USES FOR LINOLEUM ODDMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 442, 25 August 1928, Page 23

USES FOR LINOLEUM ODDMENTS

When the new lino is newly laid, do not be in a hurry to consign the cuttings and oddments to the dustbin, without sorting out the fair-sized pieces for use in the following -ways: Keep a piece for the kitchen table during cooking operations. You will be able to rest pots and pans upon it without damage, and if you spill liquids or grease linoleum is more easily cleaned than wood. Cut a strip for the scullery shelf on | which you keep saucepans and lids; a wet cloth passed over it once a week | will then keep all fresh and clean, i If your larder has a cement floor, I cut a strip of lino to place beneath the vegetable baskets. When you lift the baskets in damp w r eather there will be no unpleasant greyish accretion underneath. Cut a round of lino to go under the kitchen coal hod and another to protect the kitchen floor where the cat’s saucers of milk and meat are placed. You will find it easier to wash up any dust and pieces that may be scattered. If you have a shabby wooden tray, much marked and stained, make a new one of it by fitting a linoleum lining. Brass-headed nails applied at intervals will make a neat border. Another piece should be fitted into the tray of the baby’s high-chair. If you use a sewing machine, keep a bit of lino to place betw r een it and your polished table so that the latter may not be scratched when you are machining. L.M