Episode 005 1995 - 96 Season

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Cleaning Steam Iron

Al Carrell : You say you got a pressing engagement and your steam iron has run out of steam. Well, you can be in a heap of trouble. You see, what happens is we put water inside the steam iron so that the iron can turn it into steam. Well in the process the heat separates minerals from the water and they get inside. They get clogged up and so before long you've got an iron that spits at you instead of steams. One thing you can do is to take your pipe cleaner and run it inside all of these holes and ream 'em out and that'll get rid of some of the residue, but you still got stuff on the inside, and the way you get rid of that is you get rid of all the water that's inside there and then you take white vinegar and fill up that reservoir with white vinegar. Then plug it back in. Turn it so it's going to run it into steam and that's going to help to steam out the mineral deposits. You see, vinegar, and particularly hot vinegar, will just eat up mineral deposits and lime deposits. Now, nobody wants to stand here and hold this thing for 15 minutes while the steaming process goes through, so if you'll just take the shelf out of your oven, put it over a cookie sheet, then you can end up without having to hold it. It'll just steam away. Now after it gets through steaming, you probably going to want to run some water through there again to get rid of all the residue of vinegar and then you're going to be ready to do some pressing. One thing that you might want to do, and that is to take a piece of wax paper and run the hot iron over the wax paper. What that does is it gives your sole plate there just a little bit of a nice finish on there. So, don't let a steam iron steam you! Just do these tricks.

Episode 005 1995 - 96 Season

| Window Factory | Vinyl Windows | Air Infiltration | Window Replacement | Cleaning Steam Iron | Sponge Painting (design) | Adjustable Rate Mortgage | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #005.