WALLPAPER RENOVATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 5

WALLPAPER RENOVATIONS

“DRY CLEANING,” RENOVATING GREASE-MARKS, “PATCHING.” If your wallpaper is merely soiled, but otherwise good, give it a dryclean. It will save you the trouble and expense of repapering. Remove the loose dirt with a clean brush; then dip a duster in dry, powdered borac and rub it over the soiled parts. Work with a circular movement, using light, even strokes, until the paper is thoroughly clean. This

j method is more effective than cleaning with bread. ! Where portions of the paper are spotted with grease, sprinkle a piece of blotting-paper with carbonate of soda and press it against the wall with a moderately hot iron. The blot-ting-paper will absorb the grease, while the soda will preserve the colour of the paper. Wallpaper that has become smokedarkened is best cleaned with fine oatmeal. Apply on a soft piece of old flannel, rubbing with an up-and-down movement at first, then working from left to right, to avoid a “patchy” effect. If the wallpaper has lost its pat-1

tern in places, or is wearing thin, the parts may be neatly patched. Match the pattern with a spare piece, tear the “patch” carefully instead of cutting it with scissors, and stick it on. The zig-zag edges will not be so noticeable a% would a straight-cut patch. The yolk of an egg will remove mud, coffee, or chocolate stains from material. Apply with a piece of flannel, beginning at the outside of each stain and working with a rotary movement toward the centre. j After using the oyen of a gas-stove for roasting wipe it out while still 1 warm: it is then much easier to clean. , j : • , ' j . ■