Some useful tips for caring for your apartment

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Some helpful tips for caring for your apartmentIf the sound of your electric ringer is too loud and harsh, apply several layers of electrical tape to its cup.

With a portable dimmer, you can optionally change the brightness of the incandescent lamp to create more comfortable conditions in the room and save energy.

Wash pans especially thoroughly after each frying: overheated fats contain carcinogenic substances.

To prevent the polisher's electric motor from overheating, it should be switched off for 15-20 minutes every 30 minutes of continuous operation.

The refrigerator cannot be installed on a floor made of a material with high electrical conductivity - metal, brick, reinforced concrete.

To clean the inside of the refrigerator, use a solution of baking soda - 1 tablespoon to 1 glass of water.

Woollens with fragile colors can be washed in solution mustard (100 - 150 g per bucket of warm water). Dissolve the mustard in a little water, mix with the rest, let stand and drain into a basin where you will wash. Rinse products in warm, then cold water.

Soda or other alkaline additives should not be added to the water for washing linoleum, they cause whitish spots on the floor.

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If spilled grease is not washed off the linoleum, it will leave indelible dark marks on it. To remove fat, you can use gruel from some types of laundry detergent and hot water.

When washing any floor, you often need to change the water in the bucket, otherwise, instead of destroying bacterial contaminants with dust, you will spread them throughout the apartment.

Scalefrom the kettle can be removed with vinegar essence and baking soda. Add soda to boiling water (2 tablespoons per 1 liter) and boil for half an hour; then boil another solution for 20 minutes: half a glass of vinegar essence for 4 liters of water. After this procedure, easily removing limescale, rinse the kettle well.

Some helpful tips for caring for your apartmentTo protect the sewer pipes from clogging, from time to time sinks (especially in the kitchen) must be rinsed with a solution of hot water and trisodium phosphate or soda: alkaline water dissolves the remaining fat in the pipes. There are also ready-made preparations for this song on sale - "Mole", "Stoke".

Stains formed on the wallpaper can be wiped off with an eraser or white bread crumb.

Wipe the mirror with half a fresh onion and sweat with a soft cloth. This way you protect it from flies.

You can get rid of glass icing by wiping them with a strong salt solution.

It is good to clean silver and cupronickel products with special means: "Jewelry", "Poly-meth", "Amethyst", "Era", etc. If they are not at hand, use chalk with ammonia to clean the silver. Are there damp spots on the products? Wipe them with a cloth dipped in warm vinegar, then rinse with water.

You can't do without vinegar on the farm. Here are some more examples. If you put dried parsley or dill in water with vinegar, the greens will come to life. The unpleasant smell in a thermos or bread basket will disappear when we wash them with vinegar solution (1 teaspoon per glass of water). Oil-painted floors or furniture are also washed with water and vinegar (a few spoons per bucket) to maintain shine. Oilcloth will look like new for longer if you regularly wipe it with a mixture of equal parts vinegar and sunflower oil.

A few drops of lemon juice or vinegar added to the saucepan while boiling the rice will keep the product whiteness. In the same way, the peeled potatoes can be prevented from browning.

Do not use baking soda powder to clean gold-embellished tableware and teapots: the pattern will be erased.Soda solution is preferable in these cases.

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