The Bathroom: Weekly cleaning

Your weekly cleaning of the bathroom is going to be a little more detailed than most of your other rooms. The bathroom is often left in a mess, and try to clean as much as you can daily, but sometimes just the shear number of people and pets living in your home makes all this dirt get way out of hand.

Wiping the bottom of the shower curtain once a week with a bacteria growth stopping cleaner will prevent the need to replace your shower curtain as often.

Spraying your showerhead with vinegar, bleach, or other hard water cleaners will put a stop to the yucky hard water orange stuff that often grows on the showerhead if you have hard water.

Hanging a new deodorizer in the shower if needed is done weekly. You can find soap on a rope or potpourri soap that smells great all week long.

Replacing other types of deodorizers in the bathroom may be needed during your weekly cleaning. Replacing tissues and restocking the toilet paper in the hidden container is a task as well for the weekend.

Weekly you are going to have to give your toilet a good scrubbing, inside and out.  Wiping down the outside of the toilet is going to prevent hair build up from your or your pets. If you have children, this also prevents any urine build up outside of the toilet, which can get stinky as well. Be sure to use a germ and bacteria cleaner that will keep molds from growing inside and around the toilet.

All types of cleaners can be used from bleach, soap scum cutters, kitchen dishwasher soap. Comet, soft soaps, scrubby pads, and scrubbing bubbles are just a few types of cleaners you can use in cleaning the bathroom. Vinegar, baking soda, bluing agents, and even ammonia are more cleaners that you can use in the bathroom. You can to be careful not to mix any cleaners as it could cause a smell that you just can’t stand and could be dangerous.

To clean hard water stains from your bathroom use white vinegar or lemon juice. Added neat to kitchen roll or cloth. wrap around badly scaled taps etc for one hour, you will find that the scaling dissolves, then wash with warm water and buff.

You can also remove hard-water stains on your bathroom stainless steel , or nickel plated faucets and fixtures, by applying a paste of baking soda and vinegar. When you’re finished, carefully drape a towel over the fixtures. After about an hour, wipe clean, rinse, dry, and marvel at the shine. Once cleaned to keep the shine for longer apply a coat of paste car wax to your and buff for a great shine. Keep water spots away longer!

To get hard water stains off of the bottom of your tub, use a paste of vinegar and baking soda. Don't use this on fiberglass as the baking soda could scratch but on porcelain and cast iron tubs it is great!

There are also various chemicals that you can purchase from your local retailers that will cut hard water stains and hard water problems in the bathroom that you might want to consider as well.

If a bath or sink is slow to empty, it's possible that grease or hair have accumulated in the waste pipe, or that something like a hair grip is blocking it. Pull hair up from the plughole with a bent piece of wire. lf the bath or sink  is still slow to empty, wait for the water to drain and then pour in a solution of washing soda (or borax) and boiling water. As a last resort, use caustic soda or a chemical cleaner. First let the water drain and then smear petroleum jelly over the metal rim of the plughole to protect it. Pour the cleaner into the hole, following the manufacturer's instructions on the packaging.

If the bath won't drain at all, place a sink plunger over the plughole and pump it sharply a few times. There are many fancy plungers on the market at the moment. Even the most expensive of these plungers is a fraction of what it would cost to call out a plumber so it is well worth you having a go. You will find your local plumbing store stocks all of these.

Weekly cleaning in the bathroom also means that you are going to have to clean out that sink. Often, because you have been wiping it out all week, it is not going to be as bad as it could be. If you have just deep cleaned in the last week, your sink will just need a good wiping out and germ killer applied for the best results. Don’t forget to refill the hand soap and replace the towels for the week.

Weekly cleaning in the bathroom is going to involve cleaning the floor, the rugs in the bathroom and the baseboard heaters in the bathroom. Using a bucket of water with the addition of your best germ killing cleaner works best in the bathroom.  The bathroom will not be as sticky and stained as the kitchen, but the bathroom floor has all types of germs from everyone coming in and cleaning and going to the bathroom itself.

If you have hardwood in the bathroom or ceramic tile in the bathroom your cleaning needs, as far as cleaners are concerned will be a little different but the over all need is the same.

If you have carpeting in the bathroom, you might want to put down a bit of baking soda or other type of carpet freshener for a few hours. Sweeping up the carpet freshener after a few hours leaves your bathroom carpet much cleaner.

The rugs in your bathroom will need shook outside to keep pet hair, dander, and dust from being settled in your carpets. Shake your rugs out the door or you can hang them over the line for a few hours for a good clean smell. Unless you have a dirty bathroom, you do not have to clean the rugs weekly, as this is most often needed only monthly when you deep clean the bathroom.

The cabinets and cupboards in your bathroom need wiped down weekly. Just taking a little cleaner over the cabinets to get all the grease, toothpaste and dirt off the doors and where they are touched most will leave you with a good clean. Every week or two you can also put a little polish on your cabinets that are not painted for a gleaming clean that will shine.