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Old 08-09-2007, 06:49 PM
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As long as it's under water, your enamel is safe. Trust. :nod:
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Old 08-09-2007, 06:56 PM
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Ok, so I just got back from town and I was 'Drinkin & Drivin'

Now I have Mocha Frapp blotches on my tee shirt which I don't care, but I also have them on my seat belt material. What do I do?
Combo coffee/chocolate/milk blotchies!
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Old 08-09-2007, 07:03 PM
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Suck it clean?
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Old 08-09-2007, 07:17 PM
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No no!! Gezzusgod! :giggle: Ok, I'm gonna go back out there and try dishwashing soap before it sets.
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Old 08-09-2007, 07:37 PM
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Ok, I smeared it around so much that I can't tell where it is anymore. After it dries it will either be a lot bigger lighter spot or I will have vanquished the evidence!
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Old 08-09-2007, 07:48 PM
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I'm moving over the next few days, so I'll be cleaning the old place from top to bottom. I'll report how the tricks in this thread work.

We have an enamel sink in the kitchen. There is a little brown stain on the enamel that has been here since we moved in. It isn't big, but its presence bothers me. I have tried the magic erasers, bleach, Comet, scrubbing, everything I can imagine. I'm afraid to scrub too much because it might damage the enamel. Any ideas?
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Old 08-09-2007, 07:48 PM
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I'm moving over the next few days, so I'll be cleaning the old place from top to bottom. I'll report how the tricks in this thread work.

We have an enamel sink in the kitchen. There is a little brown stain on the enamel that has been here since we moved in. It isn't big, but its presence bothers me. I have tried the magic erasers, bleach, Comet, scrubbing, everything I can imagine. I'm afraid to scrub too much because it might damage the enamel. Any ideas?
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Old 08-10-2007, 12:08 AM
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Yes. I picked the hottest week of the year to do it too. Winnar.
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I just have to say that I've looked up and down and sideways on the interwebs for certain stain removal techniques and have had absolutely no success. I searched the archives here, found this thread and all of my questions have been answered.

So thank you!
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Old 01-27-2009, 02:14 AM
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Hullo ullo! Bumping because I just cleaned a nasty funk out of my washing machine by running a cup of distilled white vinegar through the quick wash cycle. The funk was cat piss related (I washed the bathmat that lives next to the litter box), so you can imagine I was :freakout:.

I've read about using vinegar in your washer, but this is the first time I've done it. Not only did it completely de-funk the drum without making it smell at all vinegary, but it cleared out old soap that was hidden in the works. You could tell 'cause the water was all sudsy.

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Old 01-27-2009, 02:20 AM
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One can only imagine, then, the results of a vinegar douc[Right! Stop that!--Ed.]

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Old 01-27-2009, 02:26 AM
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Hopefully there are no vaginas that smell like cat piss.
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Old 01-27-2009, 02:59 AM
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Vinegar is also good as a fabric softener if you add it during the rinse cycle. I do that when I'm line drying.
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Old 01-27-2009, 04:01 AM
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Hopefully there are no vaginas that smell like cat piss.
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But you know . . . if you Google it. . . .

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Old 01-27-2009, 05:39 PM
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I was Windexing the glass coffee table this morning (and I dislike the smell of Windex anyway) and whatever film is on it is just smearing around. I hate the smell of vinegar even more. Anything that is not stinky that might get the mystery film off the coffee table?
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Old 01-27-2009, 05:49 PM
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Rubbing alcohol. It's stinky for a little bit but it evaporates quickly. Oh, and use a newspaper for wiping. Standard black and white newsprint, not advertising fliers with the full color blocks.

Alcohol and newspaper are the best glass cleaners around, bar none.
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Old 01-27-2009, 05:59 PM
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Vinegar is still not working to make my formerly moldy towels smell OK.
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Any tips? They are red towels, so I can't bleach them either.
Also I refuse to use fabric softener, allergies.
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Old 01-27-2009, 06:12 PM
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Hmm... Honestly, I wouldn't use moldy towels that I couldn't bleach. Mold is a tough bird, so I'd never trust that the spores were truly dead and gone unless I could soak that shit in bleach for a good long while.
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Old 02-01-2009, 12:29 AM
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Ok, so I'm not the fastest glass cleaner on earth but I have REASONS!
Or excuses.
Or nevermind!

What happened was I couldn't find the alcohol. But I did find these itty bitty alcohol thingies in the medicine stuff. I tore two packets open but trust me that isn't enough to get a hand mirror very wet well enough a whole coffee table. So eventually I ask the husband if he knew what became of the alcohol. He took it to the uncompleted addition because the instructions on the undermount sinks told him he had to use it to clean off the sink rims before applying the caulk stuff. They did not tell him to put it back in the cabinet so he left it in the addition. I didn't complain because I was in shock he admitted to reading INSTRUCTIONS at all and had to go and get the smelling salts to keep from fainting.
So now I had enough alcohol but I couldn't find any newspaper. I dumped some alcohol on anyway and pushed it around. It took up some of the mystery film! I'm awaiting my next trip into town to get a newspaper, and test out the full glass cleaning treatment.

If it ever stops snowing. which it won't ever I know this now. It will snow on into all eternity. inch by inch. Day by day. A million years from now aliens will find me and my filmy coffee table frozen intact under the only glacier that survived the global warming that killed all of you in 2050.
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Old 02-01-2009, 12:51 AM
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It's like you've gone back in time, when getting a newspaper was a treacherous feat.
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Old 02-01-2009, 01:01 AM
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I will admit that my standards aren't all that high, but a microfiber cloth and a little water gets glass pretty clean too.
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Windex works too and some old fuzzless kitchen towels that I have.

I need some ideas. I've got to find a way to clean the bathtub that does not involve getting on my knees. Any ideas? (No, MT can't do it either. He might pop those newly installed lenses right out of his eyes.)
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mop?
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Scrubbing bubbles.


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Mop might work.

I've considered that scrubbing bubbles doohickey before. Skeeves me out that it doesn't rinse, though. And, I'd have to take all our shampoos and soaps out every day. I might try it anyway.
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