Scrubbing toilets and grappling with pesky mildew stains is hardly anyone’s idea of fun, but thankfully there are certain tips you can follow for making cleaning your bathroom, less of a chore; here are 8 of the best:
- Use vinegar to clean your shower
Heat up some vinegar in the microwave and pour it into a spray bottle before liberally coating your shower tiles with it. If the smell is too strong for you, simply add a tablespoon of dish soap to the vinegar; this can also help cut through the grime.
- Use a dish brush for scrubbing mildew
Combine six cups of warm water and a quarter cup of bleach, then dip your dish brush and begin scrubbing the walls and/or tiles. Once done, spray them down using the showerhead or with a bucket of clean water.
- Baking soda can fizz away mold stains
Make a simple paste of baking soda and water and cover the patches of mold in the solution. Leave it on for around 3.5 hours, and rinse it off.
- Tackle smelly drains with baking soda and vinegar
Drains can quickly get smelly, but with a mixture of baking soda and vinegar poured into the drain, you can just as quickly eliminate the problem. Combine one cup of baking soda with two cups of white vinegar, pour it down the drain and flush with hot water after half an hour.
- For fiddly areas of your sink, use dental floss
Some cleaning tools are no use for particularly fiddly, hard to reach areas in the bathroom, but dental floss can provide a solution and help get rid of dirt and grime built up in the areas around the faucet and handles.
- Clean your toilet with a denture tablet
It really couldn’t be simpler: drop a denture tablet into your toilet, and flush to eliminate stains and rust in the bowl.
- Use a squeegee for your bathroom window
Squeegees are great tools for helping to get rid of water spots and streaks, and if you use sweeping motions, rather like how a snake moves, you can avoid causing the streaks that often occur when the squeegee is pulled in straight motions, vertically or horizontally.
- Rub lemon over water spots
While unavoidable in places where water is always running, water spots are unsightly and should be removed wherever possible. Fortunately, lemon is great for cleaning chrome fixtures that are prone to water spots, and just rubbing a cut lemon over the affected areas should help get rid of them.
If cleaning tips aren’t your thing, try a cleaning service instead. Most good cleaning agencies will have a million and one bathroom cleaning tips up their sleeves, and will get your bathroom sparkling clean in next to no time.
