How do you clean a toilet?

maddeningly

There are tablets you can get that work wonders for below the water if nothing else works, they dont smell strong to me, you just drop 2 in and they fiz away, leave them for as long as poss, overnight if you can without flushing and any stains are gone. I came home from 2 weeks holiday and my toilet was grey below the water so I must live in a really hard water area. These tablets sorted it and I think they were 99p for 8 in b&m. Next time I go away I will make sure I put bleach down before I leave !

scheming_gypsy

gayleygoo wrote: »

Around and below the water level it is very stained. I took to it with a pair of rubber gloves and a brillo pad, and had some small success with getting some small areas sort of chipped off.

Bamboo cane!

I did the same as you. Bleach, toilet duck, scrubbed it etc but a thin length of bamboo cane just chips it off with no effort.

Westywoodpecker

SG... you do appear in the most unlikely of places :rotfl:

~Chameleon~

Use Tesco value cola, about 20p a bottle. Guaranteed to work

tessie_bear

i use cola to try and soak off limescale...be careful with scrapping manually as you may damage the loo

the_frugal_frog

i have tried alsorts but have found harpic to work best, the black bottle, its often on offer for 99p. I leave it in the pan overnight and it worked a treat on my toilet (when I moved in here I recon the previous tenant had NEVER cleaned the toilet, let alone used a scrubbing brush ever):eek:

fawd1

agree with the harpic suggestion. When I moved here the toilet was filthy. It took one week of emptying the bowl every night, then filling with harpic limescale remover and soaking loo roll in the stuff so I could stick it to the sides overnight before my loo was clean. Finished off the really stubborn bits with a pumice stone. It's soft enough to break the limescale but wont chip or scratch the basin.

Icey77

I second the Black Harpic suggestion.

I push as much water around the U-bend as I can, squirt a healthy amount of black Harpic around the pan and leave it for about 5 minutes and attack with rubber gloves and a scouring pad.

Comes up brilliantly every time, even the first time when it was badly stained and rather gruesome!

Good luck!

scheming_gypsy

Westywoodpecker wrote: »

SG... you do appear in the most unlikely of places :rotfl:

You just need to look at the time of my posts to explain it. late at night / between working hours then I'm just bored and bouncing about everywhere.

System

I bleach the toilet every night before I go to bed and every so often i'll get some of that Harpic in the black bottle and use that instead of using bleach. The rim, seat, lid and outer part of the toilet I just use antibacterial wipes. Preferably floor wipes as they are big.

I like a nice clean toilet.