House day 3
May. 7th, 2013 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieSo, more "before" pictures taken, paint colour charts acquired, some kitchen tidying done, and laundry.
I had also grabbed some cistern blocks and upholstery shampoo, yay. Which Lesley immediately declared to be shit that she's allergic to and made me throw out. So, money wasted and upholstery not cleaned.
It turns out it's the limonene she's sensitive to. And the only upholstery shampoo (and carpet shampoo, but that's less of a problem, as the carpets are swapped) stuff sold in our local supermarket has that shit in it. This is a bit of a problem.
However... I didn't get those A grades in chemistry for nothing. I mean, people cleaned stuff before there was this modern shit, didn't they. It occurs to me that since soda crystals break up stains, and act as a foaming agent (and upholstery shampoo is generally foaming), it should be possible to mix my own, with a non-limonene/citrus fragrance element. White orchid or ylang ylang, maybe. So, that I'll do in the morning.
I had also grabbed some cistern blocks and upholstery shampoo, yay. Which Lesley immediately declared to be shit that she's allergic to and made me throw out. So, money wasted and upholstery not cleaned.
It turns out it's the limonene she's sensitive to. And the only upholstery shampoo (and carpet shampoo, but that's less of a problem, as the carpets are swapped) stuff sold in our local supermarket has that shit in it. This is a bit of a problem.
However... I didn't get those A grades in chemistry for nothing. I mean, people cleaned stuff before there was this modern shit, didn't they. It occurs to me that since soda crystals break up stains, and act as a foaming agent (and upholstery shampoo is generally foaming), it should be possible to mix my own, with a non-limonene/citrus fragrance element. White orchid or ylang ylang, maybe. So, that I'll do in the morning.