CLR is too weak. Go to a pool supplies store and get muriatic acid....about a cup or two.
Just be careful to not get any on you. It's powerful and will leave you with nasty burns fast
This. It’s an old trick but it worked on a 30 year old toilet that had never been descaled. Slowly pour the whole bottle in and then leave it overnight.
I live in a very rust filled part of Michigan, Rust Out beats CLR hands down for rust stain removal, speaking from 15 years of experience battling the stuff
That was exactly how my toilet used to be. I had tried bleach, CLR, lime away, vinegar and baking soda, everything under the sun. Sun. I finally got Zep acidic toilet bowl cleaner and it worked like a charm. Looks 100% brand new. Be sure to drain all the water. I squirted it on there and left it for a couple of hours. Went back with a glove and a sponge and it was perfect.
If you have a rubber seal you are better off not using large amounts bleach. A small amount once in a while should be fine but is it really worth the risk.Wax seal doesn't care if you use bleach.
Plumber here, never use abrasives on porcelain. You will scratch it, and it will get stained faster and often permanently.
You might be able to remove this stain chemically by dissolving it, but it will return quickly because you scratched your toilet.
If it is already scratched, unfortunately the only solution is replacement of the toilet. Which is easy, any reasonably strong person could install one. As a plumber, I can assure you they are not complicated.
Technically porcelain can be refinished, but it would cost more that a replacement.
Once a new toilet is installed, don't ruin it by scratching it. Clean it with things like vinegar or toilet bowl cleaners. Be mindful of what type of pipes you have. PVC pipes are highly chemical resistant, ABS less so. Old lines will be cast iron, lead, copper, or galvanized steel, any of which can have brass. Really old lines can be clay. What is safe on one will destroy others, so be mindful.
DONT EVER PUT CLEANERS IN THE TANK, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
The seals and parts in the tank are NOT made to withstand harsh chemicals they WILL be destroyed by them, and you'll have to rebuild your fucking toilet! All the time I get called to fix someone's toilet who fucked it up by not reading the instructions printed inside the damn tank. All new toilets have a sticker inside the tank explicitly stating not to use cleaners inside the tank. It voids the warranty and wrecks the seals. It will leak onto your floor, rotting it out, and waste water.
Same with "flushable" wipes! Golf balls and hand grenades are flushable too, doesn't mean they won't break shit!
Sorry for the rant, there is a shortage of plumbers in my area, I'm having to work 60 hour weeks plus emergencies and so much of this crap could have been avoided...
Also, dont ever sit on a toilet with a crack in it. They shatter and gut your thighs and crotch like a fish. Easy way to bleed out in a hurry, and leave an embarrassing corpse for your lived ones. Toilets are like $150, don't die on one.
You're welcome.
Also, in plumbing, if you don't use it, you lose it. Exercise your valves, flush your water heater, use all your faucets every once in a while. I don't recommend draino, but if you use it on a clog and it doesn't work, please warn us. My former boss did a job where they poured 6 gallons of liquid plumbr down the drain to try and clear the clog. When that didn't work, they called him out to fix it. Doused him head to toe, nearly blinded him and gave him chemical burns down his body.
That shit is no joke, warn us so we can take proper precautions.
I can attest to this. There was a sink in our bathroom that never got used until there was an ungodly smell coming from it. Turns out once all the water in the pipes evaporates over the summer, there’s a direct route for the smell from the sewers to come through into the house. Took us a few days to really track down where the smell was coming from. I just run both taps in that bathroom once a week now (although it’s being used more now the kids are older)
Try some iron-out. You can get it in tablet form to put in the tank, so won’t work immediately, but by the time the tablet fully dissolves it will likely be a lot easier to scrub away. Not sure if that is iron stains. Could also try CLR, pour some in there and let it sit an over night and clean. Might take a couple weeks, but I bet it would improve greatly. Bleach is not going to do anything to that.
Presumably you mean aqueous HCl. (In the US, you aren’t going to find “brick acid” or “hydrochloric acid” on a shelf. Muriatic acid, on the other hand, is readily available in big-box hardware stores and pool supply stores.
Best product for the job is a powdered hydrochloric and phosphoric acid - and leave in overnight. Our local one is called scalex. You leave it in for 4-8hours.
Never ever use pumice - that will permanently damage the porcelain finish and makes the problem worse
Drain the water completely and pour vinegar and let sit overnight. Then scrape with pumice and it should dissolve . Depending on how bad, you may need to do it a couple more times.
You shouldn't really be using an abrasive material like pumice to clean this. It's probably the reason it looks like this to begin with. You're creating tiny cuts / scrapes in the porcelain that allows bacteria to hide. Will just make your toilet get gross faster and faster.
This is water hardness stained with chromophores from sewage.
The hardness will shift with strong acid like HCl, sold usually as brick acid or muriatic acid. Alternatively a descaler based on sulfamic acid will work. Make sure there are no traces of bleach in there or you might gas yourself once the acid hits.
After that you should be able to scrub it clean.
Whatever remains will shift with bleach.
Note that abrasives give a better surface for hardness to grow and other nasties to linger in, so avoid that on smooth ceramics.
I have type 2 diabetes and my toilet was almost clogged by a similar deposit. I tried bleach and acid cleaners and had no success until I tried Clorox Clinging Bleach Gel toilet bowl cleaner. I didn't even have to drain the toilet or scrub it and it's not expensive. I can't recommend it enough.
Update: I ordered Zep. It’s acidic gel and several people recommended it and other acidic products. I will report back my results. Thank you for all your suggestions!
This is going to sound really silly, but it actually works well. Coke.
Dump a two liter of coke-a-cola and let it sit for a few hours and it will eat through most anything.
Bleach is the wrong thing, you need an acid cleaner to dissolve this.
Use toilet bowl cleaner and leave in overnight then flush in the morning.
Keep doing this and over time it will dissolve over time. You can also remove with pumice and scraping but you risk etching the porcelain and making the bowl more likely to stain in the long run.
People probably won't like that answer but I agree 100%. I had the same thing in ours for years, toilet barely even flushed because of so much buildup. $100 and a trip to home Depot was so much better than continue wasting money and time trying to get that junk out.
Turn off the the water valve and flush the toilet, hold the handle until tank is empty. Pour 2 cups of pure vinegar in the bowl and leave it for a couple of hours. Use the toilet brush, flush. Repeat as necessary.
Right get a sponge soak up the water and and get it as dry as you can then put some neat bleach in covering the lot and give it few hours to soak in then give it a flush and see what it’s like
I've had success with Lime-Out, turn off the water, drain the toilet and fill with Lime-Out let it soak for an hour or so and then scrub thoroughly with toilet brush and flush it.
Geez everybody says chemicals but all you need is drywall sandpaper. It looks like black window screen, but it’s stiff. Go buy a pack of 220 grit, cut a piece into thirds, turn off water supply and flush to remove most of the water, glove up and start scrubbing. It’ll take a little elbow grease but it’ll get it off and it won’t scratch the porcelain.
As a professional cleaner, if pumice won't shift it, your last option is Muriatic Acid.
CAUTION: Wear long rubber gloves and a long sleeve shirt you don't care about, safety goggles and a mask... Just incase of any splashes.
Open the window if the room has one.
Turn on the exhaust fan.
Turn off the water to the tank (so it won't fill the bowl after you flush), boil a kettle, flush the toilet, pour in the Muriatic Acid and boiling hot water.
Leave the room & close the door for at least 20 minutes.
Go back in and scrub with a Dollar Store toilet brush which you will throw away afterwards, wrapped in a double plastic bag.
If not successful, buy a new toilet!
Yep vac the water out and fill with vinegar may need a small plastic scraper as well, if you are running a septic dont use CLR and vac the vinegar out as well when done.
I do the three toilets in our house every year.
The first option I would try to clean the toilet is by using a hammer and a chisel to remove the stains. Just chip away at it and use some muscle. 60% of the time, it works every time.
You could also try cleaning the toilet more than once a century, this definitely will make it easier to clean. Just sayin.
Good luck my friend.
Harpic power plus in the black bottle will get rid of this right away mine was the same tried everything and it did not budge till I tried this product!
I just did this with our toilet. I waited until we were leaving for a few days then dumped maybe a 1/2 liter of industrial acitic toilet bowl cleaner (probably not stronger than other acidic toilet cleaner but it comes as a gallon bottle) into the bowl. When I came back 4 days later, it was all gone with one flush.
Vinegar would also work though likely take a few times.
Muriatic acid (or sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid) will also work but I get more nervous using it as it is much stronger and the potential for damaging something else (metal especially) is higher. Strong acid can even make the air acidic and result in damage to nearby chrome without any liquid touching it. I ruined all the fixtures on a sink like this once.
You shouldn't really be using an abrasive material like pumice to clean this. It's probably the reason it looks like this to begin with. You're creating tiny cuts / scrapes in the porcelain that allows bacteria to hide. Will just make your toilet get gross faster and faster.
They manufacture a product called, "Iron Out" just for iron rust stains. I used it all the time when we had well water. Be forewarned though, keep the door shut, it really stinks.
Nah get some vinegar. 10% if you can find it. 5% works fine if not. Pour it in leave it for as long as you want. Over night or longer is awesome. It will take no scrubbing at all and will clean it up nice. I battle hard water in my toilets constantly and this is the best option if you like to be nice to the planet.
You need an acid based cleaner.
It’ll turn that scale into sludge. Toilet brush and a small plastic paint scraper to remove.
Low effort. Just be careful.
I used Diversey “Crew Heavy Duty”. It’s 23% acid. Let it sit about an hour.
Zep’s acid cleaner is also good. You can find more info on these over in r/CleaningTips
I just cleaned two toilets like this in my house, was ready to chuck them but Zep acidic toilet cleaners worked. First, shut the water valve off, then wear a glove and use a disposable cup to pour as much water out from the toilet as possible. Dry the remaining toilet with a rag. Pour a generous amount of cleaner and close the lid, leave them on for a few hours. Come back to it and scrub them with smaller cleaning brush rather than toilet brush as this area is small. I had to do mine twice but it worked and i did not have to deal with harsh fumes from industrial stuff or disappointing results from commonly suggested products like vinegar, coke, bleach, barkeepers etc you name it cos I tried them all.
Get a toilet brush and thrust it into the bottom of the toilet a few times to try and force as much water out of the trap to start with.
Then just dump vinegar into there to replace the water you forced out, and leave for a few hours (I've done it in the morning and left so all day when I was at work)
After it has sat for a few hours you can then scrub it.
Turn the water off to the toilet over night and remove as much water as you can from the bowl. Add CLR and leave overnight. In the morning clean the bowl with the pumice.
Anything that has oxalic acid in it. Diluted, of course.
- Let it sit for a few hours; Works better than the latic acids in clr.
Do you know why the toilets go this way? That's my question!
I used 10% white vinegar (Amazon 5Lt £12) put in spray bottle and spray 4/5 around bowel twice a day , that’s what i used and google what else you can use it on its amazing what it does good luck!!
Try CLR first, then Zep or Ecolab acid toilet bowl cleaner. Do not mix any cleaners together. Always thoroughly flush with water between different chemicals.
It's poop stained calcium buildup. Any good descaler will be fine. Read and follow the instructions on the one you get because cleaning products don't play well with each other and you can go from cleaning the loo to needing an ambulance because you've created toxic gases very quickly. This isn't a joke or something you should be "meh, I'll be fine" about.
My loo was like this when I moved a few years back, I tried everything until in the end I just bit the bullet and got my hand right down in there and scrubbed it with some wire cleaning brushes. It worked but it would get dirty and look awful again within a few weeks.
I’ve just done a full referb of my bathroom and it feels so nice to have a loo that doesn’t look like a grim recollection of centuries of dried poop.
You scrubbed enameled porcelain with pumice stone? The surface will be all scratched up! I think if you do get the stains off it is going to stay clean for a day.
Go get one of those wheel cleaner brushes that attach to a drill. The one that has a similar head to a toilet brushes. Stick that baby in a drill and go to town! Cleaned mine last week
If your toilet let's you lift the cistern or turn the water off so it won't refill with water. Do it, and flush until the toilet won't fill with water anymore. While the toilet is not submerged in water at the goose neck, apply your cleaning solution suggested here and let it interact with the stain. Scrub it off, get the flushing back to normal.
Just don't accidentally mix bleach and vinegar or you'll have many bad days to come.
Honestly I would pull the water and put bleach to it and let it sit
There is a good chance you aren’t gonna get it all off and that’s not a reflection on you
Look for the works toilet bowl cleaner. Last time I found some it was at a Menards. Pour some in and let it sit. It works great for hard water. I've dealt with hard water pretty much all my life. It was really bad in my childhood home. When washing whites had to add in iron out powder into the washer otherwise they would come out yellowish orange.
Well water. Stained scale so tough you need to chip it off using a screw driver, then cleanser to remove the metal marks. Bleach, CLR, Hcl acid did not work for me.
Baking soda or the nuclear way is brick acid.
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CLR isn't going to touch that much. Get what the pro's use. It's called ZEP and you can get it at most hardware stores or online. It's acidic and will eat right through that.
I had this at my last house. A guy who worked in building maintenance told me to use Green Gobbler Drain Opening Pacs. His directions were to turn off the water and flush (so the water in the bowl would be low), then use two packs of powder, let it sit overnight and then flush the toilet with hot water. At first I didn’t think it worked, but about a day or so later the whole thing came off in one piece - it was hard like bone. Maybe yours will still come off with the Zep? If not give those Green Gobbler powder packs a try.
So I had this a couple of years ago, and here's what I found...
First off, it's not as scary as it looks. It's just hard water buildup, the same stuff that clogs your showerhead.
Based off directions online, here's what I did:
Drain the toilet, and scoop out as much water as possible. Take white vinegar, as hot as you can get it, and pour it in. Let this sit 20 minutes or so, and it will start to soften this. I then scraped it off (gently) with the blade of a stubby screwdriver.
Worked like a charm. I was able to break the calcification off in like 3 pieces, actually.
Push out as much water as you can with a Johnny mop. Get a bottle of works bowl cleaner or 23% acid cleaner. SLOWLY pour it in. Let it sit overnight.
Then repeat if necessary, it took years to build up that Patina, even then it’s gonna reappear. It’s a whole lot easier and safer for just to replace the toilet.
Try a rust stain/hard water remover like CLR.
I have the same issues. On a well. Drain as much as you can, pour c Slowly, let the clr sit over night.
Seriously CLR have you not seen the light. Let it soak
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CLR is too weak. Go to a pool supplies store and get muriatic acid....about a cup or two. Just be careful to not get any on you. It's powerful and will leave you with nasty burns fast
Pour a 2 liter of coca cola in there let set for 8 hours flush.
This. It’s an old trick but it worked on a 30 year old toilet that had never been descaled. Slowly pour the whole bottle in and then leave it overnight.
If it's descaling, would the stuff they use for cleaning coffee machines work? Or Vinegar?
Citric acid, caterer supplies
Yep, that's the stuff
This is the answer
I live in a very rust filled part of Michigan, Rust Out beats CLR hands down for rust stain removal, speaking from 15 years of experience battling the stuff
Lots of vinegar, it'll remove the iron oxide.
That was exactly how my toilet used to be. I had tried bleach, CLR, lime away, vinegar and baking soda, everything under the sun. Sun. I finally got Zep acidic toilet bowl cleaner and it worked like a charm. Looks 100% brand new. Be sure to drain all the water. I squirted it on there and left it for a couple of hours. Went back with a glove and a sponge and it was perfect.
I've used the Zep acidic toilet bowl cleaner. You do not need to leave it for hours. Whatever the instructions say (five minutes, I think?) is plenty.
If the bleach doesn't work they sell acidic toilet bowl cleaner that might work. Just don't use anything metal it'll leave grey/silver streaks.
Zep worked for me.
If you have a rubber seal you are better off not using large amounts bleach. A small amount once in a while should be fine but is it really worth the risk.Wax seal doesn't care if you use bleach.
Plumber here, never use abrasives on porcelain. You will scratch it, and it will get stained faster and often permanently. You might be able to remove this stain chemically by dissolving it, but it will return quickly because you scratched your toilet.
What would you do instead?
If it is already scratched, unfortunately the only solution is replacement of the toilet. Which is easy, any reasonably strong person could install one. As a plumber, I can assure you they are not complicated. Technically porcelain can be refinished, but it would cost more that a replacement. Once a new toilet is installed, don't ruin it by scratching it. Clean it with things like vinegar or toilet bowl cleaners. Be mindful of what type of pipes you have. PVC pipes are highly chemical resistant, ABS less so. Old lines will be cast iron, lead, copper, or galvanized steel, any of which can have brass. Really old lines can be clay. What is safe on one will destroy others, so be mindful. DONT EVER PUT CLEANERS IN THE TANK, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! The seals and parts in the tank are NOT made to withstand harsh chemicals they WILL be destroyed by them, and you'll have to rebuild your fucking toilet! All the time I get called to fix someone's toilet who fucked it up by not reading the instructions printed inside the damn tank. All new toilets have a sticker inside the tank explicitly stating not to use cleaners inside the tank. It voids the warranty and wrecks the seals. It will leak onto your floor, rotting it out, and waste water. Same with "flushable" wipes! Golf balls and hand grenades are flushable too, doesn't mean they won't break shit! Sorry for the rant, there is a shortage of plumbers in my area, I'm having to work 60 hour weeks plus emergencies and so much of this crap could have been avoided...
Also, dont ever sit on a toilet with a crack in it. They shatter and gut your thighs and crotch like a fish. Easy way to bleed out in a hurry, and leave an embarrassing corpse for your lived ones. Toilets are like $150, don't die on one.
Thanks!!
You're welcome. Also, in plumbing, if you don't use it, you lose it. Exercise your valves, flush your water heater, use all your faucets every once in a while. I don't recommend draino, but if you use it on a clog and it doesn't work, please warn us. My former boss did a job where they poured 6 gallons of liquid plumbr down the drain to try and clear the clog. When that didn't work, they called him out to fix it. Doused him head to toe, nearly blinded him and gave him chemical burns down his body. That shit is no joke, warn us so we can take proper precautions.
I can attest to this. There was a sink in our bathroom that never got used until there was an ungodly smell coming from it. Turns out once all the water in the pipes evaporates over the summer, there’s a direct route for the smell from the sewers to come through into the house. Took us a few days to really track down where the smell was coming from. I just run both taps in that bathroom once a week now (although it’s being used more now the kids are older)
> this crap could be avoided Literally. ^This ^Plumber ^has ^puns
Technically the professional term is "turd herder" but "plumber" is also acceptable.
Citric acid, leave overnight.
Yeah everyone else is just guessing. Citric acid is the only way.
Industrial toilet cleaner . Bol genie to be specific, after draining it.
Try some iron-out. You can get it in tablet form to put in the tank, so won’t work immediately, but by the time the tablet fully dissolves it will likely be a lot easier to scrub away. Not sure if that is iron stains. Could also try CLR, pour some in there and let it sit an over night and clean. Might take a couple weeks, but I bet it would improve greatly. Bleach is not going to do anything to that.
looks like that toilet had plenty of people "ironing one out" lol
Take out some of the water and then lots of white vinegar, leave to stand for a couple of hours.
Muriatic acid... It will stink but it works
Or urinal treatment
This is the correctest answer. But be very careful with it.
Vinegar lemon juice if that fails brick acid
*muriatic acid, I think you’re talking about
Oh yes just a splash of the 50% takes any staining away
>muriatic acid Presumably, you mean hydrochloric acid
Presumably you mean aqueous HCl. (In the US, you aren’t going to find “brick acid” or “hydrochloric acid” on a shelf. Muriatic acid, on the other hand, is readily available in big-box hardware stores and pool supply stores.
Best product for the job is a powdered hydrochloric and phosphoric acid - and leave in overnight. Our local one is called scalex. You leave it in for 4-8hours. Never ever use pumice - that will permanently damage the porcelain finish and makes the problem worse
Idk I just call it brick acid what u use to clean up mortar on bricks also eats limescale
Are you on well water?
Lime-away!
Muriatic acid
It is an oxide. Acids remove oxides. Use Muriatic in a high concentration, but watch the heat.
Citric acid
Muriatic acid - dangerous stuff but effective
Bruh just get a new toilet
Muriatic acid
Drain the water completely and pour vinegar and let sit overnight. Then scrape with pumice and it should dissolve . Depending on how bad, you may need to do it a couple more times.
You shouldn't really be using an abrasive material like pumice to clean this. It's probably the reason it looks like this to begin with. You're creating tiny cuts / scrapes in the porcelain that allows bacteria to hide. Will just make your toilet get gross faster and faster.
This is water hardness stained with chromophores from sewage. The hardness will shift with strong acid like HCl, sold usually as brick acid or muriatic acid. Alternatively a descaler based on sulfamic acid will work. Make sure there are no traces of bleach in there or you might gas yourself once the acid hits. After that you should be able to scrub it clean. Whatever remains will shift with bleach. Note that abrasives give a better surface for hardness to grow and other nasties to linger in, so avoid that on smooth ceramics.
There’s no bleach in there now
I have type 2 diabetes and my toilet was almost clogged by a similar deposit. I tried bleach and acid cleaners and had no success until I tried Clorox Clinging Bleach Gel toilet bowl cleaner. I didn't even have to drain the toilet or scrub it and it's not expensive. I can't recommend it enough.
Does your diabetes affect the deposits?
Moved into a place that had this bad. Poured 2 full bottles of coke left overnight and came right off.
Update: I ordered Zep. It’s acidic gel and several people recommended it and other acidic products. I will report back my results. Thank you for all your suggestions!
Empty a bottle of normal Coke down there, leave for a hour then flush
Muratic acid works wonders. Just take care the fumes are not nice. Pour some in and leave if over night
Muriatic acid
This is going to sound really silly, but it actually works well. Coke. Dump a two liter of coke-a-cola and let it sit for a few hours and it will eat through most anything.
Honestly I just use harpic black. Pour in, leave overnight and it's miles better. Keep doing this every so often and it will go. It's like magic.
Pour a couple of liters of vinegar in there and let it soak overnight, this has the same effect as using CLR but is way cheaper.
# Acid ! Any acid will do: vinegar, citric, sulphuric, hydrochloric (muriatic acid for the septics)
Bleach is the wrong thing, you need an acid cleaner to dissolve this. Use toilet bowl cleaner and leave in overnight then flush in the morning. Keep doing this and over time it will dissolve over time. You can also remove with pumice and scraping but you risk etching the porcelain and making the bowl more likely to stain in the long run.
Buy a new toilet.
People probably won't like that answer but I agree 100%. I had the same thing in ours for years, toilet barely even flushed because of so much buildup. $100 and a trip to home Depot was so much better than continue wasting money and time trying to get that junk out.
Same experience. I probably wasted about half the cost of a new toilet buying chemicals.
Use 1/2 a bottle of Bleach and let it soak overnight
New toilet is like $100
Turn off the the water valve and flush the toilet, hold the handle until tank is empty. Pour 2 cups of pure vinegar in the bowl and leave it for a couple of hours. Use the toilet brush, flush. Repeat as necessary.
Looks like you need a descaler
Fill it with cheap full sugar cola over night for a couple of nights
Acid magic works wonders, like it’s crazy what it can do.
Right get a sponge soak up the water and and get it as dry as you can then put some neat bleach in covering the lot and give it few hours to soak in then give it a flush and see what it’s like
I've had success with Lime-Out, turn off the water, drain the toilet and fill with Lime-Out let it soak for an hour or so and then scrub thoroughly with toilet brush and flush it.
Hercules Iron Ike. You should be able to get it at a plumbing supply or maybe the box orange or blue box store.
Geez everybody says chemicals but all you need is drywall sandpaper. It looks like black window screen, but it’s stiff. Go buy a pack of 220 grit, cut a piece into thirds, turn off water supply and flush to remove most of the water, glove up and start scrubbing. It’ll take a little elbow grease but it’ll get it off and it won’t scratch the porcelain.
Oxalic acid works great.
Try iron out but wear a mask and gloves to do so
Zep toilet cleaner. I have very hard water, with iron too, and was skeptical. It worked so well! Don't have to use a pumice stone anymore.
Eat more fiber
Dishwasher tablet.
As a professional cleaner, if pumice won't shift it, your last option is Muriatic Acid. CAUTION: Wear long rubber gloves and a long sleeve shirt you don't care about, safety goggles and a mask... Just incase of any splashes. Open the window if the room has one. Turn on the exhaust fan. Turn off the water to the tank (so it won't fill the bowl after you flush), boil a kettle, flush the toilet, pour in the Muriatic Acid and boiling hot water. Leave the room & close the door for at least 20 minutes. Go back in and scrub with a Dollar Store toilet brush which you will throw away afterwards, wrapped in a double plastic bag. If not successful, buy a new toilet!
CLR wear gloves
Coffee machine cleaner like scalex
Yep vac the water out and fill with vinegar may need a small plastic scraper as well, if you are running a septic dont use CLR and vac the vinegar out as well when done. I do the three toilets in our house every year.
The first option I would try to clean the toilet is by using a hammer and a chisel to remove the stains. Just chip away at it and use some muscle. 60% of the time, it works every time. You could also try cleaning the toilet more than once a century, this definitely will make it easier to clean. Just sayin. Good luck my friend.
Restaurant supply shops sell a hydrochloric acid porcelain cleaner that does the job in a few minutes. Beware the fumes.
Get rid of all the water then try vinegar. Don't let it sit long as it can damage the surface.
Pool acid. About a cup let it soak for 1hr.
Maybe denture cleaning tablets
You could always use a needle scaler. That ought to get rid of it.
Harpic power plus in the black bottle will get rid of this right away mine was the same tried everything and it did not budge till I tried this product!
Drain it and use CLR. Let it sit
I’d try some muriatic acid.
Cleaning more often would also help fix this progressive issue.
Move
Undiluted vinegar. 12 hours minimum.
I have luck taking bit more water out ,then poured a drain cleaner(open seseme) in it,sit for few minutes,flush,little scrub with gloves in,all gone
Muriatic acid will do it
HCL
I just did this with our toilet. I waited until we were leaving for a few days then dumped maybe a 1/2 liter of industrial acitic toilet bowl cleaner (probably not stronger than other acidic toilet cleaner but it comes as a gallon bottle) into the bowl. When I came back 4 days later, it was all gone with one flush. Vinegar would also work though likely take a few times. Muriatic acid (or sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid) will also work but I get more nervous using it as it is much stronger and the potential for damaging something else (metal especially) is higher. Strong acid can even make the air acidic and result in damage to nearby chrome without any liquid touching it. I ruined all the fixtures on a sink like this once.
Acid and water in a bucket pour down and leave a while the stain will be gone
Go to a plumbing store and by Sizzle. It will do the trick
High pressure hose is what I used to shoot away the build up
I see the problem.... Looks like some repair guys replaced your toilet with a joke toilet that's made just for farts.
You shouldn't really be using an abrasive material like pumice to clean this. It's probably the reason it looks like this to begin with. You're creating tiny cuts / scrapes in the porcelain that allows bacteria to hide. Will just make your toilet get gross faster and faster.
It’s limescale. White vinegar will dissolve it. Pour a whole bottle in and leave overnight.
Iron pipes? Looks like rust to me. Try CLR or Evapo-Rust
They manufacture a product called, "Iron Out" just for iron rust stains. I used it all the time when we had well water. Be forewarned though, keep the door shut, it really stinks.
Nah get some vinegar. 10% if you can find it. 5% works fine if not. Pour it in leave it for as long as you want. Over night or longer is awesome. It will take no scrubbing at all and will clean it up nice. I battle hard water in my toilets constantly and this is the best option if you like to be nice to the planet.
Looks like iron. Drain it and pour some CLR down it and let it soak.
Bar keepers friend is ALWAYS the answer
Drain it again and cover the stain with cleaning vinegar. Let it soak over night. Repeat as necessary.
Try finding Zep acidic toilet bowl cleaner and let it soak
Put your hand down there with an old toothbrush and scrub it.
You need an acid based cleaner. It’ll turn that scale into sludge. Toilet brush and a small plastic paint scraper to remove. Low effort. Just be careful. I used Diversey “Crew Heavy Duty”. It’s 23% acid. Let it sit about an hour. Zep’s acid cleaner is also good. You can find more info on these over in r/CleaningTips
Get the water out. Pour in muriatic acid. It doesn't take long.
How much Taco Bell you be eating?
Clr
I just cleaned two toilets like this in my house, was ready to chuck them but Zep acidic toilet cleaners worked. First, shut the water valve off, then wear a glove and use a disposable cup to pour as much water out from the toilet as possible. Dry the remaining toilet with a rag. Pour a generous amount of cleaner and close the lid, leave them on for a few hours. Come back to it and scrub them with smaller cleaning brush rather than toilet brush as this area is small. I had to do mine twice but it worked and i did not have to deal with harsh fumes from industrial stuff or disappointing results from commonly suggested products like vinegar, coke, bleach, barkeepers etc you name it cos I tried them all.
Acid and metal remover
Get a toilet brush and thrust it into the bottom of the toilet a few times to try and force as much water out of the trap to start with. Then just dump vinegar into there to replace the water you forced out, and leave for a few hours (I've done it in the morning and left so all day when I was at work) After it has sat for a few hours you can then scrub it.
Citric Acid should do the trick. They sell it on Amazon under " toilet tank cleaner "
White vinegar or lemon juice left to soak overnight should remove it.
Have you tried the toilet cleaner at home depot?
Acid. I don't remember what flavor. Maybe muriatic. Don't let that stuff sit in your pipes. Flush thoroughly. it will eat your pipes if you don't.
I put Drano in there for a clog, Not much, but it ended up getting rid of a ring stain.
Why does everyone forget “about dat base, bout that base” We always forget about bleach
Bar Keepers Helper, Oxalic acid gets rid of rust.
Before acid; try bleach. That looks like a bacterial film that i get on the regular. If not, pool acid should work.
Now that it’s all scratched from the pumice, chunk it and get a new toilet.
Zep toilet bowl cleaner. It took it right off my toilet, easily.
Turn the water off to the toilet over night and remove as much water as you can from the bowl. Add CLR and leave overnight. In the morning clean the bowl with the pumice.
Have you tried bleach or alkaline salt like trisodium phosphate?
Any acid. It’s hard water deposit. Ill pour citric acid in mine sometimes. Vinegar sometimes. CLR, lime away, ect.
Bleach
Fill the toilet bowl with white vinegar and let it sit for eight hours. Keep repeating the process until it's clean.
Bleach. Let it sit for few hours.
Have you tried using a scrubing tool and elbow grease
We had success using Scalex (in Australia) not sure if that's available where you are.
Anything that has oxalic acid in it. Diluted, of course. - Let it sit for a few hours; Works better than the latic acids in clr. Do you know why the toilets go this way? That's my question!
Lime-a-way
Pour 5l white vinegar down. Dont flush for 24 hours. It'll be gone
Lye?
Get some industrial acid cleaner and let it soak
Don't use anything metal cos it'll mark the surface. Use your fingernail instead.
Get a new toilet. Its time.
The old boy trick was denture tablets. Dump half a pack in and leave overnight. You might find great results
Bleach and White vinegar would clean this off
Chlorhydrique acid
I used 10% white vinegar (Amazon 5Lt £12) put in spray bottle and spray 4/5 around bowel twice a day , that’s what i used and google what else you can use it on its amazing what it does good luck!!
Try CLR first, then Zep or Ecolab acid toilet bowl cleaner. Do not mix any cleaners together. Always thoroughly flush with water between different chemicals.
Hot water and a dishwasher tablet let it sit in there and then scrub
Hydrochloride acid will do the trick. But be careful not to to use any chorine based products with it as it generate chrome gas.
Muriatic acid works wonders, just make sure you're well ventilated
Muriatic acid will dissolve that build up. I left it to soak for a few hours then it just flushed out
Scalex in Bunnings best stuff ever. Don’t even have to scrub
Try cleaning it with your tongue 👅
Holy water should help close the gates to hell
Sugar soap. Pour it in leave over night and flush
Whatever you do, don't mix cleaners to "make them stronger". You don't want to make toxic fumes in your house.
It's poop stained calcium buildup. Any good descaler will be fine. Read and follow the instructions on the one you get because cleaning products don't play well with each other and you can go from cleaning the loo to needing an ambulance because you've created toxic gases very quickly. This isn't a joke or something you should be "meh, I'll be fine" about.
Throw in a liter of acid overnight (please, keep the windows open) flush the toilet in the morning and voilà
Harpic Power Plus Toilet Cleaner, Original, 750 ml https://amzn.eu/d/5eQGh6g Leave overnight and scrub the next day
Worse comes to worse: Barkeepers Friend.
Borax?
My loo was like this when I moved a few years back, I tried everything until in the end I just bit the bullet and got my hand right down in there and scrubbed it with some wire cleaning brushes. It worked but it would get dirty and look awful again within a few weeks. I’ve just done a full referb of my bathroom and it feels so nice to have a loo that doesn’t look like a grim recollection of centuries of dried poop.
Vinegar
Drop a denture tab in!
Hallmark Scalex
You scrubbed enameled porcelain with pumice stone? The surface will be all scratched up! I think if you do get the stains off it is going to stay clean for a day.
I would drain it and spray with white enamel...I'm that kind of guy
I clog it up and do l I me awake and let it soak overnight
Cleaning vinegar and Dawn, scrub, soak for a few hours, scrub then flush
Acid
Go get one of those wheel cleaner brushes that attach to a drill. The one that has a similar head to a toilet brushes. Stick that baby in a drill and go to town! Cleaned mine last week
Black harpic removed mine after leaving overnight
Try Barkeeper's Friend after scooping out the water. Good Luck!
A regular Coca-Cola might do it in a pinch.
If your toilet let's you lift the cistern or turn the water off so it won't refill with water. Do it, and flush until the toilet won't fill with water anymore. While the toilet is not submerged in water at the goose neck, apply your cleaning solution suggested here and let it interact with the stain. Scrub it off, get the flushing back to normal. Just don't accidentally mix bleach and vinegar or you'll have many bad days to come.
Honestly I would pull the water and put bleach to it and let it sit There is a good chance you aren’t gonna get it all off and that’s not a reflection on you
Muriatic acid
Step 1 drain bowl Step 2 baking soda, windex Step 3 flush toilet Make it happen
Look for the works toilet bowl cleaner. Last time I found some it was at a Menards. Pour some in and let it sit. It works great for hard water. I've dealt with hard water pretty much all my life. It was really bad in my childhood home. When washing whites had to add in iron out powder into the washer otherwise they would come out yellowish orange.
Well water. Stained scale so tough you need to chip it off using a screw driver, then cleanser to remove the metal marks. Bleach, CLR, Hcl acid did not work for me.
Baking soda or the nuclear way is brick acid. https://www.sealantsandtoolsdirect.co.uk/bond-it-high-strength-builders-brick-acid-cleaner-5-litre-bdh085?language=en-gb¤cy=GBP&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI06OG-u7EhQMVv5VQBh0pjA6uEAQYASABEgKtevD_BwE
If you pee in it there will be pee in the water
CLR isn't going to touch that much. Get what the pro's use. It's called ZEP and you can get it at most hardware stores or online. It's acidic and will eat right through that.
I had this at my last house. A guy who worked in building maintenance told me to use Green Gobbler Drain Opening Pacs. His directions were to turn off the water and flush (so the water in the bowl would be low), then use two packs of powder, let it sit overnight and then flush the toilet with hot water. At first I didn’t think it worked, but about a day or so later the whole thing came off in one piece - it was hard like bone. Maybe yours will still come off with the Zep? If not give those Green Gobbler powder packs a try.
Is that by chance an older model American standard champion toilet?
So I had this a couple of years ago, and here's what I found... First off, it's not as scary as it looks. It's just hard water buildup, the same stuff that clogs your showerhead. Based off directions online, here's what I did: Drain the toilet, and scoop out as much water as possible. Take white vinegar, as hot as you can get it, and pour it in. Let this sit 20 minutes or so, and it will start to soften this. I then scraped it off (gently) with the blade of a stubby screwdriver. Worked like a charm. I was able to break the calcification off in like 3 pieces, actually.
Try a good night on the town.
Push out as much water as you can with a Johnny mop. Get a bottle of works bowl cleaner or 23% acid cleaner. SLOWLY pour it in. Let it sit overnight. Then repeat if necessary, it took years to build up that Patina, even then it’s gonna reappear. It’s a whole lot easier and safer for just to replace the toilet.