Se7en +1 Million Tasks for Multi-Action Floor Wipes and a GiveAway…

I could have called this post: The one where I show you exactly how filthy my house is… but I digress. I have said it before and I will say it again… as a blogger you get asked to review many strange things… many!!! And most of them I am afraid to say I turn down simply because “If I don’t use it, I won’t blog it.” Well recently I was asked by Dettol Cleaning Products South Africa to review Dettol Multi Action Antiseptic Floor Wipes… and honestly I don’t use them at all. But I reckoned we would be doing some spring cleaning soon and we would test them out for you – and give you the Yay or the Nay…

Now I am a firm believer in chores and this is how we roll most of the time:

I am also a great believer in keeping chores fun… So once in a while and you will see from the dirt, that it can be a really long while… I send my kids around the house, armed with a task that is totally not on the everyday chore list. Find something incredibly dirty and clean it – I confess for the most part they have been armed with wet wipes… because they are so good at cleaning. But we haven’t had wet wipes lying around for the longest time, we have moved on from the world of diapers and wet wipes are a distant memory!!!

But Multi-Action Floor Wipes, these could be the next best thing… and they do say: “Multi-Action Cleaning Power”… and Cuts Through Grease… So the race was on!!!

Skirting boards and light switches were conquered…

Tooth paste splurges – tell me that we are not the only home to have toothpaste, on the floor on the tiles, behind the taps, across the mirror…

And let us not mention what the bathroom sink looks like morning and evening after ten folk have cleaned their teeth… I think, even with strict limitations more toothpaste goes everywhere else than on the brushes… I will look on the bright side – at least they aren’t eating the stuff. Anyway – sink, backsplash, under splash – well every splash was left sparkling…

And for the friend that asked me if I knew what helped with mould on the bathroom ceiling, remember I did tell my kids to clean anything grubby at all…I can honestly say we have no bathroom ceiling mould, none of that – anymore… That was a bit of a surprise, clearly anti-bacterial is anti-quite a lot of things!!!

We moved onto artwork… My first five kids were very much “draw on paper” kids, my last three are all – ho hum – scribes. Can not resist a pen, can not resist a clear surface. Well the fridge, the beds, the kids’ drawers… are now wiped clean (don’t say ready for another day of arting… you may only think that!!!)…

We headed for the kitchen and here I am going to show you the grimiest grime on earth – don’t be eating your morning toast while you read this. But I did say we were going looking for the worst grime we could find. Also, we have a painter friend who told me that we should wipe our walls clean at least once a month, if not weekly – well believe it or not – and I blame my mum for this, it has never occurred to me to wipe the walls clean… weekly, monthly… Well except in the kitchen above the stove… this is why…

Let’s take a look at our ancient stove more closely… I can actually see where one junior didn’t wipe!!!

The cupboards were wiped and were literally gleaming…

I have a collection of tins… and about every three months I take them down and wipe them – a seriously hard task… grime settles in kitchens…

Well there is the unbelievable before and after…

So time were wiped, oven wiped, wall wiped… and my worst – right above the stove (I know what planning genius thought of that – certainly someone who had never cooked in their lives before) our electricity box sits… there is a pretty ghastly before and after picture… As long as we have lived in our house we have never, ever been able to clean that box properly. Gotta say – that I am well pleased with that wipe clean!!!

No where does it say on the packaging: Use to clean the grease and grime off a “who knows how many years old electricity box” and nowhere does it say use to wipe the mould (that we could never possibly have) off the ceiling… but I was guessing – anti-bacterial and all that!!! Actually, the directions are – since they are floor wipes: “To use with broom: Spread the wipe on the floor, move it around the floor with the broom.” Well none of my kids could co-ordinate this, since our broom was wider than the wipe. I don’t really mind that they are anti-bacterial – honestly a few germs are good for the soul and that isn’t a big draw card for me. The scent… well with five boys, I must say our bathroom now has an unusual apple smell that they all commented on… “What is that smell?” A little overwhelming for my guys maybe… but then other smells can be even more overwhelming for the rest of us!!! And when I read on the packaging “Keep away from children” and “Do not Swallow” … I dashed everyone off to the bathroom to thoroughly wash their hands.

I think what I liked was that they did achieve the claim: “Cuts Through Grease” – yes, even ancient kitchen grease!!! Would I buy them again… not for my everyday cleaning. My regular surface wiping and quick daily mop of the floor is actually sufficient for me. But for an attack on the really bad grease busters and creative artworks and dirty handworks on (nearly all) the walls, every couple of months… For a dash and a race of wiping around the house… well yes… these are a great buy and they really made the job a lot easier than the usual grind and scrub that happens when we spring-clean in the kitchen.

If you would like to see more posts on chores then take a peak here:

• Se7en Things I Would Like My Kids to Learn from Doing Chores…
• Se7en Motivations to Get Kids to Do their Chores, What Works and What Doesn’t…
• Se7en Chores and Life Skills we do…

We were given a package to give to our readers to try out too… so if you would like to wipe the grime of some greasy grimy part of your kitchen… or just use them for their intended purpose, as floor wipes… then feel free to enter. Leave a Comment and tell us what you would most like to tackle with your wipes…

Our GiveAways are open to everyone – world wide. If you have won a GiveAway before never fear – enter away. If you live on the far side of the world – enter away. Postage takes forever from here but eventually it should get to you! Good luck and get commenting!!!

This GiveAway works in the usual way, comment before the end of Sunday, 4 August 2013, and we will draw and publish the winner after that. I won’t respond to your comments as I do on our other posts because I don’t want to be included in our own giveaway.

As usual I have to thank Dettol Cleaning Products, South Africa and Performics for supplying us with Multi-Action Antiseptic Floor Wipes to Try and GiveAway. I was not paid for this review and the opinions expressed are entirely our own.