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Kitchen Repairs and Maintenance
Kitchen repairs and maintenance in Melbourne are required on a regular basis, because kitchen is the place where most accidents happen.
Hot stuff, sharp staff, stain staff will sooner or later force us to do serious kitchen repairs or maintenance work here.
Some plumbing examples when kitchen repairs or maintenance can be DIY projects include:
- change of rubber washer in the tap
- change the U shape pipe to the sink
For other plumbing of gas and water you are both legally and morally obliged to take a tradesman or a qualified handyman.
Other examples when kitchen repairs or maintenance can be DIY projects include:
- Laminated benchtop being burned, stained or chipped
- Oily dirt in the grout between tiles
- Oily and burned stains on the cooktop
- Filthy rangehood filter
Kitchen Repairs for Laminated Benchtop
Laminated benchtop generally withstands a lot of punishment from busy housewives.
These products are generally heatproof.
However, there are cases where overheating will cause burn marks.
Further, sharp object may chip the surface and laminate kitchen repairs are required.
There are various theories on how to approach the problem.
The simplest and the most expensive laminated benchtop kitchen repair is to take the tradesman and get it re-laminated.
However for a small damage you can do kitchen repair for laminated benchtop by yourself.
There are number of steps in your kitchen repair to laminated benchtop such as:
- Fill in the burn with a marine filler.
- Sand well but only the affected area. Make sure that the burned section is flat after the sanding procedure.
- Prime it and spray it with acrylic glass finish paint.
For larger laminated benchtop kitchen repairs get the qualified resurfacer.
Kitchen Repairs for Oily Dirt in The Grout
For kitchen maintenance and cleaning of oily dirt in the grout you must get a good (but not too strong) degreaser.
Water or soap cannot wash oily stains.
There are number of steps in your kitchen maintenance and cleaning of oily dirt in the grout such as:
- Spray or pour degreaser into the groove of the affected grout area.
- Let the degreaser stay there for about 1 hour.
- Prepare a bucket of water with soap or floor cleaner. Place a floor mob in it.
- Mob the degreaser from the tiles.
- Let the tiles dry.
Kitchen Repairs for Oily and Burned Stains on The Cooktop
For kitchen repairs of oily and burned stains on the cooktop get an industrial stainless-steel cleaner or degreaser.
There are degreasers, which work wonders but they are extremely strong.
Some strong degreasers cannot be used on aluminium.
Other materials can also be affected - so read the directions carefully before using the product.
Despite the advertising campaigns, the supermarket cleaners will not work on heavy and burned stains.
They are good for cleaning fresh stains but useless for serious works.
It is sometimes good to warm the cooktop before applying the degreaser.
Heat often helps to break the dirty particles and increases effectiveness of the cleaning product.
Kitchen Repairs for Filthy Rangehood Filter
There are number of steps for kitchen maintenance of filthy rangehood filter:
- Remove the filter from the rangehood (refer to the manufacturer manual on how to remove and replace the filter).
- Place the rangehood filter into the sink in your laundry. Ensure that there is enough water to submerge the filter.
- Pour about 50ml of degreaser into the sink. Take a sponge and thoroughly clean the stains.
- Remove the rangehood filter, dry it and place it back to the rangehood.
Kitchen Repairs of Water Tap
Kitchen repairs such as fixing water taps could be DIY project.
Fixing water taps kitchen repair procedure includes following steps:
- Switch off the main water.
- Unscrew the metal cap (use the cloth to prevent scratches).
- Replace rubber washers.
- Wrap nylon tape around threads on which screw cap sits.
- Screw the metal cap back on the thread (use the cloth to prevent scratches)
- Switch on the main water supply