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The sides of stairs or passages on which are carpets, or floor-cloth, should be
washed with sponge instead of linen or flannel, and the edges will not be
soiled. Different sponges should be kept for the two above uses; and those and
the brushes should be well washed when done with, and kept in dry places.
To extract Oil from Boards or Stone.
Make a strong lye of pearl-ashes and soft water; and add as much unslacked lime
as it will take up; stir it together, and then let it settle a few minutes;
bottle it, and stop close; have ready some water to lower it as used, and scour
the part with it. If the liquor should lie long on the boards, it will draw out
the colour of them; therefore do it with care and expedition.
To clean stone Stairs and Halls.
Boil a pound of pipe-makers' clay with a quart of water, a quart of small beer,
and put in a bit of stone-blue. Wash with this mixture, and when dry, rub the
stones with flannel and a brush.
To blacken the fronts of Stone Chimney-pieces.
Mix oil-varnish with lamp-black, and a little spirit of turpentine to thin it to
the consistence of paint. Wash the stone with soap and water very clean; then
sponge it with clear water; and when perfectly dry, brush it over twice with
this colour, letting it dry between the times. It looks extremely well. The
lamp-black must be sifted first.
To take Stains out of Marble.
Mix unslacked lime, in finest powder, with the stronger soap-lye, pretty thick;
and instantly, with a painter's brush, lay it on the whole of the marble. In two
months time wash it off perfectly clean; then have ready a fine thick lather of
soft soap, boiled in soft water; dip a brush in it, and scour the marble with
powder, not as common cleaning. This will, by very good rubbing, give a
beautiful polish. Clear off the soap, and finish with a smooth hard brush till
the end be effected.
To take Iron Stains out of Marble.
An equal quantity of fresh spirit of vitriol and lemon-
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