How to clean this toilet?

[Ima90sbaby]

Hi all,
So I have recently moved into my new house and this is how the toilet is (yuk!). I am just wanting to know what I can use to clean it? And what to do to stop this coming back?
TIA x

That's coming up nicely OP, one more soak should do it We live in a very hard water area btw and it's never recurred, it was just because the house had been empty for a year and water left sitting in the toilets.

Wow that’s amazing! Big improvement well done!

OP, do you have an 80's Mercedes?

@Ducksurprise no I don't lol, why?

Black harpic.

Try Citric acid overnight.

Black harpic is magic

Inspired by this thread to clean our toilets and get rid of the limescale.

I bought the Harpic black bottle (on offer in Robert Days) and I'm really pleased with the result. I do wonder how much was just sheer effort on my part though. I spent ages scrubbing with a hard bristle brush which might have done the job even without the Harpic.

But we're limescale free for the first time in years and I am unreasonably pleased by this. Thanks for the advice.

@notlisteningwithmother glad to hear that my thread has inspired you!
Although, I'm wondering how long you had left the harpic in the toilet for? As I left mine for around 6 hours and once I flushed, the toilet looked how it did on the second picture I posted, NO scrubbing or even touching it was needed.
Did you just put harpic down and start scrubbing right away?

I had one similar and like you used black harpic. Left it overnight a few nights and it comes up new.

I was told this was due to something being put down there that sticks to the bowl - now it’s clean normal cleaners should be fine.

@lms90sbaby I left the Harpic to sit for a couple of hours.

It seemed to catch on limescale that I didn't know was there (!) at the bottom of the bowl and that came off with no effort.

But it did nothing for limescale at the waterline or at the top of the bowl. We had limescale at the back of the bowl from the rim down to the water line which had yellowed in places and the Harpic liquid didn't really cling to that when I poured it in. Needed a good scrub. At which point it became obvious that there was a white ridge around the water line too. More scrubbing.

It must have been gathering for years. I'd been using bleach to clean the toilet but probably need to use a limescale remover every now and then.

Best thing for limescale is WIlko citric acid - better than any branded limescale product

For thick limescale I have, in the past, soaked kitchen towel with the loo cleaner and wedged that under the rim overnight. Obviously use gloves if handling something like the Harpic cleaners. That citric acid suggested by savvy7 should work just as well.

Kilrock descaler is the best thing I’ve ever used for manky toilets.

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