Particularly limescaley bathroom - other bathroom and kitchen aren't the same

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I have a new bathroom which seems to have especially limescaley water. It's leaving the shower screen all grubby looking already.

I'm certain that the water in other taps is not anywhere near as bad.

What could be going on? I've particulary noticed this since the new bathroom went in but that might be just because it didn't show as much on the old stuff.

I'm pretty sure it's your bathroom and not your own special new water. Same main supply, same water. Suspect it is just new shiney stuff showing more. My in laws swear by that shower spray stuff that you spray on and leave after your shower.

Only solution I know is to save up for a water softener. It will cost you some hundreds of pounds.

Not a magic magnetic one, they don't work.

Get yourself a microfibre pair of cloths for cleaning a bathroom. One is towelling type stuff for cleaning used damp (no chemicals if ypu dont want to) and the other smooth for polishing used dry. Cost £3 from wilconsons. Max shine for min effort - i almost enjoy cleaning our shower screen it comes up polished so easily! (i used to ignore it and let it go cloudy before....) does wonders on taps and mirrors to. Blooming marvellous.

Sorry for the typos.....

Also forgot to say that we installed a suite and the sanitaryware attracts much more limescale than the other bathroom fittings in the house. Think that there can be microscopic differences in the surface texture which can affect it rather than the water being different.

Yes it does depend on bathroom suite. In my old flat I replaced the ancient but quality canary yellow suite with a cheap new one from B&Q. It looked clean for about half an hour before the limescale looked awful. Just seemed to grow the stuff. I ended up replacing it again not many years later (because the sink cracked and the loo flush had an incurable leak, not because of the limescale issue) and suddenly the limescale wasn't anything like as bad. As Tricot says, it must all be down to different surfaces.

Thanks all. Sounds like we need to get a water softener so I will look into that.