to give up trying to clean this toilet?!

[iamdivergent]

Moved into first house a little over a year ago. House had been empty for about a year prior to us buying it, so obviously water had been turned off until we switched it back on.

Upstairs bathroom suite is grey. The toilet was disgusting, soon as you lifted the encrusted lid you could have cried at the smell, god knows how we didn't notice it when we viewed but who looks down the loo then!

So, since then I have tried many, many different method to clean it but there's some on the bottom of the bowl which I just can't shift no matter how I go at it. It's very annoying and looks gross obviously.

Still grrr that the seller's didn't think to clean the loos before the put it on the market!

So AIBU to give up on it?!?!?!

can you fill it with bleach, close the lid and leave it for a week?

Couple of liters of full fat coke in the bowl, leave it for a few days before flushing. Might have to do it a couple of times but it should work.....

You empty the water out with a bendable plastic cup

Pour a whole domestos limescale bottle down

And then come back 8 hours later and do a very small amount of scrubbing

What about the false teeth tablet things......aren't they meant to be good for cleaning really bad toilets??

Couldn't leave for a week, don't want the children wandering downstairs in the night for the loo.

I might try the coke thing next, have never heard of that one. Thanks

I did the domestos limescale stuff when we were away the other week for a long weekend, barely shifted any

Yes, denture tablets left overnight are good at lifting limescale

Oxy powder works well too dissolve a couple of scoops in boiling water and poor in

Pour not poor sorry. [Blush]

Spirits of salts (hydrochloric acid) works well apparently not that I've ever bothered to do it

You need to scoop as much as the water out as possible and then treat with remover. Or crush some denture stuff and make a paste to cover it and leave overnight. It does come off eventually if you keep at it.

Denture tablets are good to just plop a couple in overnight and scrub in the morning though.

If you're not in possession of the dreaded loo brush, btw, it might be worth investing in a cheap one just to get it clean.

Are you going away this summer? Maybe attempt the coke treatment then and leave till you get back

Replace the toilet?

Please don't pour boiling water down the toilet.

We have a loo brush yes, not going away unfortunately. will see if gran can spare a couple denture tabs

No I wouldn't gamer

toilet will eventually be getting replace, we want a new suite but funds are low so won't be for some time

Limescale needs to be scrubbed off. Lakeland sell a special implement for the purpose. It does work.

I'd just buy a new one!

New one? Cheapest model.

Old toothbrushes also work well for scrubbing nooks and crannies.

I hope to God that you've removed that ENCRUSTED loo seat while wearing a hazmat suit and burned it.

The smell was probably vile because the water was turned off and what was left in the bowl evaporated, so the U-bend was redundant.

There's nothing more effective than donning your Marigolds, baling all the water out and giving the whole thing a good scrub with abrasive cream-cleaner. If it's just lime-scale discolouring it, bale out the water, pour a bottle of vinegar down there and leave it overnight.

Might be a stupid question, why should you not put boiling water down a toilet?

You have to take all the water out of the toilet bowl for any of the bleach / lime scale remover treatments to work.

Scoop as much out then use a sponge to get the rest out. Use a limescale remover or coke overnight. That may work.