Tips for Cleaning the Bathroom

We recently cancelled our cleaning service and took up the sponges ourselves.  Does anyone have any tips or tricks for the bathrooms?  I am particularly interested in getting the hard water stains off the glass in the shower without using anything that will make my kids grow extra fingers.

Klinker said:

We recently cancelled our cleaning service and took up the sponges ourselves.  Does anyone have any tips or tricks for the bathrooms?  I am particularly interested in getting the hard water stains off the glass in the shower without using anything that will make my kids grow extra fingers.

 Try CLR. I've had decent results with it. Just be careful if your frame is aluminum. It supposedly takes the finish off, though I haven't had this problem.

Use lemon oil on a cloth, the kind that you use on furniture. It really works.. 

Everybody who showered had to squeegee. It's kind of fun, if you get a good industrial one. It doesn't solve the hard water deposits but it reduces the buildup.

Vinegar in a spray bottle helps, too.

I've always heard vinegar does the trick, although I've never tried it. I hate trying to remove those stains so much that I will go out of my way to use a shower with a curtain instead of the glass doors!

Vinegar and blue dawn dish soap. You can find the recipe online  works for the whole bathroom!

That combo seems to work for a lot of things. I recently began using vinegar, blue Dawn dish soap, and Oxyclean to get body oil stains out of our sheets. (All on my husband's side, I hasten to add!!)

I'll have to try the equivalent on D's pillowslips. Thank you!

ParticleMan said:

Klinker said:

We recently cancelled our cleaning service and took up the sponges ourselves.  Does anyone have any tips or tricks for the bathrooms?  I am particularly interested in getting the hard water stains off the glass in the shower without using anything that will make my kids grow extra fingers.

 Try CLR. I've had decent results with it. Just be careful if your frame is aluminum. It supposedly takes the finish off, though I haven't had this problem.

 Wish I had known this years ago -- I really wrecked our shower door frame with this stuff. The problem is that NOTHING works on hard water stains on aluminum... anything that might take the stains off will damage the finish. I have tried everything including all sorts of combos of vinegar, lemon juice, and baking soda...

bluepool - I suggested lemon oil above. A cleaning person told me about it probably 25 years ago, and said at that it's even good for the aluminum frame as well as bathroom fixtures. It doesn't harm the aluminum frame (for those who still have a frame) and actually cleans and polishes it nicely, as well as faucets. It's the kind that you use on furniture that can be bought in any supermarket. Just put it on a soft cloth.