Homeowner Forum / Cleaning / June 2007

The exterior knobs have tarnished. Wondering how to restore their original
look, suggestions?

Me and my buddy made a website called www.CleaningTips.com, its
basically a forum and blog driven web site dedicated to a source
people can goto to find out how to clean and remove stains from pretty
much anything. Problem is, as of yet, you couldn't find out how to

My mother's headstone has some tiny dark flecks in the area that was
engraved.  The engraved area is lighter in color and not polished to a
high sheen like the rest of the stone.
It's 17 years old, so it does need a cleaning, but I don't want to use

Anyone know how to remove dried Gorilla glue from a bathroom sink? I
think it's porcelain.
Thanks,
Sam

I north London here the water is quite hard (i.e. a lot of chalk in it), so
we easily get limescale
build up in the bend of the wc bowl.
Using Harpic Limescale Remover has shifted most of it, but that seems to

OK here's the situation:
Cleaning my hardwood floor...dragged sofa across floor and put scuff
marks on floor. Wood doesn't look damaged or scratched...grain is
intact.

We're buying a house that had a 25-cat problem for a few years.  They soaked
through the carpet and padding into the particle board underlayment, they
wet on the vinyl flooring in the kitchen and dining room, and they probably
sprayed the walls a bit.

The heating grate in our bathroom is the kind that leans against a
wall, the base of it lays against white ceramic tile and is about 2"
away from the wall.  It's permanently attached there, it's not screwed
in.  There's a ton of dust inside of it, showing through the wide