Bring shine back to chrome appliances with 55p household item we all own

08 March 2024 , 05:00

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Cleaning chrome can be made a whole lot easier (Stock Image) (Image: Getty Images)

It's all too easy for bathrooms to become mucky, quickly, and people are always looking for ways to clean up with as little elbow grease as possible.

When it comes to bathroom chrome, it seems to bear the brunt of so many things - from toothpaste stains to moisturiser that's accidentally been squirted out of the tube and onto it. But rather than continuing to let it become dirtier, @theweescottycleaners have taken to TikTok to show you how to banish the grime from your chrome.

They showed a radiator that was "really bad" and they didn't know what had caused the stains - but they did know how to banish them.

One of the women took a microfibre cloth with washing-up liquid on it and rubbed the stain, which they couldn't identify. It had gone "hard" because the radiator was on, so it took a little bit of effort to remove the stain, with the cleaning guru saying it "took a little bit of elbow grease to come off."

Washing-up liquid can be purchased from Asda for as little as 55p for 500ml, and a pack of four microfibre cloths cost £1.80 from Tesco, meaning each cloth is just 45p.

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Rather than just stopping at the stain, the cleaning expert said to rub the cloth over the whole thing to bring it up looking as good as new, and "then, with our magic buffing cloth", then they wiped down the chrome and it looked super shiny. Glass cloths can be purchased for £1.99 from Wilko. "It's like a wee mirror", she said, as she admired her handiwork.

In the comments, someone joked: "So basically use fairy liquid and a cloth to clean everything!", with another adding: "Fairy and a rag is all you need." A social media user said they were confused about the cloths being used, and they clarified: "We use just a plain microfibre for washing and then the other glass cloth for shining up." They also said that the second cloth they use is dry.

"How often do you wash your cloths? Just wondering if the washing up liquid builds up on your magic glass cloth?", one woman asked, and they replied "every day" as they "go through so many."

Danielle Kate Wroe