The following review was submitted by Tammy Cook.

When I started this book, I thought there was no way the author was going to be able to instruct me how to clean my house in just two hours a week. But this isn't a book about decluttering, and Lorhan makes that clear from the very beginning. This is a book on how to do a deep-down-and-dirty cleaning, on a weekly basis.

Combating the dust bunnies and dirt is the focus, rather than instruction on the elimination of clutter in your home.

The distinction between clean versus tidy is stressed early on, and the book is intended to be focused on cleaning, not tidying.

Therefore, the premise of ""So So So Clean,"" leaves you basically on your own for the tidying part. But Ms. Lorhan has a precise schedule sketched out, entailing just two hours a week, for tasks such as cleaning the baseboards, dusting various cabinets and bookcases in the house, cleaning bathroom tiles, and so on. Depending upon the size of your house, Lorhan offers several cleaning schedules for you to modify and use to clean your home.

This cleaning schedule, called RCS (rotating cleaning system), ensures that you will regularly deep-clean each specific section of your house. Even if you don't use the specific RCS chart provided, it's a great outline for creating your own RCS specific to the problem areas of your own house. While I haven't yet timed the weekly chore plan to see if it fits within the 2-hour time frame, I think that the time estimates are realistic and relatively accurate.

The book assumes that you squeeze other household tasks - laundry, ironing, grocery shopping, and extra tasks - in on each weeknight. Then one weeknight, two hours of cleaning - and your weekends are free for you to actually relax.

After 5 days of working full time and coming home and doing the household tasks, I'd definitely need a weekend break! Although if you can successfully work in all your other various tasks, I think that it would be wonderful to have at least one day a week completely chore-free.

Lorhan writes in a casually optimistic, ""you can do this!"" manner, but there are a few typos and grammatical errors in the book, which sometimes interfere with the flow of the writing.

She frequently shares her own cleaning experiences, and her RCS is based on the schedule she uses to professionally clean units of various sizes. In addition, an addendum at the end of the book describes in detail how to give your home the initial deep cleaning to get you on the path to 2-hour maintenance. Informative and well done, each step is clearly described to give you an accurate idea as to how to follow her cleaning schedule.

If you have the clutter in your house under control, I think you'll find J. Walker Lorhan's book to be helpful in creating your own cleaning routines and knocking hours off your cleaning time.