Comments on: How to Remove Hard Water Spots from Glass and other Hard Water Headaches

By: dina

dina — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:33:21 +0000

to get hard water stains and other stains out of the toilet …use a pumice stone ! It works great and eventually starts to disenegrate ( into sand ) but removes all stains. The pumice stone is purchased at your local hardware store.

By: frida

frida — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:33:32 +0000

Bar Keeper's Friend is wonderful and cheap, try it.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:56:53 +0000

Use Lemi-shine for those spots on dishes in the dishwasher and also for shower doors. Instructions are on the package label. Great stuff!

By: Issac'sWife

Issac'sWife — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:23:47 +0000

The cook top stuff worked!! Thank you!!!

By: hsgbdmama

hsgbdmama — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:23:07 +0000

What would the ratio be for the diluted vinegar solution?

I’ve been looking to replace the Tilex (or Target brand equivalent; the dollar store stuff was awful) with something homemade and would like to try this. Thanks!

By: bojah

bojah — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:59:52 +0000

I’ve been treating myself here & there to watching some “How Clean is Your House?” videos with Kim & Aggie. It was a British show aired on Lifetime (I think) a couple years ago. I’m watching them now on YouTube. Very entertaining stuff, but also informative. Anyway, I watched them do a segment where they used very, very fine grit wet/dry sandpaper on stains like these in the toilet. I decided to be brave, & go for it with my own stained fixtures, having one area in the toilet bowl, & a little line under the hot water tap that I’d never been able to remove with cleanser. So help me, the sandpaper worked!! I was amazed. I did work gently & slowly, but the stains are gone, & there isn’t any scratching left behind. Good luck!

By: jessica @pianomomsicle

jessica @pianomomsicle — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:12:57 +0000

We also have hideously hard water here. We can’t figure out where our water softener is, after 1.5 years of living here, so all our dishes (beautifully blue translucent glass ones i got for our wedding dishes) never look clean, because of all the white scum that hangs out on them. i’ve used white vinegar and jet dry in the dishwasher to no avail. My toilets are permanently stained, no matter how much bar keeper’s friend i scrub them with.
Please have a tutorial for those of us with very hard water!

By: Jasi

Jasi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:59:10 +0000

Really good question. We have hard water out here, too and we wonder at inexpensive and efficient ways to fix it. Any ideas out there?

By: silver

silver — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0000

What about hard water stains in the toilet (where soap scum isn’t a problem)? Is the toilet forever stained, or is there some magic to getting it out?