My bathroom cleaning is down to once a month because I really don’t have the time. I sweep regularly, but only because I have an iRobot do it for me.
If I had a tool that helped me clean the bathroom in 2-3 minutes, I think I’d do it more often. I searched on Shopee and found a NT$11,000 robot (called the “Hobot”)
Before I break down and buy this ridiculously overpriced bathroom cleaning robot, are there any other more affordable options? Like… I dunno… some chemical that I can spray on in the morning, and then rinse away during my next shower?
I’m not looking for tools like power brushes that will help me clean more thoroughly. I just want something that can help me get the job done without having to carve out half an hour from my schedule.
Hire a cleaning service to clean your place once or twice a week.
I hired one for once a week. They clean the entire house for $1000. They even fold the laundry, clean the inside and outside of the windows, full bathroom and kitchen clean, sweep, vacuum, and mop the floors. Worth every dollar.
I also use Kleen J if mould starts on the walls and ceilings. No scrubbing needed. Spray and wait for mould to disappear and die. Will even clean a washroom with mould caked on it for years. All that hard work the mould was doing. Gone in half an hour.
Strongly basic. Do not mix with previously mentioned Jackson acid cleaner. Causes fumes, not willing to find out what they are or do.
Seriously. They include attachments to inject cleaning agents to improve its cleaning power but the sucker will blast the most stubborn of grimes off, without needing to scrub at all. Then just dry the room. Do this once a month and your bathroom stays clean. This include hard to reach spaces such as behind the toilet, under the rims, behind sinks, etc .
Do what we did almost a year ago now - demolish bathroom and start from scratch - gets rid of all the old mould and so on in minutes. Cost about TWD150K though.
A power washer is an unbelievably terrible idea and inside a washroom where plugs are? It’s a recipe for an electrical disaster. Remember the plugs likely don’t even have GFCIs built into them. And you’ll strip the cement in the tiles.
No you aren’t going to power wash the walls especially where the plugs are. You are power washing where the mold or stains at. Obviously you set the nozzle to a wider pattern so you don’t hit the wall with too much force, to limit the chance of damage. But for hard to reach areas such as behind the toilet or where the shower is, soap scums it will take them off in short order.
If you really are afraid cover the plugs and turn off the power in the bathroom. But it beats scrubbing all day.
As you can see people wash vehicles with them.
This is assuming you didn’t carpet up the bathroom. This isn’t america. We don’t do that here.
It beats drill brushes. That high pressure water will get stains out in whatever crevice they may go. Even high up. I discovered they’re perfect for those small tiles they use in old bathrooms. They are a bitch to scrub.
Again why would anyone go through the trouble of power washing mould and stains when there are cheap chemicals that do it for me without lifting a finger?
I don’t have to scrub anything with these two products.
Because chemicals don’t always work on stain or require too much of it to work. Also sometimes chemicals (like hydrochloric acid) give off nasty fumes, and if you mix it wrong can be deadly (with bleach for example). That and some chemicals merely soften the dirt, but you still have to manually scrub it to get it off. Some places, like under toilets, under toilet tanks, etc. are nasty for you to get to (you wouldn’t want to reach in and scrub them) but a power washer will clean immediately. Chemicals often don’t effectively remove soap scums, especially thick deposits, but will come off immediately with power washer, even thick deposits if aided with chemicals. This is why they wash cars with them, because they are not only good with getting the body clean but also under the body (such as inside wheel wells, underside, etc where you definitely DO NOT want to reach in to scrub but have thick layers of caked on mud/rubber bits). That pressurized water also gets into crevices around or on toilets that have mysterious pee/poop smell that will not go away with any washing, but becomes completely clean once hit with a second with a power washer.
Takes longer to set the power washer up than to actually clean the bathroom. Literally a quick shot around the toilet and it’s clean, and a quick once over with a wide dispersion pattern on the walls and it’s clean too.
I got walls/floor caked with oil stains around the kitchen area and when I move out and must clean them off (doubtful, as it will most likely be demolished when the time come) I can simply spray some oil cleaner over the oil stains (which will be quite thick by then), let the chemical work a little bit and shoot it off with a power washer.
And for those of us who aren’t the slim Taiwanese with a BMI of less than 15, a power washer is REALLY helpful because it allows you to clean the floor or lower parts of the bathroom (where the dirt is) without having to kneel down or contort your body in weird ways, into places you wouldn’t want to touch even if you are paid to, and blast those suckers clean, while standing comfortably.
Bit off topic:
One of my favorite views in the neighborhood is watching our young, tall, muscular butcher next door using a power washer to clean his stall every day.
I always shower last in our family and it’s my job. I first scrape as much water away with a rubberized scraper thingy, and then wipe floors and walls with an old towel used only for this purpose.
If you don’t keep your bathroom dry, it’ll get moldy in no time.
