What else am I forgetting to clean?

GreyQueen

Just cut or fold it to fit and it should just sit there. Just change it out for fresh every few months. You'll be astonished at how much clart it catches and it's much easier to intercept it with the newspaper than clean it off a hard-to-reach surface.

I have a vivid memory about helping a pal prepare for a move. She had very high cupboards with a few long-undisturbed things roosting up there. One of them was one of those wire egg baskets shaped like a chicken, IYSWIM.

Every blasted bit of wire was coated in grease. I brought it down and submerged it in a sink of scalding hot soapy water and left it for a while. The grease detached in precise lines, leaving a ghost chicken in the suds. Very strange sight.

Once it was cleaned and dried, it went to the chazzer - terrible dust-gatherer.

Hedgehog99

I'd always kept my hand basin clean, but I recently bought an own-brand bathroom cleaner (from the supermarket you might hang around in for a while to get a garden flower?) and wow! :T It's sparkling! A massive difference even though I had previously thought it was clean.

suki1964

Hedgehog99 wrote: »

I'd always kept my hand basin clean, but I recently bought an own-brand bathroom cleaner (from the supermarket you might hang around in for a while to get a garden flower?) and wow! :T It's sparkling! A massive difference even though I had previously thought it was clean.

What supermarket????

happyandcontented

suki1964 wrote: »

What supermarket????

Waitrose?:rotfl::T
You can also use wallpaper roll ends for cabinet tops.

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Teapot55

About the oven where the temperature markings have been scrubbed off, it might be possible to find a picture of the cooker on the internet or download the instruction booklet and copy the markings onto the cooker using a marker pen?

monnagran

I read about putting newspaper on the tops of cabinets ages ago. Being very uppercrust y'know I thought I would go one further and cover them with clingfilm.

DO NOT TRY IT.

I stood on a step ladder and virtually mummified myself in the stuff trying to get it to stay on the surface.

Newspaper is the way to go.

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Nicki

Teapot55 wrote: »

About the oven where the temperature markings have been scrubbed off, it might be possible to find a picture of the cooker on the internet or download the instruction booklet and copy the markings onto the cooker using a marker pen?

I scrubbed mine off too. I googled the make of the cooker and temperature settings and found decals on eBay which I just stuck on the cooker and this solved the problem. They only cost about £2

*Margaret*

Nicki wrote: »

I scrubbed mine off too. I googled the make of the cooker and temperature settings and found decals on eBay which I just stuck on the cooker and this solved the problem. They only cost about £2

Oh this is good news, I'll have a look for some for my cooker. They're just a bit faded, but with the last hob I took them off completely (it did take me many years). I don't want to leave a mystery cooker for the next tenant if I move out in the future.

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I never look up either, oops, will be doing lamp shades tomorrow and whispy bits of webs on the ceiling edges.

Aril

I clean for a living. Light switches are a classic. I spend a lot of my time cleaning high areas with an extendable nylon feather duster and the underside of plugs and round taps/plugholes with a toothbrush. Nailbrushes for grouting is good and I have old teatowels lining both the tops of my kitchen cupboards and the veg drawers and compartments in the fridge door. Much easier just to wash them when needed [I do my fridge properly when it needs it] and replace.
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