How to clean the iron at home

Iron is an indispensable and often popular item on the farm. To everyone's happiness, our forefathers, who invented it several centuries ago, understood this.

Over time, however carefully you are treated, to your home helper, on his sole, an annoying raid is created which is difficult to clean. This problem creates an undesirable effect and problems during ironing. One of the reasons for the flying is the neglect of the temperature regime specified in the operating instructions. We remind you that for synthetics and silks you can not heat the iron too much, but it is recommended to iron woolen things with a hot iron, having covered them with gauze soaked in water.

How to clean the soleplate of an iron

Alternatively, you can use a simple modern method that can solve the problem, for this you just need to buy a special pencil, which is specially designed, for such a problem as cleaning the sole of the iron from the deposit. You can buy it at any hardware store. It is very light and easy to use.

1. It is necessary to warm up the iron well, then rub it with a pencil and wait a bit. Pollution under the action of the applied pencil will melt. If a chemical enters the hot iron, a sharp unpleasant smell will appear, do not worry much about it, it evaporates ammonia.
2. After melting the dirt, wipe the soleplate with a dry cloth and leave it to cool.
3. As it cools, wash it with clean water, flushing the remnants of the chemical reaction from the surface of the sole.

Try to observe the safety rules with the chemical, do not forget to wash your hands every time you finish work.
Salt is an old proven way to clean the iron at home.

• Pour a large amount of salt on the newspaper sheet, preferably fine grinding and iron with the iron, as if ironing. Try to maximally press on the iron so that the salt mass is squeezed out from under the sole, turning into a thin layer, and the iron touches the newspaper.
• When you see that the salt and newspaper become darker - this is a sign that the iron is cleaned.
• In case the mud layer on the iron does not come off completely, then again heat it and perform the entire procedure first. This way you can thoroughly clean your iron.
• After a while, as the iron cools down, wipe its sole with a damp cloth, and then dry.

If you do not like these options, then we know how to clean the iron more. It will take a little soda, which must be diluted with a small amount of detergent. The mixture should find a kind of gruel, it must be applied with a sponge or a rag to the sole of the iron. It is desirable not just to apply the mixture with a layer, but rub it intensively and continuously into the surface. Then leave the iron for a while. After waiting for the sole to become impregnated with the applied compound, wash the iron with water and dry it with a woolen rag. When removing contaminants from the iron in a similar way, it does not need to be heated.
Another method to clean the iron is 9% vinegar. You need a rough cloth (you can use an old towel), soak it in vinegar and rub the surface of the sole with effort. Most likely, you will not be able to clean the iron from the first time, so you should repeat the procedure several times. Try to wet the rag as often as possible, as the vinegar is exhaled very quickly. After, as you clean the soleplate of the iron, you should heat it and iron an unnecessary rag.

How to clean the sole of iron from rust

Usually rzhavichna appears, in case you pour cold water from the tap into the iron, which you can not do at all. For pouring into an iron, you can use only distilled water, thanks to its chemical properties, it is completely safe, since it does not form a scale inside the iron. To get rid of rust, you need to pour water into the iron with anti-scale suppression (a half teaspoon of water on the glass of water). Bay the solution put the iron to heat, let it stand for 20 or 30 minutes, so that the scum falls behind, then rinse it.
Often practical housewives, get rid of rust, using a cleaning agent Silit .: heat the iron, turn the sole up and apply the cleaner directly into the holes. Withstand 5-10 minutes, when they see how the scum comes out of the soles, collect it with a sponge, and then wash the iron with warm water and wipe with a dry towel. Having done this operation, you will get to your location a completely clean device and will no longer care than clean the iron in the future.

How to clean the iron from scaling inside

Very well, if your iron has a built-in self-cleaning function, it's the easiest way to use this method.

1. Pour water into the iron, inside it should be a container (where you always fill with water when ironing), connect the iron to the mains and set the temperature controller to the maximum possible.
2. Having reached this temperature, the iron will automatically turn off, wait for it to cool down and warm again to the maximum temperature.
3. We unplug the iron from the outlet and carry it to the bathroom, holding it over the bathroom, we press the button for self-cleaning.
4. You should be careful - during this cleaning of all the steam holes of your iron will steam with pieces of scale.
5. If the water is not all out, shake the iron a little, with the self-cleaning button pressed, so we will get rid of all the water in the iron.