Shortcuts to sparkling – your chance to win a Bissell carpet cleaner!
May 6th, 2014
Much like writing a bestselling novel, everyone wants to HAVE CLEANED their house, but no-one wants to actually CLEAN their house.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was some kind of cleaning shortcut? If you know of one, share it to win a Bissell carpet cleaner!
Here are a few pieces of inspiration to get you started:
Home remedies
While there’s no true substitute for a bit of hard work and elbow grease when it comes to cleaning, there are also many different secrets for making your house cleaning that little bit easier and less stressful.
A number of common household substances are understood to have cleansing properties unmatched by anything you can buy from the supermarket cleaning aisle.
White wine, lemon juice, baking soda, salt, good old-fashioned water… all of these can prove quite handy for getting rid of different types of messes and stains in the home, when applied correctly.
My personal favourite – vinegar. This stuff seems to be able to clean anything. I’ve seen it get out wine stains and get rid of the stink of cat pee. It can help you clean a suit and even scare off fleas.
It can also substitute for rinse aid in your dishwasher or fabric softener in your washing machine, and if you need to disinfect and deodorise your fridge, look no further!
Better cleaning through appliances
In addition to these home remedies, there are more than a few different high-tech cleaning solutions out there. After all, nothing cleans quite like a dedicated cleaning appliance.
Some of the best cleaning appliances come from Bissell, an American manufacturer that’s been dedicated solely to the floorcare business since its foundation in 1883.
Getting your carpets looking spotless and better than new can be managed by spending some time with a Bissell Carpet Washer, which uses shampoo and water to clean the ground-in dirt that your vacuuming may have missed.
For smaller-scale carpet cleaning, a Bissell Spot Cleaner should do the trick, able to power through the little accidents on your rugs while remaining portable and easy to store.
As for hard surfaces, nooks and crannies, you can use a Bissell steam cleaner or steam mop, which we put to the test cleaning everything from tiles to cooktops.
So what’s YOUR secret?
Have you ever stumbled across an awesome cleaning trick or household substance that always gets the stains out quick-smart? Have your friends or relatives passed on their secret forbidden cleaning techniques, learned in ancient monasteries atop a distant mountains? Or is there a trusty appliance that you always swear by (and never swear AT) to get the job done?
Share your favourite cleaning tips with the Appliances Online Community and you’ll go in the draw to win a Bissell Spot Cleaner or a Bissell Carpet Washer!
If you’d rather not leave it up to chance, you can also purchase Bissell cleaning products directly from Appliances Online, and if you’re not satisfied with their performance, you can use the 30 day money back guarantee on Steam Mops and 90 day money back guarantee on Carpet Washers.
Also, buying a Bissell Spot Cleaner before the end of June can score you a free Bissell Easy Sweep for your hard surfaces, and buying selected Carpet Washers or Steam Mops before the end of May can get you some free Gucci Guilty perfume – perfect for Mother’s Day!
We look forward to hearing your cleaning tips!
Treat stains straight away
A tsp of oil of cloves in a litre of water, and spray! No mould in shower, gleaming tiles in the kitchen, mildew pretection for the stroller and other canvas items. Magic happens!
bi carb soda on the carpets after spills, and eucalyptus oil when you wash the carpets to kill any germs and leave a nice aroma in the house
My short cut to sparkling is
to win a Bissell carpet cleaner! <3 <3 my house and I would be in love.
Using the best appliances like the amazing Bissell carpet cleaner, homemade solutions (lemon, bicarb, cloves, lavender oil and vinegar), elbow grease and lots of love 🙂
using the bissell carpet cleaning make it easier for life
I set a timer for 20 min a day and clean as
much as I can in that time; makes cleaning manageable and even fun!
A job isn’t worth doing if it’s not done right, so put on your headphones or crank up the music and dance while you clean! Your being productive, exercising AND having fun.
I use a vaporiser with eucalyptus. If you turn it on in the room you want to clean 20 minutes before hand, it lifts and loosens the dirt and mould from the walls, skirting boards and carpets, all whilst giving it a fresh smell. Then your cleaning time is cut in half dramatically.
As a Mum to four we are busy .. and messy … in our home! I am quite house proud and we function much better as a large family if our home is organised and tidy. I have find if I break the jobs up daily, they all get done and it is not such a huge burden all at once. Saturday is clean sheets day, Wednesday is all the towels. Monday is a good clean of the floors, Tuesdays the bathrooms etc.
If the kids have trod blue tack into the carpet even if you were unaware of it for some time, dip a cotton bud in vegetable cooking oil and then wipe the oiled tip over the blue tack. It comes off onto the cotton bud.
To remove stains from toilet bowls, pour in fizzy cola. Leave for an hour and then flush.
Always do a little everyday and that whay it dosent become one big mess
Before vacuuming, put a sprinkle of talcum powder over the top of the carpet. It brings the colour back to vibrant and smells amazing!
Save your strength, stop scrubbing straight away, spray on the cleaning product and leave it for a few minutes, it halves your cleaning time.
Eucalyptus Oil removes any stain imaginable from carpet – I even got out a huge pool of grease!
Mix up a cap full of eucalyptus oil into 2 cups of baking soda. Its fantastic, strong scrubbing ability cuts through grime & grease yet its gentle on surfaces & the environment!
Simple but time saving tip is to keep a commercial grade squeegy in the shower. It dries & leaves the shower streak & scum free, reducing time needed to clean the bathroom!
White wine on red wine to get red stains out of the carpet!
To remove fingerprints from stainless-steel appliances, place use baby oil on a rag and wipe the affected areas. The fingerprints just wipe away.
Any greasy food stains can be removed by putting washing up liquid on them.
Oil on fabric, not a nice sight,
Cover in talcum powder, leave overnight.
In the morning, give it a wash,
Clean as a whistle and saved you some dosh!
When Carpet smells arise
And Finances are chronic
Bi Carb Soda
Sprinkled liberally around
Is the Perfect
Odour Absorption Tonic!
Best shortcut to sparkling, break up the areas, do small sections at a time and turn up the music.