Cleaning Hard Water Deposits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- How to remove hard water deposits off of faucets and sinks. No need for special cleaners or chemicals, just plain vinegar is used on this. The acid in the vinegar easily dissolves the calcium and hard water deposits and makes it easy to remove.
And before anyone gets on my case about replacing gaskets and seals in the faucet, we don't have access to shut off the water to do it ourselves.
You just need to get replacement parts from your local home improvement store and fix the sink. It doesn't cost much and instructions come with the parts. Itd not hard to do. I've done it many times
As has been stated numerous times in the comments already, fixing the sink was not as easy as just replacing a washer or o-ring. The turn-off valves were rusted in place meaning the water could NOT be turned off. When they finally fixed it it flooded the 2 apartments beneath causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. So while technically is SHOULD have been easy, it was not. Besides, we moved out of that apartment over 3 years ago. It's someone else's problem now.
He said he lives in a apartment and they won't replace it he can't do it himself because he could get in trouble
@@croutoncrackerjacks Happy that you hopefully are living in a better place.
So you can pay for all of us ya? 😒....Anyways,
Crouton Crackerjacks ...thanks for this great diy!
Thank you for a great tutorial. I appreciate that you talked while you worked instead of a bunch of talking beforehand.
There's a reason grandma used vinegar for everything. It works!
So true! People complain about the smell but it dissipates really quick.
@Divya Raghu Shower heads.
This works! I’ve tried so many things - Lime Away, CLR, homemade solutions, scrubbing Ike crazy - so I was skeptical. The faucet I needed to clean looked a lot like the one in the video. I followed the instructions exactly and my faucet looks new. Very happy!
Have you tried Citric Acid? I find the powder stuff on Amazon for about 15$ for 5lbs
CLR is a rip off. Doesn't work in the slightest.
Zep calcium remover and 0000 steel wool
Oh wow, I wish I had found this video years ago!!! I have been trying everything under the sun to get my kitchen faucet area clean! I've used vinegar and baking soda but never achieved the results I did after following your video! It finally looks good as new again, thank you thank you!!!
So nice to see a man do the cleaning!
Why? Men OR women are fully capable of cleaning & maintenance.
Who else thinks it's freaking AWESOME that a guy is doing this cleaning video? YOU ARE THE MAN dude!! :)
I was a custodian for 40 years cleaning sinks and toilets as well as other things. Why is it such a shock that guys actually clean a bathroom?
What era do you live in that we’re supposed to applaud people depending on their gender for cleaning or maintenance?
Thanks for this video. My sink looked horrible and now looks like new again. I put the vinegar in a spray bottle and just sprayed it right on the surface and let it sit for a bit. I repeated this process every 20 mins or so and it pretty much just fell right off. Some areas needed a little extra attention but it definitely worked!!!
Doesn't work for me.
Thanks. This us by far the best demonstration and results I have seen and the cautions/recommendations were appreciated
Danm!! If the apartment complex dosen't want to replace the water fixture, at least they should fix the leak, it's super easy to do it, it takes 1minutes and less than $15 to get it done.. I work on an apartment complex for the disabled, section 8, and its usually the same deal, and when I fix the leak I clean all that calcium around and my residents are happy!! Lazy management
I live in a apartment complex and I'm having issues with my sink and have had them come to fix my issues in my sink and bathroom but they wouldn't fix it because everytime they showed up it wasn't leaking at those very moments. And when you call them to come it takes them a whole year (sarcasm) to come.
Its amazing how many things vinegar can clean!
I use it for just about everything! More environmentally friendly and the smell doesn’t last long
It even lifts fungus off you nails 😂😂😂
Yep. We used it on ours and it worked wonders. Put some vinegar into a baggie and then tie it onto the shower head arm so the head is completely submerged. Let it sit overnight and then run the shower. If you can take the head off and disassemble it then even better!
IT WORKED!!! THANK YOU FOR AN AWESOME AND HELPFUL VIDEO!!! My sink works fine, but over time, it had come to look terrible. To be honest, because my sink looked way worse than yours, I didn't expect much of a result, but it worked AND it was SO EASY!!! I used a non-serrated knife to scape off the deposits after the vinegar soak. Funny thing is, it's the same knife I ALWAYS use, only this time, instead of looking 'somewhat better,' it looks absolutely fabulous, shiney, and OH-SO-CLEAN. Plus, for the first time I was able to really get that tight little space behind the faucet! ❤️
If you have a lazy and stubborn teenager who refuses to do their chores, this works like a charm! This technique restored my kitchen sink almost like it was when we moved in!
great tip !...my mother in-law is coming to visit and you know how they are Lol
Thanks
karen sanjuan LOL she'll visit with a white glove on hand 🤣
They are often looking for things to criticize
I hate my in laws
😂 I love my MIL.
I have been cleaning with vinegar for years but it never occurred to me to saturate a cloth in it and wrap the faucets!! Thanx for this tip!! It worked like a charm!
WOW thank you, I have tried it before, but I see the key is letting it set and allow time for the chemical reaction to take place.
A good man appreciates the hard work. ;-)
THANK YOU! 💚 Our bathroom faucets desperately need this treatment.
I can't tell you how much I appreciated this video. There is hope for my kitchen. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks, I have cleaning white vinegar in my cabinet. We replaced the faucet years ago.
Now it looks bad, with all the hard water deposits. I still may buy a brand new one when
we replace the sink with stainless steel. I am hoping that would be the last one. The demo, faucet looks extra clean. I am so glad I found this video. Amelia in CA.
I JYST bought that Hurricane Spin Scrubber because my hands are too weak to scrub, and I have arthritis and I've injured my thumb. I also want to get away from toxic cleaners. I have asthma . So guess what? IT WORKS!! I don't even have to apply much pressure! There's an extension to do floors and walls, and you can buy extra heads for it. I'm so glad! I have TWO gallons of white vinegar!! My house us going to look SO GOOD!! THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!!
I use a vinegar, Dawn dish soap mixture. About a 1/4 c. Dawn and fill the rest with vinegar in a spray bottle. If you can clean it every week, it really keeps the buildup at a min. CLR works the best at really bad hard water stains and you don't have to scrub. Good job on it. It looks fabulous! As far as the leaky faucet, the screw in the handle may just need to be tightened.
You cook, clean, craft, like animals and work on cars.............the man of my dreams.
This is great. I love white vinegar except for the smell.
The smell goes away fast or you can soak orange peels in a jar of vinegar and clean with that it smells better
First off, I'm not about to buy laundry powder just to deal with this. Where I live, a box of Tide is $12. No thanks. Second, this stuff won't even come off with steel wool, let alone just a kitchen sponge. Vinegar is an acid that dissolves the shit. A gallon jug of it is less than $2 which I also use in my laundry as a fabric softener, to clean my stainless pots and pans, to clean windows, to clean spots on the carpet, etc.
It works a hell of a lot better than Lime-A-Way did! Cheaper too.
I love this hack. Will try this tonight as I have a bottle of vinegar in my pantry. Thank you.
We just bought a home in south Texas. It had been abandoned for 10 years. The stainless steel triple sink was almost pure white with calcium build up. I tried the baking soda & vinegar. It removed just about 10 percent of surface scale. I did it a second try last night. Still barely made a dent. I tried Lime Away this morning. That worked. Now alittle baby oil for shine.
I heard about this home remedy from someone recently, so decided to check it out online. That's when I found your video. I'll definitely give this a try. I also live in an apartment and the limescale is terrible! None of the commercial cleaners that supposedly do this work effectively. Thanks for sharing your video!
You are the best teacher.. slow and steady explanation. thank you,
I used an old toothbrush to get into the small spaces. This was a great video and thanks for the tip!
How easy and wonderful. I should have taken a before and after picture. It really works! Thank you so much for sharing this information!
Land Lords never want to fix the problem until it's to late and flooding! I'm sorry you went through that but thank you for showing us how you cleaned off the hard water. I'm about to try this in my tub where the faucet has been leaking and constantly splashing causing build up. I own my house so I don't have a landlord but I did have a plumber who replaced a part that never worked so now I'm back to square one. Need to clean up the hard water on the tub then get someone else in here to replace the part in the faucet to stop the leaking!!
So simple. I am going to try this today. Also, may try it on my formica countertop. Thanks so much for providing a video that couldn't be a less complicated solution!!
Late the party here, but another trick to try after the vinegar treatment would be to dip a cotton ball in mineral oil (or baby oil) and rub down the faucet with it. You don't want too much as it will pool and look greasy. Just get enough to give it a light coat and shine it up. The oil acts as a barrier on the metal so that the minerals in the water can't build up on the faucet. I sympathize with the apartment dwellers out there. We have the same leaky issue with the hot water handle in the tub. I've put in 4 maintenance requests over the years and they never fix it properly.
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It's just the ceramic cartridge that needs replacing. Probably less trouble to just replace it then to pester the landlord to do it.
Just for Tris....but I bet u that they will take that outta ur security deposit when u move & tell u it's because u never asked 4 it 2 be repaired!!
People shouldn't pay to improve their negligent landlord's property. If you have to do it yourself you might consider withholding that cost from your rent. The new property management company for my complex has taken away all our amenities, raised the rent 20%, intruded on our privacy and caused or ignored massive safety issues around the grounds. I'm not fixing anything. We used to deal with it on our own when we had issues but these new people suck. Not a penny
ohhhh my god--I did this last night and IT WORKS!!!! Thank you
another tip: rather than using an abrasive pad (which can scratch even when old), use wadded-up aluminum foil. It removes pretty much anything from chrome-plated, stainless, and anodized aluminum surfaces without scratching. It can, however, leave black deposits on tile and such but you can remove those with a cloth and some Barkeeper's Friend (tested half a dozen abrasive cleaners and it works hardest--period--and doesn't scratch. It removes scale too).
You could probably use an old sock for the top part of the faucet. Thanks for the video very helpful! Will try
Thank you so much for this video! I had tried everything I knew and nothing was working, and this was absolutely amazing! It worked!
The BLUE sponges work great and are not as damaging to the finish. Well done.
Loved the video. I'm a property manager, and I'm disturbed by the fact that your landlord won't send a maintenance person to fix the leak on your faucet. That's causing such a potential for other water damage, underneath the sink. Well, good thing you found a way to beautify it again.
Very nice and I like the idea of the vinegar instead of chemical cleaners for this project. The vinegar rinses off quickly whereas chemicals can cling for a while and slowly seep into the water stream and potentially get into your mouth as you brush your teeth (or into your eyes when washing face).
This method really works 👍. I was also able to stop a leak by removing the dirt and lime using this. Thanks 😉
Wow who would’ve ever knew? You learned something every day, huh
Nice. Love that you used plain cheap vinegar. Just what I was looking for.
Thanks so much for your video. My sink is sparkling and the calcium came right off after two rounds. Much appreciated 👍🏾
Thank you! I tried it on a sink yesterday. I had to have a plumber come and fix the drip in sink and shower bath combo and I was left with the hard water stain. Looks brand new.
Thank you! I've tried all kinds of things and who would have known all I needed was vinegar! My faucet looks like new!
Thank you for taking the time to make this thorough video. I definitely will be using vinegar on my faucets tomorrow.
If you would have called the faucet manufacturer which is Delta. They would have sent you the o-ring kit for free. Sometimes you have to man up and fix the simple things. And you wouldn't have that much of a leak to get the hard water. spots. But yes vinegar does do a good job. You're cleaning turned out awesome.
Great tip! Vinegar is great for so many things. Not sure if I would use vinegar for this job simply because of how long it has to sit. I get my calcium, lime, rust remover from the dollar store and it works instantly!
+Sandra M. could you possibly link me a picture of what the kind you use looks like & what store you get it from?
+Jen Tuesday I get it from the DollarTree. Sometimes the bottle is different but it's the lime scale remover or you can go to Walmart and get a bottle of CLR (Calcium, Lime, Rust) for around $4. The stuff works instantly on thin layers of lime but u may need a plastic scrubby for thicker spots.
Fantastic! I have the same faucet, and boy does it ever need this tip. Thank you!
I have the same faucet with the same issues. I found that the leak stops if I keep the aerator clean. Often the minerals int he water will build up on the aerator screen and though it looks clean, it has smaller holes that wont flow well, causing the pressure build up and leakage.
Thanks for yet another great tip on the vinegar.
Great Video! I'm cleaning my kitchen faucet and my coffee maker at the same time to limit the time my house has to smell like vinegar.
A top tip for firmly gripping the old piece of fabric to the chrome while the vinegar saturates it: Simply tie a shoelace (old) or piece of string quite tightly around the whole thing and it will all pack together nicely as you require.
Tie it in a knot, but not so tightly that you are unable to undo it an hour later. Just with enough force to keep it from coming undone naturally. That's after pouring the extra vinegar drops on the cloth.
Great idea, thankyou for sharing it. As for the leak, if you wrap a thread or string around the space that leaks, it will help the flow go straight in
Thank you. Same exact faucet and same exact leak! I'll give this a try.
We have the same exact sink and faucet combo and the same leaking issue!! And of course my landlord isn’t easy to work with as well. Thanks for the tip!
I watched this the other day and I live in an area known for hard water (Barrie, ON). Yesterday, I decided to give this a go and I’m very happy with the results! I just wanted to come back to this video to say thank you!
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I ended up using Simply Clean - Vinegar Plus. Pretty strong stuff but I bought it from the health food store that I work at. It’s stronger than regular vinegar and so is the smell!!! Yikes. Next time I’ll just use regular vinegar but it worked very well!! Only one application needed.
Fantastic video and money and time saving. No unnecessary replacement of parts
Ty for sharing your videos and information with us ALL. Happy 2020 soon. 👍
Looks so much better, yes vinegar is great. I also like lemon oil to shine bathroom fixtures and tile etc. Now if I could find something other than ZUD, a product I can’t find in stores to clean the hard water stains in my toilet bowls ....☺️😂💕
Vinegar is great for all sorts of uses, but I would have used a steel wool pad instead of the green. My Mother always used Lemon Oil, I never thought of using Baby Oil! Such great ideas...thanx for sharing!
rub some vaseline around the seams and edges and keep it lubed to prevent this buildup.
I will try it
The best product on the market to reduce scale issues is the Aquabion water conditioner, fantastic product and comes with a performance warranty which nobody else offers. In the video it shows scale deposits and a leaking tap from internal scale which I haven’t had since having the Aquabion installed.
Best product to get rid of hard scale is Kilrock.
I have a quicker solution to those ugly hard water issues. Take an empty spray bottle fill half way with that white vinegar, fill the rest of the way with Dawn dish soap. Nothing else works like it. Spray on, leave sit for 15 minutes or longer, rinse, and rinse till all the soap is off without having to scrub. Spray and leave again if necessary. I do this at least once a week cause my water is really hard. This method works beautifully~
Would the vinegar and the soap combination not reduce the ph? Therefore reducing the effect of Vinegar?
Looks great! I have the exact faucet and am always working at keeping the calcium deposits cleared away.
thanks a lot this was useful to clean my water taps in the kitchen and bathroom, so easy and simple
Literally looks brand new. Awesome! :) Thank you!
this is great because you are using a natural cleaner and none of the stuff that hurts the environment.
tortillitas18 natural doesn't mean it won't harm the environment.
I learned the hard way to wipe the faucet down every time I wash dishes. Not just wipe it down but I normally keep a pot of water boiling while I wash dishes, so at the end of taking care of the dishes, I pour a generous amount onto the faucet, let it sit then wipe it dry. I also pour the boiling water into the sink to rinse it after I scrub it down with a brush. I don't have a stainless steel sink, and it it's old, so it needs extra scrubbing. But the hot water keeps me from having build up. I don't know the science behind how I figured this out or why it works, but it does.
Thanks for the tip it worked great on my bathroom! ;) found out soft toothbrush works too!
Your voice is outstanding
Go over the sink with a wet ppr towel and some good old baby oil after cleaning with vinegar. A light coating of baby oil with aloe will keep the hard water stains at bay. That or Murphy's oil soap spray (orange spray bottle) but baby oil seems to work better.
Better to wax it with carnauba wax, yes car wax. Carnauba wax is the most food safe wax there is, indeed pills and candy are coated with it. The cheap car wax isn't carnauba wax, only the expensive stuff.
Baby oil can be toxic for consumption (if it's accidentally transmitted to your food/drinks), but olive oil does just as good job and it's edible 😉
@@MsLoverPower waao👍🤲🙂
Use a toothbrush to reach the really annoying parts of the faucet.
Thanx. I was abt. to say that also.
thanks for the toothbrush tip, I tried sponge with a stick on google and was mislead
NortonsNestMonthly a hurricane spin scrubber! There's a smallish brush that gets I to those small places and no pressure. For a person with arthritis it's great! I used to use toothbrushes and that toxic hard water Clea ET that about chokes the oxygen out if the air! No more! Vinegar, baby!*
Sorry for the bad spelling! I don't have spell-check anymore!!
I always keep our old toothbrushes for parts cleaners and things like that. You know it!
Just cleaned my yucky faucet and it worked! Thanks so much for the tip....
Thank you for this helpful tip! In the apartment complex we have the same faucets, with the same leak, and the same nasty look.
It might be the cheapest faucet in the west 😁
Oh nice! Much appreciation for posting this helpful and successful cleaning lesson.
If you use 0000 steel wool, instead of green pad, it will help polish. Great tip w/vinegar!
Yep, i hate the feel of steel wool - yuk
I'm going to buy white vinegar and clean mine . Thank you very much for uploading.
Looks great & easy without using lots of store bought who knows what chemicals 👍
Omg simple vinegar!!! I’ll be giving it a go tomorrow!! Thanks
Thanks for the info. I have a faucet that looks exactly like yours where it connects to the sink. Except it's in even worse condition than yours was. I'll try the vinegar.
I did that on my expensive faucet and it REMOVED the silver!!!
Ooof that sucks 😬
Wow! It turned out great! S/N when you said “porcelain sink” auto caption had it as “horse limb sink” 😂
I'm sure I'll be using your technique in my new house!!! Thanks for sharing!! :)
You might also look into trying Barkeepers Friend. It works great for hard water deposits on your faucet (and other metal, including stainless steel sinks). I have really hard water and used it on my 3-year-old faucet and it came out beautifully. It doesn't scratch, either, which is awesome. I've never tried this vinegar method, but am going to for the hard water deposits on the tile surrounding the sink.
Metal polish (for Chrome on cars) works real slick, it is faster than vinegar. I did my bathroom faucet in like 5 min with a paper towel and it looked nasty like yours. I also used Fast Orange to scrub away the soap scum and other grime in the sink... Try it out and see if it works for you. [I used the Turtle Wax Chrome & Metal Polish]
The abrasives in these cleaners break down as you use them and you only need a small amount. Just work it in and polish away the crud with ease. No Scotch-Brite required.
This works great! Great way to remove hard water deposits. Thanks for posting!
I use a toothbrush for the hard to reach places and then baking soda to make it shiny :) The before and after on your sink it's amazing. I've never had deposits that bad and I'm surprised you were able to clean it.
Thanks... I am trying it out even as we speak. I am also going to try the vinegar and Dawn dish soap suggestion from one of the comments... can't hurt to have an artillery to combat these menaces!
My wife cleans houses and she said only thing you need is 409 and a soft green pad. Cleans it perfect.
Thank you. Will be trying this with my faucets as they all have mineral deposits on them. Wish me luck😊😊
Try De-Glue Goo, a non-toxic gel used for desolving water based glues. Just squeeze some onto the deposites and leave it to work. Use a soft brush like a tooth brush to scrub off the desolved deposites. For light deposites leave it for a few minutes. For heavy deposites leave for half an hour or longer. The time will depend on the dryness of your evironment. If it drys just recoat. For heavy deposites, you may have to clean more than once. It is easier than the towel method.
Adding baking soda to the vinegar wet rag would make the deposits come off even easier. :)
Thanks. I'm going to try now
You just like the vinegar baking soda reactions. Vinegar is an acid, baking soda is a base, together they neutralize each other and produce sodium acetate. But the reaction is satisfying and until they neutralize each other completely, they both still clean.
It can also scratch pretty bad. Baking soda is an abrasive.
@@johnwang9914 Thanks. No wonder that combination didn't work for me when i tried it.
filipinos use vinegar all the time for cleaning we already know this, you can also use vinegar in cleaning your electric kettle, stove etc etc... you can also use citric acid as a subtitute... pour 2 tablespoon of citric acid to ur kettle boil it twice let it stay for an hour
musmos busabos I love citric acid for these things!
musmos busabos
Watching this in 2021....super helpful!
Cool tips for our kitchen. Thanks for sharing !
I've legit got the same fosit with the same freaking leak--what a bad design! Thanks for the video tho, I'm definitely gonna try this 😁
Sometimes I feel so good about myself that these things doesn't matter to me much.😂😂