The biannual houseguest bonanza

[cimorene]

Wax's favorite aunt is here! She came for the triplets' graduation party Saturday. We love to have her.

However, I'm out of paracetamol (acetaminophen) because last time I was in a pharmacy I accidentally bought the small box of 10x 500mg instead of the normal one of 30. And I am completely exhausted after cleaning strenuously the last three days: vacuuming, tons of laundry, sweeping, scrubbing floors, dusting, shaking rugs and moving bunny furniture, and scrubbing two bathrooms yesterday (mirrors and glass, chrome and porcelain, and toilets). My hands, feet, shoulders, back, legs, and arms are all separately sore. It's also extremely windy and the wind is very cold. I do not want to walk to the store! However, I'm about to run out of Earl Grey as well as painkillers (we have plenty of ibuprofen, but I don't take it often because I don't want it to destroy my sensitive stomach).

I also had cause to search the web for tips for removing limescale from toilets and floors and glass shower walls and chrome fixtures. The glass got much better, and with magic eraser some of the scale came off the floor tiles where there's a drip that has made little white rings around their edges (they're cobalt blue Japanese glazed porcelain tile), but all my cleaning products and physical friction made no impression on the other named surfaces. I found insane stuff like people with hard water chipping the calcium out of the toilet bowl with a screwdriver or filling it up with hydrochloric acid. The post I found about limescale on glass was from a woman who has been trying to remove it for ten years and the only things that have worked for her were razors and steel wool. The internet wants me to fill a plastic bag with vinegar and rubber band it around the faucet, but it's a shower mixer that looks like this... do I even have a big enough bag?

I have mostly a pleasant feeling of accomplishment. But also... sore.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Good luck on your pain relief and tea quest!

[cesy]

Viakal spray seems to work for our cleaner for removing limescale.

[cimorene]

I will check it out and investigate what products I find! They always seem to have different names here which is a big pain in the butt! 😅

[haphazardmethod]

We have hard water, too, and I’ve done the plastic bag around the shower head thing. It worked ok but just replacing the shower head worked better. Doing the glass shower door is on my list but I don’t wanna.

[cimorene]

Yeah but I don't want to replace the mixer! That's like plumber level work.

[cimorene]

But it's good to know it at lest somewhat worked. I was going nuts when the microfiber AND magic eraser didn't remove the marks!! Apparently there's a drip which makes them inevitable so maybe we need a plumber anyway...