15 Home Cleaning Hacks That Make Cleaning Easy

Your kitchen sink is probably dirtier than your toilet seat(well in case of germs). It can be a host to a wide range of disease causing germs. Sink drain/trap is the dirtiest place in a sink. You have every reason in the world to keep your kitchen sink clean, particularly the drain.

Hack: Use lemon,vinegar, baking soda and tooth brush to keep your sink's garbage disposal clean. 

How do you do it? Sprinkle half cup of baking soda around sink drain. Pour some white vinegar on it, and allow it work with baking soda. This combination makes a buzzing noise. Use a tooth brush to clean off gunk. Boil some water in a kettle, and pour hot water on sink trap. Place two to three half cut lemons on sink trap, and let the tap water flow.

You got to be little careful in cleaning paintings, especially old ones. The regular process of cleaning a painting takes too much time, so we have this cool hack here for you.

Hack: Use bagel to clean dirt and grime off your old paintings.

How do you do it? Cut a bagel in half as shown in the figure. Clean the painting gently with bagel's squishy white part. Use a dry cloth to remove breadcrumbs. Your painting is now clean!

After long usage, a flatiron's soleplate tend to get rough. You can easily make your flatiron's soleplate shining and new again with this simple and trick.

Hack: Use nothing more than plain salt to make your iron soleplate smooth and shining.

How do you do it? Spread salt on ironing board as shown in the figure. Switch on iron, and set the temperature to highest available setting. DON'T put your iron in steam mode. Slowly iron on salt to remove dirt and roughness from soleplate.