diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs
index e2518c791a..8707523615 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs
@@ -16,32 +16,6 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core
 	/// </summary>
 	internal static class XmlExtensions
 	{
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Saves the xml document async
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="xdoc"></param>
-        /// <param name="filename"></param>
-        /// <returns></returns>
-	    public static async Task SaveAsync(this XmlDocument xdoc, string filename)
-	    {
-            if (xdoc.DocumentElement == null)
-                throw new XmlException("Cannot save xml document, there is no root element");
-
-            using (var fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read, bufferSize: 4096, useAsync: true))
-            using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(fs, new XmlWriterSettings
-            {
-                Async = true,
-                Encoding = Encoding.UTF8,
-                Indent = true
-            }))
-            {
-                //NOTE: There are no nice methods to write it async, only flushing it async. We
-                // could implement this ourselves but it'd be a very manual process.
-                xdoc.WriteTo(xmlWriter);
-                await xmlWriter.FlushAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
-            }
-	    }
-
         public static bool HasAttribute(this XmlAttributeCollection attributes, string attributeName)
         {
             return attributes.Cast<XmlAttribute>().Any(x => x.Name == attributeName);
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/content.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/content.cs
index a7c5a75337..07f73e88f6 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/content.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/content.cs
@@ -844,7 +844,6 @@ namespace umbraco
         internal void SaveXmlToFile()
         {
             LogHelper.Info<content>("Save Xml to file...");
-
             try
             {
                 var xml = _xmlContent; // capture (atomic + volatile), immutable anyway
@@ -861,7 +860,7 @@ namespace umbraco
                     Directory.CreateDirectory(directoryName);
 
                 // save
-                using (var fs = new FileStream(_xmlFileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read, bufferSize: 4096, useAsync: true))
+                using (var fs = new FileStream(_xmlFileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read))
                 {
                     SaveXmlToStream(xml, fs);
                 }
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/template.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/template.cs
index 4290ce2acf..50d3876f40 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/template.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/template.cs
@@ -88,19 +88,20 @@ namespace umbraco
                 string originalPath = IOHelper.MapPath(VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(MasterPageFile));
                 string copyPath = IOHelper.MapPath(VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(path));
 
-                FileStream fs = new FileStream(originalPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
-                StreamReader f = new StreamReader(fs);
-                String newfile = f.ReadToEnd();
-                f.Close();
-                fs.Close();
+                string newFile;
+                using (var fs = new FileStream(originalPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
+                using (var f = new StreamReader(fs))
+                {
+                    newFile = f.ReadToEnd();                    
+                }
 
-                newfile = newfile.Replace("MasterPageFile=\"~/masterpages/", "MasterPageFile=\"");
+                newFile = newFile.Replace("MasterPageFile=\"~/masterpages/", "MasterPageFile=\"");
 
-                fs = new FileStream(copyPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
-
-                StreamWriter replacement = new StreamWriter(fs);
-                replacement.Write(newfile);
-                replacement.Close();
+                using (var fs = new FileStream(copyPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
+                using (var replacement = new StreamWriter(fs))
+                {
+                    replacement.Write(newFile);
+                }
             }
 
             return path;