Disgusting but need advice

[LesleyA]

Sorry this isn’t even an interesting disgusting. Bought a house all very neat, clean and in excellent condition. Except the toilets. They look like no 2s have stained the bottom of the loo. Cleaning with loo cleaner and a loo brush does help despite me wanting to get sick but not much and it just gets dirty again. Enamel must have come off and now it sticks and stains. Any advice?

Empty the bowl.. just use a loo brush and jab vigorously til the water is gone.. harpic the hell out of it , leave for a while then scrub. Hard water here and it starts to scale up every couple of days.

If all else fails.. new loos!

@PrudenceDictates

Just adding my voice to the chorus of "garlic"

Great stuff.

Confused the heck out of me for a sec there

It's limescale. This stuff is brilliant.

Garlic will also keep off the vampires. Win-win.

This is good stuff.

When I moved into my rented house both toilets were like this and black, I literally tried everything and nothing worked, I looked closer and noticed it was a massive build up of limescale so used a flathead screwdriver and scraped it all away and they're good as new now! But obviously you need to be very careful of doing this!

Limescale. We're in a really hard water area and stains can form in a week whilst we're away on holiday.

Astonish tablets are quite good. Put two in overnight. Don't flush until morning.

Then get as much water out as possible and scrub. Black Harpic is good.

You've got to keep on top of it with Harpic though, or it'll be back before you know it.

Echoing what most PPs have said.

I had this really badly in one of our toilets, I emptied the water out of the bowl (literally with a disposable cup and gloves.) poured an entire bottle of black harpic down & left it all day (12+ hours.) Then scrubbed for 5 minutes with a toilet brush, flushed, good as new

I put two calgon tablets in mine and leave overnight. Then scrub in the morning. Job done.

Whole bottle of cheap full fat coke overnight. No scrubbing

I think you need to drain the toilet, clean it and reapply the enamel.

Harpic! And the easiest way to empty the toilet bowl of water, is just to put a toilet brush down it as far as you can and 'pump' away ( move brush backwards and forwards). Water will disappear!!!

Did I imagine it or did someone put garlic in their vagina to get rid of thrush? If it worked for that it might sort out your grubby loo.

@PrudenceDictates

FFS HARPIC, not garlic!

I just wondered that it's toilet not a vampire😂

On a serious nore, I've never used harpic and now i wonder if I am missing something

Harpic tablets. I live in a hard water area & have a similar issue, these work perfectly.

Instead of a screwdriver, you can try a pumice stone.
Apparently they won't scratch the toilet (according to Aggy and Kim anyway).

Ps. It's not that disgusting. It's just a bit of limescale. Half the world would love to toilet like yours.

I'd buy a new toilet bowl too. By the time you've tried every product known to man, you'll have spent the price of a new toilet.

Definitely black bottle Harpic. Squirt it, leave ten minutes and it'll come off so easily.

@Bunnyfuller

Whole bottle of cheap full fat coke overnight. No scrubbing

Exactly what I was going to say. Big 2l bottle of cheap full fat coke, leave it over night and your loo will be sparkling in the morning. I had the same issue when I bought a house once. Easy cheap fix and better than the harpic I think (although I use that regularly to keep limescale at bay)

I am actually gullible enough to have popped a nice bulb of garlic in, had the pp not come back and corrected!!

@Ellpellwood

Harpic tablets. And then, sorry it's grim, but I had to smash the last lot off the bottom of the bowl with the handle of an old loo brush. It had formed a layer, like the top of a creme brulée.

This is what I had to do also. I used lots of bleach beforehand so it didn’t feel too grim. I hate being in a hard water area thoug

Empty the bowl of water using a plunger and add a litre of white vinegar. Leave for a few hours. Repeat until the scale is removed.

Have you tried bleach

Harpic Power Plus Active Tablets left overnight did the trick for me.