Spring Cleaning Recipes for Venus

[jimmyb]

Venus great meeting you and Austin. Here are the recipes from the Queen of Cleans's book. I am posting them here thinking some others may be interested as well.

Ceramic Tile Floors:

1 gallon warm water + 2 Tbl Ammonia + 1 Tbl Borax. Do not use a sponge mop as it acts as a squeegee and deposits dirt in the grout tracks. Sweep or vacuum floor prior to mopping. Use rag or chamois-type mop. Rinse mop, frequently changing the water as it becomes soiled. If you have a gloss-finish tile it may be necessary to dry the tile. Use a clean terry rag under your foot to do it the easy way.

Screens:

Soap the screen with a sponge dipped in a pail of warm water containing 2 Tbl dishwashing liquid, 1/4 cup Ammonia and 2 Tbl Borax. Really suds the screen, lay a rag on the ground and gently tap the screen on it. Most of the soapy water containing the dirt will come off this way. To finish rinse the screen with the hose and stand to dry, or rag dry.

These are directly from the book Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean by Linda C. Cobb which has many great tips in it.

Again it was great meeting you and I wish I could have been down for all three days of the wash-in.

Jim

 

[retromom]

Thanks Jimmy!

Thanks for the great screen cleaning "recipe"! I'll probably get to the windows and screens in the next couple of weeks (such a far cry from the r&r of the Tucson wash-in). I always have Borax on hand as a laundry booster, so this should be an easy one!

It was wonderful to meet and talk with you in Tucson! I thought the grocery shopping trip was great fun, and the results - simply delicious! Hope we all get a chance to get together again. In the meantime...you are so lucky to live near some great people and great machines!!

Have fun -

Venus

 

[jamiel]

Not sure if I'd use ammonia on aluminum screens...fiberglass would be fine but I'd be afraid it would corrode the aluminium.

My mother would always have us clean the screens every spring...amazing the amount of dirt they catch.