And now we go again...

rtandon27

EssexHebridean said:

...managed to find the "magic eraser" sponge I was after in the Land of Pounds yesterday - goodness knows why they have suddenly become so hard to find! While I was in there a dishmatic and refills...

EH - I have a feeling that the shortage of magic erasers are due to their environmental impact - so sad as I love them! Those lovely sponges are made of melamine foam (human-made, non-recyclable, non-biodegradable substance) unlike the old fashioned cellulose sponges.

If you decide to hate your dishmatic (as frankly it is rubbish for what it was intended to do) - try a mix of dishwashing liquid and vinegar for scrubbing bathroom glass shower stalls and grout & tiles - Works a treat! - and as a bonus can be scrubbed up and washed down while you are in the shower as neither item is toxic!

EssexHebridean

Isn't the bench just stunning PiP? We were torn between the Central and the Liz Line designs - Central being our "local" (well ish!) line, but the Liz won out because the colours are gorgeous and we went on it on opening day too - couldn't resist! 

TMV thanks for the reminder on the citric acid - I was trying to recall what it was people had said they'd used on stubborn limescale. The issue we have is lines of it down side of the bowl though rather than round the u-bend area - I suspect there has been a slow steady trickle type leak running through at some stage - I'm hopeful that the white vinegar soaked loo roll left in place for several hours might do the trick. Otherwise I'll have a think as to how I can make the citric acid work! 

Mrs P - it is! My biggest challenge right now is being able to find anything though - I keep forgetting where I've put stuff! We'll get there!

Just remembered I need to head along to M@t@lan when I leave the office as somewhere along the line I appear to be down to a single pair of plain black leggings - I had to bin a pair last night as they sprung a hole in the usual spot for leggings...! I prefer M@t@lan ones to Primarni - they cost a bit more but the quality is so much better. 

themadvix

Oh I see your issue with the limescale… fingers crossed the vinegar soaked paper works… otherwise maybe a citric acid paste? 😬

redofromstart

Happy new diary, so pleased for you. Toilet cleaning, I've had some value out of the 'flush and foam' type pouches in H&B, £2 or so for 3 fro  memory, the ones that foam up to the seat.

savingholmes

Good luck with your deep cleaning 

enthusiasticsaver

Just popped over from DFW to catch up on your house plans. Subscribed to watch your MFW journey. Good luck. 

Humdinger1

Your house sounds as glorious as you are @EssexHebridean!  Happy, happy ever after love Humdinger xx 

starnac

I have a few days off MSE for back to school stuff and you move diaries!! 

Happy new diary. Can't wait to hear all about your adventures in your new home

Suffolk_lass

EssexHebridean said:

Isn't the bench just stunning PiP? We were torn between the Central and the Liz Line designs - Central being our "local" (well ish!) line, but the Liz won out because the colours are gorgeous and we went on it on opening day too - couldn't resist! 

TMV thanks for the reminder on the citric acid - I was trying to recall what it was people had said they'd used on stubborn limescale. The issue we have is lines of it down side of the bowl though rather than round the u-bend area - I suspect there has been a slow steady trickle type leak running through at some stage - I'm hopeful that the white vinegar soaked loo roll left in place for several hours might do the trick. Otherwise I'll have a think as to how I can make the citric acid work! 

Mrs P - it is! My biggest challenge right now is being able to find anything though - I keep forgetting where I've put stuff! We'll get there!

Just remembered I need to head along to M@t@lan when I leave the office as somewhere along the line I appear to be down to a single pair of plain black leggings - I had to bin a pair last night as they sprung a hole in the usual spot for leggings...! I prefer M@t@lan ones to Primarni - they cost a bit more but the quality is so much better. 

By mistake, I found that adding a tablespoon of said citric acid (I got food grade from big river) to a just boiled kettle (after making coffee) instantly descales the (stainless steel stovetop) kettle and I thought to try it on the limescale on the rim of the downstairs loo and it just lifted it off as I poured (just make sure the lid is on the kettle) or the steam burns; no need to ask how I know this.... I only descale the kettle when I change the water jug filter but the upstairs loo with the streaks will get tested next! And the second time, I lifted the top off the cistern in the downstairs loo and poured it over the spindle from the flush handle. Completely instantaneous! Marvellous idea I shamelessly took from @themadvix's recommendation to me.

Re your green bin decision - here we have multiple homemade pallet compost bins for garden waste - so clippings, shredded woody prunings, grass-cuttings, spent tomato compost and similar "clean" plant matter all go in these. We have a lidded dalek no-bottom compost bin which gets mostly kitchen veg waste and some shredded paper if that is getting too slimy. The liquid "feed" goes straight to the vigorous healthy plants near it, just a few steps from the back door. (We have never emptied this - but beware in London, it may attract rats)

This leaves certain weeds that grow too easily from fragments. Here these are bindweed, creeping wood-sorrel, brambles, ground elder, couch grass, black grass and things with seeds about to blow like creeping thistles, doc, and nettles. I put them in the old compost bags and then these non-leaking bags get rained on and rot down. This is what I would put in my green bin, if we had one. You want the good stuff to recycle through your own garden, but you are unikely to generate a hot enough compost to kill weed seeds (and creeping wood-sorrel seeds/roots can survive some heat treatments). Here we take these to the council dump recycling centre, or sneak the occasional compost bag with black plastic garden waste on top into our black (general waste) wheelie bin because it gets incinerated.

HTH - you did say it was your first garden (and subscribed)

themadvix

@Suffolk_lass aren’t you dicing with (toilet) death using boiling water on it?! (Insert blue shrieking emoji here)

We stick a used lemon/lime in the kettle to descale - works brilliantly and gets a bit more use from it.