This is the one place you're forgetting to clean before Christmas – and it's probably teeming with germs

Traditional radiator on wall of pale green living room next to a doorway that leads to a hall with a bench and basket.

In the run-up to Christmas, most of us go around the house blitzing the obvious places to deep clean, like the communal areas, kitchen, guest bathroom if you have one, the spare room, the oven if you can bear it and maybe even the skirting boards if you are at a loose end at the end of all that.

However, there are high-traffic hotspots that are regularly overlooked when completing your Christmas cleaning jobs... your light switches (and your door knobs too). And after speaking to a number of cleaning experts, it's safe to say they're quietly harbouring more germs than you think.