Hardware Chemicals #1: Hydrochloric Acid
Hydrochloric acid is an extremely useful and versatile chemical that has many uses around the home. Its usefulness comes from …
Chemistry at Home
What are Acids?
I think my first experience of acids was an episode of batman, where the penguin demonstrated the potency of the …
Turps vs Easy Cleanup
On Today Tonight I discuss the use of two Diggers solvents that you can get from the hardware store – …
Removing Hair from a Silver Necklace
On 720 ABC Gillian O’Shaughnessy told us that she had a silver necklace that had hair entwined around it, and …
How to Clean Windows
There are several myths floating around about cleaning windows, largely borne out of the fact mat because windows are transparent, …
Spring Cleaning
I’ve been asked to write an article for The West about spring cleaning. Trouble is I’ve never done spring cleaning. …
Laundry Prewashes #5
The final approach to laundry prewashes is that of the degreaser. This shouldn’t surprise us, as this is exactly how …
Laundry Prewashes #4
Another approach to laundry prewashes is oxidation. This is an approach where fragile, intensely coloured dye molecules such as those …
Laundry Prewashes #3
The second type of laundry prewashes are the enzyme based products. Enzymes are specialist molecules with names like lipase, protease, …