Limescale is ruining my life!!!!

[londongirl12]

Ok that's a big of an exaggeration, but my god it's annoying!! We live in a really hard water area, and no matter how much I clean, there's always water marks. Got a new kettle this week, and it has limescale in the bottom already. Please tell me your tips for dealing with the annoying stuf!! 😢

The kettle, I'm afraid I just replace on a regular basis. For everything else, I keep a spray bottle of vinegar and spray and wipe on a (fairly) regular basis.

Plus run the washing machine and dishwasher through with vinegar every now and again and tip a bottle down the loo when I remember.

The upstairs loo furs up much quicker than the downstairs one. I'd love to know why that is.

citric acid

We have really hard water where I live. And the only cleaner I can use on taps / sinks etc is viakal. Even bleach won't remove the water marks so definitely get some viakal it's a amazing for limescale

Put a cup of white vinegar in the kettle, boil then leave for an hour. Empty and rinse and watch all the limescale fall away. I like this job for some strange reason.

We live in a really hard water area. I buy the cheapest possible kettle - think Tesco for about a tenner - and replace regularly. Hideous waste and plastic etc but the limescale is near impossible to remove otherwise. I buy viakal for everything else and scour everything steel with wire wool.

Boil a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and water in the kettle. Cleans kettle! Then use hot mixture of water and vinegar to clean everything else (taps, sparkle! Shower screen, spotless!). Key is to activate the vinegar with heat and then it eats all the scale :) obviously rinse out kettle a load of times before making next tea ☕

I use a Brita water filter jug for filling the kettle, which works well. Tea tastes better too.

Citric acid! Amazing stuff. Melts limescale no scrubbing required and it’s cheap and natural.

Could you look into fitting a water softener?

Kilrock Big K

Fantastic stuff for kettles.

Last time I posted on a thread about limescale though it got deleted.

Can't believe people are chucking perfectly decent kettles away rather than learning to clean them properly. White vinegar or half a lemon or an organic descaler based on citric acid, in the kettle at least once a week with water filled to the level the limescale is stuck at. Boil the kettle and the limescale comes off pretty easily. Some gentle rubbing with wire wool will remove any really persistent marks (like around the rim). But you do need to do that once a week or it just builds up too much. We have a glass kettle and it's really easy to clean and remove water marks - much easier than the bathroom mirror or taps.

Get a kettle limescale ball. They are only £1 or £2 from Wilko, Amazon etc. It's a mesh ball that lives in your kettle collecting limescale rather than it depositing on your kettle. I bought one when Iast replaced my kettle which still looks like new inside despite being years old. Previously they had been hideous within a month.

Here we go, step-by-step:
Fill the kettle with a solution of equal parts water and vinegar, and let this soak for an hour. After that, boil the kettle, then turn it off and unplug it from the power. Let the water and vinegar mixture sit in the kettle for another 15-20 minutes, then throw it away and rinse the kettle thoroughly.

Brita filter kettle, brilliant, no more floating bits of limescale. And also second Viakal, works a dream

Where do you find white vinegar? I used it overseas all the time, bought by the gallon, but have never seen it in a UK supermarket

Pop come citric acid in the kettle and boil it, all the limescale will be gone! It's amazing, I swear by it 👍🏽 and for shower/bathroom I use viakil which is also another god send for me, no scrubbing comes straight off within 5 minutes x

It's in every UK supermarket. With all the other vinegars in the cooking not cleaning section. Called distilled vinegar. Aldi sells it dirt cheap, ocado even stock 5litre sarsons for pretty cheap too.
Impossible to find abroad I've always found!

Thanks everyone, I need to invest in a load of white vinegar!!! I have a American fridge which we get drinking water from but I never fill the kettle from it. Maybe I should try that too.

What about glass shower doors? I spray it down with one of those non wipe sprays after use. It still leaves marks. Do you dry it with a towel? I use a wiper but that still doesn't help

As a PP has already said, a water softener is the answer. It fits into your water system and treats all water.

@londongirl12

Thanks everyone, I need to invest in a load of white vinegar!!! I have a American fridge which we get drinking water from but I never fill the kettle from it. Maybe I should try that too.

What about glass shower doors? I spray it down with one of those non wipe sprays after use. It still leaves marks. Do you dry it with a towel? I use a wiper but that still doesn't help

Use squidgy and then dry with micro fibre cloth. Drying the sealing also helps prevent mould

We have a brita filter jug and I filter the water that goes in the kettle - I have a clear kettle and before that it scaled up so quickly had to clean it every week to keep it looking nice

No need to keep buying new kettles. .as others have citric acid is amazing! also fab for the loo.
before covid I wanted a water softner fitted.

We have a little karcher that sucks up the water from the shower screen in a trice. No marks.

A water softener.
If it's really bad.