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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2015-05-22 5:34 PM, wrote:
> On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 1:53:55 PM UTC-7, notbob wrote:
>> My mom's house is pretty dirty from her having never cleaned the upper
>> levels of this small cathedral ceilinged park model. Grease from the
>> kitchen has been accumulating for yrs. I've tried my fave grease
>> cutter, 409, and it knocks off most of the crude, but a stubborn
>> residue remains unfazed. Almost like plaque.
>>
>> What do resto kitchens --or their hired cleaning services-- use to cut
>> the grease in the exhaust hoods? Anyone know?
>>
>
> Have you tried TSP?

I was going to suggest trisodium phosphate (TSP) too. That stuff is an
amazing cleaner, though quite caustic. I tried it on the stonework on my
fireplace and was amazed at the way it cleaned years of soot and grime
with almost no scrubbing effort. I tried some on the firebrick inside
the fireplace. I had a pail of water and TSP, dunked the sponge in it
and wiped it across the soot covered firebrick and it changed to almost
yellow without any scrubbing at all.

Wear rubber gloves!!!!