Hard water/lime scale issues

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Please help me my lovely ones, my DH and I have been remiss in the cleaning of our bathroom tiles- wall and floor- and so they are now covered in the nasty chalky limey grime. I do not want to waste time and try one product/way after another. I need a good product and method to get it really clean.

Floor tiles are dark grey ceramic with nasty white splotches all over them, and the wall tiles are (were) high shine white metro tiles.

Can anyone help me? I am not afraid of hard work, but the last 3 months with dreadful all day sickness we let it slide. Urrgh.

By the power of mumsnet, advise me!

shameless bump!

please??

try viakal? my cleaner says it's great, and we have no limescale despite v hard water (but then, we have a cleaner who does the hard work )

Viakal is good, as is limelite. Have you considered a water softener? We have one now and it is fab.

Another vote for Viakal. Our cleaner made us get it!

Not used it on tiles but Kilrock has always been good - better than Limelite IMO.

Vinegar.
Wearing gloves and have windows open whilst doing it. Use White (clear) vinegar (44p per bottle in Asda). On the tiles you can use neat (please do try a patch test first though!!). Non scratch scourer will cut through it quicker. Not sure about the floor though, maybe half and half with water?
It will take elbow grease but the vinegar should help break through the worst of it.
For more stubborn areas, sinks toilets. Soak kitchen roll in vinegar and lay over leave over night and rinse off.
For taps soak kitchen towel in vinegar again, place in bottom of sandwich bag and tie to the tap outlet. leave over night again and it will be gone in the morning.

Hope that helps!

Used viakal to get rid of limescale but it's left a cloudy residue . Any ideas?