Rust Stains on Linoleum
Dear Aunt Daisy, My new gas stove stood on the kitchen floor for some weeks, until the recess was tiled, and it has left a rust stain on the linoleum. Can you please tell me how to remove this? I should like to thank you for the help your books and your page in The Listener have given me in learning the art of housekeeping. V./J., Wellington. Try citric acid, or, even better, cream of tartar, Have a rag dampened in hot water, dip it into the cream of tartar,
and rub the stain well. Then rinse off with clean water containing baking soda. Easier still, rub with a damp _ cloth dipped in a cream of tartar baking powder. This contains soda, and should really do the trick. Another idea is to use diluted oxalic acid-about a teaspoonful to a breaktfastcup of water. If the stain is still obdurate, make a paste of cream of tartar and peroxide and leave it on the stain for some hours, like a plaster. Then litt off and rinse. Do let me know how you get on, because it will help other people in the same fix.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 23
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197Rust Stains on Linoleum New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 23
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