Category Archives: Cleaners

09
Aug

Egg shells

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A reader has asked what can be done with egg shells. We put that question to our oily rag research team and they came up with a surprisingly large number of uses and some interesting facts. An egg shell accounts for about 10% of its weight and is about 95% calcium carbonate? For years scientists […]

29
Jul

Tui, Thames.

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Here’s a trick to remove the green from your hands when working with tomatoes. Take a tomato (preferably one leftover) and squash it in your hands and rub. The green stain will come off. We did this when I picked tomatoes commercially and it really does work.

12
Jul

Jeffro, Te Awamutu.

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Sodium bicarb is a very handy substance for cleaning and deodorising. Get together with friends and buy a 20kg sack from a farm supplies store like RD1, Farmlands or PGG Wrightsons, last one I bought cost me $18 can’t beat that, makes you want to use it for everything you can, saving you heaps!

11
Jul

Toilet bowl cleaner

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Jane from Auckland is looking for ideas to clean a toilet bowl that had become stained with a light rust colour. “I have tried vinegar and baking soda and a lot of scrubbing but this was unsuccessful. Any ideas?”

11
Jul

Mould

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Hi, I would like to find a friendly way of removing damp mould off my very expensive bedroom suite, my house is damp and its on all my of my suite, any ideas of how to get rid of the damp smell in my rooms.Thanks Not mad about mould. – Madcow, Taranaki.

08
Jul

Grey water?

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Jane from Auckland is asking for ideas. “I have been collecting grey water from the shower and using it to flush the toilet. The toilet bowl is now stained a light rust colour. I have tried vinegar and baking soda and a lot of scrubbing but this was unsuccessful. Any ideas.”

16
Jun

LS, Christchurch.

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Washing windows, get one piece of wet newspaper scrunched up into a loose ball and wipe all over the area of window, rubbing over dirt until it moves then wipe over with a piece of dry newspaper scrunched into a loose ball until the area is dry and clear of marks.