Your home bathroom can be a breeding ground for germs and dirt to build up in, especially in those often missed area and corners – but a simple item in your cupboard could make the tasks simpler
There are plenty of cheap and simple cleaning hacks – including a must have household item that will help with the harder to reach corners of your bathroom.
Your home bathroom can be a breeding ground for germs and dirt to build up in, especially in those often missed area and corners. Water stains on bathroom taps can be really irritating to live with, especially if you have hard water, as well as smeared bathroom mirrors and limescale on the shower.
According to Yours, a perfect way to clean the nooks and crannies in your bathroom is an old toothbrush. Loran White writes: “Don’t throw away your old toothbrush – it can be a really useful tool. Give it a rinse in boiling water to get rid of any germs, and use it to get into nooks and crannies that your vacuum cleaner can’t reach. It’s especially handy in the bathroom, for cleaning hard to reach areas around the tap or drain.”
It comes after research earlier this year showed Brits are spending the equivalent of over two years of their lives tidying up their homes. A study involving 2,000 adults revealed that they’ll dedicate 54 minutes a week to laundry, 25 minutes to mopping floors, 35 minutes to vacuuming and 45 minutes to washing up.
However, the most dreaded tasks are cleaning toilets and windows or dusting, with 19% loathing mopping the floors. This all adds up to six hours and 16 minutes spent cleaning their home each week, equating to more than 13 full days a year. Over an average adult lifetime, this results in a total of 20,530 hours or 855 full days – spent scrubbing, mopping, vacuuming and dusting.
A spokesperson for Flash, who commissioned the study to launch its new Power Spray Mop with a washable microfibre pad, commented: “If you’re going to spend this much time cleaning, you may as well do a proper job of it. But when you see just how long people will spend over their lifetime cleaning, it does make you wonder if there’s a more efficient way. A combined 28 months of your life devoted to scrubbing, washing, mopping and tidying seems like an awful lot. But on the other hand, most people are probably much happier in a clean home, so are in need of tools that get impeccable results and save us time.”
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