How do you clean a toilet?

MrsE_2

the_frugal_frog wrote: »

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:

You can just use spirit of salts once, amazing stuff, takes off everything back to the china.
Then just keep it clean.
Only use toilet cleaner in my loo (& scrub well with a cheap loo brush - I buy 50p ones & change frequently) & it stays fine, no need for anything else & I'm in a fairly hard water area.

gayleygoo

Thank you for the replies I'd been using the black bottle Harpic which does clean the bowl well, just doesn't do anything to the staining.

I will try the suggestions for the cola, denture tablets and scrubbing with wood/bamboo, and anything else I've missed!

What is spirit of salts?

mertonwall

Spirits of salt is hydrochloric acid. Not easy to get hold of, and reacts with bleach to produce plenty of lovely chlorine gas!

Own_My_Own

Drop a sterilizing tablet down it at night. Always brings it up clean.

tenuissent

Thinking about tiles under the lavatory: my OH is a regular sprayer (too old to change his ways at 80) and I noticed it was sinking into the grouting between the quarry tiles and starting to smell however much I scrubbed it. Now I cover the area with bathmats that go in the washing machine fairly often, and the problem has gone away. I don't think there is much to be gained by nagging him. My daughter insists that her husband and sons sit down to pee, and seems to get away with it.

MrsGroovy

I am a domestic in the NHS, at work we spray with SC4000 (an orange based cleaner) and wipe with a disposable red cloth, we brush the bowl with a toilet brush to avoid a watermark. We then shine it all up with paper towel. Always using red gloves. Toilet brushes are changed every week, but sprayed and cleaned after each use. Once a week we sanitise with a powder sanitiser.

At home I spray and wipe with a red cloth, shove bleach down and scrub with a toilet brush, which lives in bleach. I then buff with paper towels.

camNolliesMUMMY

I have a spray bottle with bleach and water in it. I spray the whole seating bits and top of the loo and wipe with loo roll throw it down the loo and flush.
I have a cistern blok, and squirt daily with bleach or toilet cleaner at bedtime when nobody needs to go.
I'm funny when it comes to keeping my toilet looking and smelling clean as a relative of ours has toilet that is truly disgusting and I would be embarrassed about visitors seeing it, let's say black bowl and stains and a seat that is broken on BOTH TOILETS!
Mine I think I could eat our dinner off

Hubby has a good aim, but ds age 6 I make him have a posh wee (sit down) lol

winnoch

Haven't read the entire thread so don't know if something similar to this has already been suggested, but I have an old shower-gel bottle which I keep filled with water near the toilet. When the inevitable brown marks are left at the back of the bowl, I just squirt this bottle as hard as I can at them and this pressure jet washes the marks away in a few seconds Far, far simpler than using and washing a brush or gloves and paper, etc. For your info, the best shower gel bottle I've found for creating a nice strong jet of dislodging water is the clear Simple one.

Brittney_Luder

When cleaning the toilet I tend to use wet wipes to wipe the surfaces before using harpic thick bleach for under the rims, wait an hour or so then add a toilet freshener.

I tend to use Durgol to keep the handles on the toilets and bathroom taps clean.

helzbelz_57

I haven't read the whole thread but this is what I do. probably been said already but here it is anyway.

spray cistern, flush handle, lid, underside of lid, seat, under side of seat and all the porcelain with bathroom spray.

wipe with a damp microfiber cloth starting again with cistern and working down.

flush toilet

squirt bleach into cistern and round inside of bowl after flush has finished

cloth goes in towel wash at 90 degrees

this is done at least once a day at night when I have used bathroom for the last time so bleach sits all night.

I will often do quick spray and wipes during the day as small children aren't great at keep things clean and leave signs that they were there

I also leave the lid down all the time except in use and would feel sick at the idea of flushing with the lid up! no brush in this house either. especially as I know the aforementioned small children would get right into that. yuck!