Top Tips competition

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In the previous Eish! we asked you, our readers, to send in your best tips.

Well (TA-DAH TADA!), Antoinette Vermeulen from the Quality Office in the Institutional Office wears the crown as our first Top Tipster.

Here are her tips for getting rid of calcium build-up in your kettle (1) and mildew in your bathroom (2).

Hmm, if you don’t want to embark on an elaborate supermarket expedition, looking for this mysterious mildew-fighting product in the red container (see tip number two), you probably have to ask Antoinette for the name…

Oh, and please note: do not mix up the tips mentioned above – you will NOT get rid of mildew by repeatedly bouncing a marble off your bathroom walls…

If you too have a winning tip or two, send them to nelia.engelbrecht@nwu.ac.za, together with an explanation of when and why you’ve used the tip that you’ve entered.

Q: How many cups of coffee or tea do you drink at work during the day?

MY ANSWER

Top Tipster

Cleaning an
electric kettle

To clean an electric kettle with calcium build-up on the heating element, boil a half-half mixture of white vinegar and water and then empty the kettle. Fill it with clean water, boil it and empty it again.
Put a marble inside the kettle. When you use the kettle, the marble will knock the calcium build-up off the sides of the appliance.

No more mildew

After mixing bicarbonate of soda with a little water, apply the paste to the walls and then spray the walls with vinegar. This helps to remove mildew from shower curtains and from the grout between the bathroom tiles.
“I bought a red container of mildew cleaner at the supermarket,” Antoinette says. “After spraying it on the bathroom ceiling, I waited a few hours and voila! I had a perfectly white ceiling without any mildew.”

fame!

Here are the results:

In the shower 6%

In the car 67%

When doing household chores 27%

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