How to clean shower screen

[Loughrigg77]

Hi, our shower screen has some horrible marks all over, it. I've attached a (rubbish) photo. It looks like it's covered in drip marks when it's dry; it actually looks better when it's wet! What can I use to clean it? I've tried the following:

Lemon juice, with and without baking powder
Vinegar, with and without baking powder
Glass cleaner
Limescale remover
Cream cleaner
Bathroom cleaner
All purpose cleaner

And none of them have touched it. What am I doing wrong?

You need a pumice stone. Make sure both the glass and the stone are soaking wet and then rub away at the lime scale. It comes off like butter and leaves the glass brand new. If the stone is wet there'll be no scratches

Either that or you can scrape it off with one of those razor blades scrapers. But the stone will be much quicker

Lots of viakal, let it sit then scrub it off with a non-scratch scrubbing pad. If that doesn’t shift it then scrape with a glass scraper and repeat the above. When it’s clean use a daily shower spray to prevent marks coming back and scrub once a week.

Have you just moved in? Or how often is it cleaned? When I moved into my house I thought the glass was frosted but nope, just limescale build up

Thanks @Interdiamond I'll give that a go!

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If you live in a hard water area I would also get a tub of citric acid for the kettle, shower head etc. They sell it at Asda

A Scrub Daddy worked incredibly well on mine, even without additional cleaning products. I’ve since stocked up, they’re amazing!

Thanks everyone. We are in a hard water area (meant to mention that in the original post but forgot!) It's been like that since we moved in; I do clean it regularly but the lady who lived here before us was disabled so she probably couldn't keep on top of it

I also live in a hard water area and recently bought one of these cloths theyvare fantastic no need to squeegee just wipe down after the shower. I'm not sure they will get it all off but once you've got it clean they will stop it coming back.

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This used to drive me insane!

I've recently had a new shower with glass screen installed and I'm using one of those window vacuum things after every use. Touch wood, so far so good.

When you manage to get rid of your limescale, I recommend using one afterwards, although you'll probably spend as much time 'vacuuming' as you do showering!

Viakal!

In stupidly hard water area and I've found the HG limescale range the best with a good scrubbing brush, though I haven't tried pumice. I also use Buy Method Daily Shower Cleaner | Official Shop after every shower, just a couple of quick sprays after shower and good as new. Also lasts forever.

Now all I need is a light wash with fairy liquid and a window vac, but in London the water was so hard I used to spray it with vinegar and then blade it off th glass.

Definitely Viakal, it’s brilliant.

Thanks for the comments. Viakal made no difference unfortunately but sounds like I need to scrub it more than I have done. I've ordered the pumice so I'll give that a go first. Thanks again 😊

I'm admittedly not in a hard water area but I use these on my shower screen and they come up gleaming.

soap filled scouring pad

Following as I've been trying for YEARS to get marks like this off and have tried everything. The previous owner was a slattern and replacing just the doors seems impossible without taking apart the whole bathroom according to several quotes I got from shower glass enclosure companies (who provide just the glass not even tiles or builders so they have no incentive to put me off the work).

Must have ideas have a cream called 'nanna's secret'. That got rid of the bulk of it for me - like others id tried loads of things before that. Then I use shower screen spray on the glass after every shower to keep the marks from coming back

Just be careful if you use the acid option - we live in a hard water area and our cleaner did that quite a bit, and one day a screen shattered on her.

Once it’s clean I would recommend a squeegee plus a magic cloth.

HG limescale remover and a nail brush is what I’ve found most effective, then a wipe over with glass cleaner.

Once it’s off you need to ensure you wipe it down with a window squeegee after you’ve showered as that will prevent the build up of limescale.

I'm with you OP. I've tried absolutely every suggestion to get my shower screen sparkling and nothing has worked.
I don't even live in a hard water area.

I recently bought HG limescale remover as their products have always been great - but it didn't work.

It may be soap scum rather than limescale. If so try vinegar mixed with washing up liquid.

Have you tried a blade?

@goz No I haven't. Any specific kind of blade?