Cleaning a tiled shower question

geegerbee · ‎03-09-2010

My shower is 2 yrs. old. Where the wall tile meets the bottom tile, it is getting kind of an orange film. I am afraid to use an abrasive tool like even a toothbrush or a harsh chemical thinking it might take off the silicone sealer where the 2 kinds of tiles meet. I regularly use a squeegee on the walls, but have ignored the bottom part. How do you clean your showers where the wall meets the floor tile? Do I need to reseal with silicone after cleaning?

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I use a Clorox Bleach Pen. It whitens the silicone and the grout. The pen has gel in it and it sticks and clings to wherever you put it. Then I leave it on over night and rinse it off the next day. Everything looks new again.

BadWolf · ‎10-10-2014

Soak some paper towels with a calcium, lime and rust removed and let set for about 10 minutes. You can lightly scrubbed with a nylon scrubbing pad and it should not harm your silicone. That stuff is actually pretty tough.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

I spritz with Fresh Shower after every use. Never get mold, mildew, water spots or soap scum. Tile stays clean and shiny and I have no work or scrubbing.

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geegerbee · ‎03-09-2010

I will check into the gel pen, but my grout is beige, not white, so might not work.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@geegerbee wrote:
I will check into the gel pen, but my grout is beige, not white, so might not work.

@geegerbee

It won't make the grout white. It will just bring it back to it's original color. But I would do a test section first just to be sure.

Janey2 · ‎06-07-2010

Orange film in a shower usually means hard water stains. Google that and you will get different ways to clean that problem. If the film is more of a pink color that is soap scum. I always get that and use original soft scrub on the tile.

gtx · ‎08-15-2010

Kachina, is Fresh Shower a shower cleaner?

Happy2BHere · ‎10-22-2019

@Kachina624 I just wanted to say that I love Clean Shower (is that the same as Fresh Shower? I don't have the bottle anymore), but all of the sudden I had a hard time finding it, even on Amazon. Living with the humidity in FL you really need to use something, and Clean Shower has saved me a lot of work .

In the meantime I did find some Clorox daily shower and really like it too - so if you ever have a problem finding an after shower spray you might try this stuff. It works really well.

Now when I can't find either of these I will really be in trouble!

Edited to add - the picture below is the Clean Shower I usually used. Looks like Amazon is price gouging on it now for some reason!