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Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: BEG on December 31, 2009, 03:14:11 PM
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The area we live in has really hard water. We have a softener but we still have water spots on mainly two out of the four shower fixtures. The previous owners must have never wiped them off after showering. The other two bathrooms you can tell were rarely if ever used. I admit I am on the OCD side of these types of things and it bothered the crap put of me that I couldn't get the water spots off. I know to the majority of you here you could care less. I always wipe them off after I use the shower (I make my kids and husband do the same as well as the shower glass) and the fixtures in the house we left in Dallas looked brand new because I did this.
I have tried everything from vinegar to CLR (and everything in between) to get the spots off. Nothing worked. I was looking online for other ideas when I found something that actually worked. I was so excited that I had to come here and share the tip.
You take a fabric softener sheet for the dryer and some rinse aide for the dishwasher. Pour the rinse aid on the fabric softener sheet and rub over the fixtures. I used a little force when rubbing the fixtures. I could tell after the first time it was working. It took me three times of "scrubbing" and wiping it off with a wet washcloth, drying it off then doing it all over again to get it off. It looks brand new now. There are also chrome plated plastic faceplates around the knobs of the fixtures in the master bathroom (and they are expensive German bathroom fixtures) and I was afraid to use CLR or any of the other chemicals I used on them but the dryer sheet and rinse aid got the water spots off those parts too and didn't screw them up.
This is the type of thing that gets me excited. I think I need a job.
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This is the type of thing that gets me excited. I think I need a job.
BEG honey...I love you...I really do.
But darlin' ....you either need to get a paying job or a volunteer job!
Your family will appreciate it.
:heart:
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I wish I could get excited about cleaning. :lmao:
I use dryer sheets to de-odorize my car. I like the lavender variety.
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BEG honey...I love you...I really do.
But darlin' ....you either need to get a paying job or a volunteer job!
Your family will appreciate it.
:heart:
She could start a maid service.
:bolt:
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BEG honey...I love you...I really do.
But darlin' ....you either need to get a paying job or a volunteer job!
Your family will appreciate it.
:heart:
Yeah I know I need a job or something. :p But you will thank me the next time you are cleaning your bathroom and you can't get the water spots off your shower fixtures. I think it really bother me that it was someone elses water spots and not my own. It also bothers me that I have toilet seats that were someone else's first. Especially the one in the master bathroom which has a seat warmer and a bidet. I hate that stupid toilet. I have literally cleaned it with a q-tip but it still grosses me out. Go ahead, call me names. :p
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She could start a maid service.
:bolt:
I don't do well with other peoples dirt. I also am too OCD about it. It would take me too long to clean and I wouldn't make any money.
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Wow.
Signed,
Slob
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Yeah I know I need a job or something. :p But you will thank me the next time you are cleaning your bathroom and you can't get the water spots off your shower fixtures. I think it really bother me that it was someone elses water spots and not my own. It also bothers me that I have toilet seats that were someone else's first. Especially the one in the master bathroom which has a seat warmer and a bidet. I hate that stupid toilet. I have literally cleaned it with a q-tip but it still grosses me out. Go ahead, call me names. :p
"clean" ? Bathroom ?
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Yeah. About that. :lmao:
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BEG, I'll stand with you. I like nice things and I like to keep them nice.
I'm the only one in my life who would care about water spots on faucets. Like I have told you before, in my kitchen I use those shoe shine sponges brought home from hotel rooms to wipe down stainless steel and chrome. They work quick and great at the source.
Now I will have to try your trick in the bathrooms where I haven't been so picky in the past.
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After spending years raising kids as a single parent, I'm just thrilled when the faucets are all WHOLE and not dripping!! :o :o :o
About the most OCD I get is closing shampoo and conditioner bottles because I hate it when half the bottle gets spilled down the drain. :-)
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Except for Undies (who I knew would appreciate my handy tip), everyone on CC must be pigs. :p
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I am kind of a slob. But you don't have to call me names. :naughty:
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I think the dog will eat the popcorn I drop.
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The area we live in has really hard water. We have a softener but we still have water spots on mainly two out of the four shower fixtures. The previous owners must have never wiped them off after showering. The other two bathrooms you can tell were rarely if ever used. I admit I am on the OCD side of these types of things and it bothered the crap put of me that I couldn't get the water spots off. I know to the majority of you here you could care less. I always wipe them off after I use the shower (I make my kids and husband do the same as well as the shower glass) and the fixtures in the house we left in Dallas looked brand new because I did this.
I have tried everything from vinegar to CLR (and everything in between) to get the spots off. Nothing worked. I was looking online for other ideas when I found something that actually worked. I was so excited that I had to come here and share the tip.
You take a fabric softener sheet for the dryer and some rinse aide for the dishwasher. Pour the rinse aid on the fabric softener sheet and rub over the fixtures. I used a little force when rubbing the fixtures. I could tell after the first time it was working. It took me three times of "scrubbing" and wiping it off with a wet washcloth, drying it off then doing it all over again to get it off. It looks brand new now. There are also chrome plated plastic faceplates around the knobs of the fixtures in the master bathroom (and they are expensive German bathroom fixtures) and I was afraid to use CLR or any of the other chemicals I used on them but the dryer sheet and rinse aid got the water spots off those parts too and didn't screw them up.
This is the type of thing that gets me excited. I think I need a job.
Brasso would have worked just fine. So would rubbing compound (used on cars to buff out minor scratches in the clear coat).
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Except for Undies (who I knew would appreciate my handy tip), everyone on CC must be pigs. :p
Ummm...I don't have spots on my faucets. :tongue: Not sure why, but all I have to do is just swipe them off with a wet paper towel and that's it. I doubt it's the faucet, so it must be the water. We have softer water?
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Keep a spray bottle of 1/4 cup jet dry, 1/8 cup white vinegar, a squirt of dawn and the rest water. Mist after every shower and you will never clean it again. No I'm not gay and if anyone brings this to market and makes a million you better cut me in!
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Keep a spray bottle of 1/4 cup jet dry, 1/8 cup white vinegar, a squirt of dawn and the rest water. Mist after every shower and you will never clean it again. No I'm not gay and if anyone brings this to market and makes a million you better cut me in!
"I'm Not Gay" shower cleaner? I don't think it will catch on.
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Hey my wife invented it I just think its great cause when the shower got really scurvy I got the job. Good God this thread is looking like the DUmpster. No more household tips from me.
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Hey my wife invented it I just think its great cause when the shower got really scurvy I got the job. Good God this thread is looking like the DUmpster. No more household tips from me.
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Smart ass comments aren't reserved for the DUmpster. :-) Another good shower cleaner is regular CokeTM, the acid in it eats right through hard water stains. (Learned it in Navy boot camp)
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So now it is assumed only homosexuals care about being clean and taking care of their homes? Now that's just plain silly.
I think anyone who has become a grown up, hetro- or homo- sexual, would try to maintain their home.
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So now it is assumed only homosexuals care about being clean and taking care of their homes? Now that's just plain silly.
I think anyone who has become a grown up, hetro- or homo- sexual, would try to maintain their home.
:mental:
I only made the comment about "I'm Not Gay"shower cleaner because Cats stated that he wasn't gay after giving a mixture for cleaning showers. Cleaning was something that was never done enough in the Navy. I still do many of the things I had to do in the Navy, wipe down sinks and showers when finished, is a couple of them. I still fold my shirts and underwear the same way I was taught.
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I only made the comment about "I'm Not Gay"shower cleaner because Cats stated that he wasn't gay after giving a mixture for cleaning showers. Cleaning was something that was never done enough in the Navy. I still do many of the things I had to do in the Navy, wipe down sinks and showers when finished, is a couple of them. I still fold my shirts and underwear the same way I was taught.
How queer. :lmao:
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You all turned my thread ghey.
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Keep a spray bottle of 1/4 cup jet dry, 1/8 cup white vinegar, a squirt of dawn and the rest water. Mist after every shower and you will never clean it again. No I'm not gay and if anyone brings this to market and makes a million you better cut me in!
Does this work on tile showers or just fiberglass....
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I would think anything but I only have fiberglass.
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She could start a maid service.
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She can start at my place. :-)
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Except for Undies (who I knew would appreciate my handy tip), everyone on CC must be pigs. :p
No, not quite.
As a matter of fact, I just did a major cleaning of the basement. Our sewer line backed up. I was more concerned about cleaning out the shit and the toilet paper remnants out of the bathtub downstairs than a couple of water spots.
Water spots are worthy, though. Really. But I was busy with more "heady" problems.
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Mrs.B's cleaning tip really does work. Astoundingly so. I didn't have dish goop so I used a lil' liquid hand soap instead. ZIP! Clean as a whistle.
I tried this method out of disinterested curiosity and skepticism, and am slightly off put that the dryer thingy and soap goop works better than advertised.
Who knew?
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That is a good tip BEG. I have always had hard water wherever I lived, but where I am now is the hardest I've ever seen. The island is an ancient coral reef, and I have a shallow well. I have one of those Whistler glass tea kettles. If you boil tap water in it, it is immediately coated white on the inside first time. Filtering the water with a Brita seems to knock that down quite a bit.
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That is a good tip BEG. I have always had hard water wherever I lived, but where I am now is the hardest I've ever seen. The island is an ancient coral reef, and I have a shallow well. I have one of those Whistler glass tea kettles. If you boil tap water in it, it is immediately coated white on the inside first time. Filtering the water with a Brita seems to knock that down quite a bit.
Whoa, I hope people aren't drinking that without boiling it.
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Whoa, I hope people aren't drinking that without boiling it.
Boiling it does nothing to the hardness.. the water isn't polluted, just extra hard.
But I do brita filter it before consuming. Everybody on this island has been drinking the water all their lives, and most of them are in their 80's and 90's, no third eyes or anything.
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We used steel wool when I worked at a hotel.