Tricks to Keep Your Bathroom Sparkling
by Ruby Hawk on Apr 03, 2009 with 35 Comments
It’s easier than you think to keep a sparkling clean bathroom. Take just a few minutes a day and save hours of work on the weekend.
Before you start cleaning your shower or tub be sure to take a damp cloth and wipe up all the hair.
After your shower while you are still in the stall, take a wet terry cloth and pour cheap shampoo on it. Rub down the shower stall and the tub and wipe dry with a dry cloth. Your shower stall and tub will stay beautifully clean with a minimum of effort and at a low cost.
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If you do get soap build up wipe down with distilled vinegar, or an old bottle of wine that has gone bad.
Clean your shower door runners with an old tooth brush and tooth paste. Wipe out with distilled vinegar.
To clean the caulking along the wall, roll paper towels and place on caulk, soak with bleach and leave for a couple of hours.
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To clean your bath mat. Run enough water in the bath tub to cover the mat and add a cup of water softener. Let it soak about 2 hours and dry with clean cloth.
Rub a little baby oil along the bottom of your shower curtain to prevent film build up.
To remove those stubborn bath decals, Heat them with a hair dryer and pull off. Scrape off the residue with a plastic spoon.
To clean your sink, wet a cloth with distilled vinegar or cheap shampoo and rub the sink well. Rinse with water.
If your sink has developed green spots,wet a cloth with vinegar and dip it into table salt. Rub the area well and rinse.
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To get it really white, cover the sink with paper towels and splash it with chlorine. Leave for an hour or so and rinse.
If you have rust marks, try rubbing the marks with automotive compound on a cloth.
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To clean your shower head, pour a few inches of vinegar into a plastic sandwich bag and tie it over the shower head. Leave it overnight.
If you have grime and mold in tile grout, make a paste of baking soda and bleach. Smear the paste on with a kitchen knife and leave for a couple of hours. Scrub it off with a tooth brush and water. Don’t follow this treatment with anything that has ammonia as an ingredient.
And for good measure and to save water, when you take a cool shower in the summer move a few of your plants in with you and water them at the same time.
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Daisy Peasblossom | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
lol. If I had time to do even one tenth of that…I’ll just hang a “condemned” sign on the door till school is out. Good tips, even if my best effort right now is a fast swipe at the tub when I shower.
Christine Ramsay | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
You are a mine of information, Ruby.More excellent tips. Well done.
Christine
Joe Dorish | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Very useful tips Ruby.
Darla Smith | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Great tips! Thanks for sharing.
Sakuragi | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Excellent. Our bathroom has little flying things that just won’t go away. Sad and disgusting.
nobert soloria bermosa | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
nice tips,i’ll try it tomorrow,thanks
Kate Smedley | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
I’ll be following these tips, excellent advice, thank you.
twopenneth | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
thanks for the tips. I need these for our bathroom.
Juhls | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Great tips! A lot of new ones I hadn’t thought of. Hopefully I can have a cleaner bathroom for longer now : ). Thanks, Ruby.
papaleng | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
wow! fantastic tips that will help me a lot in dealing with those dirty spots at our bathroom.. Thanks for sharing Ruby.
QuinMonty86 | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Those are great, money saving tips!! I’ll try that cheap shampoo thing in the shower. I can never get my shower clean enough, or maybe I’ve just set my bar too high? I don’t know.
Alexa Gates | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Great tips!
Josey | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Wow, I can’t thank you enough, Ruby. My house is on the market now and it feels like a full time job keeping it clean with my four small kids. These are excellent tips that I will surely use!!
Phill Senters | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Great tips, thanks.
DA Cournean | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for the tips. Some of these I have never heard of. As a matter of fact I was in the store today looking for something that would take the old decals off the bathtub. I will try the hair dryer trick! So many people spend tons of money on cleaners when the usual household staples will most likely do the trick.
OhSugar | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
As of 2:30 P.M. today, left early, I am on Spring break. This is a great opportunity to tryout your suggestion here. I know my bathrooms need some attention, so thanks againg for the information.
B Nelson | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
But does this work if you have a man in the house????
Mark Gordon Brown | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
*sticks out tongue at B Nelsons comment above*
Ruby Hawk | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
It is a chore keeping the bathroom clean.I have had kids in the house and it isn’t easy. I don’t have the traffic that I used to but I still remember all the grime that attaches itself wherever children are. The cheap shampoo is my standby though. It really does the trick in the shower.
Mark, you are not allowed to stick out your tongue at B.
Josey, I hope you sell your house and get a good price. I’ll be happy if these tips help a little with the cleaning.
thank you , thank you everyone, I wish you all success in your writing and everything else you do.
Inna Tysoe | Apr 3, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for the tips.
Inna
jo oliver | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
Thx. great tips. u know i am a clean freak:)
Elizabeth Abbott | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
Lots of information here.
Judy Sheldon | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
Thanks for the tips, Ruby. I love short cuts, especially green ones.
Mary Patricia Bird | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
Great tips, Ruby. Thanks for sharing.
Catelin Hoover | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
Ruby What a lot of great tips! Bless you for sharing them.
Now, my personal bathroom problem has to do with the toilet and an elderly father who just can’t seem to keep from splattering everything near it. Any ideas, short of just cleaning it every day…sometimes twice a day or oftener if company is due for a visit. Any way I am going to save this article to hard copy and put in my Cleaning Idea File.
Dee Gold | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
I need to start cleaning our shower head with this new trick,thanks
PR Mace | Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
Good tips, Ruby, many I had never heard of before. I am all for a clean bathroom.
Poetic Enigma | Apr 5, 2009 | Reply
Very excellent tips and tricks here,
very informative read
Juliet Christie Murray | Apr 5, 2009 | Reply
This is certainly great information. So many house wives have this barthroom promblem especially if the house is not so new and if the family is new. Thanks for writing it
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Ruby Hawk | Apr 5, 2009 | Reply
Thanks again all, And Catelin I have no idea how to solve your problem. I don’t think there is anything other than the way you are doing now. So sorry, I wish I could help you.
CutestPrincess | Apr 6, 2009 | Reply
some good tips… ill try this…
Jamie Myles | Apr 6, 2009 | Reply
Great tips. Especially putting plants in the shower with you.
S A JOHNSON | Apr 8, 2009 | Reply
cool tips
emilywarden | Apr 23, 2009 | Reply
Wonderful tips, especially when you have a family and a tight budget! Whoever thought that vinegar, cheap shampoo and table salt would be good bathroom cleaners! Genius. Thankyou!
lukrisi | Jul 21, 2009 | Reply
I love it… Water your plants in the shower. I would never have thought of that.