Cleaning Furniture
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wish to clean my living room rimu suite-chairs, sideboard and settee. I know one can use vinegar, but I don’t know the method. I do not wish to revarnish, but just to clean up the varnish and then re-polish. The chairs, especially, have got very dirty, on account of storage, but the varnish is quite all right.
L
B
, Frankton.
I enquired of an expert in paint-work; and am told that you should first sponge over the wood-work with mineral turps to clean it. Then make a mixture of equal parts of mineral turps and raw linseed oil-say a quarter of a pint of each, and to this add 1 tablespoon of vinegar. This should rub up well with a soft polishing cloth.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 336, 30 November 1945, Page 22
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129Cleaning Furniture New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 336, 30 November 1945, Page 22
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