A Lesson To Be Learned

Friday I decided I wanted my house clean.  We all picked a room and went at it.  I chose the main bathroom because I wanted to make sure it was done right.  This particular bathroom has been one of my least favorite rooms in the house.  To me, it seems awkward and not very nice.  Over the years, the floor has needed replacing as well as the toilet and cabinets.  Thankfully over the Christmas break, my brother-in-law was gracious enough to come and help my husband redo the room.  Now I love it which is why I want to make sure it gets cleaned and maintained properly.

Now, the tub in this particular bathroom is ugly but we were not fortunate enough to be able to replace that.  It has these non-skid strips on the floor of the tub that over the years has gotten to look pretty disgusting and there is a small area of rust near the drain.  I have tried to bleach the strips clean, tried magic erasers and nothing has worked.   A while back my cousin bought a toilet cleaner called The Works and he said he used it in his tub and it got it really clean. 

I poured some in the tub, on the strips and left the room.  I had intended to let it set for a few minutes and then clean and rinse......but I forgot.  It sat in the tub overnight Friday and all day Saturday.  About 3pm, my daughter was going to take a shower and asked what that disgusting stuff in the tub was.   I remembered the cleaner and told her to just rinse out the tub.  She came back and informed me that there was now a hole in the tub.  WHAT!!!  I went in and sure enough, this stuff has eaten away at the finish and made a hole all the way through.  That's not the worst part.  The worst part was having to go outside and tell my husband:)

He checked it and as he usually does when he's not happy about something I do, he said nothing.  I watched as he walked back and forth from the bathroom to the garage and back again. :(  He called my brother-in-law and left to Home Depot.  He came back with a patch and tried applying it.  Because the tub had a hole, the paste just kept falling through.  He found something to plug the hole and applied the patch.  Now we have to wait 16 hours to see if it works.  Crossing my fingers!