I have a toilet pan which is just over a year old and is showing streaks running down from the outlet holes around the rim. Presumably this is some sort of limescale residue but this did not appear on the previous pan over a period of many years. The supplier says that as it is over a year old it is out of waranty but surely it should last longer than that? and to try cleaning it with a pumice stone, any other advise or suggestions please?
Do not try cleaning it with a pumice stone (IMO). First try a descaling gel of some form.
Try cleaning it with a limescale remover. If it doesn't come off, try bleach. If you use pumice it will most likelt scratch the glaze rather badly.
Not much the toilet manufacturer can do about calcium in your water. It surely wouldn't be covered by any warranty.
Use a descaling chemical. Mechanical removal is likely to be harder work and cause more damage. Ours was so bad we ensured that the toilet uses the softened supply when we put in the softener. Indeed, the disgusting toilet bowl was probably one of the major reasons for installing the softener in the first place!
Christian.
Yup,. After you have manually chipped off ten tears (2" of s**te and urine and scale conglomerate, and spent a week with te brick acid getting the rest clean, a water softener seems a small price to pay,
Try adding vinegar to the cistern for a few weeks after having shoved some brick acid in the loo
The gels are good because they just about stick...and a mild abrasive bad SOAKED IN DESCALER is good but its long and tedious work.
Make regular addition of some mild acid to the loo a weekly task. Limescale that disfigures is one thing, limescale that stops the thing flushing is quite another..
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I certainly wouldn't do that. You'll risk scratching the glaze which will make it easier for the scale to stick again.
It's probably happening because the previous pan let all the water run out quickly, the new one dribbles a bit. Certainly nothing to do with guarantees or anything. The simplest cure is one of those smelly things that goes in the cistern.
The best cure is a periodic dose of strong hydrochloric acid.
And, for the avoidance of doubt, he means *in the toilet*...
..although on second thoughts?!
Mathew
Orally?
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Fran uses cheap cola.
Think what it does to the insides. Sugar water and acid.
No need, your stomach's full of the stuff anyway.
So vomiting in the toilet regularly is good for it?
Simple soloution - rent your house to students for 3 months - job done!
How do you manage to get students to vomit /in the toilet/?
Owain
Push their heads in and punch them in the guts.
Unless its students from a snotty uni. in which case they are trained from birth to be able to do this unassisted ;-).
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Put the beer barrel on the cistern.
Stop eating curries washed down with 5 pints of Bass or aim better.
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