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Anyone know how to get limescale off toilet bowl????????

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 13:20

ugh! it's encrusted! i've tried everything. Limelite doesn't work, someone mentioned flat Coke does the trick - bllx it does, so what else can i dooooooo????? it's embarassingly hideous.

any proven suggestions welcome!

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iris66 · 26/10/2006 13:28

Harpic 100% limescale remover - do it overnight. It does work (our water is unbelieveably hard too) HTH

fishie · 26/10/2006 13:30

spirit of salts from hardware shop. cheap too.

dislexicicecream · 26/10/2006 13:43

i feel for u!

when i moved in hear the tolet was bad i tryed everything inc coke nouthing did it,
i keeped calling houseing they keeped saying try this or that, in the end after 5 mounths of calling they sent some one out to clean it, he put brick acid (can get from B&Q in there and got some off not all, he was suprised said he never seen a tolet not clean after that, so i got the houseing maneger out he looked and said it was not a pryority, i asked him if he wood have his friends and familly use it if in his house, he agreed to put in a new one lol

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 13:43

thanks girls. but iris, how do you keep the stuff on there to work?? i mean, it drips off, non?

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 13:45

you're not serious icecream??? you had to put in a whole new toilet??????????

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bran · 26/10/2006 13:46

If you use the loo brush to pump at the bottom of the loo you can empty most of the water out, then the product you use won't get so diluted. I had quite good results doing that and then spraying with Viakal and leaving it for a few hours.

rickman · 26/10/2006 13:46

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fishie · 26/10/2006 13:51

my cousin had to replace hers, the enamel had come off. i do not know how that happened nor do i fancy speculating.

dislexicicecream · 26/10/2006 13:53

i am not joking, it was that bad,the system was bad to there was all sorts of green mold growing in it! but so was my whole house, i was pregnant when i moved in and vued it when the other people wear still living hear, i just thought the messy house was down to them being redy to move, once i got hear to an empty house i cryed the place was a wreck!
it was suposedly newly decorated b4 i came, lovely green wall paper (not) stuck on with blu tack in some places!
i have had re decorate the whole house in the past 8 mounths , and had houseing out more times than i rember to fix things like plugs haning off wall and a leak in the roof! and to pick up last peoples dog crap out of garden,
i see the people who used to live hear every day in the playground, it kills me not to say something nasty to her!

FrannyandZooey · 26/10/2006 13:57

White vinegar? Works on our sink, etc. If the place you need to put it on is on a slope, sort of drench jay cloths in it and lay them on the area. Leave for a few hours and wash off. It might not get it all first time but I bet it would improve it.

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 13:58

OMG icecream . i am impressed you have not said anything to them. i don't know how i'd control myself; sounds disgusting.

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 13:59

thanks f&z. it's the rim at the back really. definitely needs to be wadded with cloths i think. i'm actually getting quite excited at the prospect of resolving this!!

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SpookyMadMummy · 26/10/2006 14:00

try kaboom!!! from wilkinsons... not cheap but works for us.. we are in a v hard water area.....

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 26/10/2006 14:01

Harpic 100% limescale remover - my bowl was GROSS and it is sparkling!

dislexicicecream · 26/10/2006 14:03

oh missybabee, the woman knows not to look my way, maybe she feels inbarrised (i hope she dose)
the garden has lovely decking that was put in b4 them and there dogs, and only half was ever staind looked a right mess, but i have painted it all added wind chimes and flowers insted of dog poo and broken glass, and my nabouers said how diffrent the place looks and how much nicer the area feels now,

themoon666 · 26/10/2006 14:31

I moved into a new house in July and already the limescale is building up. I put harpic 100% limescale down there every other day, to no avail. All I can think of doing now is pouring bleach onto it so at least it will look white.

Might try to remember to buy that Kaboom stuff next time I'm in Wilko.

VermiciousKnid · 26/10/2006 14:32

[euw] at jarm's gross bowl

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 14:40

i'm wondering if somehow chipping it off is the answer (forgive me for the hideous image i am creating)?

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 14:41

PMSL at my own post

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Pruni · 26/10/2006 14:42

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MissyBabee · 26/10/2006 14:45

i always thought oxford was sposed to be nice... ;)

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VermiciousKnid · 26/10/2006 14:45

arf missybabee

Pruni · 26/10/2006 14:48

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 26/10/2006 16:25

with harpic, you need to leave it, scrub it, flush, apply again and scrub again.

It DOES work - honestly - i never though ANYTHING would shift our limescale problem!

essbee · 26/10/2006 20:03

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