What do you use to clean the toilet bowl?
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Lysol toilet bowl cleaner with a magic wand and a song in my heart
Vinegar with baking soda for general, vinegar alone for the hard water build up.
@josie -It’s my special name for it.
Nice song :)
I have some ocd tendencies, as many of you know so dont judge me too harshly please. Ha!
Its comet scrub down first, this is after inside is scrubbed. Then a Lysol wipe down. Then (heres where it gets weird) I wipe the entire thing down with antibacterial disinfectant. Then I put half cup of bleach in for two hours or overnight.
Comet and a long handled scrubber.
Scrubbing bubbles. Tp and a scrubbing wand. Today I just used a scrubing pad and tp.
Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner as well, and a toilet brush. It’s something I probably don’t do as often as I should.
On the outside I just use what ever liquid cleaner and TP.
“1 cup laundry bleach, swab with toilet brush making sure to get under the rim, let stand for 10 minutes, flush. DO NOT use household laundry bleach with any other household chemicals!”
After flushing, you can clean the seat and other parts with window cleaner or ammonia and water spray.
Drop two denture tablets into the bowl, wait 20 minutes, brush, and flush.
Denture tablets are meant to clean and remove stains from porcelain, and they’re nontoxic and inexpensive. You can buy a large box of generic tablets for just a few dollars.
I use different things, but nothing mixed: PineSol, Ammonia, tea tree liquid soap, Vinegar, Comet, Clorox. Only once have I needed to clean a toilet bowl and not had any of these products. I was at a friend’s vacation house. I did find some Clorox wipes so I put a few in the bowl and let sit a few minutes, removed them to the garbage and then brushed. Seemed to be fine.
@canidmajor, does vinegar work really well for the hard water crust? My toilet has it real bad. I have even tried emptying the bowl to use a wire brush, which accomplished very little.
Just a note:
I was told that when I moved in and noticed a stain in the toilet that it was because the part time cleaning lady had used a rough scourging pad on it and it scraped the porcelain so that now its permanent and collects stains.
I have to use bleach to whiten it from then on..or sometimes I use the blue colored cleaners that clean with each flush to hide that stain.
Well. Rick bought a snake from Walmart once. It scrambled down our toilet, left permanent metal scrapes on the porcelain that never came off.
Comet or Ajax with the toilet brush, or else I’ll put on a disposable rubber glove and put my hand in there with a paper towel with the comet. On the outside, I’ll use Windex or other generic window spray. If I’m in a hurry I may just use a baby wipe around the seat and top of the tank.
@Patty_Melt: Yes! Get as much water out of the bowl as you can, (to minimize dilution) then pour a lot of vinegar in and let it sit for as many hours as you can. Then brush (regular toilet brush, not wire brush), and flush. For above water line stains, soak paper towels in vinegar and leave for many hours (replenish from time to time to keep wet).
I was amazed at how effective it was.
To remove some hard water deposits you may need to employ a pumice stone.
Great! I’ll try it. I find the easiest way to empty a toilet bowl is to bucket flush. One gallon is not enough to get the desired result. I use a five gallon filled about half. Poured fast enough, it will flush, but without the following fill you get when flushing via the tank. Shutting off the water will also do it, but I am unable to contort myself in the way necessary to reach the valve. I bucket flush various times in the winter to warm pipes and encourage flow.
For hard water deposits empty the bowl and dry the sides. Apply 3 in 1 Oil and let sit a few minutes then scrub with brush. Or WD40.
@Patty_Melt I do the bucket flush, too, then you’d be surprise how much more you can push down with the brush. This method also means there is no scratching of the porcelain as you would have with a wire brush or pumice stone.
Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner with bleach (but you’re not supposed to use bleach when you have a septic tank).
@Patty_Melt…what am I missing here. Bucket flush? Why not turn the water off at the source, on the wall behind the toilet, then flush it?
Ok. What is a “bucket flush”?
Read past the first four words of what people post. You do this a lot, calling someone out for something they’ve posted and you obviously failed to read the full post.
Stop skipping around, and you would be much less confused.
Some small rust stains, as well as others, can be removed with some Soft Scrub or Bon Ami cleanser and some elbow grease.
Pour a large bucket of water (about 2½ gallons) into the bowl quickly and the toilet will flush.
@Dutchess_lll the point of the bucket flush is that the bowl doesn’t refill.
OMG! I can’t believe it! I had hard water coating the bowl badly when I moved in. I have battled with it through two brushes and various products.
I finally purchased toothbrush sized wire brushes from Walmart. I sat on a low stepper, and scrubbed for nearly an hour with a wire brush. I made almost no progress.
So, I was feeling skeptical about the vinegar. It sounded too easy. I tried anyway. I t was amazing! It appeared little had happened, but I gave it a go with my toilet brush. It smoothed away as easily as dust with a damp rag. There are still some small patches. I’m going to give it another shot tomorrow. That should take off the rest.
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So glad it helped! Some very redneck looking and sounding guy on a YouTube video (which I couldn’t find again…damn…) gets all the credit and is my new hero. His line “Now don’t y’all worry, it’s not poop whatever it looks like!” gave me hope. :-)
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