If you're one of those people who decided to get a lovely cream carpet but you're worried about stains - panic no more, because Mrs Hinch fans have got just the hack for you - and it'll only cost you around £1. On a Mrs Hinch page on social media, one fan wanted to know how to get rid of a stain on her carpet which she assumed was immovable.
She wrote: "Help! How can I get nail polish off my carpet?!" and the comments were quickly inundated with helpful Hinchers wanting to offer their best stain-removing advice to her.
The Express reported that there was a product which kept being brought up however, with many recommending it - and it's not what you'd expect.
Someone wrote: "Hairspray, the one with the highest alcohol content. Wet the carpet with cold water, spray on loads of hairspray and dab with clean dry cloth. Repeat more hairspray etc, it will come up."
Another said: "I second this."
"Happened to me and it came up beautifully", someone else wrote.
"Hairspray works a treat", another added.
One Hincher wrote: ""Hairspray and hand sanitiser with a high alcohol content."
You can usually pick up a bottle of hairspray from the supermarket for around £1, with Sainsbury's selling one for £1.05.
Other cleaning fanatics had different ideas about how best to solve the cleaning problem, with some suggesting 'elbow grease' and a scrubbing brush.
Someone suggested: "You need to blot nail varnish remover over it not rub!! Then put shaving foam on and leave for a bit then get a wet cloth and scrub it. That is how I got purple varnish out of my beige carpet."
Another wrote: "Spray window cleaner on the stain until the area is wet. Let the cleaner sit on the polish stain for at least five minutes. Then, gently blot the area with the cloth. Repeat this process until you've lifted the stain out entirely."
One cleaning fan commented: ""I used WD40 and a washing-up brush and gently scrubbed it."
Do you have any cleaning hacks? Let us know in the comments below.
