The day my house went Cillit bang!

Ronald Cox hoped cleaning up the glue he spilled on the kitchen floor would be a relatively simple job.

His local hardware store recommended Cillit Bang, the allpurpose cleaner which - according to the TV commercials - has almost miraculous powers.

But after 75- year- old Mr Cox applied it to his floor tiles, he found the product wasn't quite having the desired effect.

So to finish off the task, he used an eggcup full of petrol on the stains. This turned out to be a mistake.

For the cocktail of fluids gave off vapours which were then ignited by the pilot light in his living room boiler.

The ensuing explosion ripped through the semi-detached property, blowing out the front bay window, bringing down part of the kitchen ceiling and causing structural damage to an inside wall.