We found the product was not very good and again could not be used on many surfaces including enamel was Ullins Grant’s
“We found the product was not very good and again could not be used on many surfaces, including enamel,” was Ullins Grant’s opinion.**VIAKAL LIMESCALE AND WATERMARK REMOVER250ml pounds l.69, 500ml pounds 2.39Although it is sold solely as a limescale remover, this product was one of the least effective It is also one of the most expensive. “Easy to use, with a pleasant smell; it left the bathroom nice and shiny without rinsing Not good for bad limescale though,” Wendy Ridings said. The panel found it of limited use for tackling very heavy encrustations but they liked its piney smell. The bottle’s trigger spray releases a foam which Roberta Hill described as being the consistency of “lightly beaten egg white half-way to the meringue stage” “Very effective on baths, sinks and tiles Pleasant soapy smell,” said Ullins Grant. None was able to blast away really heavy deposits on one use.
The worst bits will probably need a few applications.
THE PANELWendy Ridings and Ullins Grant from the cleaning company, The Clean Team Ltd; Christine Fitt, housewife; Roberta Hill, writer.THE TESTThe panel gave each product marks for how effective it was at removing limescale, how convenient it was to use, how tolerable its odour, and value for money.***JIF BATHROOM500ml pounds l.55A general bathroom cleaner that claims to “attack limescale”, this was rated one of the more effective products, although it could not be used on enamelled surfaces. Some are specifically sold as limescale removers, others are general bathroom cleaners that also claim to tackle limescale. Enamel, it seems, is more easily removed than limescale, making few removers usable on enamelled surfaces – which greatly restricts bathroom use for the many people with enamelled tubs. The other restrictions advertised on most of the products – that they cannot be used on marble or on gold- plated or silver-plated taps – is likely to concern fewer users
We tried out a number of products on the market. The trick is to find an acid strong enough to attack the limescale, without the product being unpleasant or unsafe to use, or so powerful that it damages the surface being cleaned. Limescale removers for bathrooms and kitchens are all acids of one type or another, although different products use different formulations: for example, sulphamic acid, phosophoric acid and citric acid.
IF YOU live in a hard-water area, you’ll easily recognise the scourge of limescale. Those ugly chalky stains around taps and plugholes of sinks and baths are simply deposits of the calcium salts in hard water. And as you may remember from school chemistry lessons, it is acid that will dissolve an alkali such as limescale. The sorbet was blackcurrant and deserved a wallful of plaques to itself My wife had a chocolate sponge pudding with toffee sauce.
It was very, very, very good.Dinner came to pounds 68.04 without the tip. On the way out, my wife said she supposed that was what I called work.. I was offered a slice to taste and it is okay if you like toffee and banana. Instead I had tulipe – a sweet biscuit curled up at the sides – of lemond curd, creme fraiche and sorbet with fruit coulis, which I would put in a different league. If that was work, would it have been work for anybody else?The Hungry Monk’s banoffi pudding has won awards, one of which is displayed as a blue plaque outside.
My wife liked that idea and wondered whether it could be applied to what the lady in Hollywood did to Hugh Grant. It fell off the bone, or off what little bone there was, the mashed potato with sage and olive oil was original and just right to go with it, and there was a side dish of carrot puree, new potatoes, red cabbage and broccoli, all of which could have come out of the garden that morning.This, I am afraid, brought us back to the symposium. I rather foolishly suggested that work might be definable in terms of units of energy expended. There were plenty of alternatives without any surcharge, like fresh squid and prawns in a light curry sauce with risotto, or rabbit stifatho, or brochette of fresh Scotch salmon and monkfish with saffron tagliolini and sorrel sauce, and I suppose I should have had one of those, but the duck was wonderful and I am very glad I didn’t. She was worried about the word “intense”, which she thought might be slightly affected, but came to the conclusion it just meant “very reduced”, and as gravy it was certainly as good as the thick chunks of liver, pink on the inside and very tender.I had confit of duck with sage and olive oil mashed potato, which I was embarrassed to see did carry a supplement, this time of pounds 2.50. Was it work if you enjoyed doing it? Could talking be work? I said I thought it probably could.For the main course she had calves’ liver with grilled polenta and intense sauce which carried no supplement and was, from the bit I had and her more informed judgement, excellent.