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?!?!?!

Path and patio cleaner works wonders. God knows what's in it.

Take out all the water, then put in harpic ( the black bottle one ) then leave over night and the gently use a knife to lift it away.

When we moved in the toliet had loads of limescales at the bottom. The chunks that were too big to be flushed that's how bad it was.

Sorry but spirits of salts is a liquid - hydrochloric acid and caustic soda is sodium hydroxide which comes as little white pellets.
Both are very dangerous and will burn skin and clothes so take care wear gloves if you are using either.
Sodium hydroxide will not help limescale, but will help dissolve blocked drains.

Viakal is the only anti-limescale that really does the job, IMHO

I'd try a bottle full fat coke, and if that didn't work - biological washing powder

Try the black Harpic tablets, they're marvellous.

Just went at it with a butter knife. managed to get about 2 inches in length off will chuck some more harpic down tonight and go at it again tomorrow.

Thanks all

I can 100% guarantee that Spirits of Salts will not only shift it, it will leave it gleaming.

Follow the instructions and definitely wear gloves and open the window.

Chipping is key

It was strangely satisfying

Had a similar problem when we moved house, not helped by living in a very hard water area. Took us about 2 weeks but my toilet is now clean & mark free....

The first thing we used was white vinegar & bi carb. This started to break up the line scale & marks.

Next night we left a dish washer tablet down it... We repeated this the following day while we were out...

Next treatment was 2 of them false teeth tablet things which we left over night

Finally we used (& continue to use) harpic white- it's amazing!!!

But you're not chipping off someone's poo, surely? It's just limescale.

vomit.

too ill to flush obviously.

this information is bloody useless though...

Copious amounts of white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda for a week or so should dk the trick. Flush it 3 times in theweek. Replwcing the vinegar and bicarb kn each occasion. The smell is overpowering but keep the door shut.

We live in the hardest water area ever. Normal loo cleaners just bleach the scale. They don't remove it.

I attack with acid if we go away overnight then chisel it off.

Chipping limescale off with a knife is remarkably satisfying.

It is satisfying! It's so nice when you've reclaimed something that many would just chuck too

When my son went off to University I had to attack his loo as it was disgusting I was chipping bits off as thick as a tile...its this limescale that holds the rank smell. I used an old knife to chip where I could get at then used a kilt pin to get at the bits that would normally be beyond the water line

Yes it was quite satisfying

The reviews for this are wonderful...
www.amazon.co.uk/Kilrock-Big-Multi-Purpose-Descaler-400ml/dp/B003FTJ9ZU/ref%3Dsr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398200851&sr=8-1&keywords=kilrock+descaler

We had this sort of problem when we moved into our house, worst offender was our en suite. My DH found the magic cure was two sachets of the Oust descaling solution tipped into the bowl followed by boiled water, and leaving for about ten minutes.

I know it's not poo lol but still someone else's limescale

When I was a kid we moved into a house with a similarly filthy toilet. I remember my dad chipping the lime scale off with a chisel. It remains to this day the only time in my life that I have known my dad to clean a toilet.