D-I-Y Tips
Home hints
E D I T E D by GEORGINA BITCON
READER’S PRIZE HINT
S. Burt, Fitzroy, Vic.
Travel companion
Wet a couple of reusa make-up remover pa with micellar water a seal in a ziplock bag f face cleaning when travelling. Rinse and re-use at your destina
Use the empty tube from a roll of paper towel as an extraflexible crevice tool on your vacuum cleaner to clean window tracks and narrow spaces, such as under the fridge and cup holders in the car.
Ask THE W E E K LY
Q: How do I get rid (and prevent the return) of a nasty odour in my front-loading washing machine? V. Stoyles, Hillcrest, SA. A: Every month or so, run a clothes-free hot wash with ½ cup of bicarb soda sprinkled in the drum and the conditioner dispenser filled to the maximum with white vinegar. Keep the filter and door seal clean, always leave the door ajar after washing and rinse out the detergent drawer frequently.
Shake it off
To clean inside a narr necked vase or bottle in 2-3 tablespoons of coarse rock salt, add good splash of white vinegar, shake until gl is clean, then rinse.
Mind the gap
Apply a small selfadhesive velcro dot between buttons on a shirt band that gapes
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Tight fix
If you wind a little steel wool around a screw that keeps coming loose before putting it back into its hole, the steel wool will tighten it up and keep the screw in place.
A tidy solution
Keep appliance cords neatly coiled and stored by fixing a self-adhesive cord bundler (from hardware and stationery stores) to the side or back of each machin
spread it directly on the garden and cover with a more ‘conventional’ mulch.
Water wise
In areas of water restrictions, cut the bottom off empty PET plastic bottles, drill holes in the lid, three-quarters-bury them near shrubs and vegies and fill with water to ensure precious moisture is delivered to the subsoil, rather than
Paper cut
If your local council won take shredded paper fo recycling, put it in your compost instead, or dam down in a bucket of wa
Baker’s delight ts me n y, l ia. for nt
To separate a cake into two even layers, insert several toothpicks at the halfway point around the edge of the cake, then take a long piece of non-flavoured dental floss, wrap it lightly around the cake at toothpick level and pull the ends gently but firmly in opposite directions until the floss cuts the cake in half.
TTY IMAGES.
To remove persistent suncream stains that have made a perspex pool gate cloudy and white, rub gently with a cutting car polish and buff with a clean cloth.
On a roll
