Cleaning wood furniture and walls
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Cheryl Clark on Mar 30, 2014I heard cleaning with oil would help with this. I haven't tried it yet, but it makes sense. First clean with oil and follow up with soap and water.Helpful Reply
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Ri-Lee on Mar 30, 2014Go to the General Dollar Store and buy a bottle of Awesome. It is $3.00 for a large bottle and $1.00 for a spray bottle of it. I just finished doing what you are doing. Someone told me about it and I didn't believe it, but it works. Use full strength, it won't hurt the walls or furniture. If it is solid wood, be sure when finished cleaning, to rub it down good in Orange Oil and let it soak. So put lots of Orange Oil on it and let sit over night and it will soak it all in. The Awesome is just what the name says. I had an entire house to do and that is the only cleaning produce I used, except for the toilet. Just use it full strength. If you don't have a General Dollar try any dollar store or if you have a Fred's Store, they carry it. It is yellow in color and it is awesome. Good luck!Helpful Reply
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Vicki Pemberton on Mar 30, 2014Try some murphy oil wood cleaner works pretty well to remove that scum that builds up on it. I saw some new amish stuff on a infomercial too that seemed impressive, but it's mail order only.Helpful Reply
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Lori Peluso Sprowls on Mar 30, 2014you can try mixing some grease lightening and water in spray bottle and wipe it off.Helpful Reply
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Bev Kent on Mar 30, 2014a good degreaser then rinse well will take off all tackiness and leave wood clean. make sure to dry wellHelpful Reply
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Peggy Davis on Mar 30, 2014Scott's Liquid Gold for the wood items. for painted wall, and this will be tough: wash lightly with warm soap and water (a degreaser or a citrus product) and then repaint the walls if again, they are painted dry wall.Helpful Reply
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Dawn Keller on Mar 30, 2014Hot water and Murphy's oil soapHelpful Reply
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Sharon on Mar 30, 2014Awesome at Dollar TreeHelpful Reply
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The Garden Frog with C Renee on Mar 31, 2014Totally Awesome cleaner (AS SEEn ON TV) at Dollar Tree which is full strength and great for grease! I use it on oily and greasy work clothes. You can use full strength or dilute 50% for the grease cleaning. It is potent so have windows open! It will be the best $1 you ever spent!Helpful Reply
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Christine on Mar 31, 2014LOl. Citristrip. I used it to cut through HARD baked on, disgusting nicotine & grease. I was planning to strip them, anyway, but I found if I followed the bottle instructions (vs. the website instructions) and checked after about 15 minutes, I was able to just scrape the crap off of the finish, without it removing the finish. It hadn't sat long enough. I realize not everyone is as "Go For IT!" as I am, so I'd use Dawn as it's a degreaser, then Murphy's. You still probably won't get through it, but it's worth a try. In my experience, don't waste your time on TSP. It doesn't cut as well as it's supposed to in the face of decades of grossness.Helpful Reply
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