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For many of us, cleaning is the most painful duty and terrible punishment. Often, only at the moment when there is no clean space left in the house and the apartment begins to resemble a dinosaur battlefield, we inevitably begin to restore order. In fact, cleaning is easy and quick if you know the basic secrets.
We are in website We set out to make your life easier and have collected some new tricks to help you cope with your homework.
Cleaning the dirtiest items in the bathroom
An old bathroom curtain will look like it came from a store if all dirty areas and even areas with yellowness and mold are washed with a solution consisting of equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water.
To clean your toothbrushes from germs, soak them in vinegar for an hour. Then wash well under running water.
Soak the washcloths for an hour in hot water and vinegar in a 1:1 ratio. Then rinse well clean water and dry it.
Wash the bath until it's white
From limescale, yellow spots and gray surfaces, hydrogen peroxide helps well. Spray it with a spray bottle onto the surface of the bath, leave for half an hour and then rinse well warm water.
You can easily clean the surface of the bathtub if you fill it with baking soda and after a few minutes add vinegar. After this, you need to lightly brush the surface and rinse with warm water.
Unwanted yellowness is effectively removed by a solution of ordinary citric acid. We make the solution at the rate of one sachet per glass of water. Apply this product using a sponge to the surface of the bath and leave for 20 minutes. Then wash off with warm water.
You can clean your bathtub until it shines and get rid of old plaque using a mixture of vinegar and salt. Mix the ingredients in a 1:1 ratio and clean the bathroom until white.
Dealing with a dirty toilet
The toilet will sparkle clean if you use it for cleaning mustard powder with the addition of equal parts of citric acid and corn starch.
To clean and freshen your toilet, you can make your own cleaning bombs. Just 1-2 bombs thrown into the toilet will give not only a hygienic effect, but also a pleasant smell.
You will need:
- 1 cup soda
- 1/4 cup citric acid
- 1/2 tsp. vinegar
- 1 tbsp. l. 6% hydrogen peroxide solution
- 15–20 drops of your favorite essential oil
Preparation:
Pour baking soda into a bowl and add citric acid. In a second bowl, mix vinegar and peroxide and pour this liquid drop by drop into the dry mixture. Add essential oil and use a spoon to form small balls. Place the bombs on parchment paper and dry for at least 6 hours. Store the bombs in a closed glass jar.
Cleaning the seams between bathroom tiles
Using a regular white paraffin candle, you can get rid of mold, dark plaque and dirty deposits on the seams between the tiles. To do this, you need to run the blunt end of the candle along the dirty seam several times. This will clean and protect the seams from mold and dirt.
Pour baking soda into a bowl, take it with an unnecessary toothbrush soaked in water and clean the dirty places. After cleaning, rinse the surface with warm water. The seams are like new!
Mix warm water with hydrogen peroxide in a 2:1 ratio. Using a brush or sponge, we clean the seams between the tiles with this solution, which then does not need to be washed off.
Washing tiles
Take 15 grams of citric acid and dilute it with a glass of warm water. Use the resulting solution to wash the tiles. Then rinse off with clean water.
When too dirty tiled walls Vinegar will help. Spray the surface with vinegar from a spray bottle, leave for 10 minutes and rinse with clean water. Then wipe the tiles with a soft microfiber cloth. This method will not only clean the tiles, but also disinfect them.
Tidying up the washing machine
We clean the washing machine once a quarter.
Regular citric acid will help clean your machine from scale and water stone. Pour 60 grams of citric acid into the powder compartment. We start the machine on full cycle washing at the highest possible temperature.
Cooking simple and effective remedy which will lead washing machine in order.
You will need:
- 2 cups vinegar
- ¼ cup baking soda
- ¼ glass of water
- sponge
Preparation:
Mix water and soda in a bowl. Pour this solution into the powder compartment. Pour vinegar into the drum washing machine. We start the machine in normal washing mode. After completing the cycle, wipe all rubber gaskets and the door with a sponge. Dry the drum with the door open.
Perfect for cleaning the stove
Remove fat from the surface of the stove and from small parts with a regular eraser. This method is used by employees of professional cleaning services.
A dirty stove can be tidied up using lemon juice and lemon slices. Squeeze out the juice, wipe the stove with lemon and leave for 15 minutes. Then wipe with a wet cloth.
Cleaning the oven until it shines
You can clean the oven from grease and carbon deposits using a glass ammonia and a liter of water. Heat the oven to 150 degrees and turn it off. Place a container with hot water, on the top - a container with ammonia. Close the oven door and leave to cool until morning.
In the morning, add a few teaspoons of any detergent and half a cup of warm water to a container with ammonia. Use a sponge with the resulting solution to wipe the oven and rinse it with water.
If you don’t have a chopstick (a plastic insert in the hole for a screw) on hand, you can replace it with a piece of polyvinyl chloride insulated wire (preferably double). It is placed in the hole and the screw is screwed in.
If during repair and construction work there was no drill with a large diameter, the hole the right size can be drilled with three thin drills simultaneously clamped into the drill chuck. They are first fastened with several turns of thin wire. You can only drill with this drill soft material(wood, plastic).
Punch a hole in concrete wall — not an easy task. To make the work easier, it is advisable to use a punch made from a drill with a diameter of 6-8 mm. Its end is sharpened into a dovetail shape. The drill is struck with a hammer and constantly turned. It only takes a few minutes to punch a hole with this tool.
To hang a heavy product from the ceiling, such as connecting a chandelier, you can use the following technique. A threaded metal sleeve is inserted into the hole in the ceiling. 2-4 holes are drilled in it, in which steel fingers move. A pointed bolt is screwed into the sleeve from below. He spreads his fingers, and they forcefully rest against the walls of the hole, due to which the device is firmly fixed in the ceiling.
When fitting window frames It is advisable to use carbon paper. It is placed between the doors or the door and the frame, after which the frame is closed. A clear mark will indicate the place that needs to be trimmed.
Making a hole in a concrete wall for hanging a carpet, picture or lamp. However, you don’t have to make holes, but glue the hooks to the concrete with glue. Hooks are made from a 40x50 mm duralumin plate. A piece of wallpaper and a layer of plaster underneath are removed from the wall. Then 6-8 layers of glue are applied to the concrete with breaks for drying. The back side of the hook is degreased with a solvent and also covered with two layers of glue with intermediate drying, after which a piece of cotton fabric is placed on it, glued, and then dried. Finally, both surfaces are covered with glue, allowed to dry for 5-10 minutes and tightly connected. After 24 hours, you can hang a product weighing up to 10 kg on the hook. For this operation, it is best to use “Moment” and “Phoenix” adhesives.
If a film has formed on the paint layer, it is not necessary to filter it. It is enough to dip a piece of nylon stocking into the jar, and the brush can be dipped directly through the stocking. In this case, the paint is used completely, without loss.
An original decorative plinth can be made from rope with a diameter of 50-80 mm, painted with any nitro varnish suitable shade. The rope-plinth is secured with nitro glue.
If a sagging door begins to cling to the floor, it is not necessary to remove it from its hinges and repair it. In order to eliminate this defect without removing the door from its hinges, you need to place a well-spaced hacksaw under its corner, stand on it with your foot and vigorously open and close the door several times. The procedure is continued until the required gap appears between the door and the floor.
Parallelepiped-shaped milk cartons can serve as a ready-made mold for making concrete blocks. Dimensions 65x65x240 mm.
Such blocks can be used as border stones, for decorative finishing and other purposes. To give greater strength, blocks can be reinforced with pieces of wire.
To protect from rotting wooden beams and pillars, they are tarred. This is done as follows: the end of the post is wrapped with 1-2 layers of roofing material, secured with thin wire or small nails, and then heated blowtorch. The bitumen impregnation of the roofing material melts and it is tightly welded to the wood.
A narrow strip of paper folded in half will help protect your fingers when driving small nails. In addition, it can be used to drive a nail when it is impossible to hold it with your hand or any other tool, for example, in a narrow gap.
Driving a screw into hard wood is not easy. Poke a hole for the screw with an awl, and rub the screw itself generously with soap. After this, tightening the screw will not be difficult.
You can drill holes in wood, plastic, laminated plastic of small diameter (0.8-1 mm) using a drawing compass, securing the drill in the needle holder. The risk of breaking the drill is significantly reduced.
Removing a bushing from a blind hole is not an easy task. You can solve it this way: pour thick liquid into the hole machine oil, insert a steel rod tightly into the bushing and hit it with a hammer. The impact energy, transmitted through the oil, will knock out the bushing.
When connecting pipelines, you can use chewing gum as a sealant. In a softened form, it is applied to the thread and the coupling is screwed on. However, such a connection cannot be used for hot water supply systems, since high temperature The rubber band is too soft.
A paint brush whose bristles do not hold well can be strengthened using Moment or Phoenix glue. Glue is poured at the base of the bristles and firmly bonds it to the handle.
Hammering a nail into deep hole or groove, an intermediate striker is usually used. And so that the nail goes in the right direction and does not bend, you should place it inside the tube, securing it with crumpled paper or plasticine.
A sheet of roofing iron is quickly and accurately cut with a can opener. Bend the sheet along the cut line and use a mallet to tap the fold so that it becomes rigid. Thanks to this, the knife will not go astray during cutting. A can opener is also convenient for cutting tin pipes. However, before you begin, you need to cut the pipe with a hacksaw.
To ensure that the edges of the plywood do not chip when sawing, but remain smooth, you need to moisten the cutting area with water and use a hacksaw with fine teeth.
Our useful tips, even if they are often called life hacks, undoubtedly help site visitors solve any problems they may have. Sometimes the proposed solutions may even seem primitive, but for some reason they themselves do not come to mind. After reading them, you wonder how you yourself couldn’t come up with such a simple and very effective technique to solve the difficult situation that arose.
Today we offer you another portion of very simple recommendations, which you can mark for yourself and take into account.
Have you ever thought about what this simple tool, like a brush, does it have its own operating principle? It consists of storing a small supply of paint and then distributing it evenly over the surface to be painted.
In order for the brush to cope with its task properly, it must be cleaned and thoroughly dried after use. However, even in this case, it remains quite big number fibers stuck together. For this reason, the brush will be unable to hold required amount paints. To solve this problem and unstick the stuck together fibers, you just need to carefully comb the brush with a regular comb.
All home DIYers know very well that masking tape is simply a great thing. With its help you can do many simple and very useful things, about which, for example,. This tape is also useful for its intended purpose: it is able to form a clear boundary between the areas to be painted and not to be painted, and to protect them from accidental touches of the brush.
However, even this convenient thing, like masking tape, can cause problems for insufficient experienced craftsman. If you start removing the tape after the applied paint layer has completely dried, there is a high risk of fragments of this layer breaking along with it. To avoid this phenomenon, you can use one of the following methods:
- remove the tape before the paint dries completely;
- Carefully trim the paint layer where it meets the masking tape.
Useful tips for those involved in renovation and carpentry work
Useful tips can help you use tools correctly or make them easier to use. Bright to that An example is our recommendation for using such a simple device as a screwdriver.
As a rule, to tighten screws, screws and self-tapping screws, we use working hand, rotating it and constantly intercepting the screwdriver handle. You'll spend significantly less effort if you do things differently. It is much more convenient to press the screwdriver firmly against the screw with your working hand, and make rotational movements with your other hand, as shown in the following video:
We hope that the text on French in this video, a French screwdriver and a very French hand did not confuse you, and you managed to capture the essence of the life hack we proposed :).
But this situation is familiar to many inexperienced masters:
You can avoid it if you dull the nail before driving it, trying, for example, to hammer it into something metal
That's all the useful tips we have prepared for you today. But the point we have made should rather be considered an ellipsis, since we intend to continue to feed you with easy and very necessary information.
1. Removing a bushing from a blind hole is not an easy task. You can solve it this way: pour thick machine oil into the hole, firmly insert a steel rod into the bushing and hit it with a hammer. The impact energy, transmitted through the oil, will knock out the bushing.
2. A spray head from a used aerosol can inserted into a rubber bulb will turn it into an excellent liquid sprayer.
3. A simple piece of equipment metal corner will greatly facilitate the production of frames for paintings and photographs.
4. In the midst of home canning, a lot of dry, sterile jars are needed. You can solve this problem like this: wash a lot of jars at once, put them in several rows in the oven gas stove, light a low fire and hold the jars at a temperature of 120 degrees for 5-10 minutes. There they dry and are reliably sterilized. Cool the jars slowly without removing them from the oven.
5. Fake diamond can be used in construction in the form of bricks. Composition: magnesia - 35%, fine sawdust- 65%, 0.1 - magnesium chloride solution. Mix everything until dough-like. Then pour into molds.
6. It turns out that you can solder with the following composition: lead - 25%, tin - 10%, bismuth - 40%, cadmium - 10%, mercury - 15%. This solder is also suitable for metals. This is how metal is soldered to glass.
7. The inscription on the glass is made with the following composition: liquid glass - 12 v/h; distilled water - 16 w/h; barium sulfate - 10 w/h; silicic acids - 1 w/h; mineral paint - according to taste and tone. Silica is not difficult to prepare; To liquid glass add an acid such as HCL or H2CO4. The precipitate that falls is silicic acid. It is washed, dried, and crushed.
8. You have cracks in your old one tiles? Want to try hiding them? Cut out a stencil with the desired design from thick paper and stick it on rubber glue onto a tile degreased with acetone. On open areas Apply automotive nitro enamel to the surface using a sprayer (you can use nitro paint in an aerosol package). Once dry, remove the stencil. The coating will be resistant to moisture, smooth and shiny.
9. The coating can be painted. To do this, the floor must first be washed with a solution of washing soda, then with clean water and dried.
10. Nothing is more annoying after renovation than unwashed dust from whitewashing and splashes of oil paint on the window glass. Please keep in mind that:
Oil paint will not stick to the glass if you coat it with vinegar before painting the window frames.
Paper strips 50 mm wide, glued with soap along the window frame, will protect the glass from paint.
There will be less dust if before removing old whitewash cover the furniture with film, cover the floor with newspapers, coat the ceiling with paste, let it dry and remove the whitewash with a scraper.
11. When painting walls in two colors, you can stretch and stick insulating tape to the wall along the border of the colors, which will allow you to get a smooth edge. After painting, remove the tape.
12. The screwdriver has “lost” its handle - this happens quite often and is difficult to repair. But if you pour a little fine sand and crushed rosin into the hole in the handle, and heat the screwdriver red-hot before repairs, the connection will turn out to be almost stronger than that provided at the manufacturer.
If, for some reason, the entire handle is lost, you can make a new one from a massive piece of plexiglass: a screwdriver is clamped into the chuck of an electric drill and the plexiglass is drilled with it. The parts being connected will heat up during the friction process, then cool down and “grip” very well.
13. Do the pliers open too tight? This problem is not difficult to deal with: you just need to drill a small hole in the center of the axis. If a small hole does not help, its diameter should be increased, but do not overdo it: you should not make a hole larger than half the diameter of the axis.
14. When driving a wedge into the handle of a hammer or ax, drive it at an angle: it will wedge the handle in both planes and will hold more firmly.
15. The chisel handle will not split during operation if a regular beer cap is placed on its end. And the mallet will last you much longer if you wrap it tightly with insulating tape.
16. By the way, it is also possible to drill using a drawing compass - wood, plastic, textolite. Just remove the needle from the compass and insert a small drill in its place.
17. Chewing gum - not just regular gum, but used gum - can be useful to a home craftsman in many, sometimes unexpected, cases. It is clear that screwing screws in hard-to-reach places will become easier if the screwdriver and screw are connected with such a mass; but using chewing gum as a sealant when connecting pipelines is a less obvious solution, but it gives good result. (Whether it was once “Orbit” or “Dirol”, with or without sugar, does not matter at all.)
18. If you need to cut a narrow groove in a part (for example, a slot in a screw head), and there is no special one, such as a slot, a similar operation can be performed using a regular hacksaw for metal, slightly modifying its blade. To do this, on a rotating grinding wheel On both sides of the blade, grind down the side edges of the teeth evenly along the entire length until the “spread” completely disappears. A properly ground fabric should have smooth, shiny surfaces on both sides and a thickness of 0.1-0.3 mm on the notch side. greater than that of the non-working edge.
19. A convenient scriber can be made from a clock screwdriver, in which the working part is replaced by a piece of a thick sewing needle.
20. A scriber made from a sharpened copper rod is convenient for marking ferrous metals.
21. The harder the material that needs to be drilled, the greater the sharpening angle of the drill should be: for wood - 60, for metals - more than 90, for glass (and hard steels) - 120 degrees.
22. If thin drill does not fit well in the drill chuck, you need to wrap a tinned copper wire with a diameter of 0.4-0.6 mm around the drill shank. - tightly, turn to turn, in one layer, and solder.
23. The roller from a glass cutter is suitable for engraving on glass, metal, plastic, if it is fixed in the tip of a drill using a holder for abrasive discs or mounted on the axis of any small motor. With sufficient motor power, the roller easily cuts glass to a great depth.
24. A needle from a medical syringe will help repair the seam in hard to reach place. The needle is inserted into the hole of the seam from the outside, and a regular sewing needle from the inside is touched by touch against the bevel at the end of the medical needle. Using a sewing needle, squeeze out the needle from the syringe and easily pull the sewing needle and thread through.
25. In the absence of a micrometer, you can determine the diameter of the wire by winding several dozen turns of wire around a round rod or pencil and dividing the length of the winding (in millimeters) by the number of turns. With careful winding and sufficient length, the diameter of the wire can be measured in this way with an accuracy of 0.01 mm.
26. Knives, chisels and other cutting tool sharpen easier and faster if you first dip the blade in a weak solution for half an hour table salt, and lightly moisten the block with kerosene.
27. It is convenient to keep various (not too volatile) liquids consumed in small doses on hand in small plastic bottles with a screw cap in which a small hole is drilled or pierced. Turning the bottle upside down with the stopper and squeezing its walls, squeeze out the required dose of liquid, for example, to degrease the surface, to wet an emery block or swab, etc.
28. After two thermal shocks and drying, mica easily splits into plates up to 0.02 mm thick. To do this, the mineral must be heated to 400-600 C, immediately cooled in water and the operation repeated.
29. When manufacturing and repairing various equipment and tools, especially soldering irons, it is sometimes necessary to bend mica with a small bending radius. In order for mica to become more elastic and not break or crumble, it must be calcined, heated to a light yellow color, and allowed to cool slowly.
30. Bonding of dissimilar plastics, e.g. organic glass or polystyrene with celluloid, is complicated by the fact that dichloroethane, which is a solvent for organic glass, does not dissolve celluloid, and acetone does not dissolve organic glass. A mixture of acetone-based glue and dichloroethane-based glue does not provide high adhesive strength.
The strength of the glued joint, equal to the strength of the materials being glued, can be obtained if the celluloid part is lubricated with acetone glue, and the part made of organic glass or polystyrene with dichloroethane. After the glue has dried, each part is lubricated again with the appropriate glue and pressed one against the other. Final drying is carried out for 4-6 hours at room temperature.
31. Old rubber products can be restored to softness and elasticity by immersing them for 20-30 minutes. in a weak solution of ammonia. You can immerse the rubber product for 1-2 hours in clean kerosene. It should be remembered that a long stay of rubber in kerosene can not only soften it, but also significantly increase its volume. Softened rubber should be washed in warm water with detergent and wipe.
Today we will tell you how to make five useful ones with your own hands. homemade instruments for home.
Hi all! In this episode I will show you several interesting ideas some of which you might like.
If you need to cut straight plastic or metal pipe, then the following tool will help you. 
Take a metric tape from a tape measure, cut 40-50 cm, evenly folding the ends together, drill two holes and tighten with small screws. 
Now you can easily draw a line along which you will make a perfectly even cut. 
If in a hard-to-reach place, struggling with an open-end wrench, you lose a lot of time or patience, and you can’t get to it with a ratchet, then perhaps you will need a screwdriver with a cardan shaft.
To do this, we need an adapter for screwdriver heads with interchangeable attachments. 
Using sandpaper or a grinder, we grind off the nozzle and screwdriver on both sides, and cut about 2.5 centimeters from a bolt of suitable size. There are two holes at both ends, we make two cuts at 90 degrees relative to each other. All we have to do is drill holes in the screwdriver with the adapter and pin them. 
Now unscrewing the bolt or nut in difficult place, you won’t lose liters of sweat for every millimeter you move with an open-end wrench)) 
Do you need to pour liquid into a container with a small neck? In this case, you can make a small funnel from the fuel filter. You just need to cut off the outlet part of the filter and the funnel is ready. 
You may have noticed inconveniences when changing the drill chuck, namely the teeth of the key slipping. You can upgrade it with a thick blade screwdriver. 
Having made a slot in the screwdriver shaft and sharpened the key shaft, we insert it into the slot, and after drilling a hole, tighten it with a screw. 
Now you don’t have to worry about the chuck’s teeth breaking off when you change drills in a hurry, and now, thanks to the bright handle, finding the key among the heap will be easier. 
If you need to draw a circle of large diameter, and you do not have a large compass, then you need to make holes on the carpenter's square every centimeter. 
Now, having installed a drill or nail at the zero mark, you can draw a circle of the diameter we need. 
And also, after this modification, it became easier to draw longitudinal lines. 
Perhaps the reader did not understand something, in which case you can watch the video.
