The Way to Achieve a Spotless Toilet Bowl
The Bare Bowl Method
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What's the best way to remove
stubborn stains from toilets? The first thing to do is to empty the
bowl of most of its water using one of three methods:
- Take a bucket of water and
pour it rapidly into your bowl — this drives most of the water down by
sort of a manual flush — enabling you to work directly on the stains.
- Another method — the most
convenient — is to take a bowl brush and ram the water in a controlled
way down the toilet trap ten or fifteen times until all the water's out
except a little pool at the bottom.
- A third way you can do it
is to take a plunger and plunge the water down the trap.
In each case, your objective
is the same: emptying the bowl so you can work. Then sprinkle the
inside of your bowl liberally with cleanser and give it first a general
cleaning using a bowl brush. Rinse the bowl by taking water from that
little pool at the bottom. Then take your pumice stick and work
directly on the deposits. The pumice stone is a great tool because it
is softer than the porcelain but harder than the deposits — it won't
scratch the bowl; but wet it before using it to be safe and to make it
easier to use. Work until all the rings and stains are gone. Allen
Rathey
Allen P. Rathey
President
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Removing
Scale Build-Up in the Bowl - The best method is to
completely empty the bowl of water first then to use domestic grade
limescale remover.
To empty
the bowl: First get a good pair of rubber gloves, always buy the exra
long ones, this is most certainly a task where the extra length is
useful.
I
use a bucket and a large sponge to empty the bowl after I have removed
as much as I can by plunging or scooping.
A badly
scaled bowl may need more than one application. You can use some fluid
soaked tissue laid over the stubborn bits and wait quarter of an hour
or so if simply brushing is too slow. -- Laila Steven
Ring in Toilet. pumice
didn't work - CLR didn't work - ZUD worked. -- LCD
(Elsie Dawkins)
Cleaning Toilet Bowls. To remove toilet stains, use a
pumice stone and rub hard, It will not scratch and works well- did on
my toilet bowl after 20 years of build-up -- James A
Boyle
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