We have a white enamel bath with a fixed power shower above. One corner of the bath has developed a nasty vertical watermark - I presume where water runs off us during a shower. Has anyone got an effective way to remove such marks? We have tried various cleaning products (eg Cif cream etc) but to no avail. Any ideas will be gratefully received,
Jo
You need to use a limescale remover. Just don't get it on any chrome fittings or it'll strip the chrome.
Hi Jo, I saw a similar thing on the CH4 programme 'How clean is your house' and they used biological washing powder. Fill the bath with hot water and put in some biological washing powder and leave for about an hour. If you still have the stain, put a little BWP on a nylon scourer and rub very very gently. The bath in my house, it was in when we bought the house, had always had a bad stain in the bottom and no matter what we cleaned it with we could not get rid of it. Using the above method, the bath came up sparkling.
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Since installing ion-exchange H2O softener the streaks down the bath from the tap area are a (rather beautiful) bright turquoise colour. These are presumably not limescale. Any ideas on removing them?
They also said that to remove limescale from toilets it is best to use flat Coca Cola. Slash it around the bowl and leave, rub a bit and then flush. And to think millions of people pour that junk into their guts every day.
My wife uses the cheap supermarket cola to clean pans / remove limescale from our steamer. Works a treat.
Gets the job started at source though.
A copper carbonate I expect, so a scale of sorts. Wonder how long before your nice soft but now "aggressive" water starts making pinholes in your cylinder and/or pipe work...
Maxie, can we drink petrol as well?
Maxie, who is Dimm? Is she Dimm Lin the far eastern luscious lovely?
In message , IMM writes
Personally I don't, but for those of us who are biological entities, where's the problem?
We have a digestive system which can handle mildly acidic fluids without any problems.
... of course, I can't speak for DIMM
In message , IMM writes
Sorry, but I've never seen petrol sold as a foodstuff
It's you, you f****it, who else?
Ok.
huh???
Where do you think the copper in that lovely tourquise stain is comming from?
Having had a google there seems to be contradictory information out there. Some places indicating "aggressive" water is soft others that it is hard, but hard water deposits a protective scale layer inside the pipework.
I wonder if your de-ionised water has redissolved any such protective scale and is now working on the copper...
True.
Hmmm, worth considering but the softener has only been installed a couple of months and the pipe-work has generally been here several years so unless soft water truly is magical the scale seems to have re-dissolved very much faster than I anticipated.
Is this Cu corrosion a known problem? and if so how can it be prevented?
Maxie, you are making things up again! So its Dimm Lin you have the hots for. My oh my. The truth is coming out now.
Depends on how much scale was there and the Ph of your de-ionised water.
I think I fed "+water +agressive +copper" into google sans quotes. Lots of stuff.
Regulate the Ph of the water.
Maxie, you have the hots for me? You had better cut this out as I don't go for fat morris dancers. You have no hope at all. It is best you stick with Dimm Lin the far eastern luscious lovely.
In message , IMM writes
No, believe me, it's you
LOL!! Very entertaining.
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