Toilet cleaning help needed

belfastgirl23

Actually the cola really didn't work for me either, the whole loo looked gross.

Personally I whack a load of bleach down there if I'm going away for a few days and that seems to sort it out, but then we're a soft water area....

katiep_2

I had the same problem with mine. We do flush, but not overnight as it disturbs the dog who sleeps in the room below - I don't relish a barking dog in the middle of the night and neither do my neighbours!!!

Anyway, I tried all the usual OS suspects and nothing worked. In the end I got Harpic fizzy tablets and used a WHOLE PACK to get the bloomin thing clean! Now I keep on top of it with bleach every couple of days and one tablet once a week then the occasional two tablets. Not very OS I know, but I do have a nice clean toilet now

carrie78

Tesco limescale remover is fantastic dead cheap. This has worked a treat on ours. Maybe worth trying before trying more expensive ideas.

Thanks
Carrie

Queen.Bess

Thanks ever so much for all your suggestions! I will take them on board and give them a go and hopefully if someone asks a similar question, I can impart my experience!

Poppy9

When I want to empty my toilet of water I just plunge the brush down the bed a few times and virtually all the water disappears. I couldn't bring myself to put my hand down there:o

kickstart_3

Denture cleaning tablets ..drop a couple in and leave overnight .

susank

Neat bleach on a green scouring pad works scrub with hand and/or rubber gloves on/off. - we have spring water and when its been raining it dyes the works toilet bowl brown stains and I do this - MUG I think but never mind - I like a clean loo bowl. OS or not it must be clean.

I wont use a brush - its disgusting as harbours germs and turns yellow!!!

tickleoria_2

We have the same problem (grr!) and I have tried endless concoctions to try to solve it, including that Harpic-take-your-skin-off-if-you-let-it-Power stuff. All to no avail. I don't think it helps that the loo is probably 50 years old :eek:.

I am going to plunge and try white vinegar tonight as that is the only new thing on these posts that I haven't tried.

grahamliza4

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Yuk, doesn't it stink when you leave it unflushed? I couldn't live with that. Not very fair on the next user, is it?

Can't you put a brick in the cistern so that it doesn't use so much water but still deals with the waste?

If you manage to get it scrubbed up, I hope you won't let the same thing happen again. I'd rather save bathwater in a few buckets than not flush at all :eek: .

If your wee smells that bad you don't drink enough water.

If wee left in the loo repulses you that much you are soft.

I'd rather put up with wee in my loo than bleed the planet dry. Not so long ago there were no such thing as flushing toilets and you just squatted down outside. And it didn't matter if you pee'd on your shoes!:rotfl:

JillD_2

I havent read all the replies so apologies if this is a repeat!
I tried everything as well and nothing touched our loo.
The only thing I have found to work, and it is not OS at all, but it works, is to tip an entire bottle of Limelite power gel down the bowl (I don't bother draining it first this would help I should think) and leaving it for hours. Then I get the gloves on and get a cloth and scrub like mad. Its gross and I hate it but I did it once a week for a few weeks and gradually it has got a lot better.
Expensive way to do it but I was getting desperate!