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by Raphael Knecht
There's only straw that fits me
9.12.2019
Translation: machine translated
Is long hair clogging up your drains and your wife, or husband for that matter, can't bring themselves to get a haircut at all? That's where steel wool comes in.
The iron straw. It can be used to clean up your burnt pans and make wood and metal shine. It can even give your flowerbed the iron content it needs. All good reasons to keep a stock of steel wool in the house. But not long ago, I found another application for it that makes it, in my eyes, indispensable.
Those who share a flat with flatmates or a partner with a big head of hair know the problem: there's hair everywhere. It sticks to the sofa, black clothes and especially the shower pipes. It then falls into the washing machine drum and ends up in the pipes, where it clogs up - if it isn't cleaned regularly - until it forms a ball that makes a gurgling noise as the water passes through the pipes. Steel wool helps prevent this problem.
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