gross toilet ! How to get rid of limescale

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Agree with all ref toilet pans but what about limescale in the corner of plastic shower tray? Would the soaked kitchen roll do the trick, ditto with around the taps in plastic vanity sink? Would be happy to use WD40 after getting rid of scale.

fawd1

whmf00001 wrote: »

Agree with all ref toilet pans but what about limescale in the corner of plastic shower tray? Would the soaked kitchen roll do the trick, ditto with around the taps in plastic vanity sink? Would be happy to use WD40 after getting rid of scale.

Best way to get rid of limescale ever is pumice powder. just mix a little bit of water with it to make it like a paste and rub at the limescale. It's literally gone in seconds. I had a toilet that obviously hadn't been cleaned in years (and I do mean years) Tried every trick in here, emptied toilet bowl 7 nights running left it with soaked kitchen roll and the next morning only bits would have chipped away. Eventually tried the pumice powder and within minutes it looked like a new toilet.

Primrose

We live in a high limescale water area and I can't find anything which will remove the unsightly limescale stains from our green toilet pedestal and wash basin. I've tried bleach, Limelight and Viacal without success. Any ideas?

Steve059

Vinegar (acidic) is the natural enemy of limescale (alkaline).

Cheap cola also works. Same principle, but even cheaper.

DigForVictory

Supermarket cheapest cola (over 35p/2litres? wrong sort, go cheaper) applied/emptied over target area & left overnight?

chog24

Hi all,

For ages, I've bought brand-name limescale removers (Limelite gel, Viakal or whatever) which generally cost between £2 and £5. Remembering my school chemistry lessons, however, I realised that limescale is alkali and logically any acid should get rid of it, so I bought some cheap vinegar and thought I'd give it a try on the kettle and draining board.

The kettle came up a treat (plus, it's vinegar which allays any fears about toxic chemicals, since you don't know what's in these brand name products, really) and so did the draining board.

For the kettle I probably put in about a quarter to a third of the (pint) bottle of vinegar in and filled the kettle right to the very top with hot water from the tap (by the top, I don't mean the "max capacity" line; I filled the kettle until it was nearly about to overflow because it's a jug kettle and the spout was encrusted too). So that's probably in the region of 1:12 ratio. I left it for about an hour and then rinsed and any limescale which hadn't just dissolved had at least loosened and came out when I rinsed. I rinsed the kettle a couple of times and the coffee I just made in it tasted perfectly OK.

For the draining board, I had a bit of build up where the lowest point in the drainer is, so I poured the vinegar neat where that build up was and left it for an hour (at the same time as the kettle). Then I dribbled a bit of neat vinegar around elsewhere on the drainer and set to work with a plastic pan scourer. There was also some build up around the taps, so I wet a piece of kitchen paper with the vinegar and wrapped it round the bits of the taps where the build up was (mostly around joints and where the tap met the draining board) and left those for ten minutes or so (while I was scrubbing the drainer). It all came up nice and clean and shiny and I saved myself a few quid.

If I'm honest, I've tended to put this job off because of the price of brand name cleaners. No need to put it off any more - a bottle of cheapy vinegar's only gonna set me back 25p!

Of course, the kitchen smelled of vinegar while I was leaving the stuff to work, but that went away as soon as I rinsed it all away.

And just in case do NOT use vinegar to remove limescale if you've got marble surfaces - marble's also alkali and so the vinegar could damage the surface.

Hope this story helps other people

Seakay

also soak kitchen paper in vinegar and spread over build up below taps in bath etc in hard water areas

Horseunderwater

To get it off the tap outlet, some kitchen paper in a small bag with vinegar and then held in place with an elastic band for some time like 2 hours. Comes up a treat.

marmiterulesok

I'd forgotten about cola/vinegar.

I had great success,scrubbing away at with a long-toothed nail brush.It came off quite easily.

Didn't Aggie and Kim mention using a pumice stone?

Primrose

Will try the heap cola. Pumice stone would damage the ceramic/porcelain so won,t risk that.