- Hi, it's Paris from Epic Review Guys,
and I've got a shower in desperate need of cleaning,
so today I'm trying out the As Seen on TV deep cleaner, Zap.
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In their TV ad, they say Zap cleans not only the surface
but down deep, and that's what I'm in need of,
this set goes for $19.95
and I'll put a link to it down below this video.
Now, it may certainly just have been bad luck
but I did want to show you the packaging
when it arrived to me, like this.
Obviously, the thing inside has broken open
and leaked into the package,
so there's probably a very clean
mail truck in our neighborhood.
Now, I was willing to say it might be bad luck
but when I opened the package up
and saw that these liquid bottles were packed like this
with no wrapping or anything inside,
well, I found the culprit, the lid of this bottle
wasn't on straight, or it came loose during shipping
and that's were it all leaked out.
When I placed my order, they were having a special
where they would double your order for only
an extra $7.00 in shipping and handling
so I did that, so I have two bottles of each of these types
now, this is the Zap Professional Restore, two 10oz. bottles
this is the stronger stuff I guess, because this is called
the Zap Professional Maintainer, two 10oz. bottles of that.
Also, two of their special scrub pads, which look like
the scrub pads I would buy at the supermarket
and one sprayer.
What was missing from the package,
unless maybe it was dissolved by the leak from this bottle
is instructions, so you just have to go by
what's in the back of the bottle
and they do say different things.
This maintainer says to spray it on
and leave it for ten minutes, and then wipe it off.
The Pro-Restorer here says to leave it on
for one or two minutes, and scrub it off,
so I don't know what the difference is in the chemical
or if the difference is mainly whether you wipe
or whether you scrub.
And Zap says it works on porcelain, ceramic tile,
shower doors, sinks, bath tubs, white grout and caulk,
toilet bowls, fiber glass and acrylics.
Now, you got to pay attention to what not to use it on
and they do recommend that you test it before using it.
Do not use it on natural stone, marble, wood, fabrics,
painted surfaces, and wall coverings.
And, on the bottles of Zap, you're also cautioned
not to use this in conjunction with other cleaners
especially bleach, or toxic fumes may be created.
Now, in my house, when you go into the bathroom
there's always the expectation that you may encounter
toxic fumes, but there's no sense
in creating more, unnecessarily.
So, let's head over to the bathroom
with this bottle that they sent to me
so conveniently already opened, and get spraying.
Okay, it wasn't too hard to find some grout in the shower
that needs some cleaning, so I'm going to take as a sample
test here, this first square, this section of grout
right here, spray it with Zap,
and give it the several minutes to soak in,
and then come back with their scrubber,
and clean it, and see how it looks.
Of course, it is going to run down off the wall
that's the best I can do,
going to leave it for a few minutes
and I'll be back to scrub.
Okay, I'm going to take this scrubber
that they provided, looks a lot
like the scrubber I would buy at the supermarket
but let's scrub with this and see what happens.
And, with a minute and a half with scrubbing with the Zap
this is what it looks like.
Now, that grout is stained, and I don't think
that stain is going to come off.
What I'd like to compare now
is I used the Zap with this, let it soak in
and then scrubbed it with their provided sponge.
This block right above it,
I want to just put water on this
and try it without the Zap,
just with the sponge, and see what happens.
(water running)
Let's get it wet, let that soak a little
then I'll be back to scrub it.
Okay, I've let the water soak on this,
I'm going to try cleaning it now with the very same sponge
I've rinsed this out, and no Zap, no soap, anything
I'm just going to see what scrubbing with sponge will do.
I scrubbed this section for about the same amount of time
that I spent scrubbing this section, this was Zap
this was just water.
To me, they look pretty similar.
What I'm going to try now on this next block up
is I'm just going to put Zap on it
and let it soak for like ten minutes
come back and just rinse it and wipe if off
and see if just having the foaming Zap on there
will change this appearance at all.
Now, of course it runs down the wall on a vertical surface
the liquid doesn't tend to stay there
to get as good a chance to soak in,
so let's go, how about over here?
Here's some more grout that's stained,
I'm going to put Zap here, and just let it sit
come back, rinse it off in ten minutes,
see what it looks like.
It's been more than ten minutes
since I sprayed Zap on to this section here,
and I don't see that it looks any different,
I'm going to flush some water on it
wipe it off (water running)
Okay, this was Zap, waited two minutes and scrubbed.
This was just plain water, and scrubbed.
This was put the Zap on, waited ten minutes
didn't scrub at all, then just wiped it off.
But as I said, spraying it on to the wall,
maybe it doesn't work well because it does runs down
off of the wall, it may not stay on there long enough
to soak in, and do its thing, so I've sprayed it
on some stained grout here,
and I'm going to rinse it off now
(water running)
So, no scrubbing, just the Zap on there to soak
you can see what it looked like ten minutes ago
you decide how much it improved.
Try one last test, since maybe the grout was the issue
this is just plain, plastic shower floor
half of it I'm going to spray with Zap and then scrub
and over here, I will scrub without any Zap
we'll see if there's any difference.
Spent a minute scrubbing the right side there with Zap
after letting it soak in for a couple minutes
spent a minute scrubbing this side
with just the sponge and water over here on the left.
The Zap side is definitely cleaner, somewhat cleaner
for having soaked for two minutes before scrubbing.
So, that was my experience with the Zap cleaner,
now on some surfaces it may make a very large difference
when you've sprayed it on, let is soak and scrubbed it.
I didn't see so much different in the bathroom,
specially on the grout, but then again
maybe the grout is just stained
and nothing is going to change that color
short of taking all the old grout out
and putting in some new grout.
Cleaning the shower, though,
that is what I got the Zap for to try out
is to see if it could get the shower clean.
If you're interested in Zap, I'll have a link to it
down below this video, I'll be back soon with more reviews
including the Poopsy Daisy, which I ordered a while ago
but it hasn't arrived yet, and I haven't figured out
quite how I'm going to do that review.
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