TestaRossa

I use the Ajax shower clean. You can spray it while the shower is on and the shower washes it off and keeps the lime away. I do it as I get in!!

PAT M

Can you get Ajax Shower clean here in Italy TR? Our shower cubicle is the bane of my life, it's one of those "Del-Boy" cubicles with seat, radio, lights, back squirters and power rainfall as well as an ordinary shower attachment, don't ask. I clean it while I'm inside, I really regret buying the damn thing. Yes and I agree the bidet takes up alot of room and is just another thing to clean.

.Ariel.

Del Boy shower cubicle

We just re vamped our bathroom (UK)... no bidet and the in laws are coming tmrw. Ke scandolo. There will be much debate I'm SURE.

I thought they didn't use them in France. Maybe we should start this thread up on the French board too. Ha. I thought they were only used in Italy (and maybe super dooper technological wiz ones in Japan too)

indiebird

The problem I have (and I do like to make life difficult for myself) is that I like to use the most natural products I can in my bathroom. Therefore I usually scrub with bicarb, rinse, and then use some vinegar to get rid of the bicarb. I like to think I will single-handedly save the planet.... Doesn't help that my skin seems to get more sensitive as I get older too!

TestaRossa

As Shirley Conran famously said, "Life's too short to stuff a mushroom!" Cut yourself some slack woman and make at least one boring job a bit easier!!

Isn't bidet a French word? I must admit I don't remember seeing them much in France though!

Pat M - Esselunga here sells it.... Where else?! It's really cheap too, about €1.29 a bottle?? It's better than the leave on ones as it cleans it either while you are in the shower or seconds after you get out. I don't mind being in the shower with it. It also cleans the taps and plugs really well.

davehornet6

do you have hard, or soft (or just plain mucky) water?
one thing i hope i dont have in italy is hard water
the water in bologna seemed really soft compared to the liquid limescale we have in windsor
i clean the bathroom every week and the only thing i found that gets rid of that horrid white (if i leave it for 2 weeks or more it starts going orange) scale on everything is Lighthouse limescale remover. its a pink acid stuff that burns your skin off when it splashes up your arm.
tried vinegar and other stuff but scale just laughs at me

indiebird

I agree with the limescale problemos Dave. In Brighton and Hastings (the south downs??!!) the water was very hard. I don't miss it. The water here is soft and I love it. Saves me a fortune on washing up liquid and bubblebath..... seriously!!

So the Ajax stuffy isn't one of those leave on concoctions then?? What do you use Angeli.... I was thinking today as I was scrubbing yet again that maybe I should by something for the shower which is less effort than what I'm doing now. I need only use it in the shower don't I......

.Ariel.

I'll watch out for the Ajax here. I'd like to use natural products and save the world, but I agree with TR, there are better things to do than scrub the shower cubicle, so Ajax it will be.

TestaRossa

The Ajax one is somewhere between the two, you don't have to wash it off - recommended but I have sprayed it on the wet glass without then rinsing, but you are better spraying it on wet glass and walls rather than dry so it doesn't streak. I leave it in the shower next to the shampoo!

dave - have you tried the limescale remover in the the green spray bottle? Can't remember it's name but I used that in Sussex without any problem at all. It was brill. You leave it on then sponge or wipe it off, normally worked a treat.

TestaRossa

I've seen it in Spain, so it should be in the UK you would think!! It's quite new, well before last summer, but it should've hit the UK first I would expect!

indiebird

Must admit that citric acid is good for descaling.

bricwood

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Bidet

casalottian

Oh god. There are just some things that shouldn't ever be written down. And how to use a bidet is one of them

.Ariel.

LOL.

"if you are wearing pants you will generally need to remove them in order to straddle the bidet in this manner." - Be it pants Amercian style or pants English style it's still funny.

"If the bidet has both hot and cold water controls, start by turning on the hot water."

Idiots guide or what
I definitely wouldn't go near a bidet that DIDN'T have hot and cold water taps.

davehornet6

green bottle, check! ill keep em peeled when im in shops. thanks.
has anyone used that cillit bang stuff?
all i know is its bloomin expensive, so didnt want to buy, and throw away pounds on another rubbish product.

cant say ive tried citric acid (never looked at bought cleaners to see if its in them) and i think cleaning the bathroom with half a lemon would definately get me locked up (im going mad enough sat at home)
might try it once everyone has gone out but i do prefer my lemons in a southern comfort