Can anyone please tell me how to remove milky white stains off a glass shower screen?
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Answers:
It will either be soap scum or limescale.
To treat soapscum, you need a spray bottle like gardeners use to mist plants. Into which you need a 50/50 mix of bleach and warm water (but not hot, and change the mix when it cools). Shake thouroughly the hand mister to mix the contents and spray this on the screen and wipe clean. You will need good ventilation in your bathroom to use this mix, so make sure the windows and doors are fully open. This mix is also very good for cleaning tiles up.
If the problem is lime scale, then you need a mister with neat vinegar in it, spray it on and let it work for half an hour, and then scrub it off. This may take a couple of goes.
Showerheads left to soak in vinegar for an hour will spray a lot better, as its limescale that blocks them up. Its also worth noting that vinegar has loads of uses about the home for cleaning.
As a safety note please only use one treatment at a time, and make sure you have well rinced the screen after use before trying the other method. Bleach and vinegar mixed makes chlorine gas, which is not good for you.
It is most likely soap scum. There are many commercial soap scum removers that work well. White vinegar works ok too.
You can prevent soap scum by using a squeegee after each shower. Kind of a pain but it works.
If it's hard water build-up [lime scale basically] then the white vinegar will break it up...if it's in the mold family [same as you'd find flourishing along the bottom edge of a shower curtain if you had one] then bleach will remove it. Neither vinegar nor bleach will harm the glass, so experiment with one or the other and see which works best.
Use a sponge and wash it down with full strength vinegar. The smell may be overpowering and it's okay to run a fan or open a window, but it's not toxic like chemical cleaners. When you have it clean and it's dried, spray on some inexpensive furniture polish like Pledge and wipe in off. (Like Karate Kid, wax on, wax off, LOL!) Then the water and soap scum will not cling to the door. You can also do this to your shower walls, makes future cleaning a snap if you practice this once a week! Just don't get the furniture polish on the shower floor, it'll make it slippery and you don't want that!
probably soap scum...use some cheap foamy type shaving cream...works great and cost so little and get one that smells good
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