limescale on a toilet

[sledmere]

How do I remove limescale from a toilet - I have tried equal parts of white vinegar and water and rubbed with a soft brush to no avail.

[redmug100]

You can buy diluted hydroclorric acid toilet cleaner from some supermarkets but do mix with bleach - it makes mustard gas! The viniger and water is really for plastic kettles where anything stronger would get into the plastic and flavor the water.

[Clanad]

If you mean in the toilet bowl, first, use something to remove enough water from the bowl so the limescale ring is out of water.  Then, try your mixture, but apply it a number of times, perhaps even soaking a cloth in the mixture and laying it on the ring.  If this doesn't help, then, at least here in the U.S., a product called CLR or Lime Away works very well.  But the secret is to not dilute it with the water in the bowl... Good luck! (Personally, I'd use great caution with hydrochloric acid)

[billearly]

Harpic is the best solution

[kev100]

If you have a problem with limescale in a toilet bowl you must live in either Hartlepool or Rotterdam, I cant think of any other plac

[kev100]

Sorry sledmere, dont know what happened there.

Do you live in Hartlepool or Rotterdam? The reason I ask is that I've never heard of limescale so bad that it can interfer with the workings of a toilet.

[glenis]

viakal  -  from most supermarkets

[mr. piper]

all these answers are very clever but not as effective as two tubes of steradent tablets, as for dentures, plus some bicarb. then just stand back. no poisons, nothing caustic. Enjoy how good it works!!!!!

[BossyBoots]

Coca Cola - no kidding.  Cops in America use it to clean blood off the street after shootings, car accidents, etc.