with Danni. She was incredibly friendly and assessed my needs. Without being pushy, she mentioned services I might need and we settled for a one-off clean of my house alongside a much-needed clean for my chenille sofa.
The team was due at 8.30 a.m. on Monday morning, so when I spotted a Fantastic Cleaners car outside my house 10 minutes early, I could not help but swear under my breath. I cannot stand people being early and our morning routine is hectic to say the least. But you know what? The knock on the door came at 8.30 a.m. exactly, not one minute earlier!
I would lie if I wasn’t surprised to see a man there (sorry if that sounds sexist, not my intention at all, this is just what I felt), but as soon as he came in, I relaxed. He introduced himself as Stefan (he even had a name badge!) and asked me to show him what I wanted done. I was surprised because this had all been agreed, but as I was giving him a tour, it was clear the upstairs was pretty clean other than windows whilst the downstairs and family bathroom needed some TLC.
Our family bathroom last week, before I had time to sort out everything from the loft I was storing in there:
The bathroom now:
As soon as he spotted the children having breakfast, he looked concerned and asked me whether they would be home, because he didn’t want them to inhale the fumes of the cleaning products. I liked this sort of approach and reassured him they would all be in school or preschool apart from Wriggly.
When he realised the house wasn’t as dirty and dusty as I had described it over the phone, Stefan suggested cleaning inside the bathroom cabinets. Oh my goodness, if I had known that, I would not have stayed up until 4.30 a.m. the previous night sorting out those cupboards! Downstairs, he suggested cleaning the oven and fridge. I also shyly suggested kitchen cabinets, which I didn’t have time to get, and he said, “Of course.” Oh my goodness, it was like Xmas!
Stefan and his two male colleagues put on some overshoes and got started straight away. They came with their own cleaning products, and even bin bags, which I really appreciated since my back garden is, well, bin central at the moment. My step was light when I left the house to take the children to school and I took my time, chatting with other mums and walking Jumpy to preschool.
Just under two hours later, Wriggly and I were back home. She had a nap and I started fretting. No one other than me has ever cleaned my cupboards so when they got to them, I felt a tad panicky. They could tell I was hovering around and asked for a short break in their car whilst the boiler was warming up some more water. That was exactly what I needed and I love the fact they gave me the space I needed.
The services offered were not at all what I had imagined. I had pictured a noisy team of cleaners creating a whirlwind in my house, but they were quiet and as discreet as you could imagine. I still felt at home in my home if that makes sense. They were like ninjas! Once she was awake, Wriggly kept spying on the work they were doing, but they did not once made a comment or seem annoyed about my prying toddler.
My house feels lovely, clean and now it really feels like spring is just around the corner and the dust from the loft conversion has finally gone! My oven is an old thing we inherited with the house. It has never been this clean. It looks new (seriously!). My sofa, which had seen better days, is like new now.
Disclosure:
– I was offered a deep clean of my house (3 cleaners for 5 hours) and sofa cleaning. All opinions and photographs are my own.
wow – looks amazing!!
Cleaning the house as could do with a nice spring clean everywhere and one of the jobs I hate doing
Tell me about it!
Gardening would be the most useful to me right now. I have been dreaming of a beautiful garden for ages.
I’d love some help with my garden, too! It looks like bin central at the moment…
it ALL sounds like dreamm come true but I would particulalry love the window cleaning as I hate all the standing on chairs to reach the top and rubbing hard is painful for my arthritis
Same here (not the arthritis, but hating window cleaning). We have a small conservatory and cleaning the top windows is my least favourite job. It also seems that I always leave marks, no matter how much I wipe them…
I would love all services offered by Fantastic Services – as a single mum who childminds from 6-7am to 6.30pm, the house suffers!
I bet! Fingers crossed Joanne!
Having my oven cleaned would be amazing , I hate the smell of all the over cleaning products and can never get it looking as clean as I would like
Same here! The stuff I put in my oven makes my eyes water and I always end up sneezing uncontrollably. Those guys did an amazing job on my oven. It looks better than it ever has!
Handyman
I most need the Domestic Services because I hate housework so much!
Ha ha, I often wish there were cleaning fairies in my house!
One off clean as unable to give house Spring clean xxx
It feels so good to have my home spring cleaned before spring!
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Quelle dommage qui soit seulment pour les UK! I need this service as well!! x
C’est vrai que c’est un service du tonnerre! J’aimerais pouvoir t’en faire profiter…
Love you just as much gorgeous. So pleased you had such a great experience xxx
They were wonderful! I wish I could have them round a couple of times a year.
My oven, I inherited it when we bought the house, but I would love to have it professionally cleaned.
Same here. My oven looks new now (and it’s an old thing!).
I’ve recently had surgery and been struggling to keep up with the cleaning since.. I feel I am losing a never ending battle so a deep clean would help me out
Good luck Abby!
the cleaning – my home needs it as the cleaning fairy’s been on strike as long as I can remember!!
I would love them to clean my windows inside and out
They did mine and now, you can see through them, he he!
I would like all the bits I ignore cleaned!
A Handyman for all those little jobs I never get round to
They did a great job!
They certainly did!
I’d love this ??!!
yippee don’t like housework at all
The cleaning service, struggle to keep on top off everything with the kids and my husbands strange work hours
I know the feeling! Good luck
Cleaner, as need someone who is able to do floors etc. As with arthritis :- stiffness and pain makes it impossible to do certain tasks. Yet “Home is where the Heart is”, it is necessary to maintain a degree of cleanliness and organisation within the home. Or Risks to Health can increase.
Great to see the variety of services. Would be nice to have these available locally, in order to keep on top of maintenance, repair etc.
I wish there was such a package of services available locally for myself and others. Health could improve with such a degree of supportive services.
I completely agree with you. This kind of package made available for people with reduced mobility or conditions like arthritis would make sense, wouldn’t it? Fingers crossed for you, Rachel.
Handyman service looks good! X
I know… I’d have a list longer than my arm!
Please, my house needs some deep cleaning:) Fantastic prize!!!
He he! Good luck!
Window cleaning
Cleaning. With a 19 month old running around like a whilwird it’s almost impossible to keep the house tidy!
Tell me about it, I have a 20 month old and she loves emptying cupboards!
I’d love the oven clean, we always seem to get white residue from cleaning products when we do it ourselves; fab idea for a prixe :o)
Same here! No matter how many times I rinse it, I get white marks as soon as I turn it on after cleaning it.
I could do with a handyman to do all the little jobs that I cannot do myself but which are too small to get a builder in to do. For example, the steps down to our garden have loose pavers, and I’m always worried that someone will slip & injusre themselves. but when we have had someone in to look at it they either wanted a ridiculous price or said the job was too small
I agree: having a handyman around for a few hours could be brilliant. You could have a list of those small jobs that need doing.
Definetly a good one off clean! I struggle to get my place clean with 3 cats and a baby!
The handyman as we have so many little odd jobs around the house that need doing that we always put off, it would be so helpful to get a professional to come and do it rather than us doing a bodge job!!!
My thoughts exactly! I tried putting up a frame the other day and managed to turn my wall into Gruyere cheese instead!
Kitchen Deep Cleaning, would love my appliances all clean and sparkling again.
Definitely the cleaning service as it’s not my favourite task, then perhaps handyman and builders (with cleaners again afterwards!). Looks a great site!
About to move house so a professional clean when we move in would be fab!
id like my home cleaned fully for when i move out of rented accomodation
window cleaning – I’m terrible for ignoring mine!
Since having a baby I need all the help I can get to keep my house clean. I hate housework even more now that I never have any time! I’d like my oven and fridge cleaned especially!
A lovely spring clean especially my oven one job I hate
Oh I would love to have clean windows and a good general dust and de-hairing! (My hoover refuses to work properly and I have a big shedder in the flat)
I struggle with health problems this would be amazing
I could do with this it’s hard work on your own x
Definitely the windows – inside and out 😀
A spring clean would be fantastic. I have been trying to declutter so a proper clean afterwards would be fantastic!
would be great to get some help with my windows
They all sound amazing but I would LOVE a god spring clean, especially cleaning the shower enclosure and oven, hate those jobs!!
A handyman would be a fantastic help for jobs in the bathroom that have been left outstanding for way too long
The oven! I have been dreading tackling it…
The cleaning would be amazing, Thanks so much for the chance xx
a home clean would be great right now
That would be amazing.
Id love a deep clean of my kitchen please!
Cleaning and removals, as we have an impending move, and how much work is that?!
Definitely garden clearing – Our garden is a mess after the winter and needs some serious TLC.
Oven cleaning would be great
cleaning
Ideally I would like the cleaning service because when I’m away, alot of dust settles over everything. So this would be fantastic if I could win this prize.
Wow, looks great!
Definitely a one-off deep clean, it would just be so great to have a thorough clean so that I feel like I’m on top of it all again and can cope on a daily basis 🙂
A good Spring Clean for our home would be amazing!
Pressure Washing and Gardening – My garden needs a bit of TLC and I hate doing it.
I was going to say garden after the terrible winds but actually. if someone could just get up high and clean the tops of things and higher windows I’d be happy. I’m only a little over 5 foot so have to be really creative when cleaning!!
My flat could definitely do with a spring clean. I always seem to be playing catch up with the cleaning!
An oven clean would be amazing. We have just moved into a new house and the previous owner has left the oven in a state 🙁
I just need an overall spring clean- I have so many dust bunnies under the bed- I will have fur Easter eggs!
ha ha!
Definitely the home clean. It would be nice to have someone else do it for a change.
A one off spring clean
I would loveto have the shower cubicle scrubbed – one of those jobs that I always manage to put off
sofa cleaning would be great. The cat was sick on mine recently and I can’t get it clean. So they may have some tricks to make it better.
Mine is 8 years old and it is now like new – amazing stuff!
The oven cleaning service. It’s the job I hate most.
Kitchen deep clean!
Would have to be the handyman – imagine all those little jobs that never get done !
I’d love to win this for my mum. Fab giveaway!!.
She works 13 hour shifts as a nurse in intensive care to them come home to look after my step dad who is dying from chronic lung disease that he got from diesel poisoning in the Army. She also looks after my 19 year old brother who is lazy and a typical messy boy. She has 3 big dogs that make a mess and 4 cats. She also has to then cook dinner for everyone when she gets home at 8:30pm. She doesn’t have time to clean around her busy life style or even relax. This would really help her out.
Brilliant blog and giveaway 🙂
Thanks Danielle. Fingers crossed for you (your mum!). I love the fact you’d pass on the prize to her if you won. She definitely deserves it!
The gardening would be a dream come true!
Definitely the spring cleaning. I’m disabled and can’t do it myself.
Gardening because my garden is getting beyond me
If I won I would give my prize to a friend that is struggling at the moment. Don’t get me wrong I could do with it here. But my friends need is greater.
It would have to be cleaning at the moment but later in the year I’d love to get them round to sort out my garden.
Spring clean for me – so useful!
Rubbish Removal for sure, just moved into a new house and they left 3 sheds worth of rubbish – charming!
Probaly the carpet cleaning , or a general spring c;ean would be lovely 🙂
Would be the one off cleaning especially for my oven and the kids rooms with 4 kids 1 being disabled its hard to keep on top off everything so this would be a great help x
Would love to have a spring clean done as it looks brilliant and it’d be great to have it all taken care of.
WOW! What a fantastically useful prize! I would LOVE to win! The one service I could do with the most is carpet cleaning! I’m going to keep my fingers and toes crossed on winning this competition!
A one off spring clean
Wow I’d love this, I am a poor cleaner I don’t keep Ontop of things but hopefully a win like this may change my habbits
It would be the garden, i have back problems and struggle to do anything with it x
Oven cleaning would be top of my list followed by window cleaning which are in need of some TLC!!
This looks like an amazing prize! My bathroom needs a bloody good clean and I hate doing it!
gardening would be great as mine really needs doing
Pet Care would be most useful for my 5 dogs, cat, 13 chickens, rabbit and lizard
The pet care/sitting would be useful for when we get married. The cleaning would be nice too! and a handyman for some decorating!
altho my house is practically spotless it would be brill for someone to do a good spring clen inc all wood work and ceilings
A general one-off clean would be great for us, we’ve been letting the mess pile up a bit!
Carpet cleaning would be amazing
I’d love someone to help with the garden as I never feel I’m on top of it.
I like the sound of the oven clean, this is my pet hate!
The cleaning – my house is such a state with 2 boys, a dog and a cat running around!
I would like this very much!
The gardening service would be useful – we’ve just moved house & the garden needs sorting out.
hate cleaning the oven and defrosting the freezer
The oven cleaning… I really hate that job and it’s not one I can even do properly, it never looks clean no matter how hard I try…
Hard floor cleaning would be great as it is so hard to get mine properly clean x
Gardening would be the most useful. I did not have time to do my garden at all.
anyone to clean my house is a saint
A recent diagnosis of frozen shoulder has left the house feeling neglected. Finding dusting in high places difficult and window cleaning impossible. Would love these services x
Cleaning – I just can’t seem to keep up with it!
It would be either the garden, which because of my back I struggle to do, or the oven, which badly needs a clean! This would be an AMAZING prize!!
Cleaning the kitchen to make it sparkling clean! We all work full time at my house so it’s difficult to find time to clean!
All the jobs that I hate – this would be fantastic!
The whole house needs a good clean ready for when my new granddaughter arrives in May.
I would love a handyman to fix some lights for me
A handyman to sort out some dodgy light switches
a spring clean would be awesome!
the oven, windows, skirting boards, in cupboards. this would be amazing, having a little one makes it so hard to keep up.
gardening to sort my mums garden out
I would love to have a deep clean of the parts of the house I don’t often get to – under the bed for example!
Dog Groomong as l like to pamper my dog
I would love to have them do a really good deep clean on the whole of my house, As a working mum of three (and 2 cats) finding time to clean is so hard
I’d get my flat a spring clean
the gardening service because my garden is such a mess
All would be pretty useful. House cleaning and gardening would be most useful for us. Just moving house so would be nice for everything to be cleaned to start off clean and fresh.
The Oven cleaning, Oh dear……..
Windows cud I never get chance to do em
Anything, I would just love the break. ?
A deep clean of our carpets would be amazing, we could also do with a good degrease of our kitchen
I would love my oven cleaned as when I do it I can never clean the top of it as I cant see it
handyman services for 1/2 day would be great for though outstanding things
A good spring clean would be amazing!!
If someone could clean my oven that would be AMAZING. Seriously, at this point I’m scared to look in the damn thing. We were going to give it a clean at Christmas for all the Christmas cooking, took one look at the thing and decided there was no hope!
You sound like me before they cleaned mine. Seriously, it has never been that clean!