How to Remove Hard Water Deposits From Metal Showerheads

Video Transcript

"My name is Ryan Parker with Parker Home Renovations in New Braunfels, Texas and today I am going to show you how to remove hard water deposits on a shower head. The first thing you are going to need is you are going to need a wrench. You'll need some vinegar and a bucket of some sort. What you are going to want to do is you are going to want to take the shower head off by using the wrench to clamp around the edge of the shower head and you just want to twist it to the left. Then you unscrew it. Once you get it off you are going to want to get your vinegar and you are going to want to pour some vinegar into your bucket enough to where when you sit the shower head in there it will be covered in vinegar. Now you want to drop your shower head in your vinegar and you could use a soft bristled toothbrush or a tooth pick if you want to and you can actually scrub the end of the shower head to get the deposits off. You can use a tooth pick and actually poke out the little holes at the end of the shower head to get whatever mineral deposits that collect inside those holes out. Now if you can't get the shower head off what you can do is you can get a one gallon size plastic bag and you can put vinegar in it and drape it around the shower head while it is still attached and then just duct tape it real tight around the shower head. That way the vinegar stays on the shower head and you'll want to leave it on there probably overnight if you can but preferably maybe a couple of hours just to clean it off. Then once you are done you just cut a slit in the bag and let it drain out or you just take the shower head out of the vinegar and you screw it back on, you screw it to the right. You want to tighten it up pretty good. Make sure you use some kind of teflon tape or something to seal these threads. If you have any other questions you can contact me at parkerhomerenovations.com."