Useful Cleaning Tips
How To Get Rid of Cooking Smells
Boil a little white vinegar in a saucepan with a few cloves for a few minutes and hey presto, smelly fish, curry or burnt food has gone.
How to Clean your Saucepans easily
Pour a little cheap cola in the burnt saucepan and boil, take off heat and leave for a few minutes. Clean as normal and you will find it really easy.
Descaling Your Kettle
Fill your kettle with water and place in it a lemon cut into chunks. Boil and leave to stand over night. Rinse out the next morning and enjoy your lime scale free kettle once more.
How to Clean your Microwave quickly and easily
Fill a mug with a mix of water and lemon juice and place in your microwave. Put on high for a few minutes. Now using a damp cloth wipe inside your microwave and all the stuck on food will easily wipe away.
Cleaning your Glass Oven Door and Hob
Mix a paste of bicarbonate of soda and water and rub on these areas. Leave for 15 minutes and then scrub off with ease.
Make a Great All Purpose Cleaner
Mix together water and vinegar with a little lemon juice in a spray bottle and use around the house.
Dirty Grimey Greasey Dishes
Put a little white vinegar in your bowl of soapy dishes, makes the job much easier.
A Great Freezer Boost
Fill up those empty gaps in your freezer by scrunching up old newspaper. That way your freezer won’t be freezing those empty gaps making it more efficient.
Stop your Fridge from Smelling
Using half a lemon, scoop out the fleshy bit and sprinkle the lemon skin with salt. Place in your fridge for a nasty free smelling fridge.
Free Scourers
Use the net bag fruit comes in at the supermarket, scrunch up and use as a scourer.
Shine up your Chrome
Using a little baby oil to buff up your chrome, it will make it really shiny.
Make those little Scratches disappear in your dark wooden furniture
Mix some coffee with a tiny amount of boiling water and leave to cool. Use the mixture to dab on the scratches and leave to dry. Buff with a clean dry microfibre cloth.
Clean your Pot Pourri
Put it in a polythene bag with some salt and shake, this knocks off all the dust. Put the pot pourri back in its bowl and revitalise the smell with a few drops of essential oil.
Homemade Furniture Polish
Mix a little olive oil with lemon juice and use in small amounts with a clean dry micro fibre cloth to buff your wooden furniture.
Spruce up your carpets, rugs and lounge suite
Sprinkle with bicarbonate of soda and vacuum up.