How Clean Is Your House?

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?

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.

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.

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 Ramsgate in Kent to help Caroline Perkins, who despairs of keeping her home in order with four untidy males in the household.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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...

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.

The Queens of Clean pay a visit to 44-year-old Glaswegian Scott, who runs a miniature racing cars business in the middle of his front room.

The grime-busting duo visits Texan charity worker Melinda, whose dirty London home has created a rift with her grown-up daughter Natalie.

The grime-busting duo head to Aldershot to assist a feisty French woman with a cluttered home and an obsession with car boot sales.