Spring Cleaning Hints

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 10

Spring Cleaning Hints

AFTER you have brushed or vacuumed your stair carpets, sponge them with a solution of vinegar and .warm water. This will restore the color of your carpets, keeping them fresh —the vinegar lays the dust, also less brushing is needed. ■ An Extra Mop, Your newly-painted skirting boards will keep clean much longer if you never use a. dirty mop. You say you would wash your mop oftener if it didn't take so long to dry. Why not buy an extra mop-head? You . can then take the dirty one off every fortnight, wash it, and dry it while the other one is in use. Sparkling Glass. A good pinch of rice and a cup full of vinegar shaken together in your water bottlos and, jugs will make them sparklingly clear. To Repaint Tiles. Should you wish to have fresh soft furnishings and carpets and find that the tiles in the grate are the wrong color, get some good paint of the color you require, then stir into it the white of an egg. Paint tiles with this mixture and .you will have them to match of contrast as desired, and they will look like new. Beautify the Grate, Aluminium paint brushed over the black iron work of a bedroom grate makes a vast improvement in the room, apart from being labor-saving, as it only requires to be dusted.