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Zoe Forsey & Simon Smith

Seven hacks that will transform the way you clean your house

Spring is in the air, sunlight is flooding through your (not 100 per cent clean) windows and filling your home with life again.

But what's this lurking along the edge of the carpet? How DID the loo go from sparkling white to whatever colour it is you call that? And why did you never notice the state of your iron before?

Never fear, thanks to the lovely Mrs Hinch, cleaning has bizarrely somehow become 'cool' again, the Mirror reports .

And sharing tips for the best ways to get rid of grease, grime and grot has become something of an online phenomenon. There's a LOT of advice out there.

So The Mirror has rounded up the top seven tips which could change the way you clean forever.

They're easy and cheap, and most importantly they could save you a LOT of time.

Shaving cream to get rid of the smell of urine

People in Australia have been covering their bathrooms in shaving cream, claiming  it gets rid of the smell of urine  .

They say it works better than product they've used before, believing the chemicals destroy the urine rather than just covering the smell.

One member of the group wrote: "I'd just like to say a huge thank you to the beautiful mum who said to use shaving cream in the toilet to get rid of urine smell. I sprayed it everywhere and rubbed it in went back a few hours later to wipe down and the smell has gone.

"It worked for me and yes I only paid a couple bucks for the stuff best tip ever! Thank you once again."

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Get your carpet extra clean

One from the cleaning queen herself - Mrs Hinch.

The mum-to-be  showed her fans one trick  to show up carpet dirt that is usually impossible to spot.

Posting on her popular  Instagram  page she advised fans to use their bathroom glass cleaners - known as squeegees - to help clean their carpets.

If a squeegee is scraped over the carpet it will lift up embedded hairs and dust that would just get pushed down by the vacuum cleaner.

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£1.60 oven cleaning hack to get rid of nasty grease in the oven

When one mum finally worked up the courage to clean her oven after nine years, she decided to  share her method  on social media.

She wrote: "I used bicarbonate of soda and vinegar and a nylon scouring pad inside the oven."

You can pick up bicarbonate of soda for just 69p at  Asda  , and white vinegar spray costs 89p from  Warrior Warehouse  .

As well as leaving her formerly filthy door sparkling, the simple acidic solution effectively cleaned the inside while the oven was still warm.

The woman also soaked her oven racks in the bathtub with a dishwasher tablet to get rid of greasy oil stains.

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Turn your white trainers white again

All you need is one little thing, which you can pick up for just £1 in stores such as Boots.

The secret ingredient is denture cleaning tablets, which are clearly a very powerful cleaning tool.

Mum Ali Moore had dissolved the tablets in water and used the solution to remove a nasty stain from her sofa, and decided to try the same method on her dirty shoes.

She dissolved three tablets in warm water, removed the laces from her shoes and then placed the trainers straight into the mixture.

While they were in the solution, she scrubbed at them for a little bit with an old toothbrush, before leaving them to soak overnight.

She said: "In the morning I put them in the washing machine with some stain removing washing powder and a towel (so they aren't annoyingly loud in the washing machine), and then put them out in the sun for the remainder of the day."

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Transform your disgusting toilet in 10 minutes

After trying a whole host of products to try and clean her loo,  one woman discovered Scalex  .

She wrote: "Tried Coke (nothing), tried citric acid (nothing), tried Scalex and it did change but it didn't help much", reports   Mail Online  .

"Then yesterday I tried a very strong mix of Scalex and this steel wool thing.

"In less than 10 minutes (pretty hard scrubbing), it now looks like this."

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Clean your iron with paracetamol

All you need is a  pack of paracetamol tablets  to get your iron sparkling clean again.

Turn your iron onto the highest heat setting.

Then, hold the Paracetamol tablet with a pair of tweezers and, taking care, rub it over the hot metal surface. You should see the stains quickly slide off.

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£2 hack to get stains out of white clothes

Ashley Baxter  discovered a £2.20 solution used to sterilise baby bottles,   Milton Sterilising Fluid  , left her whites sparkling.

She wrote on  Facebook  : "As little kids explore, spill foods, paints etc, I saw a tip on Mrs Hinch page about Milton steriliser fluid, (Mrs H hasn't done this, I tried it after seeing on a fan page it takes stains out).

"1 part Milton 3 part water in a large mixing bowl with boiling water."

It couldn't shift the permanent marker but made the rest of the stains disappear.

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