There are several unpleasant tasks in the home, but you can do it quickly and easily with the help of an ordinary paraffin. Yes, an ordinary candle will be enough to see how hard to solve tasks will turn into an easy matter.
Paraffin is not just a raw material for the production of candles, although we know it most often in this form. Those who have ever taken care of the household know so well that we can use it much more creatively, although the romantic atmosphere, consisting of a flawing flame, is certainly not a bad thing. Today, however, let’s take a look at other useful paraffin abilities.
So that the door does not pour
Also, with every door opening, you are waiting for the unpleasant crashing of hinges, which is a bit nervous, but the idea of planting and lubrication is even more unpleasant? Use a paraffin simply – so take the candle and rub it several times. You do not have to completely plant the door, it will only be possible to lift it slightly to get the paraffin inside the hinge. And to make it even easier to do it, heat a little paraffin and apply it to the destination with a soaked cloth (it must be warm so that the paraffin does not immediately cool down). In a few minutes it will be done and the calm that will then take a long time.
By force? No, paraffin!
Sometimes it is very difficult to open a long unused socket or a crossed window on the cottage. But once you succeed, it will come again the right time to use paraffin. As with creaking doors, it will provide the surface of the material with a slippery layer and next time everything will go as a wire – or rather as a paraffin.
The tools will be like new
The autumn came, you store garden tools for a few months of sleep, and in hidden your soul, do you hope that you will not find rusty scissors in the spring? Do not rely on chance and hooray for paraffin. Once you lightly spread the metal pads (not only) of the garden tools, you can rest them to their places and in the spring you can find them in the same perfect condition.
Zip ses no longer faded
You wore this jacket for the last time a year ago and since then “something has happened”. Not zipper not to move, maybe moisture came to him and small metal elements gently rusted. What about it? At the moment, it is clear that it is time to use paraffin again. Take the candle and gently paint it. Within a few seconds there will be a problem and you have less worries for the next months.
Excellent trick for a trip
For others (but not the last) excellent possibility of paraffin effects this time we will go on a trip. If the weather failed, the next day it is pouring like a watering can and the backpack is slowly stopping resistant and more water, remember if you have at least a piece of candle in case of emergency. If so, you have won. Spread the luggage surface and temporary, but reliable impregnation will protect everything that is stored in it.
Fantasy does not have limits
Do you have other home tricks that are suitable for paraffin? Certainly yes, because the well of ideas in this field is virtually inexhaustible. Therefore, if you have left the candles from the Advent wreath since Christmas, do not throw them away. They can still come in handy.
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