Sunday 4 July 2010

How to clean a bathroom

You will need:-
  • Mould remover
  • Limescale remover
  • Glass cleaner
  • Any other caustic chemicals you can lay your hands on
  • A scrubber
  • An old toothbrush (or the toothbrush of your beloved if there are outstanding grudges to be paid off)
  • Marigolds - the gloves, not the flower
The best time to do this is in the morning before you take a bath or shower.
Remove all clothing except gloves. Because you WILL spray them with bleach and get blotches on them.

Throw away all empty shampoo bottles, shower gel bottles, toothpaste tubes and scummy fragments of soap that are invisible to everyone in the house except you.

Spray mould with mould cleaner.

Open window and leave bathroom til choking stops and respiration is normal.
Spray tiles, sink and bath with limescale remover
Spray windows / mirrrors and and shower glass with glass cleaner.

Gives all easy to reach bits a good scrub.

The only way to get the bath clean is to get in and scrub on hands and knees to the rhythm of 'Why haven't we got a cleaner, why haven't we got a cleaner, why haven't we got a cleaner ....'

Then start on all those bloody chrome bits that looked so nice in the showroom.

Every inch will need to be sprayed with limescale remover and polished. Then there are the tiles. Every inch of grout will have to be scrubbed with a toothbrush. Then there's the mouldy sealant. Scrub viciously with toothbrush, swearing relentlessly under your breath. Or out loud. Neither works, there is no way to get mould out of sealant. Or to remove sealant.

For light relief, polish all the glass.

Have a bath in sparkling bathroom before anyone else gets a chance.
It's a great opportunity to deal with the hard skin on your feet as it will peel off easily after standing in caustic chemicals for half an hour.

7 comments:

  1. I still remember the day a new room-mate explained to me that bathrooms didn't clean themselves. I thought a bath was to clean me, not the contrary. Our bathrooms at home cleaned themselves. Didn't they?

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  2. now.. i must leave work...and go and clean my bathroom... its nasty... :-(

    *think my boss will go for it?? lol

    God bless
    <3
    otm

    ps.im a new follower :-)

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  3. The trick is to always keep the chrome clean to give the illusion of total cleanliness.
    Sx
    It is too early for me to think about the hard skin part of this post!

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  4. A coincidence of sorts. I opened my emails and found your comment about the tree on Lenton Boulevard and followed your link to Invisible Women — and what had I been doing a few minutes before? Cleaning the bath! It's always nice to find a kindred spirit. You should post more. You're good.

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  5. Thank you new followers - sorry it's taken me so long - I've been too busy reading your posts!

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  6. Alternatively , you could just lightly spray slightly damp feet with noxious substances , put your feet up and drink coffee while reading the paper ?
    We have what is now touted as a Wet Room , i.e. a very small , windowless shower room . The temptation is to fill a bucket with hot Ajax-y water and hurl . One of those window-cleaning squeegy-things later and you're done .
    Well , at least I am . Your standards are obviously a lot higher !

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  7. One of the chores I hate the most.

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