Corgigirl with her vinegar-and-salt mixture is making me crave potato chips. :-)
It, um, never occurred to me to unscrew the shower head to clean it. But when I lived in Florida I had that hard, hard Florida well water, and I filled a plastic sandwich bag with white vinegar and put that over the shower head, fastening it around the top with a rubber band. Left it overnight and it really did help. The bowl trick would've been a lot easier, though.
The hard part for me is just keeping enough vinegar in contact with the surfaces long enough to dissolve the scale. For faucets perhaps you could soak some rags/strips of cloth in the stuff and wrap them around the crusty bits? I'm not sure, never having tried it.
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:06 pm (UTC)It, um, never occurred to me to unscrew the shower head to clean it. But when I lived in Florida I had that hard, hard Florida well water, and I filled a plastic sandwich bag with white vinegar and put that over the shower head, fastening it around the top with a rubber band. Left it overnight and it really did help. The bowl trick would've been a lot easier, though.
The hard part for me is just keeping enough vinegar in contact with the surfaces long enough to dissolve the scale. For faucets perhaps you could soak some rags/strips of cloth in the stuff and wrap them around the crusty bits? I'm not sure, never having tried it.