I have a few outstanding cleaning jobs that I have been procrastinating on this week. It has been so hot and dry - out here in the country it has meant serious issues with dust and flies. I'm sweaty and exhausted, but I'm ploughing on with the housework, one task at a time. My first task on the list was cleaning the bath in the kids bathroom. It was marked with streaks from the bath toys, stained with food colouring from some adventurous bath play (I like to colour the bath water some nights for fun) and lastly coated with a nice crust of dust blown in from the garden just outside the bathroom windows. Here's how it looked before I got out the elbow grease.
It wasn't pleasant, it fact I had been showering the kids all week to avoid unnecessary contact with the bath!
Now it's the shower that needs some attention, although not nearly quite as much as the tub. Here are the after pics.
It's a thousand times better. Now all I need to do is go through the bath toys and work out which ones leave marks in the bath and oust them. I had to use Jif, a cream abrasive and slowly scrub the marks away with light circular strokes. It is probably not the best product to use on an acrylic tub, but there wasn't really any alternative, other than leave the marks there. I washed the dust and food colouring away with Handy Andy an all purpose cleaner and I was a bit naughty using a mould killer product on the grout. There was no mould, but I find this product is excellent at eliminating most marks and soap scrum. I spray, leave for 10 minutes and then wipe off. It is probably a bit hard on the tile grout and silicone sealer around the bath, but I use it sparingly and wipe it off after a short time with no scrubbing, so hopefully it doesn't do too much damage. Nice to have a clean tub for now :-)
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