Ok so you won’t believe this post! I have the most horrid toilets in the world. First let me say that my hubby is the cleaner around our house. My tagline for my store, Experience Our Elegant Clutter, exists for a reason! Mr. Blu does and has always done 99% (I simply am NOT exaggerating, just ask him or the kids) of the cleaning. I believe we were married 15 years before I touched the vacuum cleaner, yet alone the toilet and the shower glass! Yes, I know, I am soooo very grateful!
Anyway, certain things doooo bother me…like icky toilets, pet hair on the carpet, stinky house ( yes the pets again), and cloudy shower glass ( when it’s supposed to be crystal clear, not the cloudy by design kind)! Poor Mr. Blu scrubs that toilet like there is no tomorrow. Just the other day I asked him, “Hey Hon, did you clean the toilet in the boy’s bathroom? It looks great!” He said, “Yeah, one more good scrubbing and it should be good!” He uses some serious elbow grease and a toilet brush or an old scrubber from the kitchen. I simply couldn’t do it…it takes tooooooo much effort and the stuff just doesn’t come off for me! I am a wiz with a paint brush or sprayer that can transform an object in seconds but for me there is no glory in scrubbing the porcelain god for more than one minute. Sorry!
I was reading up on toilet cleaning (haha I know that sounds like I have no life) and came across a post from…well I have searched and cannot find the original post right now! I promise to update this once I find it! Her recommendation is to use Pumice Stones on nasty toilets. Well, hell yeah, that makes sense! I am always amazed at the little tips and tricks that make total sense when I read about them…head smacker…DUH! Why didn’t I figure that out??? It’s common sense!
So, please excuse the before picture. I didn’t wipe the rim so there yuck on there but the hard water stains are what we are concentrating on here, not the fact that I could have at least swiped so my toilet doesn’t look even more gross. Let me just say that we do have a new puppy who likes to jump, yes JUMP, in the toilet. Whatever she’s been playing with usually goes with her, and then into the trash. With 6 people living in our house, the bathroom doors are bound to be left open. But, we are being honest here, so… Anyway, here’s what I was dealing with:
Wowzer, I usually have my pictures scaled a little larger but I couldn’t handle that pic in that scale! And please note that this is NOT the toilet my hubs scrubbed!
I had a pumice stone at The Blue Building. So I put it aside to bring home. And after 4 days of forgetting to put it in my purse, and staring at it all day long by the computer at the front desk…today was the day. Let me just stay…toilet in the boy’s bathroom was literally sparkly clean in 5, yes FIVE, yup FIVER minutes! Ran, yes literally, to my bathroom and used it there too! Ten minutes there cause…you know how it is with parents, they do for the kids and not themselves so that potty was bad!
Now that pic I can view in a larger scale!!!! Y’all how easy it will be to keep my toilets sparkling!
So I was admiring my handiwork and you know how it is when you find THE ANSWER…you then try to extend it throughout your ENTIRE life! WOW! That freakin’ pumice stone is the bomb! Where else can I use it…as I was standing in the bathroom!
The absolutely worst thing in my master bathroom is the clouded SHOWER GLASS! It’s not supposed to be clouded…it is covered with soap scum and hard water deposits and God knows whatever else sticks to the glass when you are showering.
Y’all I was like a possessed demon! I ran to the shower and I put that pumice stone on the shower glass and I swirled it and I ran it up and down and I moved it diagonally and …OMG it worked! The scum was gone!!!! I’ve been down this road before and experienced the same exuberance when the CLR made the glass look clear. I have scraped the shower glass with a razor blade and was dancing in the shower as the glass was clear. But, my friends, the other shoe always dropped when the glass dried and the ick was still there, slightly better and somewhat dissolved but STILL THERE! Until NOW!
You can still see some scum at the bottom of the picture above. I hadn’t scrubbed there before the picture was taken. I was so excited that I had to see it through the camera lens immediately and before I completed the entire door.
I have found the fountain of youth-fullness for my clean toilets and shower glass! It is clear! Yes! God Save the Pumice Stone! I scrubbed with firm pressure because I was afraid to scratch the glass. I scrubbed firmly but not with all of my might and it worked! I tell you it worked! ****IMPORTANT NOTE: PUMICE STONES CAN SCRATCH THE GLASS, so be delicate with your scrubbing. For me, I’d rather have the clear glass and deal with some minor scratches. So my advice is to carefully test with slight pressure first.
You are welcome! Again…God save the pumice stone!
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