I'm a cleaning expert and people always make the same product mistake – it means your house is probably dirty | The Sun

THERE'S one massive mistake you're probably making when cleaning and it might mean your house is still dirty.

According to cleaning expert Melissa Maker, homeowners don't realise you can't just spray and wipe.

Explaining on her YouTube channel Clean My Space, Melissa admitted she used to be guilty of the mistake too, and it ended up costing her time and wasting products.

It turns out whenever you're cleaning your home you need to have "dwell time."

So what's dwell time?

"You need to apply the correct product to deal with whatever is dirtying up that surface," she explained.

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"But what people forget is that when they just spray a product on it can't work instantaneously, it needs time, it needs dwell time."

By letting products sink in and do their job properly, you don't have to work as hard, the cleaning pro explained.

No matter how good the cleaning products you use might be, if you wipe them away and don't give them chance to work your house will never be as clean as you think.

"The really importnat thing with dwell time is you always want your surface to be wet," she added.

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This means you need to spray your products "liberally", without wasting them.

Disenfecting

When using a disinfecting product the dwell time might be more than you think.

Melissa explained: "If you read the back of a disinfecting product, you will see you actually need to let the product sit wet on a surface for anywhere between two minutes all the way up to 10 minutes."

Although picking the right product in the first place is important, making sure you give it chance to work will make all the difference.

Stain removal

Although stains need to be treated quickly, you still need to have dwell time before stained clothes get washed again.

"If you spray a product on and chuck your garment right into the washing machine afterwards, the product hasn't really had a chance to break that stain down," the pro explained.

Heavy duty mess

If it's a "heavy duty mess" you're dealing with, like hard water stains or greasy oven, it can be overwhelming to clean.

But it doesn't have to be a big chore at all.

Melissa said: "I clear the area, I chose the right product and I spray that on the surface.

"The goal is you don't want that product to dry before you get back to it, if the surface is dry the product can't do it's thing."

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You can even respray products half way through dwell time to make sure everything stays wet so the product can work properly.

Then at the end of the 10 minutes you can wipe away the grime easily with no scrubbing involved.

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