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Suggest kitchen cleaning products

grouse — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:53:11 -0800

Please suggest products that I should and should not use to clean different parts of the kitchen, such as a laminate counter top, stainless steel sink, or metal stove top. I am particularly interested in products that won't generate fumes that will send me out of the kitchen. I usually use Clorox Clean-Up on the counter, but the bleach fumes are such that I can't really hang out in the kitchen afterwards. I'd really like something that I could use while I am watching something on the stove and have a couple of free minutes. I'm not opposed to using something fume-generating as well after I'm done cooking if it will do a better job.

I know not to mix ammonia and bleach.

I would also appreciate general kitchen cleaning tips.

How do I deep clean my floor?

bodgy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:36:53 -0800

How can I deep clean my linoleum floor? I hate my linoleum floor but I still have to clean it. Since getting dogs, i noticed that there is a lot more ground in dirt. I was going to use ammonia to give it a really good deep cleaning. But that's a harsh chemical and smells so yucky. I will use it if I need to but I was wondering what is suggested to give linoleum a good deep cleaning.

Why do I sometimes smell ammonia when I bend over?

lilybeane — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:10:36 -0800

Why do I sometimes smell ammonia when I bend over? It doesn't happen often--maybe every couple of months--but occasionally when I bend over, I am overwhelmed by an extremely intense smell of ammonia. For example, today I bent over to pick up something off the floor and I had to straighten up immediately because the ammonia fragrance was so intense and painful (in the same way it kinda hurts to smell ammonia in a bottle). There's no ammonia around anywhere, and this has happened for years while I have lived in many different places. Googling has only turned up info about some people whose sweat smells like ammonia, but that's not the case here; this seems to come from the back of my nose. Never had any kind of sinus surgery, either.

It's infrequent enough that I never remember to ask my doctor about it. But it seems strange to me and I've never heard anyone else describe it.

Time for a new HEPA vacuum filter?

salsamander — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:49:07 -0800

How do I de-stink the HEPA filter for my brand-new bagless vacuum? I recently washed the washable (or so the instructions claimed) filter for my bagless and returned it to the cannister assembly. Unfortunately, it must not have been completely dry, because when I started up the vacuum a week later, a strange ammonia-like odor started covering the room. I've since washed out and dried out all the cannister parts, but the filter still reeks like a bucket of ammonia. What do I do? Is it time for a new filter?