Stains in toilet

[Seff]

We moved house last year, and the two toilets in the house have dark stains at the edges of the bottom of the bowls. I do flylady style swish and swipe every day, and have tried toilet cleaners and I even scooped all the water out of one and filled it with (cheap, admittedly) bleach in an attempt to shift the stains.

Nothing makes a bit of difference. The toilets are clean, so I'm not even sure what the stains are. But they stare up at me, mockingly, and I would like rid of them

Any ideas?

you would be better with limescale remover rather than bleach.

Bleach is no good for that.

Plop a couple of denture tablets in the loo before you go to bed and scrub with a brush in the morning. Flush then push the water down with the brush.. use a decent limescale remover and leave for a bit. Then scrub .... rinse and repeat the next day. It'll happen.

Yup, bleach on its own won't remove lime scale, just bleach it. There are various remedies around, vinegar, flat coke, pumice stone, but I've had success with harpic lime scale remover left for quite a few hours. If the lime scale is bad, you will probably have to keep reapplying, but it should shift in the end.

Ahhh limescale, that would explain it. I have vinegar in, so will try that first and then hit the chemicals! Thanks everyone.

I can recommend Ecover Toilet Cleaner left overnight for a few days, didn't even need scrubbing, and my "Superwoman" friend even asked me what I'd used when moving in.

It sounds like limescale, apparently if you leave cheap coke in the toilet overnight it's supposed to get rid of it-I've yet to try this though as we bought a cheap limescale remover which more or less did the job!

have a look in the WC cistern, see if there is a lot of limescale in it.

If so (take a photo), once you have dealt with the pan, put Parazone Bleach Block in the cistern. In a month's time, look in again. Take another photo and you will find that the limescale is flaking off and dissolving. The block will clean out the limescale from the cistern, the rim, and the pan. You will need to put a new one in when it stops foaming (maybe monthly). It works quite slowly, but it really does work.

warning: the bleach attacks rubber. If the WC is quite old, and if it has the filling pipe to the float valve going in through the bottom of the cistern rather than the side, the rubber washer will be immersed in the bleachy water and may drip after a few years. It is not difficult to replace, but useful to know.

spirits of salts - very heavy duty stuff, not for everyday use, but will bring em up like new

Kilrock is brilliant. Pour it down and leave overnight if possible. You can buy it from hardware shops.

Is the water peaty? Viakal is great for shifting peat stains in toilet.

You need harpic power plus. Comes in black bottle £2 often half price somewhere. I live in a hard water area and it is the only thing that keeps the loo clean. Left overnight it cleaned my mums disgusting black downstairs loo.