Keeping shower door streak and smear free

[AutumnLover1999]

Any hints and tips please? Our bathroom is a year old but I can't seem to keep it looking like new. We use a squeegee after every shower. Is there anything else you recommend? Is a window vacuum worth getting? Thank you in advance ☺️

If you have hard water then get a water softener fitted.

A water softener was a game changer for me.
No more buying vinegar/viakal stuff weekly!

We aren't in a particularly hard water area. Rarely need to descale the kettle etc.

Just let it be streaky. It makes it more satisfying on the one afternoon a fortnight it’s clean in my house

I wipe my shower down with my damp towel after every shower, never had any water or streak marks or need to use any product. I am also in a hard water area. I have have done this after getting a new shower door about 5 years ago. It does help that it's a solo household, so it only works if everyone in the household does it religiously.

Use a few squirts of a shower spray before you squeegee it. Mine stays streak free but if I just squeegee it doesn’t

It's the door glass or plastic? Glass a spray and squeegee will do the trick, PIL used to have a shower cubicle with plastic doors they were impossible to keep streak free

We use a method shower spray after each shower which works really well.

I have two cloth system which I bought from Amazon, I think it’s called E cloth shower. Anyway you wet one and wipe the glass then dry with the other, no products/sprays required.

Not sure it is all hard water, I think ours is mostly disolved soap and grease hardening onto the glass. We use a blade after every shower and a Karcher steamer every few months to deep clean the tiles / grout / glass etc. It brings back the shine much better than any sprays.

Does steaming help with limescale please?

Not sure as we have a Kinetico water softener which is very good indeed, it treats both the hot and cold water side of the shower feed. I believe the steamer is just shifting soap / grease.

We have a Karcher window vac. Works great.

Window blade and method shower spray

Doesn't leave a perfect finish but tbh is all I can be bothered with. Sometimes I just use the spray and don't use the blade

Anything that takes longer than that is not going to get done so have to be realistic

Just means I really enjoy the sparkling shower for a few days when I do a deep clean

We use a squeegee and then dry off (with an old terry nappy square) after every use.
Hard water area.

Do you use the method shower spray after you have used the window blade?

Two tablespoons Citric acid in spray bottle topped up with warm water. Give it a good shake. Spray the shower door and leave for a couple of minutes. Wipe off with a non scratch sponge. Repeat process then use microfibres cloth to dry. I use these.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/MAGIC-WIPE%C2%AE-Bathroom-Drying-Cloth/dp/B0DHPPS74T
and these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Absorbent-Non-Scratch-Dual-Sided-Cleaning-Removing/dp/B0DTV6QKW1

I live in a hard water area, but found a good squeegee used on the inside AND the outside of the glass door kept it smear free.

Every few months I spray it with white vinegar to ensure no limescale buildup near the hinges or seals.

I am in a really hard water area. I use a squeegee after every shower on my shower screen also a dry flannel afterwards to get any drops or water not caught by the squeegee. Takes less than 60 seconds and my shower door is as nice as the day it was put in 7 years ago. Except…. The lime scale right at the bottom but every so often I use a toothbrush and some vinegar and that sorts it.

It's glass.

Thank you everyone xx

We had a new shower cabinet fitted in February, about a week afterwards I got seduced into buying Magic Cloths, from their website, not Amazon. They really are amazing! I wipe the glass, tiles & shower controls over with 1 cloth, sometimes use a second cloth if I haven’t got time to wait for it to drain/dry a bit. The whole lot looks brand new, I’ve never used any chemicals on it.

The website gives the impression that glass that is scaled up can be made to shine again. I’m a bit sceptical but to be honest the money I spent trying to make our old shower look clean I would, in hindsight, have bought one cloth just to see whether it would work.

If you do decide to try it, be careful as they are very keen for buyers to subscribe, you will have to pay a higher price but apparently it’s really difficult to escape a subscription!

I keep seeing a product called Glass guard on Facebook. Has anyone tried this? Reviews look good 😕

Yeah, i don't know if that's the right thing to do. I do still get buildup but it doesn't look grimy.

I honestly don't have time for the processes some people on this thread have. I sometimes shower 3 times a day! No way am I faffing with cloths, getting things dry. Got to be realistic.