Limescale..how to remove it from a shower screen???

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warmfuzzies said:

LIMESCALE..HOW TO REMOVE IT FROM A SHOWER SCREEN???

Explosives?

[Paul 2000]

You're all wrong - the best solution (no pun intended) is pure lemon juice. Cut a lemon in half and rub it all over the offending parts, rinse off - voila, sparkling sanitaryware. Works great on dull-looking baths and tiles as well. You might need several lemons, but your fingers will smell great

[mcflurry]

In the "How clean is your house" it recommends you put the shower curtain in a washing machine with a small towel.

Works for me

[Fallon]

The cheapest toilet limescale remover in the supermarket. Nothing comes close.

It has to be "toilet limescale remover" NOT just plain old toilet cleaner or bleach though.

Applied wearing gloves, with a kitchen sponge or bit of Scotch Brite, left for ten mins or so and rinsed off.

>> Edited by Fallon on Friday 26th August 20:14

[Mrs Trackside]

POWER BATH

it's fabulous stuff.

[GavinPearson]

White vinegar. Here in the US Heinz make it available in gallon sizes just in case you wish to pickle the entire vegetable patch. It will dissolve all limescale, no problem. Put the article in a bucket, pour on the vinegar and leave it in a well ventilated area. Not because it's dangerous, it just smells.

We clean our humidifier this way, it's failsafe.

[simpo two]

It's all acid of one sort or another.

You say Hagesan is phosphoric acid, which you can find in Coca Cola and dentists use to etch tooth enamel. Nasty mineral acid in the same class as hydrochloric and sulphuric.

Then you come on to the girlie acids: Vinegar is acetic acid aka ethanoic acid. Lemon juice is citric acid. No scary stuff there, they're so weak you can drink them.

The acid dissolves the limescale (calcium carbonate) to give water and CO2. Simple as that, first year chemistry, probably the first reaction you learn.

As for me, I keep a bottle of sulphuric acid I drained from an old car battery However if I had a glass shower screen I think a water softener might be a good idea. Prevention better than cure etc.

[warmfuzzies]

Thanks guys,

Have tried vinegar, lemon juice and they are too weak...so am waiting for the Haegen...


I have a water softener..... :-)) but,...if its in the middle of a recharge cycle it will draw water from the mains, and over here its as hard as nails, so occasionally I run into this problem.....

thanks all..

Kevin.

[D_Mike]

you don't want poxy weak acids like ethanoic or citric acid!

simpo is right, you need a strong acid, phosphoric, sulphuric, hydrochloric, nitric... I'm sure there are more...

be careful with your limestone/granite/unfinished metal fixtures and fittings... you don't want to corrode them.

[bindit]

Roop said:

I used Wonder Wheels to great effect

Thanks for that, i started the same thread back in May..

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=141&h=&t=182729

and have tried everyone's suggestion except neat acid, without success.

But I've just trotted back from my garage with me Wonder Wheels and would you believe it, it's working after one application... B'llox to Cilit Bang i say!

[roop]

You're welcome Cillit Bang is great stuff, but for showers, take [MaxHeadroom]W,w,w,w,w Wonder wheels wheels wheels[/MaxHeadroom] every time

bindit said:

Roop said: I used Wonder Wheels to great effect Thanks for that, i started the same thread back in May.. www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=141&h=&t=182729 and have tried everyone's suggestion except neat acid, without success. But I've just trotted back from my garage with me Wonder Wheels and would you believe it, it's working after one application... B'llox to Cilit Bang i say!

[jimothy]

Asda sell stuff called Limelight. Very effective at removing limescale.

[cillitbang]

I'll do it for you

[warmfuzzies]

cillitbang said:

I'll do it for you

Thanks for the offer cilla, no deal without the prerequisite photo though ;-))

I'm currently using the hagesan blue, and it looks promising, though it isn't cutting through the Daryl shower protector I put on nearly 6 months ago.....That stuff a polymer compound of one sort or another is simply amazing....


kevin

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bindit said:

Roop said: I used Wonder Wheels to great effect Thanks for that, i started the same thread back in May.. www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=141&h=&t=182729 and have tried everyone's suggestion except neat acid, without success. But I've just trotted back from my garage with me Wonder Wheels and would you believe it, it's working after one application... B'llox to Cilit Bang i say!

hiya bindit how ya doin sweetie?

[5MUGHubby]

warmfuzzies said:

So PH collective, aside from my other difficulties, I'm trying to remove some limescale from my shower. Trouble is I had in the past treated it with Daryl shower protector, a liquid product that makes it easier to clean etc.... I'm now sure that the limescale has got underneath this stuff, and I can't shift it, I've tried the usual household limescale removers, and as recomended by Daryl T-Cut and other cleaners, but I can't get back to bare glass.. Any ideas????? kevin

Once you have treated it use rain x to stop it happening again...

[cillitbang]

bindit said:

B'llox to Cilit Bang i say!

and i thought you were a mate