Keeping your home and clothing clean is no easy feat. That’s why the laundry room is actually one of the most important rooms in your home.

Here are 10 laundry and cleaning products that everyone should have.

Self clean, steam clean, or manual clean? Educate yourself about the benefits and drawbacks of each feature before selecting your new appliance.

Are you shopping for a new oven? Here are some things to consider before making a decision, particularly if you care about keeping your house a non-toxic space. When it comes to cleaning ovens, there are several different features, including self-cleaning, steam-cleaning, and manual cleaning. It’s important to know the differences and why these matter.

Every tenant gets a little apprehensive when their tenancy period is about to come to an end. The situation becomes stressful for two reasons – one, they have to pack and move to a new home, which is a time-consuming and complex process and two, their rented accommodation needs to be cleaned and brought back to the condition it was in when they had rented it. The need for bond cleaning in Gold Coast arises in this precise situation.

From fried fish to a filthy litterbox, most smells in your home are fairly easy to pinpoint. There are, however, more insidious aromas that linger and seem impossible to eliminate, no matter how many bottles of air freshener you unleash. To keep these odours from taking over your home, first you have to identify them.

Remember Rosie from The Jetsons? That humanoid robotic maid with caster rollers for feet? Well, this lot sure gives her a run for her money. App-enabled robot vacuums are no longer just figments of retro-futuristic dreams. Whether you want to clean large spaces, superior pet-hair suction or a handy house cleaner you can control with your smartphone, we have you covered.

iRobot's newest robot mop will focus on quality over quantity. The Braava Jet 240 can only cover 150 to 200 square feet, a big step down from the 300-to-1,000 sq. ft. range of its predecessor -- the Braava 380t. But with a vibrating cleaning head to increase agitation, a water nozzle to spray the area it's covering, and premixed detergent in its disposable pads, the Jet 240 should do a better job of scrubbing the smaller area it can reach.

A robot revolution has been the stuff of movie and literary fiction for a long time. Often times, depictions of that revolution are gory and end when the last humans are whipped out by the machine.

In reality, the robot revolution is turning out to be a lot friendlier and pretty helpful, too.

Let's be honest, who really loves to clean? As part of our daily lives, we all have to so here's how you can make the chore at hand less tedious than it has to be.

Let’s face it, we are all busy. Life is 100km an hour and the majority of us cram as much as we can into our day.

Between work, children, exercising and socialising there might not be a huge amount of time left over for house work.

If you are time poor, then you probably don’t want to spend the whole weekend cleaning. Yes, we all love living in a clean and tidy house, but it’s probably fair to say that the most of us don’t love the actual cleaning.

One of the back-breaking household chores that had become a lot easier with the introduction of washing machines would even become easier. Washing clothes would become unnecessary to maintain hygiene.

All that would be needed to be done is to expose the used clothing to light. It could be sunlight or artificial light. Behind this liberating discovery are self-cleaning textiles developed by researchers at Australia’s RMIT University, reports ABC.

The scientists grew nanostructures on textiles, which when exposed to light, release a burst energy that degrades organic matter. The team at the university’s Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility and NanoBiotechnology Research Lab worked with silver- and copper-based nanostructures because of the ability of these two materials to absorb visible light.

The market has been long asking for easier and mostly faster ways of cleaning and keeping the houses in order. This demand has grown in the last few years since and increasing number of couples and families have all members of the household out during the day in a job and their time and willingness to tidy up their homes is  shrieking every day.

This need has been a motivation for many producers of home and cleaning house appliances  that have started to design machines able to fulfill the demands of this market that calls for efficient high quality solutions at convenient prices. The machines helping out with house cleaning must therefore work at their maximum level in order to allow people to get the work done faster, and better.

A SIX-year-old boy was found with the same levels of methamphetamine in his system as an adult drug abuser after his family unwittingly bought a house that had been used as an ice drug lab.

The shocking case has led to warnings for prospective homeowners and tenants to check with authorities if their home has been previously contaminated by drugs.

Most of us know the basic rules of cleaning by now.

But when faced with a stain or other in-home faux pas, laziness often gets the better of us. We find ourselves scrubbing the stain in a hurry instead of blotting it gently like we’re supposed to, which makes the problem even worse.

Sounds like it’s time for a cleaning tips refresher course.

If ever there was a non-dentist scenario to illustrate pulling teeth, it would, without a doubt, be moving house.

Even before the actual moving part, you've had to a) sacrifice your Saturday mornings at inspections b) most likely deal with strangers coming through your own home, and the cherry on top c) come to terms with the precise amount of crap you've accumulated in the last however many years.

Your dishwasher isn't just for washing dishes! There are several other household items that can enjoy a cleaning alongside your plates. Make it easier on yourself, and add them in your dishwasher the next time you are doing a load. They will come out of the dishwasher sanitised as well as wonderfully clean.

Like many journos, I have been known to eat at my desk while typing frantically, and I’m aware that this is not the most hygienic of practices.

I’d like to say I give my keyboard a regular scrub with antibacterial wipes, but in reality it’s about once a month.

Consumer Affairs Victoria has warned members of the public to steer clear of a door-to-door carpet cleaning business that is the subject of numerous customer complaints.

David Donald, who runs a business trading under the name Donald Cleaning Services, travels to people’s homes to persuade them to let him clean their carpet, curtains and furniture.

A house is not truly clean if the process of cleaning it has resulted in all kinds of unnecessary waste. Conventional cleaning relies on chemical products, plastic bottles, paper towels, plastic bags, sponges, and disposable wipes, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

A zero-waste cleaning routine, by contrast, relies on durable tools that can be washed and reused. It uses non-toxic, natural, even edible cleaning products that will not contaminate your home by leaving unhealthy residues. And it will not fill up the trash can with empty, dirty containers and cloths that need to be hauled away.

"You could virtually make it up and it would all be true."

Those are the words of Geoff Thorn, President of the Australian Window Cleaning Federation. You name it, it seems window cleaners have seen it and for good reason it is a trade that has earned the reputation for more than its share of 'wink, wink, know what I mean' humour.

It's fertile territory that provided ample material for the 1970's film 'Confessions of a Window Cleaner', arguably described as a 'classic sex comedy'.

Even earlier in the 1930s ukulele-playing George Formby put the industry on the map with the song 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
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The lyrics in one version included the lines: 'Now lots of girls I've had to jilt, For they admire the way I'm built, It's a good job I don't wear a kilt, When I'm cleaning windows!" No wonder the BBC banned it from the nation's airwaves with director John Reith dismissing it as a 'disgusting little ditty'.