Best loo cleaner for hard water areas

[CocktailQueen]

to get those annoying marks from under the rim of the loo?? Gah. Thank you!!

I live in a hard water area and have been known to don rubber gloves and go at limescale in the toilet hands on with a bit of viakel and a scrubber. Oh yes, I know how to live it up alright.

Domestos Zero Limescale does the trick and smells great too.

Parazone Bleach Blocks (not Bloo or scented or anything) that you put in the cistern will slowly dissolve the crusty limescale from inside the cistern, and from the in-the-rim waterways, and from the pan, and will prevent it building up. It improves the flush by unclogging the rim, I don't know any other household product to do that.

If you look in the cistern after a few weeks, you will actually notice that the float, below water level, is coming clean, and limescale is coming off the sides. It is quite noticable. In this hard water area I have recommended the blocks to several people, and they really do work. If you try it, post back here after a month and say what your results were.

The Harpic loo cleaner in the black bottle is good, and there is a tablet you drop in the bowl, but it only works below water level.

Hi - thanks! Piglet, have tried the tablets that you drop in thew bowl but they haven't been v successful. My dh usually has a go at scrubbing and using elbow grease, but the marks come back again. Will try the bleach blocks - but do they smell really strong??

I wouldn't say so

there is a faint bleachy smell when you flush, but I've smelt worse in a loo.

If the pan is fairly old, the glaze may have been eroded and some marks impossible to remove. But if you can clean the old marks off, and new ones come back, the Parazone Bleach Blocks should fix it. Sometimes you need a nylon pan scourer on hard old limescale.

The other thing that will cure it is a water softener.

The black bottle of Harpic is good stuff

Have you tried using white vinegar?

Another vote for the black bottle of Harpic. It's often cheap in Wilko's, Home Bargains and/or B&M.