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calgon & Preservene Sno... Its my granny using her Hoover Twinny  she would boil all her whites using Sno or Lux flakes and a palm of Calgon ... Steam and foam and the long wooden tongs that were bleached from many loads of washing 

Bleach Tablets We have had them in Australia for about 5 yrs White King make them, in Regular & Lemon scent. Can't tell difference between the smell. I use 2 in a 7kg top loader. They are slightly effervescent when u throw them in the wash. They are good for cleaning the toilet too! 

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: small;">So our F & P IW709 (purchased 27/01/2001) started to leak into the wash bowl when not being used. I did some internet research (Google appliance service lol)they suggested failed inlet solenoids. So onto Flea Pay .. Two new...

Speed Queens..... I have just ordered two SQ front loaders for an apartment block I manage. To replace two old wotkhorses, The owners did have a 10 yr old top load 7kg Maytag top loader and a 14 yr old SQ front loader. Both had noisy bearings and failing seals. These machines ran non stop with...

Gas Vs Electric I have the best of both worlds... Fisher & Paykel Gas cook top with seprate F & P under bench electric oven that has in oven grill (broiler). The cooktop/ oven configuration is now really popular in Aust now. Natural gas is the norm for most modern apartments in city areas for...

Radarange plug.. Its an Aussie/ New Zealand 240v plug. That config is our standard plug and socket! Saying that, the plug on that cord is REALLY old school. :-) 

Tide in Au I have been buying Tide from Costco Auburn for a while now,the one with Downey is great. The bleach alternate is brilliant, it can cope with white home socks. I will buy it from Coles. I have also seen Woolies are getting Purex Crystals fabric softener, good scent and didn't...

The Hoover 565 My Mum had the model below this one, without a heater. It was huge and from memory and quite noisy. The machise was made by Hoover at Moorebank Sydney. We had a 200 gallon off peak gravity fed hot water tank that sat in roof void abve the laundry. this would supply Mums Saturday...

Cascade Complete Gelpacks BASE bargain shops have been selling bags of USA Cascade Complete gel packs. They they are brilliant in the F & P DishDrawer. I use the Quick Wash (49 mins no prewash), I just put the pack into the cutlery basket. If I use a programme with Pre Wash, I wait until teh...

Dishdrawer Using tablets I have a DWS 603 for 8+ years. I always used to use powder Kwit or Aldi in a blue bottle. but on a vist to Woolworths I was conned into buying Fairy Platinum gel tabs they are awful, they stink! & they foam heaps. I gave them to my mum, she tried them in her Miele...

Kirkland Detergent I use the Kirkland liquid... it is brilliant, very clean smelling, low sudsing. Colours and whites are brilliant ... it removed stains that I thought were set for ever. Its a bit too strong for black clothes... they do suffer from colour fade.

Another article.... Power V's Liquid....   The LONG STANDING debate goes on... http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8294533/washing-powder-versus-liquid

This was on Sydney tele on Monday evening... I would KILL to go visit .... It would be fantastic FUN!!!    http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/consumer/article/-/10190782/washing-wonder-world

New Comfort... It is a killer..its is so SO strong my neighbour commented on my strong "aftershave" and how pungent it was when i got in the lift at home the other day lol ... Its the Sunshine Days version. I did purchase the "rosy blush" one also but ended up giving it to Mum to use on Dads...

FP Dishdrawers Reliability In the block of units I live in, we have a all FP kitchens.. gas cooktops, electric ovens & dishdrawers.    The larder 3 bedroom units have double dishdrawers & all 2 & 1 bedroom units have single dish drawers.  EVERYSINGLE double DD has been replaced at least once...

Blackberry & Hydrangea Marketing morons!!! Hydragea's dont smell at all... Black Rasberry... Pooh! what utter rubbish! Huggie in Aust has a fluro orange Santorini Sunset scent... It stinks like bubble gum that has been left in the summer sun for two weeks! BLURK...

Omo Ultimate My Local Woolies & Franklins are selling the 5kg (115 wash) boxes of Small & Mighty at $24.95, $15.00 off regular price. Maybe they are making space for the Ultimate?? They also have new stuff 1. Alpine Fresh Omo liquid & powder...not too sure on the new fragrance. 2. Bio Zet...

Daily Detergents <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #0000ff;">I am using Surf Cool Summer for Top Loaders (old fragrance) ,now is replaced woth Cool Lime & Mint as my daily suds. </span> <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #0000ff;">For Whites its DRIVE Top Loader...

Pressure cooking... I grew up with Mum & Gran using these hissing temperamental things every week... we had a wooden floor in the family kitchen, my brother & I would dare each other to see how could jump on the floor closest to the stove to make the pressure knob explode with a loud HISSS and...

Split Air Con - Splits are the main type in Aust. We have the Panasonic Inverter spilts in our apartment. Our strata plan bylaws only allow Fujitsu, Dakin or Panasonic Invert Air Cons. A small (1hp) in the bedroom that runs on a standard 10amp power point This is used year round for...