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 :)

I use parazone toilet cleaner - supposed to get rid of limescale (we live in scotland so have soft water).

this thread says white vinegar got rid of their limescale

I'm going to try all of this stuff! Thanks.

Tip a bottle of coke down loo, leave overnight and loo is good as new! (thats what i do anyway)

This happened to me because I use 'eco cleaners' in a hard water area. I got rid of it by emptying the toilet by pushing as much water past the u bend with a bog brush as i could. then using an old towel and bucket to get rid of last biy.

I then used a tile cleaner (neat) from a DIY shop.

Job done.

I always used the most potent cleaner I can find for loos now.

I had hideous toilets when we moved into this house - previously home to 3 teenage boys Bought some super evil loo cleaner in black and lime green bottle - poss Harpic- and a full bottle sorted 2 loos. Brilliant as it got rid of the limescale rather than just bleaching it. I normally use ecover but this needed EVIL and it worked!

You need the evil harpic and then leave for 24 hours sorted the loo in awful flat last year for me

Update from grimy loo :)

Problem solved. I emptied the pan and left some Viakal in for a couple of hours and then I went into Savers and found some limescale remover tablets made by Parazone and left a couple of those in overnight and it looks lovely :)

Reporting in. I used a bottle of Harpic Zero (the one in the weird green bottle - about £2.50ish) just straight down the pan and left it overnight, and it had removed about 75% already, with a minor apathetic scrub.

Pretty good.

the harpic tablets are good. I'm pretty sure caustic soda is alkaline, not acid. It also dissolves skin and eyeballs.

Surprisingly, Parazone Bleach Blocks that you put in the cistern, slowly dissolve lime scale. If you look in the cistern after a few weeks of use, you will see the scale flaking off the ball and the sides of the cistern below the waterline, and bits of it lying in the bottom. Eventually it will all dissolve. It will also clean out the waterways and holes around the rim, and this often improves a clogged flow.

The chlorine does tend to make rubber washers perish though, especially if you have a ballcock where the supply comes in through the bottom of the cistern on a long vertical stem. It will not attack a valve where the supply comes in through the side of the cistern, above the waterline.

sorry, I didn't notice the date.