What can I clean with vinegar?

[UnderripeBanana]

Just read the smelly teenage boy thread which mentions industrial quantities of vinegar. I've put a 5L bottle in my online shop.

What can I do with it?

Put it in the washing machine with the washing? Every single wash?

Soak cleaning cloths with it? (The kitchen ones get quite disgusting as we have small children)

Windows?? Floors??

Also been enjoying soda crystals in the plug holes. Can I mix them with vinegar and make it explode?

I use it to clean the bath mat - not a fabric one, a rubbery one the goes in the shower to stop DD slipping. It can get a bit grimy/mouldy underneath around the suction pads, and spraying on vinegar and leaving for 5 mins means I can just wipe it away.

I clean my ceramic hob with vinegar & bicarbonate soda

@SickAndTiredAgain

I use it to clean the bath mat - not a fabric one, a rubbery one the goes in the shower to stop DD slipping. It can get a bit grimy/mouldy underneath around the suction pads, and spraying on vinegar and leaving for 5 mins means I can just wipe it away.

Ours went absolutely black underneath and even bleach wouldn't get it off so I binned it once the children started showering instead. Would vinegar have been better? Could do with a new one now as the bath is slippery as its blocked and won't drain properly.

@Latara

I clean my ceramic hob with vinegar & bicarbonate soda

Ooh.. I've got a gas one I guess it's painted metal? Shall I just pour it on and see what happens?

Maybe... do an experiment!!

Ours went absolutely black underneath and even bleach wouldn't get it off so I binned it once the children started showering instead. Would vinegar have been better?

Sprinkling bicarb and then spraying with vinegar certainly worked better than any cleaning spray I tried. Pretty sure I tried one that contained bleach.

Tiles
Shower doors (spray made up of water, vinegar and tiny bit of washing up liq)
Bathroom sink
Lavatory bowel (and drop a cup of vinegar in bowl and leave to soak overnight to remove any stains or limescale build up)
Ditto kettle to remove limescale!
Run washing machine empty on hottest setting every so often with a couple of cups of vinegar to remove detergent build up and limescale in pipes.
Add a dash to wool fine to often and remove detergent.
Wipe kitchen surfaces (it's mildly anti-bacterial)
I also put a cup in the bucket when rinsing kitchen floors
And when rinsing glasses and vases; it makes them sparkle

Dissolves lime scale.

Put some in your kettle, iron, whatever appliance and leave for an hour before emptying and rinsing.

It collects round my taps. I soak a small piece of kitchen towel in vinegar and wrap it around the offending bit. May need repeating a few times.

Shower walls and tiles. Spray with a mix of vinegar and water, works like the shower spray.

Vinegar and water in a basin with a shammy.
Clean your windows, mirrors and dry with newspaper.
End result sparkling smear-free windows.

I put vinegar in the dishwasher and run it empty to clean it.

Marking place for tips!

Chips and salt clean plates really nicely with a splash of vinegar at my place. (Not for me because.. keto. But my kids 😋😋😋)

Seriously… When you have washed glasses or crystal (assuming your wedding present vases are used as often as mine are…Actually, mine have chopsticks and reusable straws in them. How romantic! Come to think of it, you can rinse them too. ) in the sink, rinse with hot water and a splash of vinegar and they will be sparklingly clear, and free of detergent residue.

You can use it to remove limescale from the kettle and the coffee machine, but please remember to rinse it all out before pouring yourself a cup. 🤢

It softens towels and removes excess detergent. Don’t use fabric softener, just a splash of vinegar in the softener department and maybe a couple of drops of fragrant or essential oils. (Fragrant oils disperse better in water and are cheaper.)

My favourite all-purpose cleaner is 1tbsp Borax diluted in 2cups boiling water, let that cool then tip into a spray bottle with 2tbsp vinegar and 1/2-1tsp dish soap. (4-6 drops of oil to scent, but be careful as it can remove varnish) This stuff removes grease like nothing on earth. (Great for rangehoods and anywhere around stovetops.) (Also Borax/Vinegar or Baking Soda/Vinegar Paste.)

Oooh, and I buy those cheap, awful knee high stockings for cleaning taps, etc… they’re great for nooks and crannies and they last forever. You can stuff the paste into it and it’s not abrasive.

I put vinegar and bicarbonate of soda down the loo to unblock it , not sure if that or the industrial sized bottle of cheap coke did the trick but something did

@Justilou1 Ocado don't have borax, they're trying to sell me bran flakes instead. Would soda crystals or baking soda do instead? Otherwise will go and get some

They’re both different, but both very useful. Worth looking on the internet. I use soda crystals in my laundry and also when my kids use my oven (I never do - terrible mum) and leave it putrid, or if my rangehood filter cover is greasy and gross, you can put aluminium foil on the bottom of the bath, sprinkle a layer of soda crystals, lie those things on top, and soak in very, very hot water. It creates an electro-chemical response similar to jewellery cleaning that “shakes” the gunk off. (*science) You need a fair bit of foil and soda for this, and it’s a fun experiment to do with the kids. (It strips all the aluminium off the foil too!)

Use it for cleaning everything, especially glass. Dilute with water and a squeeze of lemon into a spray bottle to use as a natural anti bac around the kitchen.
Use it in the washing machine when doing laundry.
Use it to clean and descale your washing machine and dishwasher.
Use it as weedkiller.
Use it as a kettle / coffee machine / iron descaler.
Pour some into a small dish and leave in a room to absorb odours.
It has 101 uses. It makes me laugh how popular something I've been using all my life has suddenly become, like it's a new discovery.

definitely use as weedkiller and its kind to animals

You can use vinegar to treat or prevent mould. I have some in a mist bottle and spray problem areas, especially around windows where mould has previously appeared.

Yes, apparently it’s great for mould as the mould spores don’t like the acidic environment. I use it for that purpose in a couple of areas.

On Black mould
Taps and mirrors
Ornaments ...sparkling afterwards
It is so satisfying!

Reading this with interest as I’ve only ever used vinegar to get rid of limesvale on my taps.

May sound like a stupid question but doesn’t it make your rooms smell? Or is there a less potent one I haven’t come across yet? My kitchen always smells like a fish and chip shop when I’ve done the taps.

Wowcherarestalkingme Use white vinegar for cleaning, not malt!
You can use a tablespoon of white vinegar in the final laundry rinse instead of fabric softener, its especially good with wool.
Its great for cleaning plugholes, pour in some bicarb of soda followed by vinegar, let it fizz and leave it for an hour then chase with hot water.
A tablespoon in a pint of water will clean windows, ceramic, tiles and glass.
You can use it once a month in a hot wash to clean your washing machine.
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-to-clean-washing-machine-with-vinegar

(Dont use bicarb on formica, it stains it pink.)

It was white but it still smelt very strongly

You can use it to fix the metal terminals when alkaline batteries leak.

Fizzes beautifully, but generally gets things working again. Use cotton buds to get things as clean and dry as you can