Cleaning a toilet

[AngelEyes46]

My son's toilet is disgusting - what can I use to clean it? I've heard vinegar and I have some in the house but not white vinegar. Will dark do?

Why are you cleaning your son's toilet?

Harpic White and Shine is the only toilet cleaner I've found that leaves the toilet seriously sparkly.

White vinegar and bicarb of soda - make a paste and scrub it. Stinky but it works a treat.

Thanks AsA - I will have to go and get and in the meantime use what I have in our cupboard.
Midthread - he has just moved in somewhere and am helping him clean his place. I know I should leave him to do the toilet but mums are as mums are

Domestic lime scale remover. Leave on for an hour, then Use an old sponge, stick your hand down and scrub hard. Minging, but works!

Ermm... just don't use balsamic!

• the best option would be to get your son to don some gloves and scrub it himself.

... or just dump some un-eco chemicals down it ?!!

Ahh, my apologies - if he's just moved in that's a different matter

The Harpic tablet things (like large alka seltzers) are quite good too.

If you can get it, use hypochlorite. It's a very strong bleach dairy farmers use to clean down their parlours, but I know a lot of garden centres stock it because people use it to clean their patio slabs, decking etc. Chuck a bit of that down it and I guarantee it will sparkle.

Similarly I spray it very very diluted on the tiles, around the shower etc. Brings the grout up good as new. Just be really careful not to walk across it if you do your floor tiles and then walk on your carpets - it will bleach everything, even when significantly watered down!

Coca cola and denture tablets - a whole tube of them

Oh, and WD40 is brilliant on yellow seats!

@Olivo - yellow seats? like yellow cloth seats?
... mind, at times I think WD40 will fix all problems...
that reminds me

Hg do a high strength toilet cleaner you can get in Homebase and places like that. Their products are fab !

Erm, no. I have kids who pee on the seat, it turns yellow....
WD40 gets it off!

Empty out all the water and use cleaner with limescale remover

I won't be helping my adult children to clean their houses. I will suggest they Google it and then get on with it as I did when I left home at 18 (apart from the Google bit).

"Mums are as mums are" doesn't resonate with me.

WD40 on pissy toilet seats?!
Tell me more!

Our toilet seats are now about 5 yrs old but expensive to replace. The weeks in our house seem of be a bit hit and miss so some are very yellow at the back and front. Spray on the WD40 and give a scrub with a sponge, then wipe off. No idea how it works, but it does!

I’m definitely going to check that out I have a toilet where the fittings are hidden away so dear looks like a bit of a ball ache to replace

Another vote for the harpic tablets. Work really well

By all means do your research and help by buying the products. Then supervise your son doing the job, and then show him (in words) what a normal ‘maintenance’ clean is like, plus how often to do it.

So that someday he won’t be standing over the loo looking puzzled, with a bottle a window spray and a square of steel wool. Like my 50yo DH last week.