How to clean products from rust?
Are you tired of suffering in fruitless attempts to overcome rust on mixers, bathtubs or toilets? Already, it would seem and the pipes are new and the faucet sparklesnew chrome luster, and the red water continues to please with new and new rusty streaks that give your plumber a dirty, untidy look. How, finally, get rid of rust?Unfortunately, the answer is disappointing. Completely get rid of rust can only one way - replacing all old pipes in the urban water supply system with new ones. Perhaps someday (well, for example, afterrainy, on Thursday) this will happen, but for now you will have to manage on your own. A good option is to install filters to purify the water. Everyone who installed a modern washing machine at home certainly encountered such a filter. So why not put filters on all the water pipes in the apartment?
However, if you equip the entire apartment (or house)filters for water is not obtained, then to help the owners and hostesses come scouring powders, liquids, pastes. These drugs usually contain an acid that dissolves rust. But after the application, the acids form salts (remember the school chemistry course!) And if these salts are not immediately washed away, they will begin to destroy the enamel of your sanitary ware. Similar preparations contain also abrasive substances, which successfully clean off the surfaces and from other deposits. But it should be remembered, to apply these funds daily for the cleaning of enamel surfaces of sanitary ware can not, otherwise the enamel will very soon soften or even dissolve.
Liquid rust preventing agents for ceramicand earthenware, as a rule, contain strong acids, for example, hydrochloric and have disinfecting properties. This is especially true, because in the bathroom and toilet is particularly important hygiene. Ceramic surfaces do not collapse under the influence of acids.
And how to clean rust from gold,chrome or nickel plated surfaces of modern plumbing? In this case, coarse abrasives are completely unacceptable, because they can scratch the surface. Therefore, in the means for cleaning surfaces from non-ferrous metals, only soft abrasives such as chalk or diatomite or fine particles such as silica gel are used. In addition to abrasives, such compositions include organic solvents, waxes, ammonia.
When cleaning plumbing products you can use folk remedies. For example, restore the brilliance of aluminumproducts can be with a piece of cloth moistened in a hot solution of 15 grams of borax, 5 grams of 10% ammonia and 0.5 liters of water. This method of cleaning is not suitable for food utensils. The borax is poisonous.
Brass or copper products can be cleaned solution of drinking or soda ash, and zinc or galvanized surfaces - chalk.
