Fireplace Cleaning
Keeping your fireplace glass clean can be quite a pain unless you know how to do it.
Let’s start with a cold fireplace to play it safe, note: not safe in picture 🙁
You will need a bottle with vinegar some paper towel and a straight edge blade. These blade holders work very well.
Spray vinegar on your glass. Coating that layer of built up carbon and give it a few minutes to soak in. Then use the straight razor blade to scrap the carbon off.
Now spray a piece of paper towel with vinegar then dip it into some ash.
Wipe the ash onto the glass. Use the ash like pumas to clean the glass. If only removing a little smoke on the glass there is no reason to scrap it first.
Just wipe it clean and we are finished.
Now if your cleaning the chrome or gold plating use newspaper to keep it nice and shiny. The ink in the paper aids in the cleaning process.
Here’s some uses for your fireplace ash. It can be a substitute for lime powder, no not the kind of lime you eat, but the kind you put on your lawn.
Make a mix with water and use to shine silver.
Wood Ash contains high amounts of potassium. It is high in alkalinity. It can be used to raise the PH value in soil.
Tomato plants benefit from the higher PH levels and garden pests like slugs and snails don’t like it. Check your soils PH level before adding ash to the soil. Also check the recommended PH level for the plants you are growing, asparagus loves high PH levels.
It can be used as an odor remover.
To absorb stains, it blends in well with cement.
To control pond algae. A small amount will slow algae growth
To make Lye, which you can then make soap with. Lye is quite dangerous – caution!
