Spring is here, and it's time to get that house cleaned. While it is more fun to skip the chore to go out and play, giving your bathroom a thorough cleaning will help to keep it in good condition and lower maintenance costs. Here are some tips for spring-cleaning in the bathroom.

Scrubbing the Shower and Tub: Using a scrubbing brush with a long handle will save your back and allow you to do a thorough job. While some prefer natural cleaners, for spring-cleaning, try to break out the heavy-duty stuff and use a commercial tub and tile cleaner. Spray the tub and shower, making sure the room is well ventilated. Take a break to let the detergent fully activate. When you feel like the detergent has done its job, go back, and give the shower and tub a thorough scrubbing, being sure to get in all of the corners, edges, or crevices.

Cleaning the Fixtures: It is very important to spend special attention to bathroom fixtures at least once a year. Your need to use a product to remove mineral deposits from your showerheads, tub faucet, and sink faucets. This will allow your water to flow well. Next, use a toothbrush to clean around the base of the faucets as lots of nasty grime can collect in these areas. Finally, shine up those fixtures with a bit of mineral oil.

Cleaning and maintaining grout: If your shower and bathtub regimen did not clean the grout in your bathroom, you will need to give it special attention. Apply your product of choice on all of the grout lines in the shower, along the caulking lines around the tub and shower, and where the floor meets the tub and shower. Let this sit until the strong smell dissipates, and then wash these areas down with water.

Cleaning the toilet: Cleaning the toilet is very important for the health of your family. Wiping if off regularly is quite natural, but a deep cleaning is also important. This is a messy job, so you will need gloves, eye protection, and maybe even handkerchiefs for your face and hair. Using a commercial toilet-cleaning product, you need to saturate the toilet seat and lid hinges. After a few minutes, you need to use small scrub brush to remove any built up residue. (This can cause a spray of product and soil). Do the same on each side of the toilet toward the floor. Meanwhile, you should have applied a toilet cleaner product to the inside of the toilet, especially under the rim. Using a toilet brush, clean the inside of the bowl. Finally, give the entire toilet a final spray down with cleanser and wipe down the entire toilet.

Valu offers the following products to help assist you in the spring-cleaning of your bathroom: grout cleaners and sealers as well as many household cleaners like Lysol, Windex, and Simple Green. Please see your sales associate for further tips and ideas!