It’s nice to look in the bathroom to a new mixer with shiny nickelled cranes, shining like small mirrors. Unfortunately, over time, they cease to shine and are covered with a intolerable muddy raid, called lime.
It happens that rust spots appear on them. If this happened, do not be upset – a few simple tips will help the taps of its former shine and splendor.
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We save the tap tap
We use vinegar
First of all, try to prevent unpleasant consequences. Make a pack of wet wipes in the bathroom for cleaning plumbing products and wipe your taps with them, then polish them with a soft dry cloth.
Periodically, clean the contaminated nickelled surface with special means, but you should not use powders with abrasives for this – they will damage the coating. You can take a normal soft dishwashing tool. Lime rack – how to win?
We save the tap tap
If the brilliant surface of the cranes has become white and matte, then you will have to get rid of lime plaque. It is not easy to remove it, sometimes there is a strong desire to pick up a iron washcloth and scrape well. Drive this desire away – ruin the nickel.
It is better to apply the following method: rewind a long piece from a paper towel and moisten it with vinegar. Having wrapped a cranes with a towel, leave it for thirty minutes. Then wipe the surface with a dry rag. In those places where the taps are connected to the pipes, a plaque is also formed.
We use vinegar
We get rid of it, heating vinegar and moistening small pieces of fabric to them. Attach them to problem areas for an hour, then rinse away vinegar. Eliminate darkening and restore the shine make a gruel from a tooth powder with an ammonia, rub it with a nickel -plated surface. Clean the dried mixture with a dry rag, while polishing the taps.
Salt mixed with vinegar, you can also lighten the darkened nickel, forcing him to shine again. Take small salt, such as “Extra”. Cut the tip from the lemon (mainly zest) and grate the taps. Wash all this with soapy water, wipe with a soft dry cloth – the taps shine.
This method is suitable where there are smokers. It is necessary to pour a cigarette ash on a damp rag and rub it with cranes. Then polish nickel with a dry cloth. The rust of rust struggles with the spots of rust is not only extremely unaesthetic, but can also lead to corruption of the coating. Therefore, the first small rusty spots should be immediately removed.
Any fat of animal origin is suitable for this. Lubricate the rusty spot and try not to touch a couple of days. Then take a rag moistened with ammonia, and wipe this place – the spot will disappear.