My friend, Diane, wants to know the best way of getting lime scale off her toilet bowl.?

Answer 1

harpic 100% limescale remover. excellent stuff

Answer 2

Tell Dianne that lime scale is composed of Calcium, Magnesium and other hard water minerals. The best products to use on hard water minerals are always going to be phosphoric acid based. Phosphoric acid is a key ingredient in Coca Cola, and many other dark carbonated bevereges. This is the ingredient in cola's that destoys your tooth enamel and cleans battery terminals and does so many other wonderful things.
I would suggest going to your local janitorial supply distributor and purchasing two different products. One would be a phosphoric acid based delimer for anything other the inside of the toilet bowl. In the toilet bowl, You can use a Hydrochloric acid based bowl cleaner, they normally come in concentrations of 9 and 23 percent solutions. The HcL bowl cleaners are much more caustic and damaging to fabrics, carpets, clothes but they are much more aggressive in cleaning mineral buildup and rust.

Answer 3

Go to a shop that sells "Spirits of Salt". It is very strong, put a little around the bowl leave for about 20 Min's (but avoid being in the room because of the vapours). Flush a few times. It is unlikely it will need more than 1 treatment, but wont hurt to do again a few days later.

Answer 4

Our water has a heavy lime content. We all use "The Works" toilet bowl cleaner. Works real well.

Answer 5

Has Your "friend, Diane" not got an internet connection? There's no shame in a toilet with limescale.

Answer 6

Call a janitorial place from the yellow pages and ask if they have 23% HCl (hydrochloric acid). That stuff is the best ever! It'll take everything off but the porcelain.

Answer 7

The present invention relates to liquid acidic compositions suitable for removing limescale-containing stains from a hard-surface, comprising an acid, from 0.001% to 20% by weight of the total composition of a polysaccharide polymer and from 0.001% to 20% by weight of the total composition of a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer, said composition being packaged in a spray type-dispenser. Such a composition provides improved shine to the surface treated while exhibiting effective limescale removal performance. The use of a polysaccharide polymer and a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer, in a liquid acidic composition being packaged in a spray-type dispenser, to treat a hard-surface, reduces or even prevents the formation of watermarks and even limescale deposits on said hard-surface after said hard-surface has first been treated with said composition and subsequently comes in contact with water. Also the use of a polysaccharide polymer and a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer or copolymer, in a liquid acidic composition being packaged in a spray-type dispenser, to treat a hard-surface delivers shine/long lasting shine to the surface.

In other words........................

TRY KABOOM!

Answer 8

My aunt told me to use harpic 100% limescale remover, i bought it thinlking it would be a little gimmick and that no way could it get rid of all the limescale but voila- it got rid of it 100% it is fabulous

Answer 9

How about Clorox Pen sample? Use the fine point applicator or broad scrubber. Here's a good site http://www.upkb.com/cloroxpen.php for cleaning tips and product info.

Answer 10

Lime-away should do the trick. Let it sit for a bit, then scrub with hot water.

Answer 11

There are many new products out for this , i use Lime Away or CLR. It removes Calcium Lime And rust. They both work good. =)