How To Clean Bathroom Glass Doors Using Homemade Tricks?

In today’s world, sparkling glass shower doors have completely overtaken traditional solid tile walls of fiberglass in your bathrooms. The sparkling glass doors and walls give a very modern and luxurious statement until they are unfortunately covered by hard water or soap scum spots. There are a lot of commercial cleaners that claim that they can help in cleaning these soaps scums and hard spots with ease and they are right too. But why go to the market when you can look up the things you already have and make a paste that will work as your own homemade cleaner.

Earlier people used to clean the shower doors on a daily basis or even after every use, but as people get busy, they do not do so and that leads to the development of soap scum. Cleaning soap scum is a very difficult and time-consuming task. We recommend you to clean your bathroom glass doors on a regular basis to avoid the difficulties. Here are the best things that you can use to make a solution at home use this homemade solution to clean your bathroom glass doors easily. Using these methods will save you a lot of money that is used in buying those commercial cleaners. 

Things and Tools You Will Need

Items

• Dryer sheets
• windshield rain repellent 
• dishwasher agent 
• liquid for dishwashing 
• hydrogen peroxide 
• baking soda 
• ammonia 
• rubbing alcohol 
• lemon juice 
• distilled vinegar 
• water

Tools

• Microwave 
• microwavable bowl 
• toothbrush 
• microfiber cloth 
• sponge 
• spray bottle 
• window squeegee

Note that you will not need all of these things to clean up your glass shower door and the actual ingredients depend on the method you choose to use from the following various methods. All these tips are very effective and can be used with full reliablity.

Cleaning your shower doors using a vinegar solution

Vinegar will be found in a lot of bathroom cleaning products because in vinegar there is a high amount of acidic qualities and these acidic qualities are used to clean hard spots and soap scum on the bathroom doors very easily. Today we will use the vinegar to clean our own glass doors.

1. Make a Vinegar Solution – You have to pot a single cup of distilled white vinegar inside the microwavable bowl and let that heat for approximately 45 seconds. Then once the vinegar is warm you will need to put that vinegar into a spray bottle and add little drops of dishwashing liquid.
2. Spray – Go to the shower door and spray the solution on that area and wait for at least 6 minutes. 
3. Rinse and Scrub – Take a dry cloth or a sponge and then clean it up. A normal dry sponge can work but if the spots are too tough then you can also use baking soda on a sponge to get the desired outcome.

We strongly recommend you to not use the vinegar solution provided here on natural stone tiles because the natural stone can you get damaged due to the acidic qualities present in a vinegar solution.

Cleaning the shower doors using lemon juice.

It must be noted that lemon is not that acidic as vinegar but in matters of smell, it is better. But keep in mind, do not use lemon juice or vinegar for the natural stone shower floor.

1. Take some water and pour some lemon juice inside it and use it just as you use vinegar.
2. Starting from the beginning use a sponge after waiting for 5 minutes and then clean it from top to bottom.

Cleaning Using Ammonia

If you go out and buy a commercial cleaner than you will find a large amount of ammonia in each and every one of them as they are heavily used in the market for cleaning glass doors.

1. Make an Ammonia Spray – Take one quart of water that is warm and mix one tablespoon of ammonia into that and put it in the spray bottle
2. Starting from the beginning, clean the door after 5 minutes using a sponge.

Do not try to mix ammonia into chlorine bleach as it can cause deadly fumes inside your bathroom.

Making a daily shower door cleaning solution

If you do not want to wait for some soap scum to get accumulated and want to clean the glass doors on a daily basis this is the solution you need to use.

1. Take one and a half cup of rubbing alcohol and mix it with three cups of water, one teaspoon of dishwashing liquid, 1 teaspoon of liquid dishwasher agent, and a half cup of hydrogen peroxide and put it in a 32-ounce spray bottle.
2. Starting from the top remove the water droplets using a squeegee
3. Spray the solution on the door and leave it open to let it rinse automatically.

Tips to clean shower door tracks

If you do not have a door system that is frameless then the shower door track will need to be cleaned on a regular basis because they can get very dirty very quickly.

1. Use the vinegar by putting it on the shower door track.
2. Using spare toothbrush clean the track.
3. After cleaning, rinse the area with water and let it dry.

Other tips to clean the bathroom glass doors

• Every time the door is used in your bathroom squeegee the water from it.
• Use the daily cleaning solution mentioned above to avoid hassles.
• You can also invest in a windshield that will keep the water droplets away from the door.
• you can also use a water softening system if you live in an area that is hard water because hard water can cause hard water spots.
• If soap scum is very continuous you should try to quit using bar soaps and switch to liquid body wash because bath soaps have some ingredients that are more reactive with water minerals than those in liquid body wash.
• Methods provided here are very easy to use and must be preferred over buying commercial cleaners to wash the shower doors because they can be really costly and sometimes they also react abnormally with your surfaces.