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How To Descale and Clean Your Kettle
If you’ve been wondering about the easiest way to descale and clean your household kettle, you’ve come to the right place. By the end of this article, you would have learned how to descale and clean your kettle with the least effort possible.
Let’s begin with cleaning items.
Before you start cleaning, you will need the following items:
- Vinegar
- Bicarbonate of Soda – Baking Soda
- Measuring cup
- Bowl
- Sponge
- Toothbrush
- Water
- Cloth
- Multipurpose Cleaner
- *Electricity
How To Descale and Clean Your Kettle
Once you have all the above items, you are ready to go. Below are the easy-to-follow steps for descaling and cleaning your kettle.
1. Descale and Clean The Removable Mesh Filter
- Remove your kettle’s removable mesh filter
- Put the removable mesh filter in a bowl
- Pour some vinegar on the mesh filter until it is covered with the vinegar
- Wait until all the limescale on the mesh filter dissolves, and then use the toothbrush to brush and clean off any leftover limescale
- Rinse the mesh filter with tap water and place it somewhere to dry
2. Descale The Kettle and Clean Inside The Kettle
- Use the measuring cup to measure and fill the kettle with vinegar.
- Make sure the vinegar covers everywhere inside the kettle that has limescale stain, residue and build-up
- You don’t have to fill up to the kettle maximum for water
- Plug the kettle into a socket and switch it on
- After the kettle comes to a boil, it should automatically switch itself off.
- Empty the kettle of all the liquid inside it. This liquid is now a mixture of vinegar and limescale
- Check inside the kettle. If there’s any limescale left inside it, repeat steps 1 to 6 again
- Fill the kettle with water until the water reaches the kettle’s maximum
- Switch the kettle on and wait for it to boil
- Once the kettle reaches boiling point, it should automatically switch off, but if it doesn’t, switch it off yourself and then empty the water inside your kitchen sink.
- Repeat steps 8 to 10 again to ensure all unpleasant taste is removed from the kettle
3. Clean The Outside Of The Kettle
Once you’ve cleaned the mesh filter and the inside of the kettle, the next thing to do is clean the exterior of the kettle. Here are the steps for doing just that:
- Soak a sponge slightly with water
- Use the wet sponge to dab and collect some baking soda
- Now, use the sponge which now has baking soda on it, to clean the exterior of the kettle.
- Apply some water to the toothbrush and then dab it on the baking soda
- Use the toothbrush which now has baking soda on it, to clean the ‘mouth’ section of the kettle.
- Rinse and dry the whole kettle.
4. Clean The Base
If your kettle has a detachable 360-base, spray some multipurpose cleaner on a clean cloth and use it to wipe off any dirt that is on the 360-base.
Conclusion
Descaling and cleaning your kettle can be simple or difficult, it all depends on your level of ability and knowledge. This article is written to help those who dread cleaning their household kettle.
At Brilliance Cleaning Services, we clean kettles as part of our End of Tenancy cleaning services. So, when you book us for your End of Tenancy cleaning, you can be assured that we will clean your kettle to the highest possible standard.
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You can contact us at 07754 822010, or fill out our form and we’ll be glad to assist you with your cleaning needs.
