Toilet Bowl Stain

[skyplus]

In the part few months a permanent stain remains in my toilet bowl just where the water enters from the cistern. I have tried bleach and jiff to no avail. Can anyone advise me?

[Connemmara]

New toilet????

[EcclesCake]

Sounds like limescale. Buy something like Viacal apply, leave for the prescribed amount of time, scrub and repeat until removed.

Bleach will only turn tainted limescale white, it won't remove it.

Natural remedies like vinegar could help but are difficult to apply to vertical surfaces.

[woofgang]

its usually limescale that coats the porcelain and can then hold salts (usually metallic) from the water and cause the stain. Get limescale remover, the thick kind and treat the area over night for four or five nights, this should sort it.

[Sharingan]

Get a mop and mop out the pan til it's dryish then get some Harpic limescale remover and leave it in for a bit before mopping round with it, it gets ghastly loos like new, otherwise if that doesn't work as Conne says a new loo:)

[Sharingan]

Sorry you weren't there when I started Woofgang and Eccles:)

[skyplus]

bowl is three years old but problem only appeared in the past few months

[Connemmara]

Maybe there's a crack!!!

[EcclesCake]

If it's a new problem you may have a dribble in your cistern.......

[EDDIE51]

If you can find a shop that sells 'spirits of salts' use that better and cheaper than any lime scale remover.

[woofgang]

it happens to me too, there seems to be a spate of water that comes through the pipes with the salts in then it stops again, i guess it gets washed from somewhere in the main system.

[Connemmara]

skyplus - if the problem appeared some months ago why didn't you act then?

[Connemmara]

Eccles - maybe skyplus has a dribble somewhere else!!!

[Answerprancer]

Do you have a mystery "chocolate dropper"?

[woofgang]

be careful playing around with spirits of salts. if you decide to use it, use old clothes thick rubber gloves and eye protection. keep the bottle tightly closed and put away safely.

[Connemmara]

Woofie - before I would end up with dermatitis and blindness - I'd rather buy a new toilet.

[woofgang]

Thick limescale remover will do the job and its cheaper and safer.

[237SJ]

As the problem is with the area where the water runs down, rather than in the toilet bowl the answer will be something that you need to add to the cistern. I don`t know what though - bleach?

[gingejbee]

Not a good idea to add anything to the cistern. And hydrochloric acid isn't that suitable for domestic use , either.

[237SJ]

You could add those blocks that are designed to be immersed into the cistern. I have seen those stains in hotel bathrooms. It`s usually something in the water (a mineral or whatever). There isn`t a lot that can be done if the stain is in an area where there is running water rather than still water.

[thumper93]

there iron oxide stains
http://homerepair.about.com/b/2007/10/29/clean-those-toilet-rust-stains.htm