Tips on removing lime scale down the toilet ?

[jackanada]

Brick Cleaner is good stuff, but why use weak versions when you can get the real stuff
sulphuric acid

 

[happypig]

Get your wife to do it.

 

[Falkor]

Coke cola we but the stuff from lidle for the bogs about 80p and works every time

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

You can purchase limescale remover for descaling kettles from any supermarket.

It works just as well in toilets too, just pour in as much of the stuff as possible, boil a kettle, tip the water into the bowl, and leave for a few minutes. The problem is that you really need to keep the water boiling so you will have to keep adding boiling water as it cools down. This dilutes the solution as it drains away, so it doesn't work for heavy limescale.

A more effective solution was needed in my case. I added some rather fierce React acid toilet cleaner, and bleach to the mix. Now the toilet cleaner contains hydrochloric acid and the bleach contains sodium hypochlorite - mix the two together and you produce chlorine gas.

NaClO + 2 HCl → Cl2 + H2O + NaCl

It was impossible to stay within the bathroom without choking, even though I had the window wide open. However, after an hour or two, once the fumes had gone, I was able to go in with a toilet brush, a light scrub and the bowl was as clean as if it had just been installed.

Usual precautions regarding hand, eye and respiritory organs apply when using the stuff, so read the instructions on the bottle ( I don't think mixing it with bleach is normally recommended, but it worked for me ).

 

[salty seagull]

Aye.

What I want to know is - there was a rumour when I was at school that if you ate 3 packets of space dust followed by a can of coke, you would explode. Did anyone ever witness this?

Yes, I`m afraid I lost both my grandparents to this.I do feel a little guilty, but they shouldn`t have kept falling asleep with their mouths open.

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Calgon works a treat

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Yes, I`m afraid I lost both my grandparents to this.I do feel a little guilty, but they shouldn`t of kept falling asleep with their mouths open.

And they say that the spirit of scientific enquiry is absent in this country ...

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

i heard thermite could do the job

 

[Hove Lagoonery]

I hope you don't mind, but I'm chuckling while looking at your username,

While we're on the subject, why is he called that?

 

[Hove Lagoonery]

i heard thermite could do the job

Dont have any of that. Would marmite do instead?

 

[cloud]

Dont have any of that. Would marmite do instead?

Double benefit of being the right colour as well. Good thinking.

 

[half time scores]

Spirits of salt work well but be very careful when using it, plenty of ventilation etc.

 

[element]

While we're on the subject, why is he called that?

My post was just a play on algae, the minute organisms that grow in liquid, hence their aptness re: the thread

algie I believe is a shortened form of algernon, a bit of a countryfied moniker, used by the upper-classes don't you know

 

[Lady Gull]

Brick cleaner from a DIY store works a treat!!!!

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Any advice/tips would be handy please

What you really mean is thick caked on shat stains isn't it

 

[robinsonsgrin]

cillit bang will actually EAT your toilet................stuff is evil incarnate!

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Having consulted the 1978 publication 'Keith Moon's guide to lavatorial elegance and snare drums', he recommends Cemtex.

Hope that helps?

TNBA

TTF

 

[The Brighton Bear]

My post was just a play on algae, the minute organisms that grow in liquid, hence their aptness re: the thread

algie I believe is a shortened form of algernon, a bit of a countryfied moniker, used by the upper-classes don't you know

He was Rupert's best mate.

 

[Papak]

Wifey's toothbrush




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Astonish Polish

 

[Tricky Dicky]

You can purchase limescale remover for descaling kettles from any supermarket.

It works just as well in toilets too, just pour in as much of the stuff as possible, boil a kettle, tip the water into the bowl, and leave for a few minutes. The problem is that you really need to keep the water boiling so you will have to keep adding boiling water as it cools down. This dilutes the solution as it drains away, so it doesn't work for heavy limescale.

A more effective solution was needed in my case. I added some rather fierce React acid toilet cleaner, and bleach to the mix. Now the toilet cleaner contains hydrochloric acid and the bleach contains sodium hypochlorite - mix the two together and you produce chlorine gas.

NaClO + 2 HCl → Cl2 + H2O + NaCl

It was impossible to stay within the bathroom without choking, even though I had the window wide open. However, after an hour or two, once the fumes had gone, I was able to go in with a toilet brush, a light scrub and the bowl was as clean as if it had just been installed.

Usual precautions regarding hand, eye and respiritory organs apply when using the stuff, so read the instructions on the bottle ( I don't think mixing it with bleach is normally recommended, but it worked for me ).

Chlorine gas, is, of course, poisonous.