How Do You Clean a Walk in Shower?
How Do You Clean a Walk in Shower?
Meta: Are you nervous about how to clean your new walk in shower? Check out our quick guide here for tips and tricks to help you out!
Choosing a walk in shower enclosure for your bathroom is a great move. However, you also need to make sure that you know precisely how to keep it clean. Many people forget about ease of cleaning when choosing their fittings. Here are some of the things that you need to think about when cleaning a walk in shower.
Little and Often
One of the easiest ways to stay on top of the cleanliness of your shower is just to do things little and often. This means that things should never get too dirty, and it means that you should not have to spend too much time on a big clean.
Try to get in the habit of just rinsing the walk in shower enclosure down with the showerhead once you have finished washing. Try to make sure that any remaining suds are washed away down the drain. Wipe down the glass and tiles with a squeegee to remove excess water and avoid streaking. With this habit in place, you should find caring for the shower much better in the long run.
The Deep Clean
Add a deep clean of the shower into your weekly chores list. With the little cleans after each use, this should never be too strenuous a task, but it is important to still do. Start by emptying the drain and giving that a clean. The level of grime that can build up here can be quite unpleasant, but it is an important step so you can avoid further issues with drainage later.
Use a gentle non-scratch cleaner on the tray and the tiles when cleaning down the walls. You might also want to invest in a good glass cleaner to help with the glasswork. To get rid of streaks efficiently, wipe vertically on one side of the glass and horizontally on the other. This is an easy way to tell what side the streaks are on.
Dealing with Limescale
If you live somewhere with hard water then limescale is a fact of life that you need to deal with. You need to make sure that you invest in a good cleaner that will help to remove any limescale that might appear in the shower.
This is most likely to be a problem that affects your showerheads, so make sure that you have a cleaner that will remove limescale without damaging or marking its chrome (or whatever material it might be made from). It will be an ongoing battle, but one that you can definitely have the upper hand in.
No matter how often you choose to clean your bathroom, you should always make sure you have a good supply of the right cleaners and cloths. Even an old toothbrush can be useful when trying to clean those hard to reach places. Though walk in shower enclosures might seem to be a lot of work to keep clean, they are actually easier to manage than you might initially think with a regular cleaning routine in place.