Cleaning things


In Singapore the water is pretty soft, but where my parents live it’s proper hard water, filtered through chalk and full of delicious limescale. So although they only installed their new shower a few years ago, it looks like this:

Feeling a little revolted, I got a bottle of white vinegar and a plastic bag, and then put the shower head in the vinegar in the bag, and went out for three hours. This is one of the easiest ways to clean things I’ve discovered.

When I got back, the vinegar had gone a nasty brown colour, but there was still a lot of mucky nastiness on the shower head. However, a quick wipe with a foam pad and the vinegar-soaked scale just slid off, leaving us with this beauty:

Good as new, although it does smell of vinegar now. But then I like fish and chips.

I enjoyed this so much (and as I say it’s a real novelty as it’s unnecessary in Singapore) that I soaked all the scale off their other shower head as well. Good son.

That was the major excitement of the day, apart from going shopping this morning and running around in Crystal Palace Park this afternoon. My kids must love these holidays. I tell them they have to.


One response to “Cleaning things”

  1. You ain’t the only one. A sparkly rubber duckie bath mat following 2 hours with 2 bath towels in onw washing machine. Yay.

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