THE BIG SPRING CLEAN

Your home needs a deep clean at least once a year, and for most people this is the big spring clean. Claire Davies picks the right tech

Spring cleaning tasks vary depending on who you ask, but they usually include your standard house chores (vacuuming, dusting, mopping floors), plus turfing out and reorganising cupboards, deepcleaning the fridge and washing windows. If you want a thorough spring clean, you’re also looking at steam-cleaning curtains, washing walls and skirting boards, machine-washing duvets and pillows, and flipping your mattress.

Most cleaning companies recommend starting on the upper floor of your home (or the back of your flat) and working your way down. You’ll need a multi-surface cleaner, microfibre cloths (use a damp one to remove dense pet hair from fabric-covered furniture), glass cleaner, tile/grout cleaner and toilet cleaner. Or you could draft in a small army of tech to make shorter work of the more arduous spring cleaning tasks… starting with the vacuuming.

After you have reorganised, cleansed and dusted the room you’re in, set the iRobot Roomba s9+ (£1,499, shop.irobot.co.uk) to work. One of our favourite robot vacuum cleaners, the s9+ uses smarts to navigate the room it’s working in, sucking up dust and debris from hard floors and carpeted areas. It’ll let you know once it’s done, before moving on to the next room (or returning to its charging base if it needs more juice). Want to make those hard floors shine? Try a steam mop like the Shark Klick ’n’ Flip (£ 149,

sharkclean.co.uk). It works on hardwood, marble, tile, lino and stone floors, and offers three steam cleaning modes to kill up to 99.9% of common bacteria.

Cleaning windows and mirrors also requires elbow grease, so take the edge off with the Kärcher WV Anniversary Edition (£44, kaercher.com/uk), a window and mirror vacuum that cleans without leaving unsightly streaks behind. Want to be sure each room is as clean as it can be? Sit the UV- C Mobile Room Steriliser (£89, uvc

lightproducts.com) in the middle of any room and it’ll remove airborne contaminants, using UV- C light to kill bacteria lingering on exposed surfaces.

Finally, don’t forget that when you’re using cleaning products at home, you’re increasing the levels of indoor air pollution, so combat this by running an air purifier.