Disgusting toilet

[NutElla5x]

So my son has recently moved away for work and is flat sharing with two other lads.I went round for the first time at the weekend and was nearly sick when I needed to use the loo and saw the state of it!Would I be unreasonable to bring round stuff to clean it next time I visit?And what would I need? It looks like it's never ever been cleaned and there is probably decades of built up limescale and grime down the pan not envy

@NutEllax5 - what a charm school graduate you are.

Maybe you should have phrased your OP differently, as in "what gets rid of really bad limescale in a toilet?"

Balls - failed at the username thingy!

Lots of bottles of harpic the black one... must be left say overnight for full effectiveness and with a really bad toilet repeated nightly but it will all come away without any scrubbing etc with that. Maybe also a harpic clip on so that it’s getting a bit every time it’s actually used as well.

I’ve done this on a proper crap hole of a toilet and the lime scale/poop/whatever after a while was almost like peeling off with every flush by itself with the cleaners being used but no scrubbing.

I’d show him how to do it, and id avoid it like the plague unless it was done and in a good state.

Any limescale remover as long as possible. A quick rub over with a toilet brush then flush before using, then repeat until it’s limescale free.

Honestly can't remember anyone teaching me how to clean a toilet.
Totally common sense.
I buy any toilet cleaner on office that says "100% limescale remover" leave it 30 minutes+ and then give it a good scrub.
Doesn't seem all that hard without a tutorial.

Do they know how to use Google? Job done

Don’t do this for them. They are adults and should be doing it themselves.

Oh come on though wowfudge some of you mumsnetters are like a flock of hovering vultures waiting to swoop in with your massive claws.No wonder this place has such a bad rep.

I will listen to the advice of the nice posters on here and give my son the tips you've shared and leave him to clean the loo himself or not,it's up to him.Thank you.

I would clean it and then let my son know how to clean it in the future. Then I would go round a few months later and if it looked horrendous again I would leave them to it.🤢

It's probably manky limescale rather than shit. If it's a rental house none of the prior tennants probably haven't bothered to do it.

You need an acid rather than bleach for limescale.

OP I have told younger male relations that YouTube will show then everything they need to know about keeping a house clean. They just have to search for what they want to do and check the products are available in the UK.

I caught one of them cleaning his flatshate bathroom a couple of years later and was very impressed with his handy work.

Accidently spill a can of coke in it and don't flush. Next time they (hopefully) flush it it might help the limescale a bit ?

Get a box of Harpic tablets (black box) and a bottle of the loo cleaner and hand to your DS as a moving in present?
I helped DD clean her flat when she moved in and her loo was revolting - doubled up the tablets overnight and used the bottle stuff too and it worked brilliantly.

As long as he isn't like my housemate who claimed he didn't know how to vacuum or clean. I made him a manual on how to vacuum, complete with pictures of how to plug it in. He didn't take it very well.

I seem to recall pouring a cheap 2 litre bottle of cola (not the real coca cola) down the loo and leaving it overnight would dissolve the limescale and discolouration.

Or did I dream that?

Black bottle of harpic (£1 when on offer) whole bottle down loo last thing at night after everyone’s been, scrub with toilet brush in the morning and most if not all will be gone, might take a couple of goes but that will do it without much effort.

Apparently you need some Spirit of Salts I remember my MIL swearing by it

You can't police how people respond on an open forum OP. Calling posters witches and saying fuck you says more about you imo.

This is what I was trying to help with earlier up post OP. I recommended the harpic. I rented a house with a vile limescale encrusted loo and we tried various things before we found what worked.
Wasn't suggesting, as some posters have put, that an adult needs teaching how to clean a loo. But if he's just left home and young what's wrong with some advice and guidance

Yes keepingbees you are one of the posters who's powers of compression along with your advice I appreciated so thank you.My son is only 18,but knows how to dust,hoover,wash up,iron, cook basic meals etc and so I don't appreciate the few quite vicious posts accusing him of being a mollycoddled manchild etc.And it is because the state of the loo is not down to him is why I would be more inclined to help clean it.

In all seriousness I would probably clean it myself if I were in that situation. Does your son clean the loo at your home op?

I'm not saying I would become their toilet cleaning slave but I would do it this once to get it back on shape in the hope they will keep better upkeep after