Cleaning

guys, when my treadmill was in storage position (base lifted vertically) when we moved house, a bunch of oily greasy something has leaked out on to the walking belt which makes every 4th step really slippery.

would greased lightning work on this or do you think it will burn a hole in the belt (which I guess is some kind of nylon/plastic)

If you use it, don't leave it on very long, and rinse well. I would think that it would be effective and would not damage the belt.

It might not do much if the oil is a synthetic, but it's worth a try.

thxz!

i'm so not excited about dusting the office

I am trying to con the man into cleaning the whole house as a birthday gift, but I don't think it's gonna happen...

hahaha that is exactly what i would do

what floor cleaner should i use FIRST before Greased Lightning (and is GL genearlly available in NYC retail stores I wonder)?

I would use GL first, as a spot cleaner. GL surely is available at a retailer near you.

(xpost) I don't know, I just squirt it straight on the lino, wait for 5-10 minutes, then mop it up and rinse. If there's particularly bad spots, I resquirt them, wait, maybe get down and scrub some, then mop and rinse. Not sure where you'll find it, I used to be able to buy it from Safeway and the drugstore, but recently have only found it (in an even stronger strength) at the restaurant supply place. You could always just have at it with Mr. Clean or Pine-sol though.

btw, I tried the Bar Keeper's Friend on the glass shower door and it took the scum/scale right off - smells bad in a weird chemical way for awhile though.

thx all. I just have to be sure not to do this on a hot day...

OK, Bar Keeper's Friend not really getting the tub sparkly -- looks like gray soap-scum residue won't come off except with my FINGERNAIL (on the shower wall near the soapdish, too). Tilex for Soap Scum, then more BKF?

Try using a copper (softer than steel wool so less likely to destroy the finish) Choreboy with the Tilex or full strength GL or BKF if the tub and surround are not plastic.

Or go Jesse's oven cleaner route, that stuff is powerful.

I'm really fond of those scrub brushes with the handles on them, you know the ones that look like miniature irons? They do a pretty good job of scrubbing without abrading, on the occasions I've used 'em. I don't know how bad your tub is, though.

>I'm really fond of those scrub brushes with the handles on them, you know the ones that look like miniature irons?

Second that, this gets used every time I scrub the tub.

Oven cleaner. It's like magic. Very toxic magic.

I don't know the scrub brushes that look like miniature irons. I'm buying more cleaning supplies this month than I have in the last 10 years.

The tub is not THAT bad, but the effing landlady is going to withhold my deposit if I give her the slightest reason.

got the Greased Lightning!

A tip for the fridge: if it has the slightest odor (or, you know, stinks), rub damp baking soda all over the interior walls and the plastic things like the bins with a sponge after you've cleaned everything else out. Leave it for as long as you want (overnight, whatever), wipe it out then put the shelves/bins/etc back and put fresh open boxes of more baking soda in both the fridge and the freezer.

Thanks, but I did the fridge shelves and all on Saturday, no smell is noticeable. I am gonna put a new b'soda box in tonight, and then it's the floors and tub to do (with the GS and BKF and ironstyle brush).

full strength Grease Lightning

So I shouldn't dilute it for the floors? Just squirt on the spong mop and/or sponges? (I read the label a few days ago.)

i like the iron scrub brushes as well but be careful you don't overscratch your tub!

so I'll start with BKF on sponge for tub, I guess?

I'd rub it on with a sponge and let it sit damp on the really bad spots for a bit, then scrub with either wet sponge or brush and see what you get. It didn't do much for the tile floor of my shower, I didn't have a scrub brush though. I got fed up and squirted full strength dishwasher detergent gel on it. The fumes about did me in, but it cut through the gray scum. Next time, I'm going for the oven cleaner though.

or i'll just fly Jesse in and let him do it.

well, good news is the BKF pretty much got all the shower wall soapscum. BUT there's still that gray film on the tub floor that's mostly not budging.

I got fed up and squirted full strength dishwasher detergent gel on it.

Jaq, a brand name for the dishwasher gel? it's in the hardware/cleaning outlets next to the handwash fluids?

or I'll just get the damn Easy-Off and go to town.

I just used Cascade, the standard stuff from the supermarket. Don't get any on you, it's really caustic. I let it sit on the shower floor for 20 minutes or so, then scrubbed. This might be a good time to go straight to the oven cleaner though. (ha - xpost)

Oven cleaner is magic on a really dirty tub.... A dousing with Easy Off, and you're set.

Jesse, how long to leave E-O on before rinsing?

You could probably leave it for as long as it says to do an oven - like 30 minutes or so?

hah, somebody on a forum sez they let it sit for HOURS!

Apparently there's Easy-Off BAM for tubs, specifically:

http://www.easyoffbam.us/product_info.shtml

That looks similar to GL, but maybe Ultrashine Bleach! is a magical ingredient.

Another person sez at least 2 hrs for Easy-Off on the tub:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2244180_soap-scum-off-bathtub.html

This consumer got no results w/ E-O (maybe didn't wait long enough?), prefers something called KABOOM:

http://www.epinions.com/content_294686723716

lol KABOOM.

KABOOM! BAM! GREASED LIGHTNING!

So many explosive choices!

well I bought the regular oven (fume-free) Easy-Off, so this is my last chance.

you're in danger of spending your deposit on cleaning products

sorry morbi, i was out of town. i answered over at the gay thread.

i forget - what sort of grime are you going after? i doubt it would do much for my tub, as it has ground in dirt due to the enamel being very worn. but e-o is magic on soap scum.

http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.Drugstore.com/prodimg/157702/200.jpg

I found one of these on special.

Pro:
With regular use, it's bound to be effective. I can see where it removed some stains; there are streaks of clean.

Con:
I forget to use it.
It's not really a shower/tub CLEANER, just a maintainer of clean. Not really that much of a "con," but a little.
It uses a lot of fluid in each spray.

But I figured out how to remove the cap, so I'm going to refill it with cheaper cleaner, very diluted Fabuloso or another Scrubbing Bubbles product.

Easy-Off worked!!! but I need to give it one more dousing to get a few more patches off.

Kitchen floor remains dull and kinda dirty alas ... heel marks, etc. Greased Lightning does little for the spots. It may be my downfall. I'm guessing I shouldnt use EO on linoleum (if that's what the tile is, I don't even know).

(actually I spent $150 just now to get an earlier flight home, dammit)

I use EO on linoleum. But not EVOO.

Did you use EO oven cleaner?

on the tub, yeah! not yet on kitch lino, but it's getting desperate...

what the hell is EVOO?

hahahah! extra virgin olive oil :) I doubt the oil cleaning method (OCM) would work on your floor.

Fucking Rachel Ray says "evoo."

For heel marks, I would recommend Goof Off or some kind of orange oil-based cleaner.

HEY.

What color should I paint the floor in my new apartment? The landlord covered the marred hard wood floors with a horrible brown. The walls are a nice moss green with a built-in book shelf unit painted purplish. I was thinking a silvery-bluish-grey. Off topic, but recommendations appreciated.

Ugh cleaning I hate you. We've been given four months to vacate but I've been here 8 years so the place has a lot of wear and tear. Whats worse is, for reasons unknown, they sent painters in last week and painted all the walls while we still live here! We agreed to it not realising at the time we were going to be given the arse. They made a tremendous mess (broken plaster and paint flakes, dirt, cigarette ash on the balcony, paint on the carpet, broke a lamp and a camera... oh god what a disaster) and then fucked off without cleaning a THING, it has taken me two whole weekends so far to get the place looking even habitable again.

Easy off BAM is awesome I have to say. The kitchen grease one gets rid of EVERYTHING but it is disturbingly toxic smelling. The bathroom one is good but so caustic, it seems to react weirdly with bathroom greases and leave a sick, sharp smell I dont like.

So I got the apt clean enuf for the landlady, and she gave me my deposit back. FANFARE, THE END. Used Mop n Glow on floor for the last wipe.

Of course the new place has an annoying amount of dust, crumbs and grime (a MUSICIAN lived here, natch).

i do not remember posting this

i now do such a bad job at following through and finishing cleaning tasks that i am afraid to even start because i will be disappointed in myself in the end

― contorted filbert (harbl), Saturday, June 6, 2020 2:24 PM (two months ago)

my job fedexed me two monitors so i don't have to use a small laptop screen all day. just in time to start a new project that involves 10,000 pages of reading! but i believed i did not have space in my tiny house (and i have acquired the bad habit of working on my bed) so i almost asked not to get them. i have a second bedroom i don't use so it was a dusty storage room even though i intended to someday make it an actual second bedroom. i have lived in this house for 7 years now lol. i get so overwhelmed by projects like this that i never even try to do them. my bf told me to set the monitors up in the second room and i almost cried. today i collected two bags of garbage, consolidated the stuff i wanted to keep into two storage totes, moved some other stuff downstairs so i can get rid of it, vacuumed the whole room, cleared off the desk and put the monitors on it. AND i ordered a chair. i actually had to write out a plan for this like i was at work. i made it due in 60 days (i have to paint and get some furniture and a plant, etc.). i'm going to put it on a calendar like a grown-up. why don't i always do that? STUPID BRAIN!

Awesome!! I actually did a similar thing when I "de-cluttered" my apartment a couple years ago, including drawing diagrams of where things currently were and where they will be moved to, and the stages of the process -- thing A moves from room 1 to room 2, then thing B can move from LR to room 1 ... I don't think your brain is stupid, just weird but interesting!

Home spaces are weird these days. I work in the room that ... I drink and listen to music and write postcards to friends ... and the room feels slightly wrecked. I struggle to keep on top of tidying and I could sometimes weep at the clutter and the wooden floor is getting destroyed by my work chair ... but that sounds like an achievement, habrl.

home is definitely more claustrophobic than usual. and now i know i can't blame my mess on "i'm never home" like i used to. but yeah i'm going to get a rug to put under the chair. the floors aren't the best to begin with but i don't want to make a mess of them. now i'm thinking of buying a rowing machine instead of a second bed. the room is too small for both, i think.

yeah i have succumbed to “longer time at home seeing cluttered space & doing something instead of ignoring”

cleaned up our back room a couple of months ago & it went from a hoarder’s cry for help/spider paradise to open space with a cleared table that I now have ~houseplants~ on

but it took a while, by choice! i kept seeing it as a whole thing to deal with all at once & that made me no want to do it. so i’d pick a thing, figure out its designation (keep, trash, donate, nfi) & just do a little bit each day, for a little while..no time limit... if i felt like doing more I did more but if it started to piss me off i’d stop & do something else. it is nice to go back there now & not feel like a failure