Staining in toilet bowl

Yorkie1

I have inherited a white toilet suite (about 6-8 years old, max) and the toilet bowl stains very easily at and below the water line.

Apart from daily / frequent scrubbing with rubber gloves and a sponge, will any products actually remove this staining?

Thanks in advance

nomnomnom

Years ago, I always remember my Dad using Caustic Soda in the toilet for staining.

flea72

can of coke - put down the loo, leave overnight, flush in the morning

all stains should be gone

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Owain_Moneysaver

Limescale - you need acid. Brick cleaner (usually based on muriatic acid) from DIY sheds or builders merchants will sort it, pour some into the toilet and leave overnight. Do not use in conjunction with any other toilet cleaner or bleach, use rubber gloves and safety glasses/goggles.

Inactive

Vinegar left in the pan overnight should help.

blabberwort

I get this with my toilet and to date the best thing I have ever found to work is that domestos zero limescale cleaner you can buy specifically for toilets. Im not a great one to rave about many commercial products but I genuinely found this fantastic. I leave it down the toilet overnight and just flush in the morning.

It's expensive compared to other toilet cleaners but actually well worth the money.

Wookey

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I have inherited a white toilet suite (about 6-8 years old, max) and the toilet bowl stains very easily at and below the water line.

Apart from daily / frequent scrubbing with rubber gloves and a sponge, will any products actually remove this staining?

Thanks in advance

You probably live in a hard water area, a water softener will help with this problem along with many others that you haven't noticed like immersion heater elements, dishwasher/washing machine elements, kettles, scale around tap nozzles, shower heads etc etc. If left unused for any length of time the WC will start to reek as the limescale retains deposits left on it that arent flushed away, think of gents toilets where there are urinal bowls that havent got a regular enough auto flush or proper cleaning, they can stink quite a bit and it is usually down to scale buildup on the urinals surface.

maninthestreet

I live in a hard water area and I don't get any staining due to lime scale at the water level in the toilet. It may be the staining is not related to lme scale - have you tried putting toilet cleaner (bleach) down the toilet and leaving it for a few hours (N.B do not put any other liquid down the toilet, other than water, when using bleach).

explumber

you cant beat this. a firm i used to work for, back in the late seventies through to the early nineties were the main contractors for watneys. i used to have to use this to clean the old urinals and wcs in a lot of the pubs in london.

word of caution.
open you bathroom window.
hold your nose, and pour the solution into the wc pan.
then leave the bathroom pronto, closing the door behind you.
leave the solution to do its job, for about 30 mins, then just give the loo a couple of flushes.
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moonrakerz

If it is a case of it just staining very easily, I think that may be down to the quality of the toilet bowl.
When I refurbished my house I put in a very modern styled expensive loo in the bathroom - doesn't stain at all.
I put in a downstairs loo with a "bog" (couldn't resist that !) standard value loo from B & Q - even though it isn't used a great deal it does tend to stain very rapidly. AND - I do have a water softener !

I just use bleach and have to clean it more often than the other.

Yorkie1

Thanks so much to everyone with so many ideas!

I'll try the bleach and coke (not together!) tricks first, then move onto the more exotic / hard core stuff if that doesn't work. I think a better toilet brush may help too.

It's not a hard water area but I suppose there may well be limescale deposits which aren't visible to the eye.