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Cleaning your walls has never been easier.  Using a simple homemade solution will have your walls clean in no time at all.  By cleaning your walls I mean paneling, stripping wallpaper and just regular painted walls.

Walls with noticeable marks and fingerprints will be removed with an easy to make solution made for under a dollar.  Even if you buy the cheapest cleaning solution you will end up having a few dollars involved.  Sometimes buying those expensive cleaning solutions do not work like they advertise they would.  So why go through all the expense and work of buying expensive cleaning solutions when you can make a solution right at home that works effectively and cost less than a dollar.  Are you wondering what could be so effective and economical to use on your wall?  A vinegar mixture is the answer to your wall clean up job.

The kitchen could be the hardest of all the walls you have to clean.  Since the kitchen walls may have a heavier build up of grease from cooking you will need to take one gallon of warm water, one cup of bottled ammonia, one-half cup of bottled vinegar and one-fourth cup of baking soda.  First, put the gallon of water into a scrub bucket then add all the other ingredients.  Mix all the ingredients well in the gallon of water and then prepare to scrub.  In just half the time you will have your walls spotless with this mixture since it is a very powerful cleaner.  I would suggest that you start at the bottom of your wall first then work your way up the wall.  If you do the reverse you may get run marks down your wall that may be very difficult to remove.

Do you have wood paneling in your house that seems to be so dull and dingy looking?  I had this same problem in my home and no matter what chemical treatment I tried to use I couldn’t get away from that dull and dingy look.  Then a friend suggested that I try mixing one ounce of olive oil, two ounces of distilled vinegar and one quart of warm water.  Mixing only the olive oil and vinegar into the quart of warm water.  First take a cloth moistened with the mixture and wipe it onto the wall.  Next you will need to take a soft dry cloth and wipe the wall free of any remaining residue.  You will be amazed at the result, as I was!!  This mixture removes a yellow build up that seems to build up on paneling walls and the olive oil in the mixture puts a shine on your wall that hasn’t been there since the paneling walls have been put in.  So for just a few cents you will have your paneling walls looking like you spent a fortune and spent a day cleaning the walls alone.

Last but not least stripping wallpaper and wall border from your walls.  Wall paper and wall border has a way of making your house look so beautiful not to mention comfortable but when it comes to making a change you’ll be singing another tune.  Removing wallpaper or wall border could take several hours per small room.  Who wants to go through all that work in order to have a beautiful new look of wallpaper and wall border?  To remove the wallpaper and wall border effortless then make a mixture of warm water and a few tablespoons of vinegar.  Place this mixture in a spray bottle and you are ready to go.  First go around and tear large pieces of the wallpaper off the wall.  After the large pieces or top layer of the wallpaper has been torn off than take your mixture and spray it on the next layer of wallpaper or wall border.  After spraying the mixture of water and vinegar on the wall simply peel away the next layer, which is the last layer, then wipe the remaining glue with the mixture of warm water and vinegar with a soft damp rag.  In less that an hour your wallpaper and wall border will be down and your walls awaiting the next project.