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PipneyJane

Working_Mum wrote: »

Hey Pipney,
I splosh limescale remover into a plastic bag with a swab of cotton wool at the bottom and use an elastic band to catch it to the top of the taps for my oddly shaped sink in my en-suite! It's the only way I can stop them furring up too much!
I hate limescale :-)

Ooohhh!!!!! I will give this a try. Particularly with the tap over the bath, which dates from the 1980's and probably has 30 years of limescale on it.

(When I walked into this house for the very first time, I swore the first thing we'd change would be the bathroom. I was wrong. 16 years later and we've done the downstairs and the kitchen but the bathroom is still in its hideous avocado glory, complete with matching, etched floor tiles that someone thought would look great on the walls.)

Thank you for the excellent idea. I'll report back with the results.

- Pip

Primrose

PipneyJane. You have my sympathy. We too are still living with a 1980s avocado bathroom suite. I don,t actually dislike it but we are also are in a very hard water area and clearing limescale from around taps is a nightmare. I keep an old toothbrush in the bathroom, pour Vikal or vinegar around the taps, leave for a while and then give them a good rush.

It doesn't make for a perfect result but does clean up for awhile.

Primrose

PipneyJane. You have my sympathy. We too are still living with a 1980s avocado bathroom suite. I don,t actually dislike it but we are also are in a very hard water area and clearing limescale from around taps is a nightmare. I keep an old toothbrush in the bathroom, pour Vikal or vinegar around the taps, leave for a while and then give them a good brush.

It doesn't make for a perfect result but does clean up for awhile.

Siebrie

Pennysaving: I have shoulder length curly hair, which I braid every night before I go to bed.
Advantages:
I don't get my hair all over my face
Husband does not get his nose tickled
It gets less greasy, so I can skip washing it for another day (so every 4 days instead of 3)
I use up dds' old hairbands that would otherwise just linger and be in the way in the hairband box

euronorris

PipneyJane wrote: »

Yes, there is. Although the difference may be marginal.

We have the hardest water in the UK, so every tap in the house suffers from huge amounts of limescale around the opening. To descale the kitchen tap, I put a bit of heavy duty limescale remover* into the bottom of a plastic container, balanced that on an upturned glass and left it for a few hours. Result: no limescale, tap looks like new.

I can't do that for the taps over the bathrooms sink because the sink slopes too much. This morning, I was trying to figure out how I could tie a container onto taps because everything I've applied to those taps just hasn't removed all the limescale. (At one point, I applied limescale remover every morning before work.)

The tap over the bathtub is designed in such a way, that I can't even attempt to rig up something to soak it with descaler.

- Pip



* Thick, bleach based, toilet cleaner.

Might be a bit late to the party, but a cloth soaked in descaler (or white vinegar will do), placed in sandwich bag, wrap around tap, secure with an elastic band or hair tye should do the job.


I do the same thing with the shower head. Works a treat!

herbily

Just to add to the cloth-soaked-in-descaler approach, if you have an old pair of rubber gloves, cut off one of the fingers, and stretch it over the tap/cloth arrangement - obvs this depends on the size of your taps.

VfM4meplse

Siebrie wrote: »

Pennysaving: I have shoulder length curly hair

As did I, until 6 months ago.

Since then I had it chopped short

Advantages:
I look and feel about a million times better. No more aggro, styling, expensive blow dries and and faffing. I just wash my hair and go!

Disadvantages:
- It does require regular trimming, but this doesn't cost that much compared to long hair styling. I go to a local college salon and estimate my annual costs will be c£50 plus tips.
- Randoms have stalked me on social media since then, wanting to be my "friend".

Catcrazy

Julio72- I do the add water to washing up liquid, DH seems to think that a quarter of the bottle is the amount to use!!!!!

Primrose

We recently finished eating our way through a large commercial jar of pickled cucumbers. As I had some surplus home grown mini cucumbers in the fridge, I sliced, salted, washed & dried them and popped them into the existing pickling liquid in the jar.
Just tried a piece of cucumber after a week and it's maturing nicely.
You could probably adopt the same procedure with onion chunks or sliced red cabbage.

balabooberlies

Hello All

Just bumping this thread. Don't want to lose it. Hope that's okay....

Bala