Spotless

by Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming

Room-by-Room solutions to domestic disasters SPOtLESS is the essential book for the kitchen bookshelf. Each chapter addresses the stains, cleaning and household problems that may come about in each room of the house: the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, bedroom, children's room - even outdoors on a deck or a patio. Filled with easy, do-it-yourself solutions, handy hints, examples and ABC Radio listeners' questions and comments, SPOtLESS will be referred to again and again and again. 'How do you get chewing gum off a leather jacket?' 'I put a hot pot on the kitchen bench and it's left a scorch mark, can I remove it?' 'My cat sprayed on the new curtains. the smell is awful and there's a slight stain. What can I do?' 'Someone in the pub spilt beer all over my expensive leather shoes. How do I clean them?' 'My 3-year-old got hold of a black permanent pen and wrote all over the cream furniture. It's a disaster!' 'We're repainting the bathroom walls. How can we stop the mould coming back?' 'We keep getting pesky moths in the pantry. Can we get rid of them?' 'I put my glassware in the dishwasher but it seems to be getting white marks on it. What do I do?'

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[ReadKnitHoard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delightful voices, impeccable stain removing tips, funny domestic disasters, entertaining listening.

Wisdom of the ages:

There is no universal stain remover!

And did you know you can rescue felted knitwear?!!! *head exploding*

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gave me some useful tips on cleaning products.

This book is very similar to Speed cleaning: a spotless house in just 15 minutes a day (Paperback) and I think you're probably better off reading that one. Spotless has more specific tips on which stains go with which cleaning product. I find the choices of cleaning products to be old fashioned, I don’t like that term because I am a fan of old fashioned things, I just felt that there were better modern equivalents of some of the products Sharon has recommended.

It is handy to have around for when a mistake happens but when I did have an accident I couldn’t find the recommendation in the book of how to clean it even though I know it was somewhere in the book – I was having a party and a glowstick broke open on my couch :O - that was a good night anyway.

[Jenny Delandro · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have looked up removal of stains of various things

red wine on wool carpet

chewing gum on fabric

it will always have a treasured place in my shelf

whenever I come across an idea else where I write it in....

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[Shauna · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this Aussie book at my Mum's house last week. It has some great tips, including how to clean kookaburra poo stains off your porch!

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic for dealing with sticky and staining situations.