When you really have to get the house clean quickly, why not try the Pomodoro Technique - a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It uses a timer to break work (or in this case, cleaning!) into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks.
Each interval is known as a pomodoro, funnily enough coming from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.
The idea is to break down a large intimidating task into smaller steps, making it more manageable and seeing achievement along the way.
We are so passionate about this technique that we even spoke to the Sun newspaper about it - read the full article here