10 ways to use vinegar for household upkeep
Jan 04, 2017 Home Improvement
Text: Relin Hedly
Photograph: Shutterstock
Photograph: Shutterstock
Here are a few simple methods how you can use vinegar for daily household upkeep.
- Vinegar can be used as an effective cleaner. Use it to clean your chopping board in the kitchen or the rim of the toilet in the bathroom. If you experience irritation in the skin, wash your hands with water and vinegar in 2:1 ration and rinse off.
- You can use vinegar to remove wallpaper. For this take equal amounts of water and vinegar in a bottle and spray on the location. Wait for few minutes. You will see that the wallpaper easily come out.
- Dip some vinegar in a toothbrush and use it to remove scrub out dust from tiles in the bathroom or kitchen surfaces.
- To remove build-up from wooden surfaces use vinegar and water in 1:2 ratio.
- Revive your paintbrushes with vinegar. Soak them in vinegar for half an hour. Then wash and rinse.
- Clean the computer mouse with a solution of vinegar and water in equal quantities.
- Wipe the blades of scissors with vinegar to prevent them from rusting.
- Clean the shelves and walls of your refrigerator with vinegar and water.
- To get rid of odours from plastic containers dip a cloth in vinegar and wipe it.
- Release the build-up of microwave by heating equal amounts of vinegar and hot water. Once the microwave is filled with steam, cleaning becomes easier.
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