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GrannyTip
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De-scale the kettle by boiling chopped up lemon and leave it overnight. A clean kettle will boil quicker and save electricity. A lemon costs 35p whereas that dreadful chemical stuff costs at least £2.65 and leaves traces of chemical in your drink and in the environment. Win Win.
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or you could use white vinegar- even cheaper : 35 pence for 568 ml - current price from Tesco & Ald-i which should do more than one kettle.Being polite and pleasant doesn't cost anything!
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Don’t waste your lemon. Zest it and juice it first, before using it to descale. Smells lovely.
Generally, I use distilled white vinegar, which I re-use 4 or 5 times before discarding. We have really hard water. Make sure the kettle is empty of all water, boil your vinegar and leave to cool overnight. Pour into a large jar and store. When you decide that the vinegar is done with, either add it to your washing up liquid on a 50:50 ratio - to soften the washing up water - or tip a cup of bicarb soda down the sink plug hole and then pour in the vinegar. The mechanical action generated by the chemical reaction will clean the drain.
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PS: I have a thermos jug that we use regularly, so I descale it before descaling the kettle, by filling the jug with cold vinegar and leaving for at least 6 hours. Works a treat!"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
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I use citric acid, about £10 per kg, a couple of heaped teaspoons dissolved in a full kettle of water. I use distilled vinegar in the washing machine every now and again to hopefully reduce limescale.
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