CLEANING A TILED HEARTH.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 June 1936, Page 3

CLEANING A TILED HEARTH.

Other methods besides washing should be chosen for cleaning tiled hearths and walls whenever possible. Kitchen and bathroom walls can be effectively cleaned with a little paraffin. Occasionally, give an extra polish with furniture cream. Any stains which do not come off with the paraffin can be removed with lemon juice and kitchen salt. Tiled hearths should be well brushed to remove as much ash as possible before damping. Then rub with a little methylated spirit and finish with a clean washleather. Furniture cream should be used now and again. Scorch marks on tiled hearths can be removed by vinegar or lemon juice and salt. When washing tiled floors use little water, and dry as thoroughly as possible. Soap flakes and warm water, with the addition of a little vinegar or paraffin, provide a good cleansing medium. Stains should be removed first with paraffin, vinegar, turpentine, or whatever the particular stains will yield to. Some people say that milk cleans, polishes, and preserves tiled floors. Only just enough to dip a cloth irit'O' need be used, and it certainly gives a 1 non-sljppery polish, which is useful where there are children.