De-scaling kettle

16011996

slipped on the green slimy stuff and fractured my wrist a few years ago, so was annoyed and scrubbed it with one, it came off really fast. and stayed clean for ages. bleach helps.

jaybee

I wish they'd make a bigger one then ??? Maybe we could persuade Lakeland . . . . :-/

16011996

i should have shares in lakeland. :-[

Lychee

Spontex... like Hoover, huh? it's really a brand name... ???

anyhow! thanks for that! will give it a go

16011996

yeah, is a brand name, but i've never seen them made by anyone else. ???

bhiman

Hi,

Any money saving ways of removing limescale from kettles and coffee makers? The commercial removers are quite expensive.

Cheers

bhiman

Queenie

Vinegar (left overnight - or min of a couple of hours - rinse well after)

Denture cleaning tablets ( use as above)

nabowla

I've just cleaned the inside of my kettle by pouring white vinegar into the kettle and leaving it to soak overnight. It seems to have worked a treat - there's virtually no limescale in there now and it was in a terrible state.

Queenie

There is another thread on the subject you may find helpful:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=58229#post58229

nabowla - I did mine the same way yesterday - a little scrub for the stubborn bits (if you have stubborn bits) and it's great!

The main thing is, to descale on a regular basis so that the chalky deposits don't built up to a thicker harder layer.

nabowla

Yup, I found that a little scrub with wire wool removed quite a few of the stubborn bits! The trouble is that I hadn't descaled the kettle before (bought it a couple of years ago) and live in a very hard water area so the chalky deposits had really built up. That said, I was really impressed at just how much stuff the vinegar shifted - it's almost perfect now. Might give it another go in a couple of weeks' time just to get it 100% and then will descale on a regular basis.