The Art of Halloween

This year, Art of Clean is running a pumpkin carving/best dressed Competition.

Do you have what it takes to dress the best or carve the most outstanding pumpkin?

Here's our attempt.

The Winner will receive a £20 gift voucher for the Grafton Centre - Cambridge, UK.

Entries close on Midnight 31st October.

A little history of Halloween, for those of you that are interested past the sweets and make-up.

All Hallows' Eve is derived from the Celtic festival of Samhain, which celebrates the end of the harvest in Gaelic culture. On this night - 31st October, the veil between this world and the next is believed to be the thinnest, when the spirits of the past would cross-over and wreak havoc, destroying crops and bringing sickness.

If you dressed as a ghost or demon, it was believed that you would fool the spirits and escape their evil.

Likewise, the carving and illuminating of pumpkin or turnip skulls would mirror the effect of playing dress-up and scare the spirits away from your door.

How happy or scary looking your pumpkin needs to be is something that's up for debate.

Disclaimer: It doesn't have to be a Pumpkin; if you only have Turnips, Potatoes, or any other fruit or veg, give it a go.

PS. if you happen to have any pumpkin related disasters in your home on or around this spooky night, feel free to give us a call and we'll pop out to clean those stains and vanquish those ghosts...well, we'll definitely clean.

Art of Clean is a specialist cleaning firm in: 

Wood Floor Sanding,

Stone floor Cleaning,

Carpet Cleaning,

Rug Cleaning,

Upholstery Cleaning 

Leather Furniture Cleaning, 

Working for domestic or commercial clients throughout Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire.

For more information on our services contact our friendly team on 01223 863632 or email us at info@artofclean.co.uk

Halloween clean-up

What is there to clean up for Halloween?

Where to start......

Firstly there are sure to be a lot of sweet wrappers...

Then there's the sticky fingered, chocolatey, food-dyed mess on the furniture and floors...
Candle wax splashes...

Face-paint on walls, floors and furniture...

 .........

And possibly - if the kids have really over indulged - there may be vomit...

Here's a short list of cleaning tips to deal with whatever may come your way:

• Sticky Mess: For most surfaces, use a simple solution of warm water and a little dish washing liquid (use un-coloured liquid)...use a clean cloth dipped in solution blot the area, try to avoid rubbing as this may damage material fibers.  For Melted Sticky Sweets make a solution of one part vinegar to two parts water, dab with clean cloth, blot with clean water afterwards to remove solution, then scrape away loosened sweet.

• Chewing Gum: if possible try to freeze the area with ice, this will make the gum easy to scrape away.  For Gum in Hair rub with peanut-butter to loosen it from the hair.

• Candle Wax: ***Do not try to remove hot wax*** Once wax has dried break it off with a knife to remove as much as possible.  For residual wax, place a clean old cloth over wax and run a hot iron over cloth, most of the wax should transfer onto the cloth.  For further help contact Art of Clean (click here see how our techs successfully remove wax on carpet .

•  Face Paint: On carpet and upholstery use a material specific remover, such as Art of Cleans Professional Spot and Stain Remover.  (If you Art of Clean have cleaned your carpets you will very likely have received a free spot and stain remover!) Always test remover first on an inconspicuous area to check for colour transferal.  As directed, spray stained area and dab - do not rub- area.  Rubbing may cause stains to penetrate further into the fabric.  For wool carpets, use a wool specific cleaner.

• Vomit: Vomit can often stain and leave an odor. Click here to read our step-by-step guide on How to Remove Vomit from Carpet & Upholstery

For further home cleaning tips visit our blog: http://artofcleanuk.blogspot.co.uk/

We are a professional cleaning company who specialise in Carpet, Rug, Hardwood floor, Stone floor, Upholstery and Leather cleaning for domestic an commercial clients.

 For more information about our services contact the team on 01223 863632 or at www.artofclean.co.uk to find out more.