What's your favorite recipe for some home made concoction to clean down below?

[GHA]

For general cleaning of all the wood etc down below, care to share your favorite recipe & methods handed down for generations? Or cheap stuff which works from Lidl or somewhere.

 

[nigelmercier]

For general cleaning of all the wood etc down below ...

I just use soap

 

[pvb]

For joinery, ordinary spray furniture polish. For the cabin sole, a damp sponge.

 

[Hydrozoan]

An emulsion of olive oil and red wine vinegar for water/heat marks on wood. Also good on salads.

 

[wiggy]

Flash wipes, or own brand supermarket alternatives, on everything that isn't fsbric or window.

 

[Steve Clayton]

Try this on your topsides

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254503500

 

[sailorman]

For joinery, ordinary spray furniture polish. For the cabin sole, a damp sponge.

The East Coast method :encouragement:

 

[pvb]

The East Coast method :encouragement:

 

[pvb]

Try this on your topsides

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254503500

That's what I use, on a very wet sudsy sponge. It is, however, extremely expensive at 30p a bottle, so needs to be used sparingly.

 

[JumbleDuck]

My boat has lots of white faced ply inside (American designer!) and I find that it tends to get tiny spots of mildew on the surfaces unless I wipe it down regularly (well, a couple of times a year and on laying up) with a cheap anti-bacterial spray from the supermarket. Doesn't seem to matter which.

 

[rotrax]

A little white vinegar in a bowl of warm water keeps our oiled teak interior looking really good.

A tip from " Cunliffe on Cruising "

Cheap and effective.

The white vinegar goes dpwn the loo too-I flush it away when it stops fizzing.

PS- do the interior with the windows and hatches open or it smells like a chippy................................

 

[Sneaky Pete]

I can always remember many years ago when we didn’t have a great deal of money my dad used to cut up the newspaper into squares. This we used to clean down below. I recall a day when I noticed my mother looking at my dad’s backside for what seemed like ages. I said what are you doing, she replied just reading the news headlines.

 

[LadyInBed]

I just use soap

Wet wipes do a job.

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Used tea bags

 

[GHA]

Well, you lot are a bit dull I was expecting all sorts of weird and wonderful brews handed down through the ages, but instead, ......... Wet wipes

 

[jac]

When you say down below...

As in the boats internal furniture or the contents of ones trousers.

 

[onesea]

Sugar Soap helps kill the mildew and if its tough baby wipes clean anything!

 

[BruceDanforth]

I'm planning on taking everything off the boat then jetwashing it inside.

 

[LadyInBed]

Sugar Soap helps kill the mildew and if its tough baby wipes clean anything!

Mildew in your 'down below area'!
Use it more and change your pants more often

 

[Hydrozoan]

Well, you lot are a bit dull I was expecting all sorts of weird and wonderful brews handed down through the ages, but instead, ......... Wet wipes

Get yourself a copy of Mrs Beeton's Household Management. Plenty of old brews, many of which are still in use today of course - and some unusual ones like potato water for mud stains (invaluable on the East Coast ).