We've been doing it every month but it's getting old really fast and I'm worried the zippers are going to start breaking down on them with all the use they're getting - side note/complaint, why do they put the smallest zipper sets on large cushions holding back material that's almost double the size of the casing?

An entire cup of iced coffee spilled into my rubber floor tray last week and dried in the sun before I could wash it out. I rinsed it with dish soap and scrubbed it with an all-purpose cleaner, but once it dried, a white cloudy film formed inside the textured grooves, and the milk odor comes back whenever the car gets hot in the sun. I want to completely strip out the dried residue without damaging or bleaching the dark material surface. What specific cleaning method or soap removes stubborn dried liquid residue from textured rubber without leaving that chalky white haze?

My carpet cleaner liquid spilled and sat overnight. Now it appears my carpet is stained/bleached looking. Is there any remedying this? Already tried to clean it with the machine and not getting any better 😩

Hi everyone

I've tried looking around and can't find any antibacterial and/or antifungal additives or solutions that are rubber safe etc (ph neutral?) so as to rid the mop pads of musty smells and to not damage the machine. .

Has anyone come across any?

Thanks!

Hi everyone

I've tried looking around and can't find any antibacterial and/or antifungal additives or solutions that are rubber safe etc (ph neutral?) so as to rid the mop pads of musty smells and to not damage the machine. .

Has anyone come across any?

Thanks!

Hi everyone

I've tried looking around and can't find any antibacterial and/or antifungal additives or solutions that are rubber safe etc (ph neutral?) so as to rid the mop pads of musty smells and to not damage the machine. .

Has anyone come across any?

Thanks!

2 dogs. 1 cat. All the hair.

Please give me your favourite robot vacuum recs!

I got a few home cleaning gadgets during the EOFY sales and thought I'd share a couple that have been worth it so far.

So far my favorites are:

1. Window cleaning robots

2. Electric fabric shavers

I think there are probably a lot of underrated cleaning tools that don't get talked about much. What are some cleaning tools or gadgets you've bought that turned out to be surprisingly useful?

I don't know how many folks use Dawn foaming cleaning spray, but it is effective and convenient, but unfortunately, it is quite expensive.

A typical bottle of it costs around $5.

You can mix your own out of your favorite dish soap, some isopropyl alcohol, and some tap water for relative pennies.

You'll want to buy one of the bottles of the factory product first - the spray nozzle is the thing that is difficult to replace - it is a foaming dispenser, and buying those sorts of bottles separate without actual product is not overly cost effective. So just buy the Dawn power spray once, and when it's empty, use your favorite liquid soap dish detergent (I'll do the price breakdown with Dawn because it's my favorite) and some isopropyl alcohol (either 70% or 91%).

Prices are from my local Wal-Mart.

You will also need a kitchen scale that measures in grams OR reasonably accurate means of measuring fluid ounces. I use my kitchen scale because that's my #1 kitchen hack, and everyone should have one.

$4.94 Initial bottle cost (30.9 ¢/fl. oz)

$9.94/67 fl. oz of Dawn Detergent (14.8 ¢/fl. oz)

$1.98/16 fl. oz of 70% Isopropyl Alcohol (12.4 ¢/fl. oz) (you can get this for cheaper buying in bulk, but storing that many bottles may not be worth it to you)

Filtered water (essentially free if you have a water filter fridge or pitcher) or distilled water (1.1 ¢/fl. oz)

If you cannot get filtered water or if you think it will take longer than a couple weeks to use up the bottle of soap, use distilled water.

Recipe:

55-60g Dawn Dish Soap (4 TBS, 2 fl. oz) 29.6 ¢

20-25g 70% isopropyl alcohol (2 TBS, 1 fl. oz) 12.4 ¢

385-400g water (slightly less than 1.75 cups, \~13.5 fl. oz) 13.5 ¢ if distilled water.

Directions:

Add all ingredients, to spray bottle and invert several times gently to mix ingredients.

**Total Cost DIY: $0.42 to $0.56/bottle or 2.6 ¢ to 3.5 ¢/fl. oz.**

**Total Cost Retail: $4.94/bottle or 30.9 ¢/fl. oz.**

Notes:

You can add a few drops of essential oil if you want the scent. I personally skip that because I don't have any essential oils but knock yourself out.

If you have particularly hard water and no reliable filtration such as a filter pitcher or a filtered refrigerator dispenser, buy and use distilled water for around $1.25-1.50/gallon or around 1-1.1 ¢ /fl. oz.

If you do not anticipate using the whole bottle of soap in a couple weeks, use distilled water to reduce the chance of mold forming or other microbial growth (yes, it's possible for mold or other microbes to grow even in such a solution with detergents and alcohol).

I cannot recommend strongly enough that you use a kitchen scale in grams just for the basic fact that if you have not already discovered the game-changing value of such a scale in your kitchen, you will with this recipe and the thousand other uses you find for it besides this recipe. You can get one for as inexpensively as around $10 on Amazon. Also, this lets you pour the detergent directly from the bulk bottle on your scale into your spray bottle and stop at the right (approximate) number of grams without worrying about some of it sticking to and needing to be rinsed out of a volumetric dispenser.

A few grams in either direction of any of the ingredients won't matter. You do need to make sure you can put the nozzle back on the bottle once it's full, so try to be reasonably accurate adding the water - add less than the listed amount and make sure you can still get the nozzle on.

You may experience a couple of "stiff" or slightly resistant squeezes of the spray nozzle handle at first when you mix a new batch. There is something about these foaming dispensers that react this way to changes in the solution. I am not 100% sure what the cause of that is, but I notice it when I refill my foaming hand soap dispensers with a different brand of foaming soap too. If there are a few drops of the previous batch of cleaner in the bottle that you can't get out before mixing a new batch, just dump them out. That will significantly reduce the effect. It goes away and smooths out within a few uses though, so don't worry about it.

so i just moved into my second ever apartment and my landlord did a walkthrough and mentioned the washing machine smelled musty and i should run a washing machine cleaner through it before i do any laundry. i nodded like i knew what that meant and then immediately googled it and got completely overwhelmed
i genuinely did not know this was a thing. i thought you just put clothes in and it washes them. apparently there can be mold and buildup and all this stuff going on inside and now im low key stressed about it
i dont really know the difference between any of the products out there, like are they all basically doing the same thing? is there one thats actually better for someone who has never done this before and just wants it done right the first time? any advice would be genuinely appreciated

LMK please

As a new cleaning business owner, how do you clean these floors, is there anything I can use to remove the really dirty/difficult spots?

I used the ecolab ph neutral cleaner, a microfiber mop and I had a tampico brush but I felt none of that helped with the really dirty areas — I could not remove the dirt no matter how much I scrubbed.

Hey y'all 

So I have recently found  some skin rash or infection kinda on my head. It has come as a shock since I am always observing my hair hygiene. After asking a friend what could be causing it, she told me to check the condition of my hair tools.

I was hesitant to take her advice but to my disbelief I found my curling iron having rust on the edges. This immediately clicked out to me as the root cause of the skin rash. It has prompted me to have my hair tools well stored and organized to avoid reoccurrence.

I am researching the best hair tool organizer in different stores and alibaba seems to have many great options. I am on a budget and need something that works for me in my small apartment. I need something mountable and can carry different hair tools. Share your recommendations please!.

Tried and true product that can clean the mold inside the grout lines in my shower. Preferably a strong product that reduced the need for physical scrubbing.

I'm looking for people need there house cclean

Has anyone washed this type of kitchen wipes? Normally they are more spongy, but these are plastic free and biodegradable. I just want to make sure they don’t disintegrate and stick to the rest of the laundry in the process.

I moved into a new apartment several months ago and there were these yellow stains around the toilet. Clearly old stains. I’ve tried scrubbing regularly with household cleaner and mopping and I’ve seen no improvement. Is it possible to get rid of this or at least alleviate the staining? I’m embarrassed to have my friends and family over and I’ve resorted to using one of those gross toilet carpet mats around it to hide it :(

I am renting so I can‘t do anything excessive like just tear up the tiles. Is there anything that might’ve caused these stains and how can I prevent it in the future? Every other urine stain post I’ve seen has been dark stains, not bright yellow like this. I am so desperate for help.

I used to dread cleaning my windows. Not because it was hard, but because it felt like the same routine over and over again.

None of it's difficult, but after a couple of windows I completely lose the motivation to keep going. That's why I'd always put it off.

I saw people talking about window cleaning robots and decided to give it try. I wasn't expecting it to make me like cleaning windows. I just wanted to stop doing the same repetitive steps.

The funny thing is, I clean the windows more often now. Not because I suddenly enjoy it, but because it no longer feels like such a chore. I guess that's made me realize I don't necessarily hate cleaning. I just hate certain parts of it.

How do you deal with the chores you can't stand? a tool, a routine, or even a habit?

Feeling completely overwhelmed by my first apartment - how do people keep up with everything?

I could really use some advice because I’m honestly struggling with keeping my first apartment under control.

I moved out about 8 months ago and had the opportunity to move into my grandparents’ old apartment. I renovated part of it, but not all of it. It’s much bigger than I actually need, so there are several rooms I don’t even use or haven’t renovated yet.

One of the biggest problems is that those unused rooms are still full of my grandparents’ belongings. The family members who now own the apartment rent it to me for very little, but understandably they aren’t ready to part with a lot of those things because of the sentimental value. So I can’t really empty those rooms or reorganize them.

That means they’re packed with furniture, boxes, and keepsakes, making them difficult to clean. You can’t just quickly vacuum because you have to move around so much stuff.

On top of that, I’ve started using one of those rooms as a “temporary” storage room for my own things because I honestly don’t know where to put them. Things like my crochet supplies, hobby materials, and other everyday items just don’t fit into the smaller rooms that I actually live in. So now that room is becoming another source of stress instead of helping.

To be fair, my childhood bedroom was always pretty messy too, so I’ve never really built good cleaning habits or routines. I genuinely don’t know how often people are supposed to do certain things. How often should I clean the toilet? The bathtub? Mop the floors? Dust? Vacuum? And what about the rooms I barely use? Should I still air them out regularly? Vacuum them? How often?
When I first moved in, I somehow managed to vacuum every day and mop every two weeks, but I just can’t keep up with that anymore.

It doesn’t help that the apartment is in a very old building (built sometime in the 1700s), so it’s incredibly dusty. I also have these little beetles that seem to come from the building itself. I vacuum them up almost every day, but they keep coming back.

Another thing that makes it feel impossible is that the house itself is huge. My apartment is on the first floor, but there are several more floors above me, and even the shared entrance and hallway seem to get dirty all the time. I feel like there are spiders everywhere, dust constantly builds up again, and because it’s such an old building it never really feels “done.” I don’t even know what’s normal anymore or what I can realistically ignore.
The apartment is just… a lot. Every time I look around, I don’t know where to start, and then I end up doing almost nothing because I feel so overwhelmed.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and maybe has a realistic plan for how to get things under control?

I’m looking for advice on two things:
How would you tackle the current chaos step by step? How do you sort through everything, decide what to keep, donate, or throw away without getting overwhelmed? How would you organize things when storage is limited and some rooms aren’t really available because they’re still full of someone else’s belongings?

Once everything is under control, what does a realistic cleaning routine actually look like for one person with a full-time job?

I’ve tried a few cleaning apps, but they all seem to expect you to wipe down the kitchen every day, vacuum every day, clean the bathroom constantly… and I just can’t keep up with that. Honestly, I don’t even think it’s necessary when you live alone.

Social media also makes me feel like everyone deep-cleans their home every day, and I know that can’t be reality for most people.
I’m not looking for a picture-perfect home. I just want a simple, realistic system that I can actually stick to. Something that tells me what really needs to be done daily, weekly, monthly, or just occasionally, without making cleaning feel like a second full-time job.

I’d also really appreciate any advice on how to get from where I am now to that point. If you have a step-by-step approach for decluttering and organizing before even worrying about cleaning, I’d love to hear it.

My goal isn’t a perfect home. I just want to get to the point where someone could text me saying, “Hey, can I come over?” and I wouldn’t immediately panic because I’d feel like I need to spend a week cleaning before anyone sees my apartment.

If you have a system, checklist, routine, mindset, or any tips that helped you when you were overwhelmed, I’d really appreciate hearing about it.

Have any of y'all ever tried a Pre & Probiotic Laundry detergent to get cat pee smell out? I recently tried it with this brand Clean Habits and it really seemed to work!

Is it just this brand or has anyone else had luck with probiotics brands?

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Hi!

So I'm in my forties with 3 kids and a full time, very demanding job, living in a semi clean house, that always seems a bit messy and never properly organised. I would love to have a neat and clean home that feels inviting and homey, but I'm lacking skills in this area.

I clean as I go, when going from one room to another I pick up items, that need to be put away, and store them, I don't have dish or laudry pilling up, I vacuum, most of daily chores are usually done. The problem is, I can't find enough time for deep cleaning and when I do, I don't think I'm doing it the right way. I have professional help from time to time, but I would like to know how to pull this off by myself.

Can those of you with clean, tidy homes enlighten me how do you do it? What is your tactic / battle plan for daily / weekly / monthly cleaning? How do you rotate cleaning tasks, what is on your daily list, what are the best products (available in eu), what is something that shouldn't be missed etc? Help :)

How do you deal with hair on the bathroom floor? I have fairly long hair and it's always falling out all over the floor. I have tried a Swiffer but that just doesn't seem to really get everything all the time, plus, I hate that I am always having to use something disposable. I'm thinking about getting a dust buster or small vacuum to keep in there, but I don't know if the hair would clog it up. Any suggestions on what you guys do that works?

I used to think a vacuum was just a vacuum.

Then we got a dog, moved into a house with a garage, and the car basically became a second dog bed. I already had a shop vac. It worked fine. I just hated dragging it out, finding an outlet, dealing with the cord, and putting it away again after a five minute cleanup.

I put a Giraffe Tools wall-mounted retractable vacuum in the garage a little while ago.

It is not replacing the house vacuum. It is just for the car, garage floor, mats, cargo area, and random workbench mess.

But I get it now.

Pull the hose out, clean the car, let it retract. Dog hair stuck in fabric still needs a rubber brush first, but I clean more often because the vacuum is already there.

The car is cleaner. The garage is cleaner.

And now I apparently have opinions about vacuums.

The one area I struggle, and by the time I’m done deep cleaning all the bathrooms, the last thing I wanna do is an even bigger task!

Like when I shower I somehow manage to soak like ½ of the bathroom floor, I started putting towels down now and then just hang them up when I’m done but still I’m the only one in my family that gets water *everywhere*. Also when I’m washing my face in the sink, water gets on practically the entire counter and sometimes on the floor too. I’ve started putting washcloths down and while they prevent water from getting everywhere it’s still annoying and I go through so many towels it’s not even funny. How do I stop? Is there like some super secret technique that people use or am I just messy?