This Will Clean Shower Head Faster Than Normal Vinegar (Remove Hard Water Stains from Faucet)

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3 жыл бұрын

How to clean shower head. Does your kitchen or bathroom faucet or shower have hard water stains? This is how you can remove hard water stains from faucet - with vinegar.
Fast cleaning tip: use extra strength vinegar to get it done faster. See it bubble up and clean so fast! This is vinegar for cleaning, not eating. If you use regular vinegar it needs to soak for hours but in this case I left it for less than an hour.
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Be careful because the vinegar is strong and can burn to touch or breath in at this concentration. Wear gloves. Open windows.
You can use regular vinegar you buy at the grocery store too, it may need to soak longer.
You need a rubber band, plastic bag and vinegar. At the end you can give it a quick scrub with baking soda and a brush (like a toothbrush) but mine just wiped right off.
This is a kitchen faucet with spray head. Love the water pressure that it has!!
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@realkoko-loco Жыл бұрын

also, if you take the shower head off, you can run vinegar and CLR through it versus having it just sit on the outside.

@uglytruth4467 Жыл бұрын

Install a whole house water softner system. It improved our health and eliminated hardwater scale.

@realkoko-loco Жыл бұрын

@@uglytruth4467 Lugging 50 lb. solar salt crystals every couple weeks is a drag...and expensive.

@lesliewaggoner6797 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Going to try this tonight!!

@voguevania Жыл бұрын

I did this to my powder room sink faucet a few weeks ago! My product was LA's Totally Awesome Cleaning Vinegar, and I poured it into a laundry detergent cup. I taped it to the faucet for about two hours. It worked beautifully! I don't know what strength it is, though.

@nunyabitnezz2802 9 ай бұрын

FYI The shower head will easily unscrew. Put in a Tupperware or something and soak it outside.

@maddybe4r 3 ай бұрын

not if its sealed with plumbers tape lol

@Child_of_the_HolyTrinity1732 3 жыл бұрын

Happy cleaning😁 tysvm 4 sharing 💜

@tessjones5987 Жыл бұрын

Great skill. Thanks.

@jinsooked Жыл бұрын

Much easier to remove shower head and let it soak in vinegar OUTSIDE the house so that it doesn’t smell. It will save a ziplock bag as well.

@mikeh8228 Жыл бұрын

I agree with you that regular household vinegar is not fast enough to be very practical. I had never heard of 30% Vinegar so will look for it at my local hardware store. I am presently cleaning the hard water scale off of a faucet aeriator that I removed from the faucet, using 10% HCl aka muriatic acid. And I can see it bubbling like during your application. I scraped some of the white scale off the fitting and put a drop of 10% HCl on it and it foamed up, telling me it is simple calcium carbonate composing the scale. Home chemistry....I love it!

@darlenemstrommer7687 4 ай бұрын

Use baking soda and vinegar warm water cleans

@HeronCoyote1234 4 ай бұрын

2:57. Thank you! I never thought of just wrapping the rubber band around the pinched off bag, rather than trying to stretch it over the showerhead. I’ve got a rain head showerhead in one bathroom. I’ll try this (carefully, of course).

@mvblitzyo Жыл бұрын

I’m gonna try fingers crossed

@Soylntgrnisppl 8 ай бұрын

Straight to the point video. If you have a 4-6' velcro strap, that kind that are often used to secure certain items in packaging, that works really well to secure the plastic bag.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 8 ай бұрын

Great tip!

@tonyaguilar3053 4 ай бұрын

Probably a zip tie should work

@leahmay1506 Жыл бұрын

I wish I used vinegar!! I used pin sol and I don’t think all of it is being filter out despite making water run through the shower head for a while! I don’t think pine sol has major chemicals in it, but vinegar is still the safest option. I may have to get a new shower head now!

@stephanielundquist4370 5 ай бұрын

This works. I left it on for 24 hours though because I was using regular vinegar.

@tanzaniaghazi8008 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@nickyonstilts128 Жыл бұрын

My mom used to do this hot water plus some CLR (Calcium Lime Rust remover). But vinegar is so much cheaper & more environmentally friendly.

@questionresearch8721 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@j5316s Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@user-zj7sw8kb4n 3 ай бұрын

thank you

@_dakota_298 2 жыл бұрын

Wow is right ... it looks brand new !

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

So satifsying!

@ruggedrickrude1946 2 жыл бұрын

How shines is secondary,the water flow strength out of said unit after soaking is to me what’s important

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

Good point, I'm so focused on the cleaning results but your shower will work a lot better.

@elaine3642 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I was waiting to see the water flow.

@mrsnow3168 2 жыл бұрын

PS I love cleaning up my bathroom 🐱

@kfrankism Жыл бұрын

Does this always help with build-up for water pressure not just cleaning?

@jfpdc888 Жыл бұрын

So I tried this method, regular vinegar, and it worked great with the kitchen faucet and allowed the water to really come through so much better. Not so much with my shower head. I had each area soak overnight.

@donjaun540 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you gorgeous. I will try methods as I have the same build up on water receptacles. 😘🤛🥋🤛

@TPGKDUB Жыл бұрын

I used boiling water, vinegar and baking soda

@ariah3364 Жыл бұрын

Vinegar is dilute acetic acid, so it makes sense that the 30% version has precautions.

@sharronmadhusekhar8899 3 жыл бұрын

Great 😊😊😊💟💟💟👍👍👍

@MrSpikeTV11 3 жыл бұрын

I use tape to hold my in the shower

@joeborowy5794 Жыл бұрын

Much better then the one I hade on board.

@darlenemstrommer7687 4 ай бұрын

Baking soda warm water vinegar works miracles

@davidmoran4471 9 ай бұрын

I would add for the shower head add a face shield with the 30%.

@yettaoshea8869 2 жыл бұрын

Why not use velcro ties to secure the bag? They are easy to tightly secure and then reuseable.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't have any 😬

@Fayery_Random_YT 2 жыл бұрын

i used white vinegar, just usual one we use for cooking. left our showerhead soaked from morning til night , it helped only just a bit

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

Really? Every time I've done it it's made a huge difference. The acid in the vinegar softens the buildup. You definitely left it long enough. I'm stumped.

@mikeh8228 Жыл бұрын

It is just not a strong enough acid, that is why she was using the 30% vinegar, likely available at your local hardware store.

@Account-br9kc Жыл бұрын

@@CleanFreakGermaphobe we dont have 30% no longer available in my country only far weaker ones, I tried this, it helped almost nothing

@michaelpoe3244 11 ай бұрын

Your process is great. But, you have demonstrated that it worked by showing water flow

@ericshufro9209 9 ай бұрын

How do i clean the hard water spots off the the backing plate where the valve levers are against the wall?

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 7 ай бұрын

I would use CLR cleaner

@lovelyflower1130 2 жыл бұрын

How long did you soak the shower head in the vinegar?

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

I can't recall the time but we were only there for 3 hours or so. It was probably an hour but I used that killer strong cleaning vinegar. 30%. I'd have to watch my own video to remember if I diluted it or not. Or if I mentioned it. Normally, I can't handle it full strength.

@melissamundle456 Жыл бұрын

Better results if you leave it on overnight

@kosmosbjm 8 ай бұрын

Another thing that people forget is to soak the attached “hose” on the shower head and kitchen faucet. That gets full of hard water or mineral stains. I would put the vinegar in a dishpan, then lay the kitchen faucet and attached hose in it. You could also soak a towel in vinegar and wrap that around the hoses.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 7 ай бұрын

Great tip, thank you!

@USMC-Sniper-0137 Жыл бұрын

I have a showerhead similar and the question is, does it really clear the orifices in the showerhead? It don't hurt the o-rings inside? Thanks

@CleanFreakGermaphobe Жыл бұрын

It doesn’t get deep inside it mostly cleans the outside so the water will come out the shower head better. You’d need to take it apart and soak it to get inside. It would probably wouldn’t hurt the o-rings significantly except over time. But you don’t need to do a thorough cleaning like that very often. Maybe you can remove them first too, I’m not familiar enough with the inside to know.

@USMC-Sniper-0137 Жыл бұрын

@@CleanFreakGermaphobe OK thank-you. Bagging it and after the soak using immediate water pressure is probably best.👍

@caligirl3000 Жыл бұрын

I won't be using that strong vinegar, but house hold vinegar & baking soda. Dies that combo also remove rust from the shower head?

@jimralston4789 9 ай бұрын

Dont add baking soda for this job. It is an alkaline and will neutralizie (weaken) the vinegar. You want a strong acid to react and neutralize the alkalinic hard water scale.

@caligirl3000 9 ай бұрын

@jimralston4789 thank you!!!!

@5rgyyuyrgg 5 ай бұрын

Making the slit like your friends does will work if you use a steak knife or another small knife.

@Vickylynn322_ Жыл бұрын

Have you ever tried ammonia?

@jimralston4789 9 ай бұрын

Acids like vinegar are better at dissolving the calcification.

@realkoko-loco Жыл бұрын

Instead of putting the bag on the fixture, just unscrew the shower head and put it in a bucket of vinegar outside !

@CleanFreakGermaphobe Жыл бұрын

Sometimes the faucets are so tight and difficult to remove that it’s easiest to use a plastic bag.

@sirgeoh 2 жыл бұрын

why not just take the shower head off and put it in bag?

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

Because this was old and it would be a beast to take off and put back on. And involve using tools. Plus it may make a new mess. I prefer to clean it while it's still attached but great idea!

@notreally2406 6 ай бұрын

@@CleanFreakGermaphobeyou simply grab the whole face of it with your hand and rotate it counter clockwise...easy

@scottwood6920 Жыл бұрын

I did this but just took both off and put them in the bags completely submerged.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s a good way too. I didn’t want to remove them, nor my shower, didn’t have tools with me…

@terryworth7 10 ай бұрын

Excellent! Wonderful! Do me a favor; wear protective science lab goggles, please!

@50FTY 8 ай бұрын

I use acetic acid which is used to make viniger ,,,, it smells ,,,, well awful sounds sweet in comparison ,,,, 🤣 but work gets done

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 7 ай бұрын

Are you saying it smells much better than vinegar?

@5rgyyuyrgg 5 ай бұрын

It didn't look like all the calcium was removed. If you let it sit overnight, all of it will be removed. Mine was worse than yours before I soaked it overnight. After I did that, mine was extremely cleaner than the ones you clean.

@safriedrich1631 Жыл бұрын

history claims that Hannible, on his way to conquer Rome, cut roads through the Alps by pouring boiling vinegar over all the limestone rock he had to get by...just saying

@TheThoress 9 ай бұрын

You cleaned the outside of each and they looked great. But you did not turn any of the water on for them. I do not think that it unclogged any of them or else you would have turned the water on for each on. That is just my honest opinion.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 9 ай бұрын

I think that I just don’t think to. I’m more into the clean but I’m sure the water flowed better too.

@TheThoress 9 ай бұрын

@@CleanFreakGermaphobe Thank you my dear for your answer and that makes sense. I will be following your instructions tonight with a big smile on my face! Thank you again for helping us all out. ❤❤❤

@robertwren2289 2 жыл бұрын

No kidding, to me it's just easier to remove them, and then put them in a bag outside.

@badbonzai1 2 жыл бұрын

Why no before and after spraying??? BS.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

You want to see how well it sprays before and after it's cleaned? I'm focused on how clean it looks! I don't know that it makes a huge difference or a noticeable one in the spray. But it's shiny and clean.

@badbonzai1 2 жыл бұрын

@@CleanFreakGermaphobe Sorry, mine was plugged up. wanted to see the difference in the spray.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe 2 жыл бұрын

A note for next time, thanks for the tip.