If you are a professional cleaner what do you use

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On chrome taps and shower doors to get rid of limescale?

I have had to cancel my cleaners but don't know what they used and the taps and glass shower doors were always sparkling.

Bumping in case anyone has any ideas.

The cleaning agency I used to use insisted we buy Viakal for this. All their staff used it.

Thanks, will order some and try it.

Not a professional cleaner, but this stuff: www.amazon.co.uk/HG-Professional-Limescale-Remover-concentrated/dp/B000IU3VRG/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?s=gateway&keywords=limescale+remover&sprefix=limescale+&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1559636456&sr=8-3 is THE best. Gets taps like new. Used it on my toilets when I first moved in which were thick with stained limes ale 🤢 sparkling in a few hours.

Ooo think that HG one might be really good for our toilets so ordered that as well.

Thanks for both tips. The bathroom cleaning was so much better than I used to be able to do and I am sure it was that they knew which products to use rather than the general cleaning stuff.

It works really well on shower screens as well, I sort of paint it on with a sponge and then leave for a few hours. The limescale/cloudiness just wipes right off.

I’ve had to give up a cleaner recently also, so feel your pain! I miss coming home to sparkly toilets.

How do they wipe the limscale stuff off? Ive got a large glass shower cubicle and whatever I use, and I've tried Viakil and similar, I wipe off with a damp cloth and it smears and looks terrible. Do you need one of those rubber blade things?

wipe off with a damp cloth and it smears and looks terrible

After rinsing do you then use a dry cloth/kitchen roll to dry and buff to a shine?

Wilkinson's sell glass cloths and my cleaner suggested I get them. They make the world of difference in stopping smears

@gamerchick no I don't, is that where I'm going wrong?

Every cleaner I've ever had: Viakal. You have to use it with two cloths, one to scrub the product (after it's sat for 5 mins as per instructions) and one to wipe away the water after you've rinsed. E cloths do a 2 pack bathroom set (they're green), the fluffier cloth works for the scrubbing and the shinier dark green cloth works to get a shine. For glass panels in the shower I user a window scraper squeegee thing before the second cloth to remove most of the water.

Looks like I am going to have to experiment a bit to get them sparkly . Tbh as long as it gets rid of the limescale I would be happy as we have really hard water here

Viakal and a mircrofibre cloth to buff up

Was coming on to say Viakill and microfibre cloth. It’s the buffing with the cloth afterwards that makes all the difference - I own a cleaning agency :)

Another vote for Viakal and microfibre cloths. You can rinse most of it off with the shower hose, if you have a hose (and not a stupid massive fixed ceiling shower rose. Fuck I hate those things, water tipping all over my HEAD ugh)

@gamerchick no I don't, is that where I'm going wrong?

Yes, buffing it dry makes all the difference.

Spend £4-500 on a plumbed in water softener and you won’t get scale.

It’s what I notice when we go to a soft water area, the shower screen doesn’t look frosted after one shower.

Hi
I've had a wet room done plus additional shower screen. I've tried everything going to clean glass with no success. Until I used a product by mistake.
I have found this is the best product ever n cleans in five mins.
First of all I use a rubber squeegee to get excess water off, leave for bout half hour, then spray 'Method Rhubard' anti bacterial multi purpose cleaner, then use microfibre cloth then window cleaning cloth then ' success'
Hope this helps

Yup Viakil and buffing - - I leave nothing wet when I'm cleaning. I'm was a cleaner but I still keep my hand in occasionally. Viakil is on offer at Tesco atm.

The other thing to remember that your cleaners were also good at their jobs. It was a job not a household chore. I helped my sister clean her house before a move. I was quicker, cleaner and did a much better job than her even though we had the same products.