Disgusting toilet

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My toilet used to be so lovely and white and within the last month or so it has suddenly turned all stained below the water line. I presume this is limescale build up. Normal toilet cleaner isn't shifting it and I have emptied the water and sprayed LimeLite on it and still no cleaner.

Do any of you have any tips on getting it off? Any particular products? Don't want to go out and buy something without knowing it will work as i could do that ten times over and wate loads of time and money.

Tips greatly received :)

Caustic soda from the DIY shop. Be very careful with it. Its not the same as soda crystals at all.

Spirits of salt. It's fantastic and bubbles up when you pour it down the loo, cleans everything. Be very careful using it, use gloves, DO NOT breathe the fumes. I did and I got flu type symptoms that went to my chest. I had been given it to use at work and not warned about it...

Oh. Industrial cleaning products required? for letting it get this bad!

I've got this problem as well so I'll be following the same tips!

I once saw a Kim and Aggie where she (Kim) was scrubbing the bog with some magic stuff. Was that the caustic soda, I wonder, bibbity?

frutilla, where do you buy this lethal magic stuff?

I was thinking you'd all come along saying Cilit Bang or something

Have heard that cheap cola gets it off but I have tried this once on another toilet and it didn't do bugger all.

Aha same problem here. Have always had sparkling clean loo and suddenly it's all manky.

Any off-the-shelf non-scary solutions? Am pregnant and cba handling scary chemicals.

denture tablets.
pour in hot water from the kettle, put in half a dozen tablets and leave over night.

spirits of salt is hydrochloric acid so be very careful

Ah I like these safe options.

How much kettle water mousy? Full kettle? Couple of inches?

I do the full kettle to replace the cold water in the bend.
very hard water area here, so I do that before we have visitors regularly.

Will get denture tablets tomorrow then as a first port of call. After that, if it doesn't work, I'll get out the big guns. Although, don't really want hydrochloric acid in the house. Don't think I'd trust myself with that. I'll end up with a missing finger

If you know where the stopcock is, and your heating and water heating is off (along with washing machines, dishwashers etc, turn off your water. Then flush the loo twice to end up with an empty toilet bowl. You can then apply stuff directly to the bowl. Leave it for an hour or so, have a scrub, then turn the water back on and flush.

Due to lovely hyperemesis with both my pregnancies I have actually stripped the enamel off the bottom of my toilet. Rented property as well, bet I don't get my deposit back.

Just read the post properly and seen you've already done that . Cillit Band grime and lime is very good but bloody potent.

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I have also had hyperemesis this pregnancy - could that have stripped the enamel from my loo and meant stains are now sticking when they never used to?

You need bicarbonate of soda. It won't stop the sickness but it would neutralise the water.

stripey It's awful, looks like the toilet is dirty even when I've emptied all the water out and scrubbed it. :(

If you don the good old marigolds and run fingers along the bottom of toilet {boak} If it is all rough then that means the enamel has been stripped away (so I am told anyway)

pissed - I too have just given birth to a HG baby. and mine is all rough to the touch. Mine is the same as yours all brown/yellow even when scrubbed and cleaned. HG has alot to answer for hey.

It is limescale. You need acid to shift it. Caustic soda is acid (also known as spirit of salts).

Easier way to get water out of a toilet bowl: scoop out as much as you can with an old cup, yoghurt pot, whatever, then use a mop or one of those super-absorbent yellow shammy cloths to get the last of it out.

Not easy but a pumice stone will get rid of it. Slip the gloves on and just scrub. It is what aggie and co do. That said, my upstairs loo (i.e., the one visitors don't use) is full of limescale. I have bad hg at the mo also. In fact, if I needed to vomit early in pregnancy, I'd go to the dirtiest loo, it did the trick. How sad.... At least you can do it in pregnancy without any fumes!

Harpic tablets are pretty good, as are their equivalent from Lakeland. Drop in overnight, flush away in morning. Got rid of most of the marks in our toilet and we are in a hard water area.
Worth a shot.

Am I the only one who just pours a bunch of bleach in the bowl occasionally?

Denture tablets...intriguing...

bleach only bleaches the limescale.