My husband is a mechanic and gets very greasy at times. When he showers the tub gets so nasty and I clean it constantly. However, I still have black places in the tub from grease and oil stains. I have tried a number of things but just can't figure it out.
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
Try Bar Keeper's Friend. It worked on my tub bottom when it was gray and dingy from very hard water deposits. It's the only thing that has worked. I use it every week!
That's stuff is great!! I can't use a lot of cleaners. I have COPD and can't handle pine sol or other spray cleaners. I first used it to removed build up from my well water.
Have you tryed using a degreaser on your tub? You can get a bottle at the dollar store. It should work on the tub.
try Zud it comes in a yellow ajax size can it remove just about anything
Bar Keepers Friend is good. Vinegar or Lime Away will also dissolve the minerals (that may be what the dingy stuffy is clinging to.) Let it sit a few minutes then wipe away.
Use Greased Lightning spray (at Walmart). Melted baked on grease of drip pan from a smoker.
Ask the greasy fellow to wipe the tub down with a soapy rag, then rinse (which is easy to do with a shower head on a hose) before he exits the shower. Tell him you'll be "in the mood" more often if you have fewer backaches from scrubbing the tub. If there are stubborn spots it's probably because they are dirt mixed with dried hard water scale, and those are best attacked before they dry.
Can he shower somewhere else? Lol! That's a nasty burden to have to put on you. I've always had luck with a product called CLR. It cleans calcium deposits, lime, and rust, hence the CLR. It's pretty potent so I would think it'd be a cinch on motor grease, too. Just be sure when you use it that the bathroom is well ventilated and run the fan.
Clean doses not work
My husband is a mechanic as well. I have had the same problem. Normal cleaners don't cut it. I have had the best results using equal parts white vinegar and original blue Dawn dish detergent in a spray bottle. I spray it down and let it soak for a while, 30 mins to an hr. I have let it sit overnight when it was really grungy.
Is water mixed in with the vinegar and Dawn or just the two?
Thank you. My husband is a mechanic at a Italian tile company and I have tried everything to get the oil stains out and nothing something to work. I'm going to try your solution since you've been in this situation and know exactly what we're dealing with.
Thanks for the tip, I am going to try it. my husband is a contractor and have a grimy tub as well.
Mechanic's wife here, too. I also have had better results with the original blue Dawn and white vinegar mixture than with anything else. It is slick and it does make your nose hairs curl, but it works pretty well.
Thank you sooo very much for this information. It worked wonderfully. I've tried for years to get these grease stains out of my showers. Thank you again!!
My husband is a diesel mechanic and when he comes home to take a shower omg my bath tub looks crazy, it had gotten so bad the grout was turning black.. the BEST things thats works almost instantly is Clorox Beach toilet bowl cleaner.. I read these comment went out to Walmart and got all this stuff but then I watched this YouTube video about how to clean the grout and this lady recommended the toilet bowl cleaner she sat in on the grout of her floors for 10 minutes and used a grout brush..
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
