Getting Real: Cleaning the Tub

Happy Friday! This past weekend, Folksy Husband got fed up with our tub and dropped everything to clean it. I can't blame him, it was reeeeeeally bad. So bad I can't believe I'm even showing this on the interwebs. I mean, I periodically disinfect it, but really, it still looked, um...grungy? nasty? filthy? And that's putting it nicely.

Yeah, bad, right?

After drying it out, he removed the hardware (look what was lurking behind there! ewww!) and soaked it in some vinegar to remove the calcium.

The caulking where the tub meets the tile clearly needed to be replaced, it was so badly stained it couldn't be salvaged. He broke out the paint scraper and peeled it off.



After the bad stuff was gone, he replaced it using some while silicone caulking we already had

and put the clean hardware back.

Now we're moving in the right direction! The next step was that no good, very bad, awful (name that kid's book) grunge on the bottom. Chemical cleaners we had on hand were not doing the job, so, geniusly, in my humble opinion, Mike sand papered it. It worked like. a. charm. He took 320 grit paper (very fine) and gently worked off the bad. He also touched up chips in the tub with some Rustoleum Enamel Paint. Amazing!  Look at her now!

Now I can sit down in the shower without being grossed out. Not that I do that or anything. How do you clean your tub?

(All work and pictures by the husband. Love him!)