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How To Remove Hard Water Stains
I have a few clients that I clean for that have wells. Before I started cleaning for them, their showers, tubs and sinks weren’t cleaned on a regular basis. I had orange stains, blue green stains and pink stains that I needed to remove. From experience these are the methods that I have found that works best.Hard water stains are created because they have a high mineral content. Hard water contains calcium and magnesium. These minerals together create the lime scales and other stains which can be difficult to remove. The longer stains are allowed to develop, the more difficult it is to remove them.
- Acid Cleaners
- Vinegar, Baking Soda, Borax
- Lemon Juice and Lime Juice
- Cream of Tartar and Baking Soda
How To Remove Pumpkin Stain From Wooden Furniture?
Happy Halloween!
Halloween has always been a fun time of the year at our house. Carefully selecting the perfect pumpkin to be carved always brought great joy, for our family. It’s about togetherness. Always the night before Halloween or the day of Halloween we would carve our masterpieces. The most amount of time that I spent carving my pumpkin was 6 to 7 hours from scooping to lighting the candle. After all that hard work it seemed sad to me that it only lasted a few days before it had mold appearing in it and then the rotting started.This blog I wanted to share tips and warnings on how you can preserve your masterpiece? Also, how can you remove the mold stain from furniture if you forgot to put a plate or something under the pumpkin?
How Can You Preserve Your Pumpkin After Being CarvedMethod One:
Each night submerge it in a bucket of cold water – take it out in the morning.Method Two:
My favorite method is, a spray-on pumpkin preservative called “Pumpkin Fresh,” which you can easily spray onto the carved areas of your pumpkin, then let it dry to create a protective barrier. This liquid anti-fungal solution fights mold, rot and decay from overcoming your pumpkin. The Pumpkin Fresh website atwww.PumpkinFresh.com shows you in full illustrated detail, how it works. Pumpkin Fresh is very clean and easy to use, with no residue, and absolutely no cleanup involved. Ingredients for Pumpkin Fresh: Water, Sodium tetraborate decahydrate (borax), and sodium benzoate (a preservative and fungicide). The label describes it as a “fungicidal solution.” One other trick to preserving your pumpkin is to use artificial light, such as a flashlight, or fake candle instead of a real candle when illuminating it. The flame of a candle burns extremely hot; therefore the pumpkin has a probability factor of drying out, and aging much faster, especially if the top of the pumpkin is left covered, restricting the flow of heat from the candle to disperse. Using an artificial source of light is a much safer way to have fun, as well, while still being able to enjoy a lighted Jack O’ Lantern.How To Remove A Pumpkin Stain From A Wooden Table Top
If a pumpkin is left too long to sit on a wooden surface without something under it. The pumpkin will start decomposing that will leave a moldy residue marking the wooden surface. Below is the steps to removing the mark.
- Dampen a cotton cleaning cloth with warm water.
- Squirt a small amount of toothpaste onto the cleaning cloth.
- Rub into a circular motion until the stain begins to lift, checking the progress regularly.
- Polish the surface with your regular furniture polish or you can make your own non-toxic furniture polish.
- Rub toothpaste on wood furniture to remove water marks.
- Polish wood with 2 tsp. lemon oil and 1 pint mineral oil in spray bottle. Spray, rub in and wipe clean.
- Mix two parts olive oil to one part lemon juice. After rubbing the mixture in, let stand for several hours and then polish with a soft, dry cloth.
- Melt 1 tbsp. carnauba wax into two pints mineral oil. Use sparingly and rub hard.
” Have A Safe Halloween”
Spooktacular Month!!
What got me motivated to write this weeks blog, is a client of mine is a teacher and she had a pumpkin sitting on her carpet inside. Without putting anything under the pumpkin, she noticed that fruit flies where gathering around it. That motivated her to take the pumpkin outside. When she lifted up the large pumpkin she got mad that it left a mold stain where it was sitting. This happened the morning I was arriving to clean her house. My first reaction when I saw the stain was vinegar. I poured pure white vinegar on it right from the bottle and let it sit for a while. I blotted the stained area a few times with a clean towel and it started removing the stain just a bit. I blotted the stain until it was dry. I didn’t have time to continue to work on it. I began coaching my client through emails on how to remove the stain from her carpet. Below are some solutions that I came up for her. Haven’t heard yet if any of them have worked. The difficultly is this carpet is sisal that is a natural fiber but it is like working with braided rope. Instructions Medium bristle brush or toothbrush 3 percent hydrogen peroxide Spray bottle Clean cloth Baking soda 1. Brush dried mold that may still be present with a medium-bristle brush to lift it. 2. Vacuum up the residual mold; be sure to dispose of the bag or empty the canister and get the mold out of your home as soon as possible. 3. Mix one part 3 percent hydrogen peroxide with three parts water in a spray bottle. 4.Saturate the stained area with the solution. 5. Allow the area to dry and saturate it a second time. 6. Allow the area to soak for 15 minutes before scrubbing with a medium bristle brush or tooth brush and blot with a clean cloth or sponge to remove the stain. 7. Cover the area with baking soda and allow it to sit overnight. 8. Vacuum the area in the morning to get rid of the baking soda and fluff the pile of the carpet back up.
Tips & Warnings You might need to saturate, soak and scrub the area several times to get rid of the stain. Instructions Medium bristle brush or toothbrush Detergent Solution (I use Dawn) Vinegar Spray bottle Clean cloth
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Detergent Solution – Mix one fourth (1/4) teaspoon of a liquid dishwashing detergent per one (1) cup of lukewarm water. NEVER USE A STRONGER CONCENTRATION! Thorough rinsing is necessary to remove detergent residues that may cause rapid soiling. It may be necessary to rinse with warm water several times to completely remove residues. (See Residue Precautions.) Care should be used in selecting a detergent. Never use a laundry detergent of any type, because laundry detergents may contain optical brighteners (flourescent dyes) that dye the fiber. Do not select an automatic dishwashing detergent because many contain bleaching agents that destroy dyes and some fibers.
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Vinegar Solution – Mix one (1) cup of white vinegar per two (2) cups of water. White vinegar is a 5% acetic acid solution. It is used most often to lower the alkalinity caused by detergent solutions or alkaline spills.
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Warm Water – Lukewarm tap water should be used in most cases to rinse the cleaning solutions from the fiber. Failure to completely rinse the solutions from the fiber may cause accelerated soiling.
” Happy Cleaning “