Shower Cabin: How To Clean It And Remove Limescale?
Cleaning experts know it well: limescale is the number one enemy in the bathroom! If white deposits keep reappearing on your faucets, shower walls, and tiled surfaces despite all your efforts, discover our easy and affordable tips! We will explain how to clean a shower cabin and remove limescale from all surfaces.
How to descale the showerhead?
Limescale deposits accumulate everywhere in the bathroom, particularly on the shower cabin walls and the fixtures. These limescale deposits are especially problematic on the showerhead because they eventually clog the holes and prevent water from flowing.
Our first tip for maintaining the bathroom is to descale the showerhead with white vinegar. White vinegar is a well-known natural descaler among fans of eco-friendly cleaning...
However, it must be properly dosed and applied to achieve optimal results! The trick to know is to use a plastic freezer bag filled with an equal mixture of water and white vinegar.
Soak the showerhead in this descaling mixture by securing the bag around the showerhead with a rubber band. Let it sit for at least an hour before rinsing.
How to clean limescale on a shower cabin?
Whether you have a glass or plastic shower cabin, limescale stains on the walls are probably your main problem. Even when using a squeegee to remove water droplets daily, traces and white deposits always end up appearing, especially if the water is very hard in your area.
Instead of using a chemically composed descaling product, you can try a trick used by cleaning teams in large hotels. It involves spraying a mixture of dish soap and white vinegar on the shower walls.
In practice, you can clean your shower cabin in 5 steps:
1- Pour 30 ml of dish soap and 30 ml of white vinegar into a spray bottle.
2- Spray this mixture on both sides of the walls, inside and outside.
3- Clean with a sponge.
4- Rinse.
5- Dry with a clean cloth.
Note: for an even shinier result, you can add a bit of dishwasher rinse aid to your homemade descaling mixture.
How to remove stubborn limescale stains?
If you need to clean a very limescale-encrusted shower cabin, use an even more radical anti-limescale trick: hot vinegar!
Heat a liter of white vinegar in a large pot. When it is hot, carefully pour this liquid on the walls of the shower and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Mix one and a half liters of lukewarm water with the juice of one lemon. After 20 minutes, use this mixture to clean the shower walls with a sponge.
Finally, ventilate the bathroom because the smell of hot vinegar is quite strong and may bother some people.
How to make the faucets shine?
The mixture of dish soap and vinegar is a magical limescale remover. You can use this trick not only to clean your shower cabin but also to make your faucets shine and to clean tiled surfaces.
Simply spray this homemade cleaner on the faucets and wipe them with a microfiber cloth to make everything shine. To clean the tiled walls in your bathroom, it's even simpler: just spray, rinse, and it's clean!
