gunky limeschool looking stuff around the bit where the water comes out of the tap?

Question

i think it could be limescale, its thick and yellowy green and its around the bit where the water comes out of a tap.
tried spraying limescale around it and rubbing it with a toothbrush but it doesnt budge,
help?

Answer 1

try CLR, you can find it at most stores. i think it's probably the best at removing that stuff. Just be careful and don't get it on your skin because it's very powerful (they won't sell it to minors here in Texas)

Answer 2

Sounds like your daughter has conjunctivitis. Highly contagious and you do need to take her to the doctors to get some antibiotics and probably drops for it too. You can also bathe the eye in warm salty water using a new cotton bud each time you touch it. Always wipe from the inside of the eye out to the outer side. Try and avoid drops of water or tears dripping into non infected eye otherwise you will have two infected eyes. But it does sound like your daughter has conjunctivitis rather than a blocked tear duct. My eldest daughter has had both and they can be similar but definitely what you are describing sounds like conjunctivitis. Make sure you wash your hands religiously and try your best to make sure she doesn't rub her eye. If she does, wash her hands immediately because she will touch toys and then once it has cleared up, she will reinfect herself with the toys she touched when she was sick. Hence why you can see that conjunctivitis is SO contagious. Good luck and all the very best. It will clear up very quickly once you have meds for it.

Answer 3

Get a sandwich bag and put some cotton wool in it. Add white vinegar and lemon jucie then fix to the tap making aure the limescale bit is submerged in the cotton wool. Leave for about and hour then rinse off. Your tap will be shinny too lol.

Answer 4

Buy limscale remover.

Put some in a small plastic bag and attach to tap with elastic band so that gunk is in limescale remover.

Leave for a while.

You might need to repeat.

Answer 5

The way to get rid of this stuff is to apply a mild acid solution such as a lime scale remover which you can buy from most DIY outlets. Give it 5 Min's then use a tool such as a small screwdriver etc and a decent scouring pad to remove the staining. You my require to repeat the process to achieve the best result. You will need to apply plenty of elbow grease, the chemicals only help, they will not remove it without some effort on your part.

Answer 6

Sounds like limescale deposits.Before using one of the de-scaling solutions,it will help if you can remove the thickest deposits by scraping,just be careful and don't scratch the taps.

Answer 7

Scale on taps or in toilet bowls, can be cured by a blend of 1/2 vinegar and 1/2 borax. Put the mixture on your taps and leave for a couple of hours before scrubbing. For use in the toilet, drain the bowl, put the mixture on the scaled areas and let set for a few hours before cleaning.

In the shower, straight vinegar can be used on tiles, which you can wash with soap and water after. Or if needed, scrub with the vinegar/borax solution. Showerheads benefit from simply soaking in a container of white vinegar for several hours.

Answer 8

The only way to clean this off is to scrape it with a knife blade and finish off woth a soapad. It is limescale and it is a very hard substance.

Answer 9

Limescale is the hard, off-white, chalky deposit found in kettles, hot-water boilers and the inside of inadequately maintained hot-water central heating systems. It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surface of old pipes and other surfaces where 'hard water' has evaporated.

These types of limescale differ slightly due to their origins.

The type found deposited on the heating elements of water heaters etc. has a main component of calcium carbonate, precipitated out of the (hot) water. Hard water contains calcium (and often magnesium) carbonates and/or similar salts.

Calcium carbonate is unusual, in that it is less soluble in hot water than in cold water, leading to deposits in places where water is heated. Local boiling 'hot spots' can also occur, when water is heated, resulting in the concentration and deposition of salts from the water.

Calcium cations from hard water can also combine with soap, which would normally dissolve in soft water. This combination often forms scum which precipitates out in a thin film on the interior surfaces of baths, sinks, and drainage pipes. Soap usually contains salts of anions from neutralized fatty acids or similar chemical compounds. The calcium salts of these anions are less soluble in water.

The type found on air-dried cooking utensils, dripping taps and bathroom tiling consists of calcium carbonate mixed with all the other salts that had been dissolved in the water, prior to evaporation.

Try a liquid kettle descaler available from good hardware shops like Robert Dyas or Boots.

Answer 10

Try hammer and chisell failing that a grinder! Alternativly move North where the waters clean and the air is fresh...