Best way to clean up toilet?

stiltoncheese

Apologies if this has been posted before. I tried doing a search but MSE is playing up for me today and the search just wasn't coming up with anything.

We have a toilet that is relatively new (probably less than 3 years old) and it has become really stained recently around the rim and down the back of the bowl where the water runs during a flush. It looks yellow and if I'm honest, looks like urine (it's not, and it's cleaned fully every weekend and toilet ducked quickly once or twice in the week).

I have tried scrubbing, using toilet duck etc but to no avail. I'm guessing it's probably a bit of limescale as we live in a really hardwater area but it's our only toilet in the house and I'm too scared to let anyone use it because it just looks like it hasn't been cleaned for months

Any OS tips about how I might be able to clean this out and make it look reasonable again?

Thanks

honeythewitch

you could make a paste with citric acid powder and lemon juice if you were desperate for something natural, but the supermarket "own brand" limescale removers will be cheaper and more effective.

nikki1520

Assuming its ceramic?

Put some gloves on, use a disposable cup to take all the water out. Get some bar keepers friend (available most supermarkets) shake powder on and give it a bit of a rub.. This even gets metal transfer marks off, so should work wonders!

Alnwicklass

It might be a build up of scale that then gets stained with urine. As honeythewitch said, a supermarket lime scale remover would help. I do give mine a once-over with one of the 100% lime scale remover products about once a month and use regular loo cleaner the rest of the time.

Whatever you do use, don't mix cleaners without flushing in between (esp ones with bleach).

Ilona

Parazone make a cleaner in a black bottle which shifts my limescale. Comes up like new again.
Ilona

stiltoncheese

Thank you everyone. I will head out to the supermarket tomorrow and see what I can pick up

VfM4meplse

I find not keeping a man in the house helps enormously.

room512

We have the same problem with limescale and it looks disgusting. I have tried every limescale remover going (it seems like it anyway) and none of them get rid of it. The only thing that works for us is a thick bleach left overnight in the toilet and it looks clean in the morning. Not sure if the bleach removes the limescale or just bleaches it white!

Icey77

Yep, I second the black para zone bleach stuff.
I push all the water past the U bend, slap a load of the black bottle bleach around the pan and into the bottom of the loo, leave it whilst I wipe down the rest of huge bathroom. Come back with my rubber gloves and a sponge scourer and give it a good scrubbing. Comes up sparking every single time

VfM4meplse

room512 wrote: »

Not sure if the bleach removes the limescale or just bleaches it white!

It just beaches it. Sorry to be so graphic, but it needs a good scrub with something abrasive to shift it.

I live in a hard water area and hate it - limescale everywhere! But then when I go to Cumbria, for example, the shampoo doesn't lather up properly so it's the opposite problem!

room512

VfM4meplse wrote: »

It just beaches it. Sorry to be so graphic, but it needs a good scrub with something abrasive to shift it.

I live in a hard water area and hate it - limescale everywhere! But then when I go to Cumbria, for example, the shampoo doesn't lather up properly so it's the opposite problem!

I do scrub at it and use a limescale remover too - they just don't remove it all!