7 Common Cleaning Tips: Fake or Fact?
7 Common Cleaning Tips: Fake or Fact?
There are a lot of myths about cleaning y’all, but which tips are really working or which ones are not!? Maid for Muddy Paws discusses the 7 common cleaning tips we hear most frequently.
1. Ketchup for Cleaning Pots-Fact
The pot itself is metallic, but it’s been brown-black for ages! Do you have ketchup in your fridge? Throw some on those rusty pots and watch it wipe that coating away. Stainless steel pots are usually coated with a copper layer that produces copper oxide during cooking. However, ketchup contains acetic acid, which attacks copper oxide on the bottom of the pot. Just apply a thick layer of ketchup to it and leave it on for about 30 minutes. Then just wipe it off – and the coating is gone.
2. Coffee Garden as a Natural Drain Cleaner – Fake
It would be too nice, but unfortunately not true. It does not scrape the pipes of food scraps, but rather mixes any liquids in the pipe with other food particles that can grow into a real chunk, which can only be removed by unscrewing the pipe and removing it manually. If a blockage in your drain is particularly severe, you may need to seek professional help, explains the professionals at Folsom drain cleaning service, Gilmore Heating, Air, and Plumbing.
Here’s a tip from our Magnolia County maid service: if you put four teaspoons of soda into the sink, then a cup of vinegar. As soon as it bubbles and bubbles, rinse with hot (not boiling!) water and then the tube is free again!
3. Lemon juice causes the blasted microwave to shine – Fact
The microwave is one of the places in the home that is most likely to be forgotten when cleaning. But this trick couldn’t make cleaning your microwave easier! Put a glass of water and lemon juice in the microwave for five minutes at the highest level. Lemon water evaporates and softens the soil hanging around in your microwave. All you’ll have to do next is wipe with a damp cloth, and the microwave will not only be clean, but it will smell so fresh – just like it’s new!
4. Black tea helps to clean the window – Fake
The tannins in black tea are supposed to help remove grease and dirt from the windows. That sounds good, but not true in practice. The tannins of a teabag don’t help with gross dirt, sadly. Instead of black tea, mix a cap-sized amount of any spirit in your home with some water and use this mixture as your new favorite window spray! Alcohol makes it easier for the water to evaporate faster, so that limescale and nasty streaks do not have a chance. In addition, a thin film sticks to the glass, making it difficult to fog the windows.
5. Toothpaste for clean silver jewelry and cutlery – Fact
Sometimes it seems like you can never get the shine and polish you want with your cutlery or jewelry no matter how hard you try. Even the best Woodlands, TX house cleaner can have difficulty polishing silver. After much searching, we found the remedy for every home: toothpaste! Rub some toothpaste (excluding gel) onto your silver items then dip the chain or cutlery in warm water. With the toothpaste, the silver oxidized particles dissolve and your silver shines like new!
6. Coke helps to prevent clogged toilet – Fake
Probably the most enticing myth – that Coke and mentos help unclog a toilet. Although this mixture actually creates the high pressure needed to dissolve blockages, it can also get too large and damage the pipe. Not to mention the mess that could occur in your bathroom.
7. Sparkling water removes stains in the rug – Fact
Sparkling water helps, because carbon dioxide dissolves dyes and tannins from the fibers (Caution: it doesn’t work with fat or oil!). The more water bubbles, the better the dirt particles can be removed from the rug. Important: If you drown the stain in the sparkling water, you only need to move in a circular motion with the absorbent cloth. Always stay in one direction, never rub!
Cleaning tips and tricks are really helpful, especially for those areas you can never seem to conquer. Luckily, you can contact Maid for Muddy Paws when you are in need of a whole-house cleaning service in Cypress, TX.