Product Description: A handy, up-to-date guide describes the most efficient and cost-effective ways to clean practically everything, with special sections on how to cope with daily cleaning regimens, eliminating germs, paint removal, oven cleaners, carpet and floor cleaning, and safe storage of cleaning supplies. Original.
Amazon.com Review: With first aid for carpet stains (blot with white clothes, immediately) and instructions on care for bronze, silver, and cast-iron, Consumer Reports continues its efforts to educate and protect the masses. There are details on house cleaning products, furniture care, clothes washers and fabric softeners, air cleaners and hand soaps, and a full appendix on stain removal. Next time you trip with your cup of coffee, you'll wish you had some fast answers.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - way out of date.
This book was 10 years old! Way out of date long before appliances like stainless steel etc.etc. Flipped through it and them through it in the garbage.
Rating: - A Mini-Encyclopedia on Cleaning Tips; Also Useful for Science Projects
Every imaginable topic related to cleaning is mentioned in this little book: kitchen, carpets, garage, laundry, bathroom,...ad infinitum. There are guides for stain removal, for example, from wooden furniture (p. 57). The cleaning agents recommended range from standard store-bought products all the way to homemade concoctions (as, for example, for the removal of skunk odor: pp. 148-149).
Children's' science projects are commonly centered on the effectiveness of various products for cleaning. ... Read More
Rating: - A definite must!!
After my son wrote all over the carpet, TV, fireplace, VCR, door, window, coffee table, entertainment center, and walls with a sharpie marker, I called my sister in a panic. She grabbed this book and told me the suggestions for cleaning ink stains. I got the marker off the carpet and entertainment center completely and greatly reduced the stain on the rest. I am ordering this book TODAY. It is a must have in our house with 2 toddlers and another on the way!!!
Rating: - How to Clean Practically Anything by Edward Kipple
This is a manual for everyone about cleaning everything, as the title suggests. Beautifully non-biased and generic; teenagers, newlyweds,professionals, men, women, and children can benefit from it's categorical and common sense approach, and derive universal applications. Not the publication of any company or corporation,brand names are not used. Extensive comparative research usually provides for more than one option for any cleaning problem, often in a small med. large format. After reading through ... Read More
- way out of date.
- A Mini-Encyclopedia on Cleaning Tips; Also Useful for Science Projects