Brown stains on toilet

[oceanaus]

We live in a hard water area and one of our toilets has particularly bad brown stains on it. I’ve tried the Dr Beckmann toilet cleaner but they still remain. What else could I use to try to remove them? Thank you

You could try citric acid.

Bleach.

I stumbled upon this thread as I was searching for limescale tips.

Apparently we live in a moderate area but our appliances and toilets say differently..!

I'm on a cleaning spree right now and this morning I have used

Hydrochloric acid
Hydrochloric acid with an entire bottle of bicarb
Scrubbing
And now a whole bottle of black harpic. Which is still soaking and all that's happened is the staining has gone grey instead of yucky brown.

I've tried so many different products
Coke
White vinegar
Denture tablets
Kilrock (professional grade)

Literally nothing has worked. I'm at my wit's end with it.

If by any miracle an entire bottle of Harpic works I'll let post again!

Have you tried the Harpic Power Plus Deep Clean Tabs? Out of desperation tried them in disgustingly stained toilet (not mine - elderly male relative). Put 2 down, left it overnight then flushed - looked way better so repeated and now the toilet looks new! I'm very impressed!

I think if it’s got so bad, you probably need to drain the water and chip away at it using the plastic part of a tooth brush, then use all the above to keep up to it.

We have one toilet in the house that stains badly all the time, despite doing exactly the same with all the toilets in the house. So odd.

A pumice stone and a pair of rubber gloves and then fit a filter on your water intake. Our water is incredibly limescale heavy and a filter is the best thing to use. The pumice stone will clean the loo without scratches just keep it damp.