How to remove limescale.

Lime is that natural enemy that faucets and bathrooms usually have, luckily it has very simple remedies, most of them homemade. We tell you how to eliminate it.

Lime is a deposit normally of calcium carbonate, which remains when water evaporates on a surface. Over time, this mineral accumulates, and is usually the cause of white formations due to crystals, slabs and faucets. 

It is also formed in some appliances, below we will leave you a few home remedies with which to eliminate limescale so that everything is shiny again.

How do I remove limescale from faucets?

The most common solution is to use White vinegar, with a few steps we will have the faucet as clean as the first day:

  1. We soak a cloth in vinegar, we must let the cloth absorb as much vinegar as possible but without dripping.  
  2. We take the rag and we wrap around the faucet. If you have one, use rubber bands to keep the cloth in place. It is very important that we make sure it covers everything and that we leave it for an hour.
  3. We remove the cloth After an hour, we will notice that it is cleaner but we must use a clean cloth To remove traces of lime and vinegar, using a cotton swab for inaccessible parts can be very useful.
  4. Clean the mouth of the faucet wellFor this we can use a small cup of vinegar and leave it in it for a while. To avoid grabbing it, it is advisable to wrap it with something. Once the hour has passed, clean with a cloth.

Once you follow all these steps, your faucet will be like new. You can also use more home remedies such as lemon with vinegar This way we will achieve greater cleanliness. 

Lime in the faucet can cause various damage, including causing the water to not flow well.

How do I remove limescale from the toilet? 

A lot of lime also concentrates in the toilet although we cannot see it, this lime can be quite bad with step of time, even breaking pipes.

If we want to clean the limescale we will only have to lower the water level, adjusting the level we have under the cover where the cistern is located. Once that lid is open, we turn the screw to the left and wait for the container of the toilet is empty. Now we must follow the following steps:

  1. We pour a mixture of vinegar and borax inside the toilet, like two cups. We leave it for two hours so that the lime dissolves well.
  2. We rub with the brush, with this we will be able to remove the most embedded lime.
  3. Now we will just have to discharge. When you flush the water, all the lime that remains to be cleaned will remain, in addition to cleaning the pipes from the inside. 

With this we will make our toilet look like new, and our bathroom will look like something out of a magazine.

If our lime problem is much smaller than that of tap and the lavatoryFor example, spots on the tiles, we will only have to take lemon juice or vinegar and rub it on the affected area. The juice of lemon or the vinegar It manages to eliminate any type of lime before any chemical.

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