7 Miraculous Tricks To Keep Your Toilet Clean For Longer
Does this look familiar?
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Grimy toilet rings are a happy homeowner's worst enemy. And the most frustrating part of cleaning them is that you know you'll be doing it again in a couple of days.
1. Use Kool-Aid Mix to clean stubborn rings
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That's right - thanks to its acidic base, this favorite soft drink is actually a scum fighting hero when it comes to banishing rings. For .25 cents, you can have a sparkling toilet, with smooth sides once more that delay build-up. Oooh Yeaah!
2. Drop in an essential oil fizzing tablet
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Make your own jarful of these fabulous fizzing tablets by mixing up your concoction and then packing it into a small soap mold or an ice tray. Once you're finished, store these in an airtight container in the bathroom and drop a few in a day, to keep up a constant state of cleanliness.
3. Use tape to clean the siphon jets
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No matter how often you clean your toilet, if you're leaving out this important step, it will get dirtier much quicker. After you've cleaned under the rim well, shut off the water, flush the bowl, and place heavy tape over the siphon jets before flushing down a gallon of vinegar. Let it sit like that overnight and then enjoy the long lasting cleanliness!
4. Scrub the bowl with a vinegar mix
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Instead of mixing up a solution beforehand, follow this bit of cleaning genius and pour each of the ingredients in one at a time. This way, the reaction caused by mixing the ingredients happens right in the bowl so that it has the best impact on the grime settled there.
5. Get rid of impenetrable ring scum with sandpaper
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Before your jaw hits the keyboard, let's clarify - you can lightly sand away otherwise impossible-to-remove stains, by wetting your sandpaper and buffing gently. Scouring the toilet bowl can lead to further build-up in the future, so this nifty trick should be reserved for the really tough to tackle rings and done with care.
6. Give the bowl a Coca Cola Wash
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You can use some of your soda to set your toilet bowl sparkling! Just pour some Coke into the bowl, let it sit for a while, scrub it around the entire bowl using a sturdy brush, and flush away the soda and the scum!
7. For a quick touch up, use toothpaste
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This isn't an all the time cleaner, but if you find out that company is on the way over and you don't want a heavy chemical smell lingering in the air when they arrive, drip some toothpaste into the bowl (from way above) and scrub with your brush. It works on teeth, so why not toilet enamel!
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Try cleaning a badly stained toilet bowl with a pumice foot stone.
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I was recently cleaning up my bathroom before company was do to arrive. I noticed in horror that the toilet needed attention. Then, I discover that I’m out of my normal cleanser(I make my own.) So, thinking quickly, I grabbed some kitchen salt and suddenly I was struck with a great idea. In a pinch, sprinkle a decent amount of salt for the abrasive cleaning action and add 2 capfuls of mouthwash to swish around after the salt. It looked clean and smelled clean!
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