HELP I turned my toilet bowl gray!!!!

If all that fails, try dumping a can of Coke in the toilet bowl at night and see if it removes the stain by morning.

I had a similar problem- cleaned toilet vowel with wire scourer. In desperation as I had no baking soda or borax & visitors arriving in a couple of hours I emptied my cleaning product cupboard and found a well forgotten bottle of ceramic hob cleaner.... it worked. Little bit of elbow grease and a sponge and it’s as good as new.Good luck.

I had the same problem! What finally did the trick was turning off the water supply and flushing the toilet to drain the bowl, then putting "beekeepers friend" (the liquid one) on it. Waited about a minute and it all just wiped right off as easy as you please!

Lagostina stainless still pot cleaners works great. Not only on porcelain toilets and tubs....but cleans grey marks on coffee and tea cups too. A cute tip to get inside your coffe pot and tea pots is to put automatic dish detergent dry crystals into a lot water in the tea and coffee pots. Let stand for an hour stirring now and then with a spoon......instant clean pots??

Barkeeper’s Friend works!

Try The Works toilet bowl cleaner. The thin original one not the thick formula. Cheap and in Walmart or wherever! It has been this crazy tb cleaner that practically melted off water rust stains and I have used it for crazy odd nontoilet messes since then like fluorescent orange spray paint my kid sprayed on the brick of my house. If that doesn’t work I think it’s permanently damaged. I spilled on carpet and it melted it so whatever is in it is strong! Lol

I did the same thing. I used steel wool to remove the hard water line and left gray scratches on the bowl. After reading all the comments, I checked my cleaning supplies and found a bottle of ceramic stovetop cleaning solution. I emptied the toilet of water and applied the cream with a magic eraser sponge and it looks like new. No more gray scratches! So you just need to polish the porcelain again with whatever you have - beekeepers or any glass top stove cleaner. Good luck!!

Empty the bowl and use glass top stove cleaner and Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, and it worked like a charm.

White Vinegar worked for me!

You did not etch the toilet! I used Comet and it worked for me. Dumped a bucket of water to get the waterline down and sprinkled it on and scrubbed with toilet brush and then put some more on top of that and let it sit for about 5 min. Took most out the first time. Repeated once more to get the last bit.

So I made the same mistake of using a brillo pad on my toilet bowel last night which resulted in a big gray circle from trying to remove the ring. I poured a bunch of Lime Away in the toilet and left it overnight. I read this forum and was about to try baking soda with magic eraser. However, when I checked in the toilet the next day, the gray was completely gone. I didnt even have to scrub it. I hope this helps.

pumice stick

Hello.

I might suggest emptying out the water in your bowl and try and barkeepers friend. In the future you may want to use a pumice stick is an excellent tool to use to clean your toilet bowl it must be kept wet to keep it soft and provide effectively cleaning

Get comet and a scrubby sponge that will do it

BarKeeper's Friend or Comet. No problem

I used an Amyway non scratch scrubber sponge to clean the calcium ridge off my toilet bowl, got the calcium ridge off but left a gray stain. After using baking soda, vinegar, bleach & denture cleaner, I added some Out White Brite for laundry to the bowl, let it set for an hour & it took the stain right out with hardly any scrubbing with the toilet brush. Now I will seal it with car wax to keep it from happening again. You can use spray or regular car wax. Flush your toilet & turn the water off to it. Apply a small amount to the toilet bowl surface with a dry cloth, afterwards anything that touches it will slide right off. You should do this every 6 months to a year & you will never have stains again. Works for porcelain sinks as well. I did this when my toilet was new but forgot to keep it up, I will from now on.

Sounds like you scratched the toilet bowl using the metal on it.