screamlead
Landlord.
Washed quite a lot of bottles in my time so have a few tips n tricks to pass on.
First up those pesky plastic type labels that wont come off and leand a sticky gooey mess if yoy scrape the label off - one way is to use WD40 to get rid of the residue and then rinse off, another is to use a hair dryer to get the labe to peel off using a paint scraper and gardening gloves -they got hot. let them cool before rinsing though.
If the bottles have been used recently they are usually fairly clean so i soak in the bath with a type of chlorine pool tablet i can get here cheap or a dilute solution of bleach. Then again rinse well.
Stubborn bottles and generally baked on stains i use vanish oxyclean on a 24 hour soak in hot water but recently found a big problem.
If left over night in the bath it puts white almost limescale deposit both inside and outside of the bottles and was driving me nuts on how to get rid of it. Washing in soapy water didnt help nor did rinsing in fresh.
The solution i found is to fill a bucket - 25ltr- with hot water and add half a bottle of that rinse aid stuff for dishwashers. After all it proclaims to bing up glassware crystal clean - and it does - four bottles at a time sunk into the solution and left for a couple of hours removes all traces of the white limescale stain from the bottles and does indeed bring them up crystal clear, then give a good rinse in fresh water.
Works on any coloured bottles , brown, green and clear.
I then always give my bottles another rinse in videne too just before bottling. :
First up those pesky plastic type labels that wont come off and leand a sticky gooey mess if yoy scrape the label off - one way is to use WD40 to get rid of the residue and then rinse off, another is to use a hair dryer to get the labe to peel off using a paint scraper and gardening gloves -they got hot. let them cool before rinsing though.
If the bottles have been used recently they are usually fairly clean so i soak in the bath with a type of chlorine pool tablet i can get here cheap or a dilute solution of bleach. Then again rinse well.
Stubborn bottles and generally baked on stains i use vanish oxyclean on a 24 hour soak in hot water but recently found a big problem.
If left over night in the bath it puts white almost limescale deposit both inside and outside of the bottles and was driving me nuts on how to get rid of it. Washing in soapy water didnt help nor did rinsing in fresh.
The solution i found is to fill a bucket - 25ltr- with hot water and add half a bottle of that rinse aid stuff for dishwashers. After all it proclaims to bing up glassware crystal clean - and it does - four bottles at a time sunk into the solution and left for a couple of hours removes all traces of the white limescale stain from the bottles and does indeed bring them up crystal clear, then give a good rinse in fresh water.
Works on any coloured bottles , brown, green and clear.
I then always give my bottles another rinse in videne too just before bottling. :
