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Post# 1060982   2/19/2020 at 15:31 (1,498 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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What cleaning products do you use to keep your home sparkling? What do you use to mop, dust, scrub, polish? Please, no laundry or dishwasher products.
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Post# 1060983 , Reply# 1   2/19/2020 at 15:35 (1,498 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1060985 , Reply# 2   2/19/2020 at 16:01 (1,498 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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I am Very, Very lucky to be married to someone who loves to clean. I told him years ago it's either him or we hire someone because I won't do it. I hate to clean. I do however clean in the kitchen because I spend a lot of time there. I use very few products. I use the dishmaster soap (in the faucet) to clean many items that don't go in the dishwasher. I use Bar Keepers friend on my cookware to keep it looking like new. I use a Boos oil on our cutting boards and a Boos stainless cleaner to clean the appliances. It is the best stainless cleaner I have found and I think I have tried most of them. I use a normal liquid dish soap for most other things.
The first picture is under the kitchen sink and the products I use. The foil is to keep the hose from the dishmaster from getting caught on the pipes below. The second picture is what he uses to clean the house. As you can see "he loves him" some Pine-Sol!! He really doesn't use that many products and the house always smells clean. |
Post# 1060989 , Reply# 4   2/19/2020 at 16:40 (1,498 days old) by Maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)   |   | |
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All-Purpose Spray cleaner in French Lavender Heinz White Vinegar Dawn-- whatever style is cheapest. S.O.S. or Brillo. Large box of sodium bicarb for scrubbing. Small box for baking. Lawrence/Maytagbear |
Post# 1060990 , Reply# 5   2/19/2020 at 16:49 (1,498 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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Well my husband David is like Ralph’s husband from reply #2, he likes to do the cleaning, although I’m not adverse to doing it. I do the laundry, grocery shopping and all the cooking and baking.
For the laundry I use Gain Original scent liquid, Gain Dryers sheets and Oxi Clean White Revive. For the dishes I use Palmolive Original Ultra liquid and Barkeepers friend for the stainless steel pots and pans. I found these wonderful dish clothes at Walmart have a nylon net backing, and they are great for hand washing the dishes and scrub pans so well that I seldom need to us anything else to clean them. We keep a bar of plain old Ivory bar soap at each sink for hand washing. David uses Lysol liquid cleaner for the floors and Windex Vinegar formula for the windows, Ajax scouring powder for the sinks and toilets. We also keep a box of SOS pads on hand for stubborn spots on pans, and to clean the oven, along with Barkeepers Friend, I only use Easy Off if the oven is really dirty, which reminds me, I need to give the oven a go over again soon. Oh, and lest I forget, David uses Swifters for dusting. We are both very neat people, alway pick things up so there is no clutter and our house is spotlessly clean at all times, could be ready to show for sale any day of the week. When you’ve had to work hard to buy a home and everything that goes into it you appreciate it and want to keep it nice. Eddie |
Post# 1060993 , Reply# 6   2/19/2020 at 17:44 (1,498 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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Clorox or Lysol toilet bowl cleaner Scrubbing Bubbles bath cleaner Dawn Manual Pot & Pan detergent Mr. Clean Professional floor cleaner Clorox Bleach Lestoil Bar Keeper's Friend Dawn Professional Heavy Duty Degreaser Windex 3-M sponges & scrub pads SOS |
Post# 1060995 , Reply# 7   2/19/2020 at 18:18 (1,498 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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Post# 1061044 , Reply# 8   2/20/2020 at 04:02 (1,498 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Barkeepers Friend or Comet powder for the stainless kitchen sink Lysol or Clorox toilet gel TyDBowl blue bottle in the tank Clorox cleanup or Lavender Lysol for the floors Scrubbing Bubbles for the bathroom sink and tub/shower Tide turbo botanical rain pods Powder Ariel with Downy or Bold powder for whites Real Windex or Invisible Glass Mr Clean magic eraser for the micro/convect oven interior Fume free Easy Off for the Frigidaire gas range oven...I never use the self-clean function.
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Post# 1061099 , Reply# 11   2/20/2020 at 13:03 (1,497 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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Oliger, no need to apologise for mentioning Tide. It's not necessarily a laundry product. There is a version sold specifically as a floor and all-purpose cleaner. I keep intending to buy a box, but haven't yet. |
Post# 1061147 , Reply# 14   2/20/2020 at 20:15 (1,497 days old) by lakewebsterkid (Dayton, Ohio)   |   | |
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In laundry in add Ammonia to nearly every wash For air freshener I use only Febreze Fabric in Downy AF scent, and Febreze Air in Downy AF as well. For dishwashing soap I recently fell in love with Dawn Advanced (Costco exclusive). |
Post# 1061189 , Reply# 16   2/21/2020 at 10:21 (1,496 days old) by dermacie (my forever home (Glenshaw, PA))   |   | |
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Post# 1061204 , Reply# 17   2/21/2020 at 12:13 (1,496 days old) by Xraytech (Rural southwest Pennsylvania )   |   | |
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Post# 1061223 , Reply# 18   2/21/2020 at 17:06 (1,496 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1061391 , Reply# 20   2/24/2020 at 05:29 (1,493 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 1061392 , Reply# 21   2/24/2020 at 05:36 (1,493 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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I didn't know this existing until I read it here. I've never seen it in the grocery store but they had it at Home Depot yesterday. I bought a bottle and I really like it. I used it on the kitchen sink and it's amazing how well and how quickly it worked. When I use the powder I have to rinse and rinse. This seemed to rinse off fairly quickly. |
Post# 1061407 , Reply# 22   2/24/2020 at 12:51 (1,493 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 1061420 , Reply# 23   2/24/2020 at 16:50 (1,493 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1062037 , Reply# 24   3/2/2020 at 09:14 (1,486 days old) by olivia_davis (Clifton,NJ)   |   | |
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Due to the fact that my child is allergic, I try to use organic detergents such as Young Living or TriNova |
Post# 1062121 , Reply# 25   3/3/2020 at 01:42 (1,486 days old) by Stan (Napa CA)   |   | |
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I don't have a giant arsenal of cleaning products, and now that I think of it..really no commercially made spray on products.
Lye soap is used for ALL kinds of general cleaning and degreasing. Bon Ami BarKeepers Friend Vinegar Clear ammonia TSP occasionally used to soak & clean out stainless steel coffee pot. Liquid Gold for furniture (pourable version) I dont use Comet or Ajax cleanser, I dont think either bleach like they use to. Instead, for something like cleaning my old porcelain kitchen sink.. I pour a little Clorox (splash less) and some Bon Ami. Scrub let sit, and rinse. I live in a old house, so if I see rust (old bathroom sink) I go for BarKeepers Freind I have a bottle of Citra Solve concentrate that I rarely use.. Maybe use straight (little on a cloth) to remove tree sap. So I guess I've gone kind of green? Just some basic chemicals that have been around for 100 years, no artificial Scents |
Post# 1062544 , Reply# 26   3/7/2020 at 11:40 (1,481 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver)   |   | |
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