If it’s brown flush it down….. but if it's yellow it stains! Please help!!

muddyfox470

Surely buying bleach and using it so frequently is negating the whole point in saving the water in the first place?

geordie_joe

muddyfox470 wrote: »

Surely buying bleach and using it so frequently is negating the whole point in saving the water in the first place?

It depends how often you use it. I got mine free too.

I also find using a "blu-loo" hides the stains in the water so I don't clean the loo as often.

Purple_Sparkles

My loo stains too but I just use the loo brush at the end of every day and don't have a problem.

Lugh_Chronain

I'm not really a fan of loo brushes but after reading all your tips I think I might have to reconsider. :undecided

exlibris

Re: Loo brushes

On one of the Kim and Aggie programmes they shouted at someone for having a brownish loo brush saying that the brown was poo! My loo brush rusts on the spikes so I replace it when it starts to go - though the current one I have had 5 yrs and it hasn't rusted yet. Perhaps they are too cheap lol

Purple_Sparkles

I've just gone and checked mine after reading your post exlibris - thankfully it's not brown!

Ken68

Better orf with just a sponge/scourer, then rest it in a bleach bowl, throwaway style. This is getting personal.

Quasar

I use vinegar as per my post above, but once a month or thereabouts I douse the bowl with bleach, starting from just under the rim. Then I place the brush in the bowl so that it stays for a while in the bleach'water mix. After about 30 minutes I flush and both brush and toilet and sparkling.

Bleach is not environmentally friendly, but I think there is a place for it once in a while.

Garetha

I've heard of people using a cheap coke and leaving it in overnight.
Put's you off drinking it :beer:

Tesco value sugar free cola is 20 p for 2 litres - I'm not sure if the active ingredient is in this type - perhaps you'll have to spend 44p on 2 litres of ordinary stuff.

moonrakerz

Lugh_Chronain wrote: »

Sainsbury's are selling Harpic Power Plus 750ml bottles for 95p until 27/05/2008 so might get a couple of bottles. Hope it does the trick!

95p will buy and sewage treat over 80 gallons of water in my area - it's cheaper and more hygenic to flush the damn' thing !