Spit and polish: the best way to drive the dirt is advising Victorian houses follow

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Victorian purification techniques may be better than our modern

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Cleaners: Journalist Mrs. Alfred Prague suggested in his final cleaning (1900) as the home of the home can keep cleaning chemicals, which it considers a minimum.

"Here is a list of what is really needed: carbolic soap, yellow soap and your favorite brand of these substances in powder form, pumice, in conjunction with paraffin or kerosene, these are preferably used to remove stains on marble wash steps, if any, benzene (a used to dissolve by-product of petroleum distillation and fat and resin to metal soap beeswax and turpentine) for better cleaning of paint, varnish brass and copper - the latter bought ready -. furniture polish or cream products no favorite disinfectant wash lend sink "to the beeswax and a large bottle

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Normally it is not necessary to use something other than water, to remove dust

DUST

The wet Duster is the best method. Normally it is not necessary to use only water - and not much of it - in the dust.

Dip the cloth and wring it as dry as possible. If you go to wood surfaces and be sure how to go dry.

Pan has been widely used in cleaning

Pain: This method of cleaning was unlikely the old money-saving idea habit things not throw until his last piece has been exploited.

and processed white bread, the kind that had become the staple food, but nutritious food is not cheap for the poor - - he worked the best The pain was used in the purification.

Press pieces of sliced ​​bread, sausage balls in the framework of the cracks or dusty baseboards screwed collects dust which can not be achieved with rags and feathers.

Pain is also used for cleaning the books pressing a wodge bread in the spine and the cover of a book, then wipe with a damp cloth.

WASHING

Water: the key to a good washing is soft water. fresh water, less soap is used - so collect rainwater for bleaching in WWII recommended to use when soap was rationed.

But because the rainwater harvesting is difficult at any age, there are many shortcut methods for softening water take a few seconds.

a tablespoon of borax or washing powder helps in adding sodium hydroxide solution and then a cup of vinegar in your last rinse added.

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Citric acid can be used to get rid of ink stains

How does one get rid of spots:

INK: Press a teaspoon of citric acid in wet (with a spoon bone) and with water. Then pour boiling water over the stain until it disappears.

Clamping Insert the fabric over a bowl and away with water by boiling, until the stain is: wine and fruit.

RUST: stewed rhubarb spread the stain for a few hours away and washed, is very effective. Fig boiled leaves the work just as well.

BLOOD: Flooding in cold salted water for an hour before washing.

Brands of coffee or tea Age: This can two cups of water to be soaked in a dilute solution of rubbing alcohol, half a cup. Give clothes to soak for one hour, then wash as usual.

PATTERN: Scorch concussion two onions and cook in a pint of vinegar with a little grated soap and two ounces powdered bleaching earth. After cooling, apply the mixture burns and rinse dry.

Mold: soaking for several hours in buttermilk before washing.

kitchen sink

Copper pans Copper is ideal for cooking because of its high thermal conductivity - but it is also an object to clean up afterwards.

He scratched and dull if you drive too strong splashing in the water.

fine now mainly used as topsoil in the garden quartz sand - - For kitchen aids, Silver has a common ingredient for copper was especially when mixed with malt vinegar or lemon, then rub in pan cleaning.

colored enamel pans: these may be removed by rhubarb compote. If you do not want to eat rhubarb, use only a single stick with leaves again and simmer for 10 minutes.

Leave the mixture in the pan for an hour or two - the result is white enamel.

Figs or stewed sorrel also work. Boil water in a pan with a little stained with borax or soda, which also help.

matt silver: Never or silver plate in the dishwasher.

To remove tarnish by a shell shell aligned with foil at the top covered space, a cup of soda (or baking soda) and hot water to cover poured the contents.

When no more water pipes will be ready to go the money and hand wash as usual, then polish.

To update a thermos: put crushed eggshells and filled with vinegar. Let stand for a few hours, then empty, rinse and dry completely.

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Copper is a task of cleaning after cooking

Raising gloss

House Polish: Melt two ounces beeswax (comes in blocks or rods) in a bowl of boiling water, add two tablespoons of turpentine.

Mix - carefully, because it is highly flammable - with a teaspoon of wine vinegar. Continue to heat and stir until smooth and pour into a large pot.

Cooling and connected to parchment. Removing stains from salt water leather shoes: Solve a teaspoon of soda in two tablespoons of warm milk.

Apply to the stain with a cloth and wait until dry. Repeat then polish.

Applies: Cool off gold frame with a soft brush dipped in water wiper in which three or four onions were boiled for one hour.

Remove water stains, polishing furniture: Set of saline on the stain and dab on a little alcohol and rub vigorously. Then beeswax immediately in a second screen.

Candle wax: water or pour boiling candletsicks the old wax to remove or insert them in the freezer for 12 hours.

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Fight butterflies clothes clean inside drawers and cabinets cleaned with ammonia

parasites

Cockroaches: are partial to cucumber. Let strips of cucumber on the kitchen floor at night and will be sent into a stupor that makes them easy to remove in the morning.

Mites: Once or twice a year, so the inside of the drawers and cabinets with ammonia must deter moths.

bathroom

Drains: plug holes kept dirt away emptied in a tablespoon of baking soda week to make a cup of vinegar followed.

If fizzed and stammered for a minute or two, pay the equivalent of a pot of boiling water.

Forms: Rub vinegar to the sealing disc weekly to absorb door of black mud deposited by liquid detergents.

Dilute one cup of vinegar to three cups of water and used Mildrew grout to remove. A spray occasionally holds shape.

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