Shower cleaning

[abride]

About ten months ago we had a lovely new bathroom fitted. It's great. The only trouble is the shower. We are in a hard water area and if we have a very quick shower it seems to take LONGER to squeegee and spray the shower walls and perspex door to remove the water droplets and keep the thing clean. It's got to the stage where I am seriously considering just using the shower hose on the bath taps instead because it's quicker to clean up.

At the moment i am squeegeeing and then spraying one of those sprays which supposedly keep the shower clean. I have tried dozens of the things. Are some much better than others?

Do any of those shower treatment packs work? I mean those kits that you apply to the walls and door and they're supposed to stop the water droplets from staining the surface. I know Lakeland does one.

Any advice gratefully received.

no advice, just marking my place on this thread as my shower is a disgrace.

In fact, if anyone comes along with any good shower cleaning advice, could you also tell me the best way to get rid of where the grout has gone orange?!

Grout - bleach and an old toothbrush.

Sorry, can't help OP

thanks!

sorry to OP for hijack, but it's bumped your thread 3 times!

If you squeegee every time, do you really need to spray as well? I'd have thought it would be enough to just squeegee, and maybe use a limescale cleaner every month or so. But I don't live in a hard water area any more, so maybe it would build up too fast even for that? I'd be tempted to try it for a while and see how often you have to use cleaner if you don't use the every-time spray.

Whilst on the subject of shower cleaning - can anyone offer any advice on how to get rid of black mould on the sealant? My MIL's shower is always pristine (I suspect she never uses it) and I am ashamed of mine everytime she comes to stay. I have tried stuff from the supermarket but it didn't work.

Black mould is nigh on impossible to get rid of I'm afraid.

The sprays you use after your shower are pretty useless, I wouldn't bother with them myself.

Use a plastic scourer (test it first to make sure you don't scratch the glass) and Viakal or Limelite. Dry it. Then apply a very thin layer of clear car wax, rubbing it inwell to make sure it doesn't smear. That should stop the water droplets leaving the limescale deposits, at least for a while. Then you can squeegee, if you want, after your shower.

As purple turtle says for the grout, bleach and an old toothbrush. Or you can invest in a steam cleaner which does an excellent job without chemicals.

Thank you for the advice, everyone, and sorry for the long silence--I had to go out for a bit.

I am going to try the Viakal and car wax suggestion. Already have steamcleaned fairly regularly but it was only partially successful.

Thanks again.

To whiten the grout, and get rid of black or orange mould, get Dettol Mould and Mildew Remover (cleaning aisle at supermarket @ £2 or £3).

You spray it on, leave for 10 mins of so and then rinse and admire your shiny white grout...

... oh and the shiny white patches on the knees of your new jeans where you leant against the bath. Warning - product contains bleach!

Grot Buster got rid of our black mould - bathroom looks like new now!

Second the dettol mould & mildew, bright green bottle....works a treat!

re shower....i clean once a week with a limescale cleaner (plus a quick squirt of the above) then use one of those shower sprays daily that helps the water run off so the droplets dont stick...never squegeed, too much of a faff.

Off to buy limescale cleaner.

and I'm off to buy Dettol Mould & Mildew remover in the bright green bottle (DS2 will be so thrilled when I collect him from preschool and announce we're off to the cleaning aisle of Sainsbury's )

Half of my town must be reading this thread because there was no Dettol Mould & Mildew remover to be had!

Bought the Cillit Bang version and had some reasonable success. The orange stuff has gone but the black mould ain't shifting.

i had black mould on the seal of the bath, under the shower. i poured a thin layer of thick bleach (cheap toilet one) on and left it for about an hour. mould was gone when i rinsed it. - but i suppose you should be careful not to get bleach on surface or substance that could be damage by its use. our bog standard bath was fine.

Put white vinegar into a spray bottle, spray area and leave a while, then scrub limescaled areas and rinse. Cheap and effective for cleaning; don't know about the droplet thing though.

Unfortunately the vinegar doesn't seem to work--though I use it elsewhere with success. The water does seem to be particularly minerally here. Thanks, though, solo!

Visions of a mumsnet induced supermarket stampede for dettol mould & mildew...excellent!!

Yeah, Delia ain't got nothing on MN.

I bought Viakal yesterday. So far it seems to be working well.

OK, at the risk of sounding slightly obsessed by my grout, the only problem with this spray is that as I spray it all along the lines of grout, it runs down the wall of the shower. Therefore, the mould at the bottom of the wall is long gone, but I can't get rid of the higher up stuff because I can't keep the spray bleach on the grout.

What I really need is a sort of thick bleachy paste that will go on and not run off. Anyone come across such a thing?

I'm going to resort to tube upon tube of Jolene cream bleach for the face and trying that. Not that I have tube upon tube in the house, you understand, not being densely mustachioed myself.

I'm sure you have a smooth, hairless, utterly beautiful face.

Domestos Grotbuster can be applied directly to the grout and will stick pretty well to vertical surfaces - though gravity will take over eventually!

lol @abride - it is like a baby's bottom

Will give the Grotbuster a whirl.

Misshardbroom I just kept spraying the dettol mould and mildew stuff til enough was on the top bits - I did my bathroom ceiling like this (also managed to bleach the back of my t-shirt - great multi-tasking!).

So persevere, then you won't have to use up all of your nice facial bleach.

The Domestos spray bleach definitely doesn't work IME. I occasionally use the thick Domestos on the grout/tiles and use a scrubbing brush on it and leave for at least 30 minutes, scrub some more and rinse off.

I live in a very hard water area and find the vinegar usually works well.

Perhaps I have diluted it too much.