Cleaning Tips

Exactly how you need to set about cleaning wood paneling will to some extent depend on the wood that was used for the paneling and the finish that was applied to it. However, the following should give you more than enough information to at least make a start on cleaning your wood paneling.

Painted Wood Paneling

To start with, and in order to avoid rubbing more dirt into the paneling, using a duster or fine and lightweight brush, remove any surface dust from the paneling. When doing this, do make sure that you clean between the joints, along any seams and adornments to the paneling. If the paneling has an enamel paint surface you can then clean it thoroughly with any detergent or preparatory cleaning agent.

Following some of the spring cleaning tips from the character of Mole, in ‘The Wind in the Willows’, could serve you well whilst some other of his other tips might not be so helpful. Using brooms and dusters are good ideas - but simply giving up with a “bother” or “oh blow”, really wouldn’t help. Quite probably the best spring cleaning tip of all is simply to stick at it until you’ve thoroughly cleaned your home from top to bottom.

Be Safe

Do you love your spa? It is relaxing to sit back in the bubbling water and let your daily stress melt away. Whether you have just installed it or are cleaning out a pre-existing spa, there are some important steps you must take to insure the safety and sanity of your spa.

After six months your spa filter will become clogged. The pores will enlarge and become distorted. This will reduce the filter media’s ability to filter out contaminants. Dirty worn out filters will not trap debris and this will put strain on the spa’s pump system.

Household Soaps

Granite is, of course, one of the most durable of substances found naturally; so the choice of product you use regularly in your home for cleaning surfaces will most probably all be suitable as a safe cleaner for granite. However, there are some domestic cleaners that you can buy from general and DIY store that won’t be safe cleaners for granite surfaces. These are ones that are highly acidic or caustic for removing oils and grease stains, or ones that are strongly abrasive.

Vinyl siding is usually regarded as a low-maintenance choice for siding homes. That is not entirely true. While vinyl siding almost never requires re-painting, it does need some maintenance. Every year to a year and a half you should thoroughly wash your vinyl siding.

Vinyl siding often collects dirt, mildew and mold. This is especially true in areas of your home where there is little sunlight and where shrubs and trees brush up against the siding.