Tips + Tricks on How To Spring Clean Your Home With Minimum Cost By Home Hints Guru Shannon Lush

These tips and tricks  will help you save money, but Shannon says stick to the recipes and combine the ingredients only as directed.

Surface cleaner

One teaspoon of lavender oil in one litre of water in a spray bottle.

Tiles and oven

Sprinkle a light dusting of bicarbonate of soda over the area, sprinkle with white vinegar and rub it off as it fizzes with a rolled-up pair of pantyhose.

Mould

Use a quarter of a teaspoon of oil of cloves for each litre of water in a spray bottle.

Windows

Use white vinegar and rolled-up pantyhose to get streak-free shinning glass.

Spiderwebs

Put two drops of lemon oil on to the head of a broom and sweep the webs away. This will keep the creepy crawlies away from the area for months.

Storing a doona during summer

Washing in water around 37C with 30ml of cheap shampoo. Rinse in same temperature water. Hang in a U-shape. When dry, store it inside a pillowcase rather than plastic which can leave stains.