Different sort of a moan - glue. Why do manufacturers think the glue they use to stick labels on jars and bottles has to be strong enough to withstand Armageddon? I only want to clean them up for re-use for home preserves but it's taking some serious product and elbow grease to get the old labels off.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
They are drilling 3 miles down into the ground in Cornwall, starting today, it will power 3,000 houses, by the time they’ve finished there will be another 3,000 houses build, how many holes will they dig in the Cornwall landscape. Maby they will trigger of a couple of earthquake like they did up north last week. That will be fun, they’ll have to build even more houses then.
The drilling in Cornwall isn't for fracking, it's to use geothermal heat to power electrical generators as they do in Iceland (the country not the shops), but on a much smaller scale.
I'm with you on label glue, Obelixx. My favourite jars for re-use for jam etc are from Lidl and used to contain marmalade or jam. (My OH amazingly prefers shop marmalade to home made...) The old label floats off in water and the remaining glue is water soluble. I've got a tiny bit of "Sticky stuff remover" left, which is great for quite a lot of the non-soluble glues, and smells very pleasantly orangey. I gather it's had to be reformulated and now smells horrid, but it still gets good reviews. Lots of different suppliers, I think. Otherwise I try WD40 or white spirit. And, surprisingly, one product which works remarkably well for removing some sorts of price label is aerosol leaf shine.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I soak them in hot, soapy water. If that doesn't work I soak them in Ariel after scratching the surface. I've tried sticky label remover, white spirits, meths, nail varnish remover.......... I shall try WD40 next and keep an eye out for leaf shine.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
And, surprisingly, one product which works remarkably well for removing some sorts of price label is aerosol leaf shine.
How did you find that one out?
I always use lighter fluid which shifts most things. I used to do a bit of home brewing which always entailed a lot of label removing when you need 100 or so beer bottles to refill. I sampled quite a few brands of beer before finding ones that had labels that came off easily in warm water. I'm liking the trend for labels that can be ripped off (or partially ripped off) so they can be recycled separately though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
They are drilling 3 miles down into the ground in Cornwall, starting today, it will power 3,000 houses, by the time they’ve finished there will be another 3,000 houses build, how many holes will they dig in the Cornwall landscape. Maby they will trigger of a couple of earthquake like they did up north last week. That will be fun, they’ll have to build even more houses then.
The drilling in Cornwall isn't for fracking, it's to use geothermal heat to power electrical generators as they do in Iceland (the country not the shops), but on a much smaller scale.
I know that.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'm with you on the labels front - some were put on never to come off - no matter how hard I scrub or with what. Consigned to the bin are the jars then.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I don't really do anything with jars apart from saving one to make salad dressing, so pardon my ignorance, but can't you just stick a new label on top of the old one rather than throw the jar away?
No B3. When you've gone to the trouble of preserving fruit or veg you want your own clear label and you can guarantee it isn't big enough to cover the commercial ones with all the ingredients and chemicals and nutrients counts on there.
Lyn - fracking puts huge pressures on the rocks to force out oil. Seems a messy way to get energy to me. Geothermal heat is just heating water and uses much less pressure. http://geodh.eu/about-geothermal-district-heating/
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Lyn - fracking puts huge pressures on the rocks to force out oil. Seems a messy way to get energy to me. Geothermal heat is just heating water and uses much less pressure. http://geodh.eu/about-geothermal-district-heating/