Limescale off. Is your kettle worse than this?

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I think this is pretty bad. Limescale is awful where we live in Herts. Can anyone beat this?

Give me two weeks - I just did mine! I get about half a ml of limescale from one full kettle - well hard London water. I now have a glass kettle so you can see the limescale so I descale every week or two now!

Ive seen alot worse, I got a new kettle. In all fairness the old one wasn't boiling very well anyway, I had it for a while.

Blimey, that horrible. I live in Scotland. We have soft water so thankfully this isn't an issue.

I live in a hard water area and use a Brita water filter, no more build up in the kettle.

Ours is much worse than that! We’re in South Norfolk, super hard water! No one ever buys expensive appliances or showers because they all get ruined so quickly.

We have a water softener, so don't suffer from hard water elsewhere in the house - but something has definitely changed in our water in Berkshire of late, we've just bought a Brita water filter just to use with the kettle.

Also in Herts with really hard water.
I saw a friend use a tea strainer when making me a coffee once. such a small thing made a huge difference - I can tell on first sip of DH forgets to use it!

Wow! I thought ours was bad (West London). But you know what you can do, which is totally effective/powerful but without the horrible smell of Oust and the like? Boil half a kettle of water. Add a heaping scoop of pure citric acid (you can buy a tub cheap on Amazon). Let it sit for 15-20 minutes and voila! And what's great is that it's not 'chemicalish'. It's citric acid. An exfoliant for your kettle!

Have a kettle-exchange with someone in a soft water area. When I moved from a hard water to a soft water area, I took my limescaled up kettle with me and within a month it was sparkling clean with zero effort on my behalf.

Also in Herts and mine looks very similar. It's grim. We go through a lot of kettles

Get a cheap bottle of white vinegar, squirt around a quarter into the kettle. add water and boil. Stand for 10 mins or so. Tip out, rinse several times and limescale gone!! Forget all the expensive descalers, this is around 30p a bottle and works on bad limescale; I am Kent and ours is as bad as yours.

Ours is awful. We live in West Sussex. I boil a cup of white vinegar in ours once a week, otherwise it just gets grim. We buy 5 litre bottles of it from Amazon.

Slice a lemon up and fill kettle, and boil last thing at night, leaving the water and lemon in overnight. Nicer aftertaste than using vinegar.

We're in London and I descale every Saturday. It is the only way.

Not far from Herts so probably the same water, so hard it is white when it comes out of the tap.

I do clean the kettle before it looks like that though. I use Kilrock.

Some idiot put a white draining board and sink in the kitchen and I do get brown build up round the taps though.

Agree with citric acid as a descaler over vinegar. Can also buy small boxes of it in Wilkos.

Ours is as bad (Yorkshire) but we use a water filter so don't have a scaley kettle.

I have a water filter and still need to do it regularly. I put some white vinegar in the boiling water... Stinks but effective.

How do people de-scale the pourer? ie the bit where the water comes out? The descaler solution doesn't reach this far when I leave it to soak

getrid I have exactly the same question as you ! Also would like to know - going to definitely try some of these more natural and cheaper ways of descaling

We live in a soft water area. My 8 year old kettle doesn't have any limescale in at all. Never been cleaned/descaled.

How do people de-scale the pourer?

With my shower screen and taps I soak sheets of kitchen roll in vinegar and wrap them or stick them on. It might work with the spout?

Kettles, taps, shower head, shower screen...we have ultra-hard water here. The biggest difference I notice is my hair, we go to various parts of the UK on holidays and my hair looks fab for a week, get home and within a day of washing with our crap water it's dull again.

There is also a kind of mini scourer you can buy that you an leave in your kettle .... like this

Also, don’t reboil water

Wow that’s bad! Does it not make your tea taste funny?
One good thing about being north is our water tastes lovely.