Your BATHTUB Ring Keeps Coming Back — 30 Farmhouse Tricks That End It

That brown line around your tub is not dirt, and it is not your family. It is the high water mark of a bath — your own body oil, dead skin and the fat in your bar soap, floating on the water and laid against the wall on the way down. And it comes back faster every year for one reason nobody tells you. I ran a boarding house for forty years. Twelve beds, twelve strangers, and one tub. I was not on my knees with a can of powder every week, and in this video I show you all thirty reasons why. Inside: the one minute jar test that tells you if your water is what is doing this. Why bleach leaves the ring exactly where it was. The knuckle-and-magnet test that tells you what your tub is made of before you scrub it with the wrong thing. The soak that takes the whole ring off while you sit down in the other room — your tub is the only thing in your house that can take its own bath. The half cup that stops the ring from ever forming again. The ring hiding behind the overflow plate that is making your bathroom smell an hour after somebody bathes. And the thirty second squeak test that tells you the truth about that tub for the rest of your life. Nothing in here costs more than four dollars, and most of it costs nothing at all. Now tell me something in the comments, and I want nothing but a number: measure from the floor of your tub up to that ring. How many inches? Mine ran eleven inches for forty years. I read every one of these with my coffee. If this was worth your time, subscribe. That is the only way I turn up on your screen again. In this video I go through how to clean a bathtub ring for good, how to remove soap scum from a tub without scrubbing, why the ring keeps coming back faster every year, how to tell soap scum from hard water scale with one finger, the dish soap jar test for hard water, why scouring powder and melamine eraser sponges are sanding the gloss off an acrylic tub, why bleach only hides a bathtub ring, the washing soda soak that removes a tub ring with no scrubbing at all, washing soda versus baking soda and why they are not the same, why you must never mix vinegar and washing soda in the same soak, the vinegar soak for mineral scale, the half cup of washing soda in the bath water that stops the ring from forming, borax as an alternative, why bath oil and hair conditioner make it worse, letting the water out hot, the twenty second rinse and the ten second dry, cleaning behind the overflow plate, replacing gray caulk, and waxing the tub walls to seal the surface so the ring lifts with a dry rag. #cleaningtips #bathroomcleaning #grandmatricks