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cleaning terracotta jars! help please! :-)
freyaluck
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Hello there
I have terracotta tea, coffee and sugar jars that are in need of a good clean. The inside is fine as it has been varnished, but the outsides have become awful. They have grease marks on and as they are porus I don't have a clue what to do, they are really looking rather tatty.
Does anyone have any ideas please.
Frey
I have terracotta tea, coffee and sugar jars that are in need of a good clean. The inside is fine as it has been varnished, but the outsides have become awful. They have grease marks on and as they are porus I don't have a clue what to do, they are really looking rather tatty.
Does anyone have any ideas please.
Frey
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I have one of those - a utensil jar. Only thing I could think of is get a tiny amount of veg oil on a piece of kitchen roll or an old rag and rub it all over the jar so it is uniformly greased, if you see what I mean. I am not attached to mine so I can always try this for you and report back. I dont think you will get the marks OUT as you say it is porous.Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
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What a good idea I didn't think of that, I will give it a go.
I do love them, but they look so tatty they will have to go if I can't get them to look any better.
Thanks sarahsaver
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Do u want me to try first;) LOLMember no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
Unfortunately I've never managed to get one of these clean. I had one which I kept my utensils in next to the cooker, and as you can imagine it got really splashed with grease and looked terrible. I hate to throw things away but in the end I gave up trying to clean it and bought a white ceramic one! Sorry!!0
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No it's fine sarah saver unless you want to of course;)
I will do it in a bit and see how it turns out.
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Any luck? I will do mine tomorrow and post a pic if you want!Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
I've just won a few on ebay and I can't get them clean - the grease marks stay - anyone had any luck?
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just to throw my piece in, i have a slightly porous mug that i put in some sterilising fluid in. well a tablet type thing and some hot water. no idea what it might do to terracotta. maybe worth a go as a last resort.Opinion on everything, knowledge of nothing.0
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5 minute soak in soda crystals in hot water followed by 2 minute scrub with neat Fairy = 95% cured.
will continue when I find my rubber gloves
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don't look so good now they've properly dried out overnight. Anyone? 
tried everything on google then gave up and painted them - look quite cheerful now in a flowerpot kind of way 0
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