Category: Cleaning And Maintenance

  Washing Machines And Limescale Forget the expensive cleaning stuff, here’s how to keep your machine limescale free for nothing   If you are to believe the TV advertising for the likes of Calgon you would be drawn to the conclusion that limescale is a terrible thing that will dest…

  Caring For Your Ceramic Glass Hob Cleaning ceramic hob tops without causing damage so they last longer and look better   Most people think that a ceramic (or vitro-ceramic) hob is just a big hunk of glass and, to an extent that’s probably true, but it’s a very expensive big hunk of gl…

  Bad Smells From A Dishwasher If your dishwasher stinks, here’s the causes and how to solve the problem   If there are malicious odours from the dishwasher at the end of the cycle then here are the main causes of it. This will most likely be particularly noticeable if the door is …

  Caring For And Cleaning Your Oven How to clean your oven or cooker and not damage it We often get asked on the best way to keep your oven clean and, quite often, we get asked about the best products to use to do this. As many of us have been involved in refurbishing appliances we know…

  Washing Machine Maintenance Wash Save money, make your machine last longer and stop smells… just follow the instructions here   You will often see the maintenance wash referred to on UK Whitegoods in various articles as well as within the forums. This article details exactly wh…

  Black Marks & Mildew On Door Seals The causes of mildew and marks on door gaskets and how to solve it   This, as shown in an extreme example in the photograph to the right, is caused by a bacteriological build-up in your machine due to poor cleaning. It really is that simple and, …

  Dishwasher Tablets Are Not Brilliant Why we recommend you do not use hard tablets in your dishwasher   In recent times we’ve received scores of comments and complaints about dishwasher tablets and the fact that sometimes they don’t dissolve properly hopefully we can unravel some of th…

  How To Use Detergents Correctly Why you’re probably using it wrongly getting poor results and wasting money   We know, we hear it all the time on TV in some thirty second adverts that one detergent is better than another and it’s a battle slugged out for hearts and minds by the m…

  Smelly Washing Machine What causes smelly washing machines, the solutions and how to stop it from stinking  TL;DR Almost always a result of low temperature washes with non-bleach containing detergents, leading to a buildup of biofilm You need to wash at the correct temperatures Proper…

  Bad Smells From a Fridge The causes of smells in fridges and how to solve the problem Cleaning a fridge or a fridge freezer is not as simple a chore as it sounds, especially if it has involved a spillage of some kind. We get a lot of calls over the course of the year that there is a r…