CLEANING your home is a dreaded chore most of us hate to tackle. But you could be spending hundreds of pounds more than necessary to get your pad sparkling, according to one expert. 1 Heidi Phillips shares her top tips for cutting cleaning costs In the lead-up to the festive season and the ongoing high cost of living, every penny counts.
With a few simple tidying and cleaning tricks, you can make some big savings sprucing up your living space, according to specialist cleaning and home organisation expert, Heidi Phillips. She owns cleaning firm Tergo Specialist Cleaning. You can find her on Instagram @tergospecialistcleaning.
Here she shares her top tips...
Read more on cleaning savings BREAK THE MOULD Simple kitchen hack can stop mould in your home this winter - and it's free CLEAN UP B&M gadget for cleaning mould slashed to £15 from £22- cheaper than Argos and Asda USE OWN-BRAND - £85 a year Own-brand cleaning and laundry products are a snip of the price of branded items and usually do the job just as good. Consumer brand Which? found that the most expensive laundry detergents can cost 53p a wash while switching to a own-label powder is just 12p a wash. Using your machine four times a week would save £85 at these prices and even more if you us your machine daily.
And it's not just laundry, Heidi says: "You can save loads of money by ditching the big-name cleaning brands and using a supermarket’s own-brand range. Most read in Money SPOOKY SETTING Inside eerie Scots aban.