toilet cleaner

Brooktop

Yep - soda crystals won't get rid of limescale in the bowl - you need citric acid or vinegar. Dri-Pak also do a dedicated Limescale Remover that is eco-friendly. It foams so that it will stay on the affected area for longer. A good tip is to put some tolilet paper on the limescale if it is above the water line and soak it in vinegar or limescale remover and leave for a couple of hours.

Sometimes a bit of elbow grease is needed afterwards with a good toilet brush.

There are some more tips here: http://www.dri-pak.co.uk/bathroom-cleaning-tips/toilets.html

Ben84

Ben84 wrote: »

If it's the sodium ions doing it, then I presume that table salt in the kettle would do the same? As I currently have a really scaled up kettle, I'm going to test this out and see what happens.

Well, as far as I could tell salt did nothing good or bad to the scale, so I strongly doubt it was the sodium now. Quite how soda crystals have successfully de-scaled the kettle before is a mystery.

Ben84

aboard_epsilon wrote: »

RESULTS

no results....not even a whole 1k packet of soda would touch it never mind a table spoon full...not even softend

back to the masonry cleaner i think.

all the best.markj

Disappointing as I've had good results before. Only suggestion I can make is that it does take some time, at least overnight, and scrubbing is needed the next day. It doesn't seem to be chemically attacking the scale, just makes it soft and easily scrubbed off. Really bad scale has needed more than one treatment, but if nothing happened after leaving it overnight I guess it's not going to do anything.

As for a tablespoon of soda crystals, that's just for everyday cleaning, not heavy duty cleaning.

I'd be careful with the masonry cleaner though, strong acids could damage the toilet. If the surface becomes etched dirt and lime scale will stick to it very strongly in future.

aboard_epsilon

It was in there plus 4 hours and did nothing ..it didn't even make it one little bit soft .

The masonry cleaner has worked very well before ..been using it in it for 25 years and no harm to the vitreous enamel.


The guy up above in the posts who talked about acid and alkali has it right.

but i think two or three pints of vinegar ..would be less cost effective than two pints of masonry cleaner.

btw..ive tried a whole bottle of coke (cheap crap £1 for 2ltrs) in there in the past this did nothing either...coke contains phosphoric acid i think.


All the best.markj