[WizzyWigg]

Really cheap toothpaste is also great if you've got a small surface scratch on an acrylic bath 🛁. A little on a cloth and a touch of elbow grease the scratch disappears.
Mentioning scratches. What look like scratches on crockery plates and bowls actually aren't they are marks from the cutlery. Washing doesn't remove them but if you do the following your crockery will look like new. You'll need a small sponge and ideally some Pink Stuff paste (other brands are available). Add paste to sponge apply to plate/bowl, rub and it will look like new. It is possible to use Bicarb rather than the paste but more rubbing is required.

[retrotecchie]

Originally Posted by meldrewreborn

White vinegar seems to be a staple for cleaning though. When visiting my Son in Australia I did notice that they sell the stuff in 2 Litre plastic bottles, which isn't the norm here. What they use it for is not known however!!

Now, I've got six bottles of white vinegar sat in a cupboard. One has had a small drop out of it, the others are all the full litre.

I watched one of these programmes where they de-thratch someones minging kitchen or bathroom after years of neglect and manage to (allegedly) bring everything to a gleaming shine with just a toothbrush and a spray bottle of vinegar and bicarb.

People please...just don't, ok? It will take hours if not days to get rid of the smell. You are better off rubbing whatever you need to clean with slices of lemon or a squirt of lemon juice mixed with water. Vinegar works, but it really does not leave a pleasant aroma afterwards. Hence why I have a shade under six litres sat unused. Not wasted though as I was gifted it by someone else who saw one of these daft programmes and also discovered why you shouldn't use it 🤣🤣🤣

Save it for outdoor jobs where the smell 🤢isn't so much of a problem. Although there's nothing white vinegar can do that Jeyes fluid can't 👍

[WizzyWigg]

@retrotecchie

I know exactly where you are coming from with the respect of the pong of vinegar. If you dilute it with boiled water then add lemon peel and leave the mixture for a couple of days that will dramatically reduce the smell.
The lemon peel also contains D-Limonene a great degreaser so will increase the cleaning power of the mixture.

[Tommysgirl]

@retrotecchie

I only use vinegar outdoors, to clean the windows, (it works to make them almost streak free), and mixed in a solution of salt water to kill the moss on my drive and between the patio stones. I use lemon juice indoors.

@WizzyWigg

That's a good tip about diluting vinegar with boiled water then adding lemon peel. 👍

[Tracy]

Yes bicarb and vinegar are great for drain cleaners vinegar is great for most things it's antiseptic properties are good for bacteria 👍 our local co op are great for bargains they don't just put things cheap that are out the next day they have a few days left they have free range loose eggs from the local farm but can't sell past the dates although eggs last maybe 2 weeks past so a week before they sell them all off because I bake it's great lol

[Tracy]

Lemon juice us a good one I agree there I use that for outside to deter ants from my door rather than chemicals because there are a lot of critters our at night that it could hurt too there pesky those ants but there just surviving like us so I'm like just go further away and the lemon dose that they can't stand it so win win