The Potting Shed

janowl · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: Vinegar

There are several types of vinegar and it is apparently a very good liquid to use when cleaning, and it's cheap. I've never used it but i have a book that tells you all the different things it can be used for.

Bovey Belle · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:42 am Post subject:

Funny you should mention vinegar - I've just bought half a gallon for all my pickling (and cleaning!) uses for the next year or so. At £2 I thought it was a bargain.
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star · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

Absolutely the best you can get......clean the windows with a dilution of vinegar, I only use an egg cup per 2 pints and a drop of Ecover washing up liquid. Dry with newspaper......same for mirrors.

Vinegar can be used in place of fabric conditioner, it helps reduce limescale in the machine and does not smell of chips on the laundry!

Descale the kettle by using a strong solution of vinegar and water, bring to the boil....it stinks Rolling Eyes

leave to sit overnight. Rinse next morning and your kettle is beautifully clean inside.

Soak the showerhead in a strong solution overnight, gets rid of limescale build up on the spray wotsit.

Apparantly half a potato rubbed onto bathroom mirrors, then dried off with a kitchen towel, stops condensation sticking to the mirror....so the old man can shave in the bath!! Smile

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star · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

I know....I only get away with it when he's out!!

For a hairy biker type, he can be such a prude Laughing

And I have seriously given up asking him to contribute to the compost heap Sad

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Libby · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

Does it not 'flavour' the kettle then?

I will definately have a go at the shower head wotsit though as we suffer dreadfully with limescale here!
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nanny · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

we used to live in a very hard water area and i used vinegar a lot to remove limescale and remove soap scum from the grout in the shower and grease off the tiles behind the cooker in the kitchen

i used white vinegar for that and malt for the soaking of shower heads and round the taps and stuff where limescale collects

Aqui · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

Libby - we do the kettle. Rinse well afterwards and boil a kettle-full of water, then tip it away. It doesn't taste after that. (But then I still LOVE vinegar - it was my pregnancy craving - fruit dipped in vinegar was particularly yummy!)

it does work as a fabric softener.

It removes mold and kills the spores.

We use it to clean out the drains/plug holes - one cup of salt, one cup of bicarb and half a cup of vinegar go in the plug. Push it down a bit and watch it fizz up for a while. Then tip on a kettle-full of boiling water and it cleans it out - takes a while to disolve.

It's great!
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