Hard water stains on shower screen

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I've spent a bit of time cleaning up my glass shower screen affixed to my bath.
It was a while since I last did it and the screen had gotten a very 'misty' build up of hard water stains/limescale.

So yesterday, using a non scratch sponge, I first scrubbed it with lemon juice, left it for a while, rinsed it off, and then used Viakal. It's come up very clean but in certain light, and maybe I'm being too fussy here, I can still see lots of tiny whitish semi circles of what are probably still hard water stains. It's faint enough that no one would notice except me.

Today I've redone it by scrubbing with white vinegar, left it for a while, followed by a baking soda and water paste that I mixed up. Left it for a good while, rinsed off and dried. I ran out of Viakal yesterday and decided to buy Cilit Bang 'limescale and shine' cleaner today. I'm about to try it and then finish off with a coating of rain x. But at the moment, I can still see a very faint layer of stains and doubt it'll improve with cilit bang.

Is it something that won't come off?

edit: since making the thread, I found out on youtube that oxalic acid worked best for hard water stains, so I'll buy some bar keepers friend which contains that. Anyone tried it before? http://www.johnlewis.com/bar-keepers-friend-original-cleaning-powder-250g/p231892883
 
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If you're in a hard water area you really are fighting a losing battle unless you get one if those filters at your incoming main.
 
Must be I'm a hard water area because I've never really had a problem getting it off when cleaning. I just use cilit bang and scrub it then clean with window cleaner.
 
Yeah, it's something I need to keep on top of more regularly. think I left it too long between cleans and let the hard water stain build up too much. It's very faint and barely noticeable unless you look for it, but it bugs me nonetheless. I'll let you know what bar keepers friend does, I'll pop along to brent cross tomorrow to pick a bottle up.
 
Since I put new bathroom in with just a big shower cubicle we clean it after every shower - we dry off in shower cubicle then use blade to wipe down tiles and glass - I use a karcher window cleaner to get hidden water out then wipe over with a car micro fiber drying towel - a 5min shower is now a 20 min drudge.

The result though is wife only gives shower a quick once over now and again.

I would think a quick wipe down would help though.

Dave
 
I've had the same issue, I've been using something called LimeLight and it is amazing!

However every time we shower we use a microfiber cloth and just wipe away the water on the glass door.
 
I thought the recommended route was clean with viakill and then coat with RainX.
Yup the stuff for your car :)
Should stop the water settling on the glass and giving you the marks afaik
 
My missus is OCD about it, so we have a squeegy (sp) and some limescale remover in the bathroom - we have to spray and squeegy after each shower otherwise it looks naff after a week.
 
We live in Cambridgeshire and it's really hard water around here, everything gets covered in it.

Vikal to get it all cleaned off, they do a concentrated version in a squeezable bottle rather than the spray if it's bad. Then coat the glass with something like RainX (automotive) or Nano Tech Glass Coating. I'm assuming here the shower screen is glass and not plastic!

Basically the nano tech stuff makes normal glass into self cleaning glass, so everything runs straight off it
 
When you've got it clean get a squeegee and use it after every shower to avoid the problem in the first instance. I got one when we redid our bathroom and I rarely have to clean the screen now.
 
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Merlin5 said:
I'll buy some bar keepers friend which contains that. Anyone tried it before?
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I have, and it's brilliant stuff! It's also great for removing rust stains from "stainless" steel (classic mistake is leaving a wet tin on a draining board).
 
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