Opera House love affair kept going with bicarb and olive oil


Photo: Peter Rae
Keeping the Sydney Opera House healthy and clean is an act of love by Steve Tsoukalas for the “other woman” in his life. Over the past 12 years, the 72-year-old cleaner and maintenance guru has been responsible for a green cleaning revolution at the Opera House by pioneering the use of bicarbonate of soda, white clay, olive oil and Lux laundry flakes, to replace harsher chemicals.