Household Stain removers & Furniture Rescue

Boys being boys, roughhousing all the time, Old English Scratch Cover became my favorite remedy, keeping our furniture looking great. It's a polish with a furniture stain in it that makes the scratches less apparent and comes in a lighter color, too. But do wear gloves when using it as the dark scratch cover will stain skin easily. 

At hardware stores, there are several brands of color matched crayons made to fill deep furniture scratches I wish I had as the boys were growing up.

I cringed the first time I saw spilled candle wax on the wool carpet but after trying out grandma's tip, it was no big deal. 

After removing excess wax with a butter knife, I put my iron on the wool setting, placed an old dish towel over the hard wax and used the iron over the dish towel, moving it around to a fresh place each time the melted wax was absorbed into the towel until the mess was gone!  

I used the heat setting on the iron of whatever the carpets made of thereafter and the wax came up every time, even when it got on my blouse.

I loved my tile kitchen counters when I first moved in but after a few months, found it hard to get the white grout really clean until I got desperate and used bleach. I poured out about a quarter of a cup of bleach on the center of the long counter and used a sweeping motion of my hand across it to make sure bleach got into all the grout areas.  What a difference - the counter looked new again!

I put about two fingers of bleach into an empty sixteen ounce bottle and filled it with water to use as a disinfecting cleaning spray that also maintains the white grout nicely. For decades I've been using my cleaning spray that costs a few cents and does the same thing as the one Clorox recently came out with for over three dollars. 

This video shows how to use an iron on a damp cloth as a mini steam cleaner to get out carpet stains.

Here is a journey thru a few stain removing videos because some remedies are so surprising they simply need to be seen and has lots of links to pages with other stain removers for things around the house as well as clothing.