White Vinegar & Dawn

To start off, let's look at a cleaning post I recently tried.  It's in my "For the Home" board.  I've seen a number of these pins and the recipes are all the same - 50/50 white vinegar and BLUE Dawn.  Now I haven't tried anything other than the blue Dawn, so I can't say if that's important, but someone else can try that. 

First, so everyone knows, my area has some tough water AND my husband is a machinist.  I get a buildup in my tub and even in my toilet (YUCK) that is this orangy color.  It's disgusting!  I've tried Kaboom, Clorox, and about everything else to get rid of it and NOTHING has worked.  My mother (the Clorox Queen) has tried MANY times to get rid of the dingy look in the non skid at the bottom of my tub and the ring in the toilet - even she couldn't remove it!

Now, I've seen everything from leaving it on for 10 minutes-2 hours.  I tried this once before, but the bottle I sprayed it on with didn't spray, it streamed.  So this is a new try with new build up.  Forgive the dinginess, I wanted something good to test on.  So first, here are the "Before" pictures.

This is the bottom of the tub, with the non skid I mentioned earlier.  You can also see in this picture the soap spots on the spigot.

 

This is another shot of the fixtures - You can also see the orange buildup around them.

You'll see the significance of this picture later, but there's buildup and orange goo.

This rod is the worst to clean!  Stuff gets around the ends, and the soap buildup is terrible on the acrylic!

Here's the toilet bowl (sorry, for the YUCK! I would rather not post these, but for the sake of the truth, here it is.)  The water deposits and that orange stuff again!

And finally, the sink.  I figured we'd try it everywhere :)

So, I sprayed everything down.  A tip here is to have VERY GOOD ventilation! 

And set the timer for an hour -

And waited........

 

 

 

Well, sort of - I went and did a 7 day arm challenge work out (coming soon to this blog ;)

 

 

So, an hour later and ~30 minutes of scrubbing, and here are the tub results -

 

Here's the bottom of the tub - much better, but not spotless......

Now THIS is a huge improvement!  I didn't have a before of this spot, but think orange goo in the corner.

Here's that acrylic rod - much cleaner!

And the back wall - cleaner too!

 

So it worked, but not perfectly.  BUT, I'm not done!  Boy that sounds like an info-mercail, but it's true.  I wanted to try it in the toilet, sink, and that razor cup. 

 

First, the toilet, it cleaned the toilet, but not well enough to post the after picture.

 

Now, the sink and razor cup - I didn't want to wait ANOTHER hour after working all day AND my earlier workout.  So, I let it sit about 10 minutes in the sink and wiped it out.  Now take a look -

 

Amazing!  It came out with a single wipe!  Maybe it works better when it only sits for 10 minutes :)

Finally, I wanted to see how it would work with the plastic razor cup.  Remember how it looked?  Scroll up, if you want and look at the "Before" of it.

I sprayed it down and wiped immediately.  I also removed the suction cups and sprayed them.  So, take a look -

Almost looks new, right!  Minus the staining on the suction cups, but it'll do to extend the life of that think for a little more.

So, I think it definitely works.  But I think it's better to wait only 10 minutes rather than an hour.  I'm not done testing though.  I think next week, I'm going to do the tub again, but wait only a few minutes before wiping.  Stay tuned for an update! :)