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?

It's limescale. Use the brush to push as much as the water under the Ubend as you can and then use a heavy duty remover. Leave it on over night, scrub in the morning. Rinse and repeat.

Denture tablets are good also as a paste.

Limescale and iron-rich water (gives the rusty-shit colour). It's also very matt finish, which makes it look like the enamel is damaged.

Anything acidic will dissolve the limescale, and faster when the water is hotter. Big pan of very hot water into the pan, then lots of the cheap concentrated vinegar from Amazon that comes in the 5l plastic cans. Leave overnight, repeat in the morning. You should see the acid get to work and cause the limescale to fizz within a few minutes.

You can't scrub off heavy limescale easily - you'll likely damage the pan, acid plus time is the best way.

Before the vinegar treatment, be sure to flush a couple of times to remove residual toilet cleaner. Otherwise you'll be back in a couple of weeks telling us about your recovery from chemical burns to your lungs. There's already been at least one very suspect suggestion of mixing cleaning products (mixing bleach with limescale remover or bleach with toilet cleaner can create a gas with the potential to kill you).

when we got a proper water softener, we suddenly got brown water stains above the water on the loo if you see what I mean. They are permanent. So probably enamel damage. Suspect nothing apart from a new loo will do anything

The Team TOMM Facebook page has people using 2ps to clean limescale. Not something I've tried myself but if the photos are real it's worth a try.

Where do you live OP?

All the advice on limescale is brilliant, but if you live in a peaty area, not much use.

If it’s peat water you have Best Buy a new toilet.
On the bright side you’ll never have to by fabric conditioner so that will off-set it a bit.

*buy ffs

We get this with our toilets. You need to empty some of the water out the toilet and add ALOT of white vinegar. Leave it for 36 hours (we have more than 1 loo, if you don't it will have to be overnight and do frequently). The limescale should then flake off and the brown stuff disappear.

White vinegar and baking soda

Buy a new toilet. They are not expensive.

Citric acid. Throw a box of it down the loo, leave overnight and flush! I tried harpic on our old, stained toilet and it did nothing. Acid did the job though.

Second the garlic. Also recommend a little fried onion.

Pumice stone and elbow grease

Garlic and fried onion 🤣 add a bit of mince, splash of red wine...

Nothing worked for me apart from a Pumice stone!

Bunnyfuller
Whole bottle of cheap full fat coke overnight. No scrubbing

We did this when a friend moved into their flat with the same in 3 toilets and it works!

I remember Sarah Beenie once using caustic soda on a really awful loo and it working.

Harpic tablets overnight to clear the worst of it, then black bottle harpic to get rid of/keep on top of it. Hard water area here too, so like PP, if we go away for even a week, we come back to a toilet that looks like something out of The Young Ones. If I leave it for a few days, I always have to say to people 'it's not us, it's hard water!'

I plunge with my loo brush to get the water level low then generously pour the black bottle toilet cleaner (the 10x one) and leave for a good few hours.
Then use the loo brush to clean it - takes very little effort.

Coca cola

Harpic black bottle here too use it overnight. Also tablets that go in the cistern to keep on top of it.

Coca Cola is meant to clean stained bogs.

Or Spirits of Salts, I know that works.

First pour bleach and then harpic on top, leave for few hours and it will be spotless.

Be careful with the fumes though.

@hiredandsqueak

Spirit of salts is what you need leave overnight and it will be spotless in the morning.

This is what we used. Sprit of salts. It’s very very powerful stuff- bought it from a hardware store. Got the toilet really clean again. All limescale and stains gone

Harpic power tablets are really good.
Or just buy a very cheap bottle of cola, pour it in and leave over night.

@finished31

First pour bleach and then harpic on top, leave for few hours and it will be spotless.

Be careful with the fumes though.

Noooo never mix chemicals! Do one at a time.