Accolades

(If you haven't already, look one post below and see the direct side-by-side before/after comparisons of three rooms in the house). :)

I have to give MAJOR "props" to some products I have come to love since becoming a home owner...

I first heard about Bar Keeper's Friend (BKF) when I was interning at the child development lab. The head teacher commented about how great it was. If you've been baking cookies for awhile and get some of that black-ish gunk built up in the corners of your cookie sheet, she said it would take it right off! It sounded amazing, but I had no reason to buy any at the time

The water here in FL is heavy-laden with minerals. After leaving some hand-washables to soak in a sink at the townhouse, I found rust stains in the white sink basin! I decided to see what BKF was all about when I read it would remove rust stains. I bought some, left it to soak as a paste for a couple minutes as the directions suggested, and WITHOUT scrubbing, the rust stains buffed right out of the sink!! When we finally got inside our new house, it was pretty obvious the bathrooms hadn't been cleaned in a long while. After using Mr. Clean and various other products, my mom said she would get some Comet and try it the next day. I told her I had this BKF stuff that's in the same category as Comet and she could try it. It cleaned the tile in the snap of a finger! Mom LOVED it!! She even bought her own at Publix to take back to TN with her!!


We spotted Krud Kutter at one of the home improvement warehouse stores while searching for various odds and ends for the house. There was some dried on latex paint on the lanai tiles. Uncle Randy spotted it and tried it later that afternoon. He said he BARELY grazed the spots with a paper towel after following the directions (leaving it to "soak" and do its job) and the who-knows-how-old paint spots came RIGHT off!! Yea!

The previous tenant did not exactly keep the oven and stove top clean, which brings me to the next (and last) 2 products for now. The oven has a glass cook top, which looked like it had dried on food and boiled over water baked and encrusted on it. I figured we'd just have to live with most of it. Dad was sure the special glass cook top cleaner would take care of it. I tried to remember the kind Stephanie had (the stuff we got smells the same at least :) ), and he meticulously removed every speck! It looks WONDERFUL! He had to use a scraping blade (carefully :) ) as suggested for the major problem areas. But now I just wipe it down with the special cleaner each evening, and voila! A wonderful looking cooktop!


And lastly, Joy told me about a new Easy Off oven cleaner when I mentioned that I still needed to clean our stove. She said she had to go check the name of the stuff she last used because it worked wonderfully and had NO fumes! While at Walmart today, I spotted it and picked up a bottle. It's Easy Off Fume Free (with lemon scent). And you never heat your oven to use it! You spray it inside, leave it for 2 hours to do its "thing," and watch the gunk and grime wipe away when you go back! It's AMAZING! There were a couple spots in the crevice between the oven and the door I could have covered well that I'll do soon, but the oven pretty much looks like it was just delivered! Thank you, Joy, for telling me about it!

Three cheers for these wonder-products!! :)