Stained toilet bowl

[mike11111]

My toilet bowl has become stained. usually Domestos and a brush do the trick but not this time. Can anyone recommend another product which may be more effective?

[ChuckFickens]

A cork? :)

Bleach just bleaches the stains, get a scouring pad and some gloves and get in there.

[mike11111]

That's what I was thinking. Sort of hoped there might be an easier way, but it looks like elbow grease.

[mazie]

Hi mike. Put a good scoop of biological wash powder down it before you go to bed tonight. A good flush in the morning and it will be all sparkling and clean

[Polly1958]

Harpic lime scale remover is brilliant.I did my parents outside loo which has been neglected and it worked for that.

[hippyhoppy]

Domestos to a charmingly entitled product called 'Grot Buster' and it's wonderful.. get's grout sparkly white, so I should imagine it should shift your toilet stains... Got mine from Morrisons, but possibly more widely available...

[mike11111]

I don't use wash powder, just liquid, but I'll try the Harpic. Thanks.

[TonyV]

mike - is bowl moulded in ceramic or plastic?

[mazie]

shame, it works really well

[Barmaid]

Are you in a heavy lime area? You may need a cleaner with limescale removing properties. The limescale cakes the pan and then gets stained. If you can remove the limescale problem solved.

[ladybirder]

Apparently Coca Cola does it. Imagine what it does to your stomach!

[grasscarp]

I like your tip Mazie and I am going to buy some biological powder to try it out. For my clothes I only use non bio as I am allergic to the bio.

[mike11111]

Ceramic bowl.

[mazie]

It works really well grasscarp. I bought an old cast iron bath with some staining on it (for a really good price) nothing would shift it so I emptied a half box of Bio washing powder in it, left it overnight The next day all the staining had gone.

[mazie]

so, now I just bung it down the toilets once a week, makes life a bit easier

[mazie]

Oh and I meant to say for the bath and toilets I buy the Aldi Bio, large box for £3.25

[Old_Geezer]

Ceramic is probably less easily damaged by scouring.

I'm sure problems I get are from limescale. One would think the tablets you can get for your cistern would prevent that.

[grasscarp]

I will go to Aldi!

[rowanwitch]

vinegar and a scourer then use a limescale toilet cleaner every few days

[TonyV]

Mike - some domestos and some scrubbing

[hippyhoppy]

ooh.. seemed to have donned my cape of inviability again..