How do I remove toilet stains?
We live in the country. Have a well and septic tank. I am fighting mineral stains and would love to have white bowls. Help!
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I pour 2 cups of white vinegar in mine to dissolve the minerals each week (more if I have been gone several weeks and they have not been done). Then I let it soak all night or all day if we are going to be gone. Repeat as needed. Also, as a final help, I use Mr. Clean scrub Magic brush. It is expensive and I only use as needed. Between the two, I have perfectly white porcelain!
I too have a septic and a well. I have used Kaboom cleaner. Let it sit a while and then flush.
I had the same problem. Pored some bleach in the toilet, let set for a while then rub the toilet brush around and flush. I also get the bleach toilet bowl tablets and drop in the tank so it gets a little bleaching with each flush. Keeps it nice and clean
Take some paper towels doused in bleach and put them around the inside of the toilet bowl. Leave satuating for at least an hour. Take the paper towels out and the stubborn stains
shoukd be gone. If not leave in a bit longer......just don't flush
the paper towels away.
Muriatic Acid
I use Scalex and find it cleans the toilet of everything. Brings it up like new, very happy with the product, pour in and leave overnight for best results.
Thankful for your ideas and helpful responses. Very appreciative
Susan
Ohhh you need to try My Barkeepers Friend! It has gotten the toughest stains out in our toilet and we've used in our shower as well.
I put 2 cups white vinegar in the bowl and soak all night or all day when everyone is gone. Then it scrubs out. Repeat as needed. Also, I use Mr Clean magic bowl scrubbers. They are expensive, but are great for touch ups after the vinegar application. Hope this helps Susan.
I also did this quite recently. And I had a problem, because I didn't know how to remove toilet floor stains. The stain could be a combination of limescale and organic matter. The limescale part can be removed with a conventional toilet cleaner, which must be an acidic type, so before buying, read the ingredients. The organic part can be removed with strong chlorine bleach, like the thickened bleaches sold in supermarkets. If you use bleach without first removing limescale, the limescale will stop the bleach from working. Whatever you do, you must rinse in between treatments, because if the bleach contacts any acid, it will produce chlorine gas, which is a strong irritant.
I'm afraid I don't believe in ecologically friendly toilet cleaners. Good toilet cleaners are strong chemicals, and harmful to human health, because they must be able to dissolve organic matter, which we (and other organisms) are made of. But that should not put us off from using them. Chlorine bleach in particular reacts very quickly with everything else that is flushed down the toilet, so it will never show up again. The acids in toilet cleaners are soon neutralized by the salts present in mains water, so they won't affect organisms. The fecal bacteria present in sewage will break down the detergents also present in the cleaners. I know, because I tested them.