How Clean Is Your House?

Marylyn Springham says she's allergic... to house work. She suffers from asthma and says cleaning isn't good for her health, but the state of her house isn't good for anyone. Particularly her two-and-a-half-year-old grandson Patrick, who's never been allowed inside. Now, Marylyn wants to be like any other granny and have her grandson over to stay, but it's going to take the mother of all cleaning makeovers to sort this place out.

Daniel Westley loves to build and launch rockets, but while his hobby is explosive, his love life's a damp squib. His toxic bachelor pad is the main problem, so his family has called in the nation's cleaning queens to give him a rocket up the backside.

Wild West enthusiasts the Adams family from the Isle of Wight are too busy shooting up the town to clean up their house. But they face their own High Noon when Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie head them off at the pass.

Radio DJ Vicky Richardson is hot on music but not even lukewarm on housework. Britain's cleaning queens Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie take this grime offender back to school to teach her the basics of domestic management.

Kim and Aggie come to the rescue of a bride-to-be who wants to leave from a spotless family home on her wedding day, rather than the family hovel!

In this special episode, Kim and Aggie are on the case of a different kind of filthy beggar: the rat. Tower Hamlets council has asked them to back up their rat-catching efforts. Kim and Aggie talk to the experts to find out about the scale of the rat problem across the country and learn all they need to know to tackle the enemy by getting up close and very personal with these rodents.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie answer a cry for help from the Doggett family, who are still dealing with a personal tragedy. Nigel Doggett died suddenly, leaving behind a devastated wife and four children. It's no surprise that housework has fallen off the radar. Kim and Aggie arrive to a spotless downstairs, but upstairs chaos reigns...

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit the Cornwall home of David and Angela May.

Queens of Clean Kim and Aggie visit Glynis Horton and her teenage son Aaron in their grubby Peterborough flat.

Meryl Gaskin hasn't been able to get into her lounge for two years because she filled her empty nest with junk. Kim and Aggie love a challenge, but is this empty nest going to send them cuckoo?

Donna and David Burton adore family life, and with little Sian in the house no one can blame them, but their home is suffering badly. With baby number two just weeks away, Kim and Aggie have a tight deadline to teach these parents their ABC of good cleaning.

Painter Jacqueline Jones may well live for her art, but sadly her house suffers for it, with a cat who exhibits her own poo-based creations. Can Kim and Aggie reform both filth offenders?

Kim and Aggie tackle professional dog walker James Grieve, whose London flat is in line for some serious elbow grease.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie help single mum Nooska Mullins, who juggles nightshifts as a carer with teacher-training at the expense of her housework, much to the disgust of her clean-freak son Connor.

Kim and Aggie catch up with pensioner Pat Crothers. When they first met Pat, a series of bereavements had left her devastated and the more she hoarded the harder it became to clean. When the Cleaning Queens left, Pat needed to change the habits of a lifetime if she was to stay on top of things. Now she's asked Kim and Aggie for some more cleaning advice. Is this a sign that she's embraced a new way of life?

Ann and Adam Massingham's farm is a happy, busy affair: a tumbledown country retreat in which chickens roam, geese loiter and a goat called Charity struts around the outhouse like an Edwardian duchess. Unfortunately, that's where the fairy tale ends. For although the Massinghams' farm is a delightful agrarian idyll, their house is an absolute ruddy disgrace. There's hay in the bedroom, fungus on the windowsills and some sort of dungbased growth on the kitchen floor. Naturally, Kim and Aggie are appalled. "I'm appalled!" honks Aggie, scowling at a mug with black stuff in it. "Dirty beggars!" agrees Kim, as she extracts a cobweb the size of Kent from the sofa. It's a delightfully warm-hearted start to the domestic taskmistresses' latest series. With stentorian disapproval swiftly supplanted by cheery encouragement, the results are so dazzling that even Charity seems stirred.

Valerie Pointer is a laid-back hippy chick who loves to spend her time at festivals and demonstrations. But her daughter Lucy is sick of her chilled-out ways. The family home is dusty beyond belief, cluttered with memorabilia from music festivals and has dirty underwear in the kitchen. Kim and Aggie join forces with Lucy in the hope that they can make Mum see the error of her ways.

Retired social worker Dick Blackburn spent his entire life helping others; now he accepts that he might need a bit of help himself. Living by the Suffolk coast, Dick has drifted into a mucky mess over the past 20 years.

The experts turn their attention to two long-distance lorry drivers who spend months away from their west London home and have not lifted a finger to clean it for 13 years. The situation is exacerbated by their three dogs, but the pair refuse to believe their dirty dwelling might be damaging their health.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit a full-to-bursting three-bedroom house in Epsom, Surrey, where three generations of the Gray family live in untidy conditions surrounded by a menagerie of animals. To make their task more difficult, mum Penny and dad Carl are environmentalists, so the cleaning duo must dispense with commercial cleaning products and make do with home-grown remedies and natural cures.

Tiggi and Lee Brooks share their house in Clacton-on-Sea with their two children and an array of animals including a lobster, a puffer fish and a tarantula. The walls are covered in soot and dust and the entire house is carpeted with dirty laundry. Kim and Aggie have their work cut out as they attempt to bring these Essex filth offenders and their various exotic pets to task.

Tip worker Bob Harnett Williams has a nasty habit of taking his work home with him. Queens of Clean Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie are used to dirt and smells, but nothing could have prepared them for the pong caused by over four tonnes of rubbish that they find in Bob's house.

Cleaning experts Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit Telford to help spruce up the home of Tina and Tony Jefferies, and their six tearaway children.

Takeaway king Ting Wong has let his household hygiene spiral out of control. His lounge is littered with mouldy evidence of his fast food addiction. Kim and Aggie head to Essex to right his cleaning wrongs.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie come to the rescue of Jaki Rance and her family in south-east London, scrubbing their home from top to bottom and dispensing advice along the way.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit Clitheroe in Lancashire to meet Julie Holden, who claims she is too busy studying to tidy up. The duo set out to encourage her to swap the books for a duster.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit Newcastle to oversee a verbal sparring contest between a man and his daughter. The pair are constantly locked in a battle over who should do the cleaning, resulting in nothing getting done.

Crossword fanatic Rosy Lovelady hasn't cleaned her filthy flat for 24 years. She spends all her time pondering puzzles rather than solving her hygiene problems and it's a safe bet that Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie will have some cross words of their own for her.

Marc Bangs is a respectable computer programmer by day, but by night he's a dirty little elf who spends hours playing fantasy games on his computer, while the mess builds up all around him. Kim and Aggie travel to Milton Keynes to slay his dirt demons.

There are some very unwelcome surprises in store for Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie when they visit the filthy Fletcher family from Leeds. Could it be time for this untidy clan to start scrubbing and sweeping in an attempt to cleanse their horrible home?

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie don their rubber gloves and head for Glasgow to get to work on homeowner Alistair Eggo's severe domestic problems.

Kim and Aggie visit St Albans, where Lesley Walker is under siege from her four kids and husband John. Things have got so bad that 16-year-old Hadley has moved into a caravan...

Full-time musician Leon has lived in the same house all his life. The place hasn't had a thorough clean or been redecorated while he's owned it and Leon has never learned how to do it himself. After watching How Clean Is Your House?, Leon bought vinegar and baking soda but isn't quite sure what to do with them. Can Kim and Aggie help Leon achieve a home fit for a king?

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie travel to Somerset to help horse owner Jenny Brockway and her daughter Abi. Jenny takes good care of her animals' living quarters, spending three hours a day cleaning out the stables - but her own house has not been tidied for 14 years.

Kim and Aggie are called to Nottingham to clean up for songwriter Corinne and her 11 birds, who enjoy an open-door policy on their cages, leaving a trail of guano-related destruction in their wake.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit Ramsgate in Kent to help Caroline Perkins, who despairs of keeping her home in order with four untidy males in the household.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit Sevenoaks in Kent to spruce up the untidy home of a woman whose twin lives opposite her - in an immaculate house.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit the Glasgow home of Annie Macfarlane.

The Le Bas family is more concerned with creativity and artistic expression than cleaning. Juliet's mother Amy, an ex-housekeeper, nominated the family because she believes they, and especially Juliet, would benefit from the knowledge Kim and Aggie have to offer.

Caroline and Chris moved into their three-story house immediately after getting married. The house wasn't particularly clean and they never tackled the problem. If it was cleaned from top to bottom, Caroline and Chris think it would pave the way for them to start decorating properly.

Kim and Aggie travel to a four-story townhouse near London Bridge - the tip that young professionals Tristan, Chris, and EJ call home. Can Kim and Aggie change their attitude to cleaning as well as the state of their house?

Janet moved into a virtually derelict house with her five kids and then built them each outhouses. Janet's revolt against housework came from her resentment at being forced to stay in and clean as a child and she gets extremely bad-tempered when she has to get the hoover or duster out, but Kim and Aggie won't let that stop them.

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit the Ross-on-Wye home of the Williams family.

Father and son David and Nick Worboys live in a two-bedroom flat in Newcastle. David reckons the last time the flat had a decent clean was six years ago. Now at the end of their collective tethers, the pair have promised to maintain the flat once it's had a thorough clean.

Science technician Amanda Kinsey hates cleaning and has so many interests that she wouldn't have time to clear up even if she wanted to. She plays badminton, goes dancing, attends WeightWatchers, helps with her daughter's horse riding, and enjoys gardening. But daughter Hannah is not happy about the state of their home.

James Hayward is a science teacher and his lab is a model of cleanliness, but at his place, it's a very different story. Since he moved into his flat, he's transformed it from a home to a hovel. Can this mucky professor turn his back on his dirty past?