Help - what is the best thing to clean a manky bath with?

[MamaG]

Niece has bought a new house. Bath v old but solid - I think its enamel. She was going to rip it out and put in a B&Q cheapy but I've persuaded her to try to clean it up instead.

The bottom is grimy and has some orange stains (look like rust, but not metal bath, sort of on the white enamel)

She's tried bleaching it - no joy. Also she has a blue limescaly stain underneath taps.

What can I advise her to use?

All I know is that you've got to be careful with enamel and some things will make it worse and then you have to have it re-enamelled. Can't be more helpful, sorry. Just be careful what you do use.

I use Ajax on ours although the enamel has seen better days.
Yes, a good scrub with Ajax and a dishwashing pad should shift the stains especially the limescaly stains where the water has dripped.
Bicarb and lemon juice mix plastered round the taps themselves and left for an hour then rinsed off makes the taps come up shiny.

Thanks GentleOtter, I'll tell her. Thats what I thought Jux, didn't wnat her to ruin it

(is Ajax still Ajax? Or is it Cif now? Maybe they're two different things...!)

Borax

Salt

The tub of Ajax is no longer tin but a tallish plastic one. Tesco do it.
Alas, you can no longer get Vim.

If she has it re-enamelled, it will be good as new! I think it can be quite expensive though.

What have you got against a new cheap bath?

Sounds an awful lot nicer than a yucky old enamel one...

Anna the bath is very solid and looks great apart from the muck! the cheap plastic ones look shit IMO

I hate bathroom furniture that has been used by other people before me . I generally like nice solid expensive things but I could definitely make an exception if I was hard up and wanting to change my bath.

This has been bothering me all week, Anna- what do you do in hotels?

GentleOtter you can get Vim...

had this conversation with my grandmother just a few weeks ago, about how someone had told her that you cant get vim... but you can because she had bought some and had a brand new one recently purchased in her cupboard and was showing me to prove that despite what these people were saying it does still exist.

No idea where she found it bought it though probably doesnt help much

Fill up bath with hot water and bio washing powder and leave overnight.

Easier to scrub muck off the next day.

Don't know about rusty bits though.

Denture cleaning tablets