Industrial and home care products for lacquered furniture

Furniture, varnished, at all times will look beautiful and respectable, if properly looked after. After all, any dirt, the slightest dust and scratches are especially clearly visible on the smooth shiny surface of the cabinet or trellis. There are many industrial tools and folk methods that allow you to clean polished furniture and save your favorite interior items from various contaminants. When choosing a cleaning composition, it should be borne in mind that not always expensive polishes are more effective than ordinary food substances (talc, flour, raw potatoes, vinegar or milk), which are used to preserve polishing.

Types of stains on polished furniture

Polished furniture attracts dust more than any other. This can be easily explained. The smooth surface, not treated with an antistatic agent, attracts dust particles and small specks that are perfectly visible on the mirror surface of the countertop. The task is complicated if there are small cracks or scratches on the plane of the table or cabinet doors: it is much more difficult to cope with dirt clogged in microcracks than with dust on a flat surface.

In addition, the following types of contamination are clearly visible on polishing:

• fingerprints;
• accidentally spilled liquid;
• paraffin, wax, plasticine;
• prints left by a cup of hot tea or a preheated frying pan.

In any case, you need to know how to clean polished furniture without risking harm to your favorite table or cabinet.

Safe chemicals and tools

Varnish is sensitive to abrasive cleaning agents, chemical solvents and mechanical stress. Do not clean the polished wall or cabinet doors with a metal brush, acetone or gasoline. With this care, furniture polish will fade at best, and at worst it will crack, crumble, and crumble.

Today in hardware stores a wide selection of specialized polish furniture care products is available. The use of each of them gives a certain effect, which must be taken into account.

Here are some of the most popular products used to care for lacquered furniture:

• Wax based polishes - Joy By Joy, Pronto, Chirton, Emsal.
• Compositions with tinting effect - Pronto, 5+, Emsal.
• Means creating a protective layer - Diva, Mebelux, Luxus.
• Based on silicone - Cinderella, Anti-Dust.

Using these tools is very simple. It is enough to apply a small amount of the composition on a dry cloth and polish the varnish surface to a shine.

Before starting cleaning, it is necessary to test the product by treating a small surface area in an inconspicuous place.

To avoid damage to the varnish layer during stain removal, do not use hard metal brushes or scrapers. It is better to use cotton or flannel napkins, cotton pads, soft brushes to remove dust. Adhesive wax or plasticine can be removed with a wooden stick or spatula.

Folk cleaning methods for lacquered furniture

In addition to expensive chemical polishes, which often have a very pungent odor and are poorly tolerated by people with allergies, you can use folk remedies to clean furniture at home.Few people know that it will be possible to renew the varnished surface of the table or bedside tables, remove stains left by hot objects, or wipe off droplets of wax and glue with the help of flour, table vinegar, soap, milk and other products that are always found on the household.

Fresh spots

Greasy finger stains stand out especially on a shiny surface. Furniture covered with such prints looks messy. There are several tricks to quickly get rid of traces of fat on the polish:

• A piece of laundry soap is soaked in water and a soft cloth dipped in a soap solution, wiped the furniture surface.
• Grease stains lightly with flour, talcum powder or baby powder. Wait 10-15 minutes until the bulk product absorbs fat, then wipe it with a soft clean cloth.
• The contaminated surface is rubbed in half with potato tubers. 15 minutes after treatment, the table is polished with a cotton towel.
• Alcohol and vegetable oil are mixed, taking an equal amount of ingredients, and furniture is rubbed with this mixture.
• You can wash lacquered furniture with milk. The napkin is moistened in milk, squeezed and wiped the place of contamination. The remaining liquid is removed with a dry rag.

Whatever tool is used for cleaning, work should always be completed by polishing to a shine using a soft flannel.

Old pollution

To remove old spots will have to use more aggressive products with salt and acid.

• Using table salt, you can remove traces left by hot dishes. To do this, wrap a handful of salt in a handkerchief, moisten the bag in vegetable oil and rub the damaged surface.
• Aged impurities are removed with 9% vinegar. If you leave acid on the furniture surface for a long time, the varnish may crack, so you need to act as quickly as possible, and after cleaning, carefully remove the remaining vinegar with a dry cloth.
• To clean the polish, tea brewing is useful. After drinking tea, spread it in a tissue and wipe the furniture.
• Pickled cabbage brine is an excellent tool for removing dirty stains from polishing.

Droplets of frozen wax that accidentally hit the polished table during the festival should be cleaned with a wooden stick or spatula, and then wipe the place of contamination with a swab dipped in vinegar.

How to wipe polished furniture for shine?

In order for your favorite furniture to last as long as possible and always delight the eye with a clean, sparkling surface, it must be regularly cleaned with special polishes or popular means.

• Burdock oil is excellent for finishing varnished surfaces. This inexpensive product is sold in pharmacies. It is better to purchase a composition without additional fragrances. The method of use is very simple: put a little burdock oil on a gauze or cotton napkin and rub it on the varnish surface.
• Gloss of polished furniture will give treatment with vegetable oil, in equal proportions mixed with table vinegar.
• Beer helps keep the polished furniture clean and radiant. A drink (1 glass) is poured into a saucepan, a piece of a paraffin candle is placed there and heated until the wax melts. The composition is cooled and applied to the cabinet door or table surface. The remaining fluid is removed with a dry cloth.

Any action, regardless of the type of cleansing compound, should end with a thorough polishing with flannel or suede.

It is difficult to prevent dust and dirt from entering polished furniture. However, if timely simple maintenance is carried out, which consists primarily in removing dust and antistatic processing of the varnish surface, it will be possible for many years to enjoy the look of a stylish and presentable interior.