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De-scaling kettle
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Allexie
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Any tips for de-scaling a kettle please. Have tried boiling vinegar in it and has helped a bit but still not all gone?
♥♥♥ Genius - 1% inspiration and 99% doing what your mother told you. ♥♥♥
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I think you need to mix bicarb of soda with the vinegar to make a nice fiz. Worth doing that and leaving overnight.I say what I like, I like what I say!0
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I keep one of those little metal things in there, you rinse them through every so often - they pick up all the floating bits of limescale.0
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they were selling them off cheap in woolies a couple of weeks ago, cos i got one for travel kettle. think was about £1.0
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Thanks HQ and 160..it was for a travel kettle actually too.
As for the vinegar and bicarb...now why didn't I think of that especially after my experiences re tooth-whitening and bi-carb and vinegar when I ended up looking like I had rabies ::) ::)♥♥♥ Genius - 1% inspiration and 99% doing what your mother told you. ♥♥♥0 -
yes you need the fizz
after that a pebble in the bottom of the kettle does the job or a cheap rip off bit of spontex
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What's spontex?
I haven't got an bicar of soda, does baking soda work as well??0 -
thats a spontex. 
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baking soda is just as good
spontex
fantastic bit of kit, never goes rusty, cleans your pans grill oven oven racks anything
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and exceelent for slime green stuff on foot paths. i have one just for that. shifts it in no time, with a bit of soapy water.0
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You must have got a spare one in you cupboard!
However did you discover that it was good for cleaning paths??? ??? ???0
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