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How to Clean a Dishwasher

If your dishwasher has been developing an unpleasant smell or if doesn’t seem to be cleaning as effectively any more, it might benefit from a clean of its own!

Even though you may use it twice a day and think it gets cleaned in the process, it could be harbouring mould, mildew or grease from old food not rinsed completely, which means it won’t be cleaning your dishes as well or could even be making you ill.

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5 Sneaky Ways to Get Your ‘Other Half’ to Do Their Fair Share of the Housework

At the end of a long day, the last thing you want is to be lumped with all the washing up, cleaning, laundry and whatever else needs doing before you go to bed. But unfortunately these chores always seem to end up being the job of one person in a household more than the others.

You may want to yell in frustration, throw out their clothes instead of washing them or even refuse to do your half of the chores, but none of these tactics ever seem to make a difference to the sloth that seems to be taking up residence on your sofa.

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How to Remove Chocolate Stains From Clothes And Furniture

You know what it is like at Easter or any other time of the year when you have a chocolate fest – there always seems to be the one (or two) chocolate that has ended up melted into a t-shirt or wedged in between the sofa cushions, exploding out of its foil wrapper.

Chocolate can be a tough stain to remove – with a variety of proteins, fats and sugars ground or melted in to fabrics; it’s no wonder that chocolate stains can have a mind of their own. It is one of those stains that is easy to make much, much worse than the original crime scene. Follow our guide for stress free chocolate stain removal…

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