Best product for removing limescale from toilet bowl?

Cinquestelle

Fire_Fox wrote: »

A gel texture will help the product 'cling' to the limescale as it works. Under the rim is an awkward spot to use a spray on.

Having said that, Which? have tested twelve limescale remover sprays. Of these their Best Buy is Cillit Bang Power Cleaner limescale and grime (79% overall score). Which? say

"Simply the best for blitzing limescale, this is the perfect limescale remover if you have hard water and struggle with stubborn deposits. Cillit Bang removes four times more limescale than the worst product we tested, and slightly more than Dettol. Plus it breezes through soap scum on horizontal surfaces and is in the cheaper half of products tested. For best results, be patient and let it work for up to five minutes, as recommended."

Two Viakal products both scored 48%.

HTH.

That's brilliant, thank you Fire Fox.

Cinquestelle

That is good to know, thank you.

ouraggie

I use Harpic or Lidl stuff. Impregnate a sheet of kitchen roll or decent quality loo roll with some, then mould the paper over the edge of the rim. Leave for an hour or so. Don't let it dry as you will then have to scrape it off!
Works a treat on taps too!

Rincewindwiz

Hi all
Slightly late addition to this thread but hopefully someone is still watching.
Had a loo in a pretty bad state. Blitzed the under-rim area with Kill-rock gel and for the hard bits Spirits of Salts (30% Hydrochloric acid).
Most has gone but I am left with a very hard pale grey rough film between the rim and the holes.

I cant find anything to shift it. I doubt its limescale otherwise the SoS would have eaten it away (soaked for an hour using kitchen paper soaked in SofS)

I am reluctant to scrape too hard for fear of damaging the porcelain and would prefer a chemical solution.


Any suggestions

jk0

Rincewindwiz wrote: »

Hi all
Slightly late addition to this thread but hopefully someone is still watching.
Had a loo in a pretty bad state. Blitzed the under-rim area with Kill-rock gel and for the hard bits Spirits of Salts (30% Hydrochloric acid).
Most has gone but I am left with a very hard pale grey rough film between the rim and the holes.

I cant find anything to shift it. I doubt its limescale otherwise the SoS would have eaten it away (soaked for an hour using kitchen paper soaked in SofS)


I am reluctant to scrape too hard for fear of damaging the porcelain and would prefer a chemical solution.


Any suggestions

As I typed above:

jk0 wrote: »

Put Harpic limescale remover all round the bowl last thing at night. Next morning, give it a little brush & flush.


Repeat if necessary.

stragglebod

Vinegar plus bicarbonate of soda.

Rincewindwiz

Thanks but the bowl is not the problem and limescale removers have proved ineffective


Will try vinegar and Bicarb

Apodemus

I’d ditch the bicarb, you already have the lime and don’t need it to foam. If it is that hard, it sounds like it needs physical action rather than just chemical. Anything mildly abrasive should be ok, I’d start with a cream cleaner or even just a soapy rough cloth.

You may not be old enough to remember Molly Weir and “ye can clean a bath without scratching...!”

coffeehound

If the holes under the rim are plugged with limescale, it's worth poking them through with an L-shaped piece of coat-hanger wire or an Allen key. Should immediately improve the flush and make descaling more effective.

roddydogs

Or buy a rimless lool?............