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Anna Kettle wrote:
In article .com,
says...
So I guess I need a new kettle then?

I had only used vinegar (hardly very acidic compared with limescale
removal acidic sachets?) a year ago to remove limescale.

Other than buying a different kettle, what tips are there to remove
limescale in the future if acid could cause the metal plating to
corrode?

You can get a thing which looks like a scouring pad to put in the kettle
which works pretty well. Every so often you take the pad out and bash it
around a bit to remove the scale which has adhered to the pad instead of
the kettle. Then you put the pad back

I'd forgotten about them, the last time I saw one in use was when I was
sharing a kitchen. Someone kept taking it out of the kettle - when I
figured out who it was and explained that it was magic rather than a
little scouring pad, I got the distinct impression that he didn't
believe me.