Cleaning the gas locker.

Bein' as I am still in the doghouse and need things to do outside the house...

I have one of those small lined lockers under the wardrobe. It's a bitch to get down to and gets scruffy. Lately it's got black, scuffed and scratched by trying to fit these new wrong size small propane bottles into it.

The lining is a kind of plasticky/fibreglass kind of stuff. What is it and what do I clean it with. I don't want to dissolve it (I can get very clever with Nasa quality cleaning fluid and have taken the surface off many things).

Thanks guys!

Hi, vardy I take it this is a gas locker?..It would normally have a protective lining in there for safety purposes.can I ask what has caused the marks in there to appear.

MARK.

Helena, this is the gas locker and should be fully sealed so no gas leakage can enter the Hab Area, you need to find out what is making it black before you start cleaning it :./.:

No - it's not black from any carbon deposits or anything, It's just years of dirt, dust and me scraping the rough metal bottoms of the bottles in and out. Bit like graphite looks when it is smeared - but it does look filthy and the little space could do with a really thorough clean.

I'm just worried as the walls have this bakelite quality - feel a bit rough and I don't want to use anything that will seep into the fabric of a porous surface.

I would recommend a mild abrasive Helena, something like Bar Keepers Friend or Lakelands 'Astonish' cleaning paste. You will have to give it a bit of elbow grease, but it should work. Astonish brings up uPVC windows like new

Yeah I would agree with tugga both products are excellent.

Mark.

Thank you both for the replies - I've actually got a tub of that Astonish stuff under the sink. I wish I'd posted earlier, I might have been able to get going on it instead of sulking on the sofa in front of his football progs all day.

I'm really good at sitting thinking about a job

Vardy wrote:

I'm really good at sitting thinking about a job

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You're not on your own there

Vardy wrote:

Thank you both for the replies - I've actually got a tub of that Astonish stuff under the sink.

Ill bet everybody who has bought some has ,hope it works on that as it doesn't work on anything else

Apparently it's the Pakistani pan cleaner of choice - along with the ladies elbow grease (as you say, won't work without it) my mate goes through tubs of the stuff.