If you’re familiar with toilet bowl stains, you know what a bugger they can be to get off. Talk about STUBBORN! Lucky for me, there is this amazing thing called Facebook. Have you heard of it? (Just teasin.) You can ask your friends (readers!!) questions and they always come through. Favorite perfumes?? Answered. Cold remedies? Answered. … you get the point. Anyway, as usual my FB gals gave me the coolest tips, ones they’ve tried and loved, on how to remove toilet bowl stains found on the Toiletable. Some a little more mild than others, and some for when the big guns are needed.
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Ready for it? Here we go! 10 Tried and True Ways to Remove Toilet Bowl Stains…
Note: To lower the water level in the toilet, quickly dump a bucket of water in the bowl. To return to normal levels, just flush.
1. Drain toilet bowl. Pour in vinegar and let soak overnight. Scrub with pumice stone.
2. Use Dirty Jobs, Bar Keepers Friend, or The Works (from dollar store) cleaner.
3. Leave a piece of Magic Eraser in the toilet bowl overnight.
4. Scrub with Pumie Scouring Stick.
5. Drain most of the water from bowl. Spread a baking soda paste on toilet bowl, spritz with vinegar, let sit for 15 minutes. Scrub.
6. Pour a 2 liter of Coca Cola in the toilet, let sit, and scrub.
7. Scrub with Johnson & Johnson Baby Bath, in the purple bottle.
8. Scrub ring with drywall sandpaper and vinegar.
9. Flush the toilet. Sprinkle Lemonade Kool-Aid around the edges of the toilet. Let sit for an hour. Scrub with brush.
10. Mix 1/2 cup Borax and enough vinegar to make thick paste. Spread on toilet stain. Allow to sit for 15 minutes, scrub and rinse off.
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Fabulous tips – I’m all for easy cleaning because who has time for dedicating a whole day to that?!
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Great tips! It’s not a glamorous job, but it needs to get done! : )
You’re right! Thanks for stopping by, Jennifer!
I’m a fan of the pumice stone, though I like that that most of these solutions are easy and use things that I probably already have around the house. Thanks for passing along these tips!
the magic eraser trick doesn’t work – not only have I tried it and found it didn’t work, but if you think about it, how COULD it work? A magic eraser is melamine foam, an abrasive. It has to be scrubbed on a surface in order to work, it doesn’t just magically absorb stains. Wish that it worked, but it’s a myth.
I NEED this!! We get iron stains all the time and haven’t figured anything out. I will be trying these!
Borax and vinegar becomes concrete…can’t get it off or even out of the bowl I mixed it in….and that was within minutes!!! Don’t do it!
Thanks for the warning! It worked for one of the readers, but maybe there’s more to it.
100 grit sand paper works all the time and can get wet still works.
I use the works all the time. We have really bad water here and it works when nothing else does.
Thanks for sharing!
I’m good at cleaning my bowl often because it tends to be my head rest for the last few years. However lately I’ve been a bit sicker and on bed rest. I don’t like to use pumice stone or anything abrasive because it scratches off the protective coating then is harder to clean forever. All I’ve ever done is drain the bowl, put a little Lysol cleaner in there, let sit long enough for me to wipe down the outside then swish with the brush. CLEAN!!! Since I haven’t been on top of it. I have a little bit of hard water crusty (not sure what it’s called, but where the water comes out of the holes), I’d like to be able to remove that without a pumise stone or anything that will scratch off the clear finish. Any ideas???? Thank you in advance.
Just wondering, what kind of toilet is that? all the ones I have seen have the hole in the back, near the seat hinge?
Ha, I honestly have no idea. It’s a stock image… so, no toilet of mine. 🙂
Chris, interesting you asked what kind of toilet tha ist because I have a funny story to tell everyone: I took my mother on a trip to Europe almost 20 years ago and we spent a couple of days with a friend of mine in Holland/The Netherlands like they like to say it and we noticed that their toilets were like this one on the picture. We asked her why they had the hole in the front and not the back and she said that, and I quote “it’s better to see your type of business” — her words, not mine! She is a nurse, so I guess she appreciates knowing every little detail of “your business” but I’d rather not. Anyway, sorry for the not so pleasant story, but that’s just my 2 cents.
Pour boiling water into the bowl (aim for the water, not the porcelain as I gather it could crack).
Throw in a generous amount of citric acid.
Let it sit for a while and then brush with a loo brush and flush.
You may need to repeat the process once of twice but this is by far the easiest method I’ve ever found.
And spray vinegar around the rim to get rid of limescale there.
Thanks for sharing!