Friday, March 12, 2021

Cleaning Glass (DIY) - tips from the Resellers - Window Washers!

These are glass wiping techniques refined to:
  • Smartphones
  • Tablets
  • TV screens etc ...
The official advice is to use a dry, lint - free cloth ~ and remember people do wipe their phones on the flats of their clothes often! 

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Additionally:

  1. With regards to the cloth:
    1. You use a better cloth - a normal microfiber cloth or even premium or high-end microfiber cloths:
    2. You can wipe your phone, dust or vacuum the cloth  and wipe your phone again
    3. You can wipe your phone and use soap and hot water to rinse out the cloth, wring it dry and wipe it again! 
    4. You can use household cleaners & water (such as mentholated spirits, bleach or window cleaner) on the cloth - not directly on the phone - let the chemicals dry a bit before giving your phone a wipe
    5. Tissue paper is also good! It's a very soft paper. 
  2. High grade, fast drying cleaning alcohols can be very useful:
    1. No need to pay a premium for the sanitised alcohols from the pharmacy
    2. Not so much of a blunt instrument as the household grade alcohols (e.g. mentholated spirits)

If you need to know more about higher grades of alcohols you can start doing a lookup on the higher number of carbon bonds ... 

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Taking out your rubbish at home - tips:

Try these handy tips if you are forgetting / procrastinating to take your council bin out:

  1. Buy a high visibility or work shirt so you are not pre-occupied with dirtying good clothes
  2. Buy some cleaning gloves to protect your hands
    1. You can then 'compress' your rubbish to make your emptying more economical 
  3. Purchase an outdoor bin - preferably a different colour to your regular garbage bin: https://www.bunnings.com.au/our-range/storage-cleaning/cleaning/bins/outdoor
    1. Drag this around when empty a couple of times to get yourself more used to lugging it around
    2. Use it as a container (not necessarily to fill it with rubbish) and move items around the house will also give you practise of wheeling it around - these are all familiarisation exercises! 
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Don't forget when you put rubbish in your bins to squash the rubbish down ~
otherwise you will forever be emptying bins! 

DIY ~ More Cookware cleaning at home (with lids)

Adding on to this future tip: https://optimise-performance.blogspot.com/2019/07/diy-cookware-bakeware-cleaning.html If you use lids for the ...