Cleaning the bath - there has to be something better

[Gliblet]

Help! What do you clean your bath with? 4 nights a week DH and DS are doing a sport that involves being barefoot on a filthy floor (and the shower is over the bath) so I blame them, but our bath is a nightmare to clean. I use decreasing kitchen spray with a sponge/scrubby thing which takes ages and a lot of elbow grease. I don't mind if that's what it takes, but years from now if someone tells me there was a miracle product/technique that everyone else knew about I'm going to be spitting feathers 😁

That's interesting about the hard water idea! I live in a hard water area and buy replaceable shower heads that have water softener crystals in the handle.

For the bath (and kitchen sink) I buy Ajax from amazon. For limescale I buy Kilroc from B&Q

That's interesting about the hard water idea! I live in a hard water area and buy replaceable shower heads that have water softener crystals in the handle.

For the bath (and kitchen sink) I buy Ajax from amazon. For limescale I buy Kilroc from B&Q

Ciff, works great at getting limescale off as well.

surely they can rinse their feet before having a shower?

Elbow grease, the yellow stuff in a spray bottle, use it for everything, including cleaning our filthy caravan, spray liberally, leave for a couple of mins then use a bathroom scourer, but it literally melts muck, I use it on everything and it's only 1.25 a bottle.

Surely bathroom cleaner would be better at cleaning the stuff that gets into bathrooms, than kitchen degreaser? They aren't wiping bacon fat all over the bath so degreaser isn't going to do very much. It's more likely limescale or soap scum or hair/dirt that are problems in bathrooms, and bathroom cleaner targets those things.

I would feel the bath and see if it feels smooth or rough. If it's rough, it's either coated in limescale, which is probably holding onto the dirt, or the surface of the bath has been worn away over time and it probably needs resealing or at worst replacing.

Vinegar will dissolve limescale but there's no point combining it with baking soda because you're just neutralising the acid. The only reason to combine it is to make a pretend volcano for a science experiment. It has no cleaning utility!

Why don't you just take the spray head off and decant it into the old pour bottle or any other bottle with a removable lid?

-Viakal with a microfibre cloth. A professional cleaner once told me to only use viakal no more than twice a week as it’s so strong (to protect yourself). Spray it on, then wipe with damp cloth and shower down
-fairy liquid with scrub daddy
-I use vinegar quite a lot for cleaning, but never mix it with anything with bleach in it/on it
-domestos power foam is also pretty good to have around
-a squeegee is also good to have around to do a quick wipe down after each use. We use one after every shower and it dramatically reduces the time I spend on the weekly clean

I live in a hard water area and have a water softener in the loft, as does everybody else I know living around here. Don’t you people with hard water have one?