Just curious about whether people clean their showers, and if so, how often. My family never really cleans ours, it's just soap scum after all lol. I honestly thought showers cleaned themselves until my girlfriend called me a pig, guess I just never really notice the soap scum on the glass doors.
Do You Clean Your Shower?
hotdog679 on 03/11/2018 - 19:32
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- 515Yes of course, you disgusting degenerate sub-human
- 33No, showers clean themselves
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Hahaha yeah. I know full well that the maid cleans mine.
Pigs are amongst the cleanest animals.
But they roll around in shit.
I guess this is one of those vegan facts. Like vegan hotdogs and vegan cheese, it resembles the real thing in name only.
The split personality thing seems to be spreading across ozbargain.
compared to you maybe 😂
Paid extra for a pyrolytic self cleaning shower. Best investment ever.
Loving the new self cleaning shower technology. Seriously though, when you wash your body with soap and water don't you think that cleans the tiles in the shower too? No? Anyone?
No. The soap scum is full of your dead skin cells which bacteria love eating.
Bacteria and other microbes live all over your skin and throughout your gastrointestinal tract.
Is there a specific health risk from the bacteria which might live in a soap scummy shower?
@John Kimble: Thanks, but do you have any scientific sources which quantify the risks?
AFAIK, people generally only touch their showers with their feet, so I'd assume that any health risks would be plantar or airborne…
@Scrooge McDuck: Not only that your house contains a machine known as a toilet that creates a large invisible spray of fecal bacteria every time you flush. This bacteria spreads itelf over the whole house including the kitchen.
According to marketing created by businesses selling cleaning products everyone living in the house is supposed to be dead because of this. Or the ones that aren't using the cleaning products everyday are supposed to be dead. :p
@Diji1: I dunno about everyone else, but I poop and flush with the toilet door closed.
FYI, I shower after every poop too.
@try2bhelpful: Watch this right to the end
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtDQkACEANA
Can't stress enough the need to watch it very carefully to the end
@Quantumcat: Very well edited video. Reminds me of the scene from Flying High with the mirror where he steps through it at the end - very convincing.
The movement of the cat was very gentle and almost like ballet.
did you pay also extra for lockable shower screen door and noise dampening walls? ;)
Is that the one where it has an option to switch to gas and turns into an incinerator for a few minutes every so often?
In Soviet Russia shower cleans you.
Actually, the primary purpose of any shower is to clean your body.
Really!? I've been doing it wrong all this time!!
Oh who knew!!!!
YESSSS
Agree with the gf on this one. Wouldn't your shower be all pink from the mould? Especially in the grout?
Pretty much everything should be regularly cleaned, just some more often than others. And some it might not be that big of a deal if you don't. There's probably stuff that doesn't, but I can't think of them of now.
On a similar topic of normal vs what your gf thinks is normal, I thought it was normal to dry myself with one bath towel after a shower, but noooo, apparently you're meant to have two per person; one for the genitals/bottom half region, one for the top/face area. The reasoning is you wouldn't want to wipe your face with a towel you've wiped your nether regions with…how you keep track which one is which is beyond me.
Well when I have a shower I also clean my genital/butt area, so it is as clean as my face. So I don't see why I would need 2 towels.
Plus, if you have a girlfriend, you're likely touching top and bottom halves anyway.
My showers in pretty good shape, there's just some soap scum on the glass doors which I can definitely look past, the tile wall and floor are pretty spotless (because showers clean themselves lol). I did the one towel thing too, but now I'm an avid follower of the two towel method. I have my face towel on a hook and my body towel on a rack. Feel like a changed man ever since.
I've not changed to 2 towels…don't own enough to and can't be bothered washing twice as many.
I don't understand two towels. When you get out of the shower you are clean, if you have done it properly, why do you need to bother about two towels?
@payton: I use liquid soap. Although to be better environmentally maybe I should look at ways to liquify bar soap. Less packaging.
Just pee all over the shower.
A lemon tree may grow there and would likely be a hazard
Thats how i always have lemons for my coronas! Come around for a couple :)
There in a jiffy
if you don't use soap then there shouldn't be any soap scum
i don't clean my shower cum bathtub but they're now orange/pink color instead of white,
is that mildew/mould ?
i don't clean my shower cum
Err…
you don't use soap then there shouldn't be any soap scum
In that case, there will only be scum.
Could just be:
cum
Depending on diet?
Well… if spraying the inner walls just after a shower counts I do.
I keep hoping that one day I'll come across a brand that removes virtually all soap scum from the glass….
All ears if anyone has found something. My journey on this one is still in progress.
Certainly the 'original' mould is no longer there.Have you tried sugar soap. Cheap as, and you mix it with water, so can adjust the strength.
Not really but I should give it a go. Would you use a sort of rough scotch brite pad or something 'softer'?
Are you finding this effective (I assume)?Apply it and leave it for 5 minutes then wipe it off.
You can save a lot of effort by doing this generally when using cleaning chemicals.
What are you spraying the inner walls with? Water? lol
The gf bought me some "Method" brand shower cleaner from Big W. The only one I've used that doesn't make me feel like I'm dying when I breathe in while scrubbing. Works pretty well (according to my apparently disgusting hygiene standards anyway…)
lol - no but have tried many differing brands.
I'm probably asking for the impossible as am perhaps imagining there is some kind of spray out there that will cause the scum residue to just fall off when next showering!
*note to self - revive ability to set reasonable expectations!The Method brand makes a daily shower spray which you're supposed to just spray after every shower and not have to rinse. Smells pleasant enough and seems to do the job.
@hotdog679: You know your getting old when suggestions like this get you a little excited. lol/cheers :O)
CLR (yes the proper brand, doesn’t smell as bad) works really well for the glass, spray it on, wipe with the foam eraser sponge and leave it for a minute or two….
Although sounds like OP might need a cheap $3.00 Bunnings paint scraper if its never been cleaned…
Try spray stain remover (the kind you use for your laundry). It's great for removing soap scum - just spray, let it sit then rinse.
Hard water stains on the glass are a different beast -vinegar & newspaper work if they aren't too bad, but if they are really bad scraping is the only thing that's worked for me.
Well soap scum is alkaline. So any acid based cleaner would work well those can be vinegar, citric acid, or containing HCL, oxalic acid, phosphoric acid. That CLR mentioned by kenshin is also an acid based product (mixture of some organic acids that I can't remember)
I used to have a bottle of shower/bathroom cleaner that was based on citric acid but after it ran out I cheaper out and just refilled the spray bottle with vinegar and a drop of dishwashing soap (not as strong but if you keep the shower clean it's easier to clean. Also I wipe down the glass with a squeege after every shower. Keeps it clean for longer)
What an odd question.
Just spit your used mouthwash around and let gravity do the rest.
Mine came with an automated human shower washer
Does waffle stomping count?
Yes I often clean my shower..
As well as the bathroom floor, the Vanity and the Toilet, Especially the Toilet.
I also do the REST of the house.Buy soap-free wash and you'll never have to worry about soap scum ever again. And it's better for your skin as well.
girlfriend called me a pig
She called your whole family pigs! Dump her!! :p
(but she does have a point!)
No. My wife cleans our shower.
DAD?
Fetch me a beer, son.
Do you clean your toilet ?
Once per day with my flatmate during our nightly homoerotic swordfight.
Yeah mate when I flush it cleans itself right?
uh
Seriously though, some of the newer fancy-arse $500+ toilets have trendy angular bowl shapes that don't allow the water to flow fast over the porcelain surfaces, meaning you have to scrub it with the brush for marks that used to wash away by themselves in a flush or two.
Extra money for a huge step backward in hygiene, but hey - at least it looks expensive! That's what matters most right!
I get airtsker once every 6 weeks to clean our bathrooms and balconies. That way everyone is happy. I say $80 well spent.
If it's the same person all the time, can you just hire him directly so Airtasker don't get the cut?
Just regrout the shower every few months
Where can I buy clr and what is the cost Mr Piggy
I don't, but I should, there's some wierd black stuff in the corner…
I just dry the shower with a towel everyday after shower and that way you don't have to clean it very often.
But you have to wash your towel more often then :)
No, only his washing machine has to wash his towel more often :)
you mean his wife?
The problem we have is we are in an old area and our water supply seems to have a bunch of red clay that passes through our pipes. It means the grout gets stained a reddish colour. Even with cleaning it is hard to get the stain out of the grout.
More likely rust.
I switched from solid soap to liquid soap. A lot less scum.
Good luck getting the scum off the glass doors! If you don't do them regularly it is pretty much impossible to get them perfect again.
Not cleaning showers becomes both a safety and a health hazrd
OP I'm sure your mum actually cleans your bathroom a lot. You just have never cleaned it or even recognized that your mum did.
Nah, my mum would be the last person in the family to clean something. I have my own bathroom and trust me, nobody has the balls to walk through my war zone of a room to get to my bathroom to secretly clean it.
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lol