How to clean the toilet from limescale: an overview of folk remedies and household chemicals

It's nice when the home plumbing acquires the original whiteness and shines with purity. How to clean the toilet from a brown coating? What tools to apply to remove stone and rust without titanic efforts? We will find out why plaque and rust are formed on the toilet bowl and inside the tank, and also consider the basic cleaning agents, their advantages and disadvantages.

Why is the raid formed?

To understand how to clean the toilet in the home, you need to determine which type of contamination is preferable in your case. Hard-to-remove contaminants are few, usually they are the following.

• Urinary stone. Consists of complex mineral salts that fall on the surface of the toilet bowl and under the bezel with urine. Often the problem appears in families where households forget to wash themselves in the toilet or the toilet itself is rarely subjected to preventive treatment. If the urinary stone is already formed, then it is difficult to get rid of it, the usual means cope badly with it.
• Calcareous plaque. In houses with increased hardness of water, the calcium salts contained in it eventually settle in the tank and on the walls of the toilet bowl. On top of the calcareous deposit, various kinds of pollution of another kind quickly accumulate. In order to bleach the toilet, acid-based products are used in this case.
• Rust. The appearance of rusty stains is also associated with water quality. It can be old, rusty water pipes or water with high iron content from the well.

Mechanical damages to faience contribute to the accumulation of dirt. Do not wash the surface of the toilet bowl and the drain tank with metal brushes or rough abrasive materials. Also, you can not pour hot water into the toilet - this causes microcracks to form on the surface.

To improve the quality of water, use different filters or constantly add to the toilet tank preventive measures in the form of special blisters and tablets.

Household chemical products

The simplest way to remove urinary stone and rust is to use household chemicals designed for toilets. The industry offers a variety of solutions and powders, but they can all be divided into four categories.

• Chlorine based products. Perfectly wash and disinfect the surface, do not corrode faience and do not leave behind microcracks. Eliminate extraneous smells, but they do not smell very nice. Suitable for daily care of plumbing.
• Alkaline agents. These are liquid solutions containing caustic soda. Such means allow to get rid of surface contaminants, they practically do not smell, are well disinfected and do not damage the surface of the toilet bowl. Alkalis perfectly dissolve fats, so it is recommended that such means wash the plumbing in cases of organic debris.
• Acid-based products. These chemicals go into battle against the old deposits of urinary stone, rust. With their help, you can clean and lime scale in the toilet. Most often, the composition of the product includes oxalic, formic, orthophosphoric, hydrochloric acid or a mixture thereof. It is not recommended to wash faience and ceramics frequently with acid, as it to some extent corrodes the surface, in addition, pairs of acids have a bad effect on health.
• Cleaning powders. To remove the stone from the tank and toilet bowl, it is necessary to lower and scoop the water, and then wipe away the dirt with a powder, using a hard nonmetallic sponge. With frequent use, such powders also contribute to the appearance of roughness on the surface of the plumbing, in which dirt will accumulate.

Advice

When choosing a toilet cleanser, give preference to gels and cream formulations. Compared with liquid and powdered products, they are more economical and easy to use.

As for specific brands, judging by user feedback, "Silit", "Dressing duckling" and "Gel sanitary" cope with all kinds of pollution."Domestos" and "Breff" well remove rust. Universal products designed not only for toilet bowls, but also for ceramic tiles - Comet Universal, Santri, Sanitol, Sarma, Gel WC 5+ - are suitable for daily care, sanitation and removal of fresh deposits.

Folk remedies

To clean the toilet bowl from urinary stone, you can resort to the help of folk remedies. The water from the toilet bowl and the tank is removed, the agent is applied for approximately one hour, then the surface must be washed with a brush or a hard sponge. Do not forget to use rubber gloves - almost all formulations aggressively act on the skin of the hands.

• Acetic essence. This is pure, undiluted vinegar, which is sold in small glass bottles. To put on the dirty places, in an hour to rub a brush.
• Citric acid. Two or three tablespoons of acid are poured into the toilet bowl and a tank of water, left for several hours. Then you can simply rinse with water or brush with a brush. Repeated several times, until you can not wash all the raid.
• Vinegar and iodine. Table vinegar( 9%) in the amount of one glass is heated to a temperature of 40-50 ° C.In a warm solution add a little soda or iodine solution. Pour the mixture into the toilet without water, close the lid and leave overnight.
• "Coca-Cola" or "Whiteness". With the help of these tools you can bleach the toilet bowl and remove the rust and stone. Pour 1-1.5 liters of the drug into a dry bowl and leave it overnight.

If the dirt is not removed the first time, repeat until the desired result is achieved. Sometimes old, years of accumulated deposits do not succumb to any effort. Then in the course is "heavy artillery".

We take strict measures

Complex contaminants are removed with the help of concentrated acids. When working with chemicals at home, use rubber gloves, a protective gown or polyethylene apron and a respirator. Do not close the toilet door, and after the treatment, rinse the toilet thoroughly, ventilate the room as a whole.

• Dry oxalic acid. Technical acid is sold as a powder. It is applied to a piece of cloth and the dirt is cleaned by hand. To wash the toilet in this way is necessary with the observance of precautionary measures.
• Electrolyte for acid batteries. This substance allows you to get rid of hard-to-remove plaque. Contains concentrated acid. Do not use if the sewer pipes are made of plastic. Pour into the toilet, after half an hour or hour, rinse with water.
• Hydrochloric acid. Sold in sanitary ware shops, usually used for cleaning water heaters in gas boilers, columns, etc. The principle is the same as with electrolyte. With its help you can get rid of all kinds of stone.
• iodine monochloride. Liquid, you can buy it in veterinary pharmacies. Perfectly removes all kinds of stone. The solution is watered with contaminated areas and almost immediately washed with water - the product eats lime and rust for several minutes. Do not use in homes where sewer pipes are made of cast iron. Also iodine monochloride is aggressive towards aluminum.

And, finally, we note that it is too often undesirable to use strong remedies - they spoil the surface of sanitary ware, leaving microdamages on it. After washing once the calcareous deposit and stone, regularly sanitize the toilet. In the presence of poor water, install house filters or use special tablets to prevent the formation of plaque in the tank and toilet.