How to tell someone how yucky their bathroom was....

[Tri Girl]

confession time: this was my shower for a couple years.
I clean that shower twice a week (with lots of different kinds of cleaners) and that dang black mold- on the caulking only- NEVER goes away. I finally had to scratch out all the caulking around the tub (at the base where the surround and tub meet) and put new caulking in. I have to do that every other year. For some reason, even tho I clean it, it will NOT stay clean. We have terrible water, tho, and I believe that's the reason for the rusty looking tub, too. Plus, the tub is 55 years old and probably needs too be replaced- but we just can't afford a remodel now.

Although nobody EVER uses our shower, the one time we had company that I knew was going to use it was the time I put new caulking in- I would have been MORTIFIED for anyone to see that.

[jessmarimba]

I'll confess that my shower looks pretty gross. Or tub area, rather. But I don't have tile, so no caulking, so no mold in the caulking. The tub is just an old cast-iron clawfoot tub and it is in desperate need of refinishing. But to refinish it, it needs to be taken out through the bathroom window (door is too small!) and it weighs a few hundred pounds...so it's just going to keep looking gross.

But it's clean! Honest!

[Owlie]

The bathroom in my apartment looked pretty gross. A non-zero portion of that was just because of the amount of stuff in the water. The other major contributor was the finish on the tub--it was scratched in a few places, and dirt would get into those and was next to impossible to get out through normal cleaning methods. I had to go in every so often with baking soda and dish soap and scrub them out.

The one time my sister visited me, I only had enough warning to clean the kitchen (white tile, so it showed dirt like nothing else). She has rather higher standards of cleanliness than DBF and I do, so I think she pitched a fit about it to our mom.