cleaning mank off top of kitchen units!

pigpen

sugar soap.. then cover it with lining paper!

Alton_Towers

I have also used sugar soap, brilliant!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Sugar soap. Just like everyone else before me

(wear gloves and have tons of paper towels, a towel for drying and a bit of steel wool for the really bad bits)

lostinrates

Here is a terrible admition.


When we moved here two years ago i, and my mothers moving gift, her cleaner, scrubbed and scraped and scoured and attacked the top of the double cupboard that had been next to or above tje cooker for hours, then got a screwdriver and took the thing down and threw it away. My kitchen is well over thirty years old, had no extractor and i don't think tyhe tops had EVER been cleaned. With thegrease from cooking it as all too much.

freezspirit

Like others have said, use old thin plastic (cards/packaging) to scrap off what you can, then used I used both desolvit Sticky Stuff Remover Liquid and Solvent & Degreaser. Once dry I then used another product but can't remember actually what it was but it kills 99% bugs and virus etc.

However I took the units off the wall so they were easier to clean and dry then put them back up.

Once I finish decorating I will be putting lining paper up on top of the units so I can easily replace in future without the need off deep cleaning again.

pigpen

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Sugar soap. Just like everyone else before me

(wear gloves and have tons of paper towels, a towel for drying and a bit of steel wool for the really bad bits)

I got a wire brush from B&Q.. much kinder to my pretty nails

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pigpen wrote: »

I got a wire brush from B&Q.. much kinder to my pretty nails

Well, I have ragged, chewed stumps with guitar calluses all over them, so I didn't really see the need


One day I shall get pretty nails. Just not today.

tulip12

As said previously Soda Crystals do really work very well for cutting through grease. For years I struggled to clean grease marks in my kitchen until I discovered Mse old style thread.:) I use it throughout the kitchen now. I also use it on my chrome kettle, just polish off, gives it a lovely shine.

bluebag

I've always used cheap cling film to cover the tops of cuboards and things up high, it doesn't rip and rumple as easy as paper when I have to use the top of the cupboard to keep stuff out of the way of litlle sticky fingers.

cutestkids

Sugar soap will work and when done put down sheets of paper then you only have to change the paper and not scrub the tops again.