Cleaning your shower glass can be a difficult task, but there’s a simple hack that’ll make it much easier – and it’s also very affordable too.
No matter how spotless you keep your bathroom, there’s one spot that never seems to remain clean for long – the shower glass. Water droplets from showering, along with shampoo, conditioner, body wash and scrubs, can be extremely challenging to shift.
The issue becomes worse the longer you allow these products to build up, making it even tougher to return your shower glass to its original sparkling condition.
But luckily, fans of cleaning sensation Mrs Hinch have stepped in with a remedy. On the Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips Facebook group, one user was struggling to keep their shower clean and was eager for guidance from fellow group members – and her post was soon flooded with useful recommendations, reports the Express.
Posting to the community, she wrote: “I have a really large glass shower screen, does anyone know the best things to clean it with to be streak free, and cleaning cloth recommendations for glass etc.”
In the comments, plenty of tips were put forward – with one in particular being very popular.
Even better, this straightforward method can be done using just one item costing merely 80p, making it both budget-friendly and easy too.
According to group members, you should have a squeegee or rubber blade at the ready each time you bathe or shower, and use it to wipe the glass swiftly after every session. One person commented: “Keep at squeegee hanging from screen and make everyone wipe down when finished once a week I also use descaler spray and scrub it.”
Another said: “Use a karcher or rubber blade every time you shower. Or wipe down with a towel. If it’s marked use viakal and a nylon scourer. Don’t leave on for more than 5 mins.”
And someone else wrote: “Clean it with viakel or similar, after every use use a window squeegee to wipe down. I only viakel mine now once or twice a year as using the squeegee every use keeps it all at bay.”
Another suggested: “I’ve now solved it with using the squeegee, using the microfibre cloth to “dry” the squeegee after every pass down the shower glass, and then at the end I go around all the edges and the door handle with the Minky cloth. Honestly, the shower looks like it’s never been used.”
A squeegee can be purchased from Dunelm for just 80p, whilst IKEA stocks them for just £1.
Other popular tips centred around using a household staple that works brilliantly for cleaning – white vinegar.
One group member shared: “Make mix washing up liquid, white vinegar and rinse aid, sparkling screens every time.”
Meanwhile, another person added: “I use white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda mixed together and clean mine using a non stick scourer pad. Rinse off and buff dry with an e-cloth glass cleaning cloth.”