Shower Screen Spray

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There are lots of old style ideas on this thread:

Cleaning glass shower doors

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tr3mor

You can wax your tiles with car wax, makes the water and marks run off much quicker/easier!

trace-j

I just push the screen over the bath, or the inside of a fixed screen lather and scrub accordingly with usual cleaner and rinse off with showerhead. Leave to dry naturally. For bits that can't be rinsed, e.g. outside of a fixed screen use window cleaner.

tootles_2

When you have the shower screen clean use one of those rubber windscreen wipers when you have finished showereing and just use it like the window cleaner does on the tiles and the screen, then dry off with an old towel kept for the purpose, it will keep your shower lovely, the tip about using a polish with wax in is a good one especially of its a new shower cubicle, go over all the surfaces with the wax and buff it up before you use the shower for the first time. Its not too late if you have used the shower, just clean off any watermarks with jif or some such substitue and then use either a wax or silicone based polish, spray it on and buff it up as before, do not do it too frequently or you will get a build up of polish which will eventually make the tiles look dull. I do mine about every 6 months with a light spray.

ET03

what's a microfibre cloth?

squeaky

They're a new breed of cleaning cloth where the fibres are designed especially to pick up dirt. You can use them dry to dust with or when wet you can clean up most things without having to use any soap or detergent. Machine washable so they should last a long time.

innovate

Once you have removed the existing stains (use recommendations made so far), you can literally prevent them from re-occurring if you/whoever uses the shower can develop the discipline to wipe down the glass (and the tiles, works just the same) with a microfibre cloth every time you use the shower. You don't have to wipe things completely dry, just wipe off the major wet stuff, the rest will swiftly evaporate. Wring out the cloth whenver it gets soaking (microfibre has an amazing capacity to soak up water, so 3 'wrings' should be enough for the average size [90x90?] shower).

I know this sounds perhaps too much work - but I have started doing this a month ago, and it takes but 30 seconds to wipe everything down, straight after the shower, before you get out of it. Since I made the wiping 'a rule' in my household, I never had to clean any watermarks off again - brilliant!!!

But I do appreciate, if you are in a rush, you might not want to do this everytime you have a shower. Occasionally applying a thin film of the cheapest of car waxes helps delay - but doesn't prevent - the build-up.

If you do use the 'microfibre way", you also substantially reduce the risk of ugly mould growing in your shower.

Oh - and a regular wipe with a microfibre cloth also keeps your taps and basin (and mirrors and windows and all sorts of other surfaces throughout the house) sparkling and scale/stain - free.

To tackle the basic source of limescale, it might be worth considering installing a watersoftener. You can get them cheaper than they sound, and they'll save you quite a bit over the years: e.g. you don't need dishwasher salt, you need less detergent in the washing machine, your toilet doesn't have nasty green (or brown!) watermarks, your central heating lives longer, you save on all those expensive limescale removers [that don't work!!!] - and none of that nasty vinegar-smell, either. In my experience, water softeners do not remove the limescale threat 100%, but I'd say it's in the high 90's. Ask your local water supplier for advice on water softeners, and recommendations for suppliers.

Edited: PS. a watersoftener does need salt to function - same kind of stuff people buy for dishwashers - but it costs a fraction of what dishwashersalt costs, and it looks after all the pipes in your house (with the excepption perhaps of a drinking water tap that some/most people prefer to install because the taste of soft water is something most people don't like)

sooz

i've already looked at other threads, and wipe the shower doors [curved, so slightly trickier] with a squeegee after every shower.

also clean with neat vinegar - should i dilute this, it gets very stinky in there when i'm cleaning - and an e-cloth

however, i still have some limescale droplet marks that will not come off. any ideas.

we have very very hard water


thanks

squeaky

Yes, normally people have about two tbsps of vinegar in a spray bottle, topped off with water. I often add some lemon juice and a few drops of an essential oil to help with the aroma. Tea tree oil is good because it is a natural antibacterial thingy.

For the persistent stuff, vinegar applied neat will eventually win, honest Try soaking a thinnish pad of paper towel and sticking it onto the side, or shape if the vinegar just runs off, and keep it damp with vinegar for as long as you can stand the pong Overnight at least, and if it's really bad, more than one treatment.

sooz

ok, and thanks. will decrease my neat vinegar consumption accordingly.

the recycle men will thank me....i think they thought i was drinking the stuff. makes a change from all the bottles of wine they carry off for me every week though.