So who uses detailing products around the house?

Wifey uses my D101 (APC) and D120 (Glass Cleaner Concentrate) all around the house on windows, appliances, showers, fireplace glass, patio doors, stainless and mirrors.  She uses my D156 (Synthetic X-Press Spray Wax) on the appliances.   I recently caught her using my MF towels as dish towels and clean-up rags. :(   I just ordered her a box of 20 Ultimate wipes for her own use and told her to keep her hands off my MF towels that have the labels cut off. 
 
I use QDs for cleaning some delicate items, and one of these days I'll probably use ONR/IUDJ for such work too.  I use demoted MFs of various types for household work.  Some of our older windows have fragile tint films and I use the same aftermarket tint-safe window cleaners on those that I use on the Crown Vic.  I usually use the same Hi-Temp/TOL brand Carpet Cleaning concentrates for the house that I use for vehicles
 
I use:


1)  Plexus for cleaning PC Monitor and Laptop screens.


2) Meg's APC for some fabric cleaning and leather chairs


3) DSC Products, Inc. "Steam Plus" for carpets


4) Meg's Natural Shine for vinyl (plastics on chairs and power cords)


5) Older waxes for appliances


6) Collinite 845 on countertops and fiberglass shower wall (be careful about toilet seats! Had a guest slip off it after an application. REALLY??!!. Who would do that?!)


7) Lexol for leather chairs and leather-bound books, like Bibles and Wedding Albums.


8) Spray-away Glass Cleaner for windows.


9) Q-tips for corners or vent slots in a TV or PC.


10) Blue Magic Metal Polish for anything chromed; Brasso for brass,


(hint: use Bon-Ami cleanser on stainless steel pans and sinks with Mr.Clean Eraser pads for scrubbing off hard-water stains, but NEVER on brushed stainless panels of appliances)


11) Shop-vac for vacuuming hard floors in basement


 


 I guess the obsessive-compulsive detailing carries over to house cleaning for me as well. My wife tried cleaning the house once; I just went over what she cleaned with rags and Q-tips. Guess who gets to clean the house now!!
 
Guess I should've mentioned that I have a lot of BHBs relegated to household use too...


 


Lonnie- I've been able to cut down my Q-tip consumption a lot by using the BHBs, for exactly the same sort of tight spots.  I have a few that I trimmed down shorter to stiffen them up (also lost the flagged tips that way, so they're not for all surfaces).
 
Accumulator:


I like cotton-tipped swabs (AKA, Q-tips) for their absorbency and disposability. Not sure how "absorbent" a boar's hair brush (BHB) is, but your experience and expertise is far more accepted than mine. I will take your suggestion under advisement (which is the politically correct way to say, "Thank you. I hear and acknowledge you, but I will not act on it at the present time because I think I'm right, when really I am so full of "stuff", arrogant, and self-conceited!" Kinda like most of our politicians, which may be why it's called "politically correct")
 
Lonnie- Right, when you want to soak up the liquid (e.g., Murphy's Oil Soap vs. Endust)  the cotton swabs are great.  I guess I like the BHBs (when feasible) because I'm trying to do a lot of tight spots in a short period of time.  I generally follow the BHB with a MF or somesuch to soak up residual liquid if I think there's too much left behind.  No question about it, the BHBs do leave more behind so I guess it's a "horses for courses" kind of thing where both have their place and we might be talking about *completely* different cleaning jobs.  I still go through plenty of swabs!


 


I was pleasantly surprised when I used the BHB on a TV's vents (no, I didn't use it "really wet" to the point of getting liquid inside the TV).  Cut the time by maybe 75% compared to my previous efforts.  For smaller jobs like that, spraying the BHB with Endust can work well, but you gotta clean it out thoroughly later.  One of these days I'm gonna try it with ONR/IUDJ and I suspect it'll work great.


 


And, heh heh, yeah...copy that on your <strike>PC</strike>...let's just say "polite" way of telling me you're doing just fine with your current approach :lol:
 
ONR on almost any hard surface - stainless grill, outdoor furniture, windows, appliances, etc.  Optimum carpet cleaner on anything textile.  


 


These products work better then the mass market stuff for the same job.
 
Accumulator


The Endust-Boar's Hair Brush combo sounds like a winner to me! :D


Never thought of using Optimum No-Rinse ( 3:1 dilution ratio of water-to-ONR?) with Q-Tips for cleaning. Not sure what it would look like on black plastics, like TV & PC bezels/stands.


Sounds like an experiment to me.


 


Also, it seems like Garry Dean's Infinite Use Detailing Juice is becoming true-to-name: infinite uses! (The stuff is expensive, though)


 


dmatre:


When did Optimum start making and selling a dedicated carpet cleaner?<span> :huh: Must be good, like most of the OPT products.


<span>Is it extractor-friendly?
 
<span style="color:#008000;">I just used an ONR mixture to "mist" mop my hardwood floors.  A very light mist via a spray bottle and MF wrapped mop head just to clean everything up.  
 
Lonnie- I'd have to think about the proper dilution for rinseless washes as household cleaners...the few times I've done something like that I just used my QD-strength IUDJ.


 


TroyScherer- What dilution are you using on your hardwood floors?  That sounds like a good idea!
 
Accumulator said:
TroyScherer- What dilution are you using on your hardwood floors?  That sounds like a good idea!
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<span style="color:#008000;">I used a 2oz : 1 Gallon ratio just like clay lube, mostly because it is the ONR Clay lube bottle.    But in reality I think I could have easily done 1oz:1gal or even 1oz:2gal.  
 
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