…but someone’s got to do it (aka, me).
About 7 years ago we had two cloakrooms refurbished, with identical toilets. One is easy to keep clean but the other has developed a stubborn stain. It resists a number of proprietary cleaners and hard scrubbing. Does anyone know of a better solution?
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It sounds to me like the glazing may have been too thin??
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Do you have a water softener? Is one supplied with softened water and one not?
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Is it limescale? if so neat kettle descaler gets through it.
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Use the strongest acid that you feel happy with. But take all the suggested precautions. To get the strongest effect use a plunger to empty the U-bend of water first, and then dry out the remaining water using tissues.
Brick cleaner (hydrochloric acid) is probably the most easily available. I always keep a stock of "One-shot" drain cleaner,(sulphuric acid) as it is very effective with difficult blockages of grease, paper, and some organic substances. Warnings apply!
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>> we had two cloakrooms refurbished
The eight bedrooms next, I guess?
:-)
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Is it a stain ? Our last but one home was a new build and suffered what I thought was a stubborn stain...turns out that the "glaze" had a fault in it
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We have a water softener and as far as I know it covers everything apart from the kitchen tap. From the colour, I assume the stain it is not limescale but I will try descaler on it, although bad glaze is I think more likely the source.
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I told you that at the end of November:-)
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I was merely suggesting that it could be the cause.
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Shopping for cloakroom fittings last year I found that most of them, like so much else, come from China. I wonder if that’s where this one came from. Despite being retailed in U.K. at around £100 my plumber claimed that WCs were about £5 a piece plus taxes and shipping if buying by the container load from China. I don’t know about being that cheap but clearly they are churned out in their millions.
It’s inevitable that the odd faulty glaze patch gets through so I am in the camp that suspects that’s the cause here.
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A humble task... - MD
