Stain Removal Tips for Your Home

Stain Removal Tips for Your Home

Below are some really cool, inexpensive methods for keeping your home sparkling clean.

1. Dirty Linoleum Floors: Mix chlorine bleach with water and apply it with a wet mop, letting it sit for 30 to 45 minutes. Then, get down on your hands on knees and start scrubbing. Rinse with cool water and then mop with a mixture of one cup of white vinegar per gallon of water to neutralize the bleach.

2. Sticky Kitchen Cabinets: Mix water and a dash of paint thinner until the mixture looks milky white. Wearing rubber gloves, rub the solution over the wood with a soft cloth. Then, wipe it off with a clean-dry paper towel.

3. Stained Carpets: Apply a red-dye remover like Carbona Stain Devils #8 to a clean towel, lay it over the stain and then press a warm iron over it. The heat will transfer the stain onto the cloth.

4. Dingy Baseboards: First, vacuum the baseboards. Then using the brush attachment, scrub from top to bottom using a microfiber rag dipped in warm, soapy water and wrung almost dry. If your baseboards are white, keep a jar of matching paint and a small paintbrush handy so you can touch up scrapes and dings as you are cleaning

5. Musty Cabinets and Drawers: believe it or not, the alcohol effectively removes mold and mildew that cause musty smells. Fill a spray bottle with inexpensive vodka and water. Spray it onto the surface; then wipe it dry.

6. Stains on Porcelain: Some plumbing pipes carry hard water which may leave a thin film of white powder or an orange rust stain on the surface of sinks or tubs. Pumice sticks may help. Wet the surface of the sink and the stick. Then, gently scrub away the stain. Be careful not to scrub too hard to avoid scratching the porcelain. A paste will develop, which will help clean and polish the porcelain. Once the stain is gone, rinse the basin clean.

7. Grease Stains on the Floor of Your Garage: First, you wet the grease mark and the area around it and squirt liquid dishwashing detergent on the stain. Let it, sit and then brush and scrub the detergent into lather. Wet a towel to wipe up the detergent. You may have to repeat this process; Let the detergent sit for 30 minutes for really tough stains. For tougher stains use trisodium phosphate (TSP).

I hope this information is useful.

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Sheila M. Wilkinson-Sanders