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amyable
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I enjoy most chores.
Bathroom cleaning is NOT one of them. 
Please share with me, in intimate detail, how you clean your bathrooms? What do you use, how do you use it, how often?
I'd especially love to hear if you manage to keep an old tile-everywhere bathroom looking nice. We have tiled bath/shower stall area and those thousand small tiles on the floor. With grout. Lots of grout. 
Help.
(I keep cleaning, and it never looks any better)
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I am eagerly awaiting other's replies!! Your bathroom sounds like mine!! I can't stand the ugly floor with the tiny tiles that NEVER seem to get clean no matter how hard I scrub (not that I've done it very much since I got pregnant!) and who ever decided to put grout tiles in the shower obviously didn't think about cleaning!
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First, give birth to a boy, then wait 13 years...
Seriously, I have pawned off this chore on my son. The bathrooms are not perfect, but they are at least mostly sanitary. My 10 yo wipes out the sinks every day, and then on Fridays, my 13 yo does the toilets, tubs and showers, and (supposedly) the floors. (Really, he ignores the floors for the most part, so we're working on this.) I periodically spray our showers with really toxic mildew remover because 50 years ago when they built the house, whoever poured our concrete, dorm-room type shower floors neglected to have them drain properly, and so mildew is almost a given. Every so often my husband also has to scrub the ceiling with bleach.
You have to understand that my bathroom is three different shades of salmon and brown and our shower stall is constructed of pink metal with a nicely rusted rim around the top. No amount of scrubbing will ever make it look clean...
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Amy, I do a big clean once a week when I try to clean everything, at the moment that is on a Monday, and then on a Friday or Saturday I go in and just sparkle it up a bit, focussing on the basin/loo. And if I have nothing better to do, and I see small people have been busy making it grotty, I do a quick spritz and swipe. Basically, if we know we are due to have visitors I will also spritz and swipe, mainly the basin and loo, change the hand towel.
I use Method Tub and Tile for the tub and tile  and Ecover loo cleaner for the loo . I have a loofah that I use to scrub the bath, and just use wash cloths for the basin and loo.
I find the bathroom depressing. It was an awful awful room for ten years, then dh decorated and got it nearly finished and it looked lovely. But he never finished it all the way, then the bath leaked and the bath panel had to come off and the floor started to lift, and now it looks dingy and smells musty again - but at least I know it is basically clean and I have come to try and not worry too much about the signs of life left by my dear ones. Until my children know how to leave a bathroom as they'd like to find it, I will have a smelly, moist bathroom I suppose!
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Sigh. Our house is 3 1/2 years old - we're the first owners - and the boys bathroom has white tile floor, white grout - that has recently started to smell like urine no matter what I do, or how often I clean it. This is also a guest bathroom. Will be following this & similar threads with interest!
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In a house full of boys who sleep walk to the bathroom, I think I need to have my toilet lifted off the floor to get all the urine smell out.
I use a bleach cleaner spray at the floor line (vinyl)where it meets the toilet. The whole exterior gets a good bath. Night time users can miss and the entire outside needs to be washed (don't neglect the screws that hold the seat on!).
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