I’ve been thinking about buying one of these, but it’s kind of expensive, so i hate to buy it blind. Does anyone have on? Does it really work?
I don’t have one, but I’m curious about how they work too. If it sprays the cleaner stuff in a circle, does it get the door/curtain or do you somehow set it not to? And wouldn’t it pretty much have a limited vertical spray, so that there’d be a 3 1/2 foot clean area and grunge above and drippy clean stripes below?
I have a coworker who tested one and was on the news in one of those “does it really do that?” segments. He says… not really. He said it really couldn’t cover the entire shower and that the scrubbing bubble people suggested adding more of them. It only sprays to the height you set it. Plus, it’s very noisy and goes off at all hours of the night. He was less than impressed with it.
They reviewed these a few months ago on the “deal or dud” consumer reports segment of a local news show. The verdict was that it could not clean up an already-dirty shower but that it was helpful in keeping an already-clean shower from getting dirty.
Well, if that’s all it’s good for, why not just buy a bottle of Shower Shine (or whatever it’s called) and spray it down manually every morning? I mean, there’s lazy and then there’s lazy.
Well, actually, I am kind of lazy.
My bigger problem, though, is that I don’t use the shower. I take baths. My husband is the only one who uses our shower stall. And, since I’m an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kind of housewife, it gets pretty scuzzy in there after a while. I have gotten that Shower Shine stuff in the past and it does work – which is why I suspected the automatic stuff will work as well. However, my husband remembers to use it for a couple of days or a week and then forgets. Same with putting a squeegie in there – it works, but after a while he stops doing it.
I have a $10 off couon here, so I guess I’ll pick the automatic kit up and give it a try.
We’ve got the auto one in the house. It works nicely. It works better than I thought. If you have a bath mat, you might wanna keep an eye under that, as mine got scuzzy. Invest in rechargable batteries if you like it.
It’s lazy as fuck. My mother (Queen of all Things Lazy) had to get it because she can’t find the time in her busy sleep schedule to spray the bathroom down with the shower cleaner.
Well, it’s not the automatic one. It’s the push-button mechanical one that we’ve got.
Almost forgot…it goes through fluid pretty fast. I think I’d open it up, install it,(thus opening up the product) then water it down as time goes along. Then again, we’re talking lazy here.
We’re on the second bottle with ours, and it’s doing okay at keeping it clean…but not so great at getting all the corners. We have a bathtub-shower conversion with a seat in there for Grandma, and I really should take the seat out when I press the button so it gets into that corner better. We also argue about the timing of using it, but that’s probably a better Pit thread! The only gripe I have is that it doesn’t spray enough stuff, and the walls feel a bit gritty. I should give it a good scrubbing with regular cleaner and then see how it does at maintenance.
There isn’t anything automatic which would cause it to go off ‘at all hours of the night’. The only way it can go off is when you press a button after you leave the shower. Then it counts about 15 seconds and sprays.
I didn’t really notice any difference but I wasn’t using it in a typical shower (stall), but a bathtub shower (which it says is ok).
Bob
is there anything in 'em (chemically speaking) any different from spray-your-own? Or is it just the convenience of not having to remember to spray your own?
Then maybe there’s a different kind because I have 2 coworkers who both complained about it waking them up at night.
I bought one. I’m a sucker for convenience cleaning products. The one I bought cost $25 and if I remember correctly came with two jugs of the cleaner. Not too bad. The refills are around $4 each and last about two weeks. I think for maximum effect you need to have a clean shower first. It keeps the shower pretty clean if you do. Mine also does not go off at random times. As I’m getting out of the shower, I have to press the button. It beeps for 15 seconds and then goes off. I think I need to change the batteries on mine. It’s starting to run a little slowly.
That’s the kind we have in the shower stall. Personally, I think it works great in the stall. My mom uses one in her tub+shower curtain, and I don’t think it works quite as well – it’s just a larger area, plus the curtain is, you know, bulgy like a shower curtain and the spray doesn’t hit it uniformly.
I can’t tell any difference from the daily shower spray – the biggest advantage of the mechanical one for me is that there isn’t really anywhere to put the daily spray bottle. We kept tripping over it when it was on the floor, or having it fall down on us when it was on the tiny ledge over the stall, or forgetting about it when it was in the bathroom closet.
I like mine - I have the one where you press the button and it squirts about 15 seconds later.
I like the way the spray smells - it’s kind of an apple scent. It must be pretty non-toxic too, since I managed to spray myself in the face when I was installing it, ( :smack: ) and it didn’t sting my eyes at all.
It doesn’t get all the corners, so there’s still manual cleaning involved, but much less than before. Squirting the shower once a day is enough, too - we found when we used the manual shower spray that it needed to be used after every shower, and since one or the other of us often would forget or be in a hurry and not have time for that, the dirt would build up.
Another thing I like better about the auto sprayer is that ALL the cleanser gets used since the bottle goes in upside down. With the regular manual spray bottles, when the level gets too low you can’t tilt the nozzle the least bit downwards and get any spray to come out, so I was always having to have two bottles on hand and would have to pour the remainder of the cleanser from the old bottle into the new bottle when I’d used up enough of the new bottle to make room, which is annoying.
Love, love, love it. I’ve been proselytizing it on the boards for several months now, I’m surprised I haven’t typed your ear off about it already.
My husband and kid never remembered to spray the spray kind. Squeegie? It is to laugh. The button, they’ll push. Simple. I did start with a clean shower in May when we moved in, and once I threw a few buckets of water around the walls to rinse it down was in July or so, because I felt like I should. The only parts I have to clean otherwise are the edges of the bathtub, because the cats walk around it with their dirty little paws. But I haven’t scrubbed the tub, the walls or the shower curtain since I got it (uh, 6 months ago) and it still looks, feels and smells sparkling clean.
We’re also in Chicago, notorious for our hard water stains, and there’s none at all. No scales, no icky white stuff on my faucets or walls, no mold on my shower curtain (I did finally convince everyone to leave the shower curtain closed to dry, not bunch it up in the corner, so I’m sure that helped) no mildew in my grout lines.
Love. It.
I, too, love it. I started with mildly grungy tile, and after 6 weeks, it’s cleaner than I’ve ever accomplished by hand. My only issue is that my husband installed a pole-thing with baskets for holding bath supplies, and that corner doesn’t get the spray as well.
But my bathroom smells all fresh and lovely, and best of all, it keeps the bottom of the tub from getting slippery after us females use our hair conditioner/shaving goop/moisturizing gunk in the shower.