How to Maintain Glass Door of Walk in Showers?


Having a glass door in walk in showers can add beauty and as well function to the bathrooms. However, sometimes it is hard to keep your glass door of the walk in showers clean and water streaks free.

There are a lot of commercial glass cleaning solutions that most of us have a favorite brand which you can use or if you want to take care of the environment you could use homemade glass cleaning solutions. But the best ways to maintain and keep the glass door of walk in showers clean is preventing the soap built up and water streaks to form.

You can use squeegee to take away the water drops and steam that is on the glass right after you took a shower. This will prevent the build up of water streaks and soap scum and you can just clean the glass of your walk in showers once a week or even twice a month. Or you can also try applying a coat of car wax on the door and even to the walls, just remember don’t apply this to the floor. Applying car wax can protect your glass and tile surface from water scale and soap scum built-up. With these suggestions the glass door of your walk in showers will take less time to maintain and easy for you to clean.

But if you already have water build-up and you need to clean the glass door in your walk in showers, you can try these homemade glass cleaning solutions.

You can mix 1 cup warm water, 1 cup rubbing alcohol and 1 tablespoon of white vinegar and put it in the sprayer bottle, shake it well and you can use that together with sponge to clean your glass door. But if you are put off with the smell of the vinegar and you can replace the white vinegar with lemon juice with same quantity of white vinegar. And wipe the glass dry with squeegee. These homemade cleaning solutions can be use not only for the glass door of your walk in showers but also in any glass surface that you wish to clean

*Reminder – If your glass door has any kind of finishing, DON”T use lemon juice because it can corrode the finishing of your glass.