New stainless steel appliances instantly brighten up your kitchen. Even new cooking utensils and sinks can make a difference. Nevertheless, after the second or third week, these items will likely be dulled from little finger prints, water spots, oil splatters, and just plain old wear and tear.

No matter how old or well-loved your stainless steel kitchen items are, there are easy ways to restore their shine.

A step-by-step guide to cleaning stainless steel appliances

When you wipe stainless steel with a microfiber cloth made specifically for this kind of surface (steel), you will find it easy to clean, despite how easily it gets stained.

Oily stains can be removed from stainless steel appliances without scratching and many cleaners leave behind protective coatings to prevent fingerprints.

The microfiber cloths lift, trap, and remove dirt and grease more effectively than plain clothes or sponges, Oily stains and stubborn fingerprints may require some stainless appliance cleaner.

There are other at-home alternatives you can use to brighten up stainless steel appliances if you don’t have any stainless steel appliance cleaner on hand. Stainless steel sinks and cooking utensils may be cleaned with stainless steel cleaners and scrubbers, but never with appliances.

In some cases, they can scratch the finish due to being too abrasive.

The Don’ts of Stainless Steel Appliance Cleaning

• To avoid damaging the finish of the appliance, avoid abrasive scouring powders, bleach, and ammonia.
• Stainless steel should never be wiped against its grain. Avoid streaks by wiping against the grain.
• Stainless steel appliances should not be allowed to air dry after cleaning. Clean up streaks and spots with a microfiber cloth and restore their shine.

The Best Way to Clean Stainless Steel Sinks and Cooking Utensils

If you use a mildly abrasive cleaner and a scrub pad to clean stainless steel sinks and pots, it won’t damage them.

A warm, glowing patina (a green or brown film on the surface of bronze or similar metals, produced by oxidation over a long period) hides scratches, removes stuck-on food, and cleans heat marks on cooking wares. The best shine comes from thorough rinsing and drying.

 Stainless Steel Appliance Streak Removal

For the best results, use a cleaner made specifically for stainless steel, rather than dish soap or mineral oil to remove pesky marks and smudges.

To help repel soil and fingerprints, look for a cleaner with a protectant. This will reduce the frequency with which you need to clean your appliances.

Use a stainless steel cleaner according to the instructions on the package and wipe in the direction of the metal’s grain regardless of what kind you use.

In order to prevent streaks, one should not wipe against the grain or with a circular motion, use the wrong cloth or a dirty one, apply enough cleaner so the greasy film dissolves, and buff the surface thoroughly after cleaning.

Clean a microfiber cloth well afterward to add shine to the entire surface.

What you need to do to remove rust from stainless steel appliances

A damp cloth dipped in baking soda can be used to remove rust if your appliance’s protective finish has been damaged and rust spots are forming. The area should be cleaned, polished with stainless steel polish, and blended.

Action Point

Stainless steel finish are no doubt beautiful to see in the home, especially in the kitchen area and can become an eye soar if it’s not properly cared for i.e cleaning as at when due. We hope these simple DIY tips for cleaning stainless steel surface will prove useful for you.

With these your kitchen wares, sinks and stainless steel appliance will always look gleam.

Have you ever had reason to quickly clean up your room because you have someone knocking at your door?

Have you hastily tidy your room become you hear your parent approaching your rooms? Or a group of friends call to inform you they are coming for a visit and your house look messed up and you only have 10 minutes to make your home look tidy and fresh. A tough assignment right?

At that point you start asking yourself whether your toilet is clean, you wonder whether your kitchen sink is not filled with dirty plates, you wonder if you should just hide them or wash them?

At some point in life, some of us have had a fair share of this kind of experience; a moment like this can easily get us tensed and all sweaty in the shortest possible time.

At Kleenrite, we care about your home looking clean and fresh, even though some might not see any wrong with having a cluttered home, but deep down your visitors cares. A dirty home will not smell nice, neither will it have clean air and inhabitant of such homes are prone to all kinds of disease-causing organisms. Your home should be ‘welcoming’.

5 Reasons Why Households Should Have a Cleaning Schedule

This article will show you how to avoid panic cleaning, in Kleenrite’s over 30 years of experience in the Nigerian cleaning industry we have found out that having a cleaning schedule is a solution to panic cleaning, this solution will save you time, money, energy and in the long run save you mental stress.

Firstly, create and design a cleaning schedule because it will do the following:

1. Cleaning Schedule aids Orderliness

A cleaning schedule helps you to create a good system for cleaning tasks within the household. (Your cleaning schedule should be pasted somewhere all the members of the household can mark or check when they have completed their tasks for the day). Upon the completion of a task, the schedule table should be marked ‘done’ or ‘completed’, so that one person doesn’t have to redo what someone had done, however after cleaning there could be dirt where you had already cleaned, but in such case, most of the cleaning required will be minimal.

2. Efficiency

With a cleaning schedule, tasks are planned, you know when and what to do at a particular time. If there is any special equipment and product for the tasks that you are planning to carry out, you will be able to make provisions before the day you need it.

Time management is very important, so you will not have to spend most of your day cleaning. We know you may have other engagements for the day.

3. Cleaning schedule prevents procrastination

Procrastination is more or less time-wasting, we sometimes postpone cleaning tasks for no good reason, we sometimes feel there will be a next time to do something and end up not getting another convenient time to do those tasks.

The cleaning schedule helps you to prevent an unnecessary postponement of the cleaning you ought to do. If you have a smartphone you can go a step further by synchronizing your cleaning schedule with your google calendar, so that you can get prompt reminders.

4. Cleaning schedule prevents idleness

Every member of the household becomes more responsible with the use of time if you have a cleaning schedule, it helps you to share responsibilities between the members of your household. You will be amazed at how efficient they will be if someone is giving a responsibility to clean a certain area of the house.

Some parents even go as far as grading the cleaning that was done by their children, it is an interesting strategy to keep every member of the household busy.

5. Cleaning schedule prevents panic cleaning

Your home will rarely look unkempt if you have a cleaning schedule because you will always be on top of your cleaning tasks. While trying to clean under intense pressure you can end up damaging things in the house. Out of anxiety to get your kitchen or dining all set up for your guest you can accidentally get some of the glassware broken or even injure yourself.

It is not always advisable to do cleaning tasks when we are all tensed up, the result of such is not always something you would like. In the comment section, we like you to share your panic cleaning experience, let make this fun! We love to hear your story.

Final words

The beauty of a cleaning schedule is discipline, that is, your ability to design a cleaning schedule for your household and strictly follow it. We understand it might not be easy to keep up, desire for a clean and sparkling home, we do not doubt that this will soon become a routine for you.