What do you clean your bog with?

[gentlegreen]

That with bicarb of soda is very effective.

But why add an alkali to an acid ?

 

[Calamity1971]

But why add an alkali to an acid ?

Fizzing action. Bicarb is an excellent eco cleaner .

 

[Calamity1971]

Vinegar is a green way to clean and deodorize surfaces. * Equal parts vinegar and baking soda can be combined to scrub away tough stains from coffee mugs, travel mugs, or teacups.


And shite..

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

As soon as the maid is done ironing my shirts I'll ask.

 

[existentialist]

Vinegar is a green way to clean and deodorize surfaces. * Equal parts vinegar and baking soda can be combined to scrub away tough stains from coffee mugs, travel mugs, or teacups.


And shite..

I bought a bottle of 14% white vinegar when I was in France, for use as a surface disinfectant. Very potent stuff. Here, I just make do with 5% white vinegar.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That with bicarb of soda is very effective.

Add loads of bicarb and vinegar for a bog volcano.

 

[existentialist]

Add loads of bicarb and vinegar for a bog volcano.

Don't start encouraging gentlegreen

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Don't start encouraging gentlegreen

Reminds me of the people who used to add a bottle of washing up liquid to fountains and run away. I think that would work if you added it to the cistern.

 

[existentialist]

Reminds me of the people who used to add a bottle of washing up liquid to fountains and run away. I think that would work if you added it to the cistern.

It was soap powder down my way. There used to be a huge water feature thing outside my local Fine Fare, and every so often it would erupt in huge cascades of bubbles.

 

[WouldBe]

Yes, I've used that technique when I lived in London, with much harder water - it's nowhere near as necessary, here. I appalled my step-granddaughter once - her mother didn't want her drinking Coke, so guess what she wanted more than anything else? So, one day she spots the bottle of Coke on the top shelf in the downstairs loo, and gets quite excited - "ooh, you've got Coke in, can I have some?". I said "no, it's for cleaning the loo", and promptly demonstrated. As the precious elixir flowed into the bog pan, she just stood there transfixed, as if she couldn't believe ANYONE would pour this gut-rotting Ambrosia straight down the loo. I may have made a joke about "cutting out the middle man".

I've got a macerator on the down stairs loo and you're not supposed to use anything stronger than phosphoric acid in it. Instead of paying daft money for the proper stuff (if you can get it) I chuck a bottle of cheap brand cola down the loo and leave for a couple of hours. Give a good scrub with the loo brush and the stubborn limescale is gone.

Loo in bathroom is brushed with cream cleaner and wiped down on the outside. About once a month I use an acidic loo cleaner to get rid of the limescale and put a toilet duck disc in.

 

[8115]

Ecover Power, it's brilliant. I clean the outside, seat etc with spray and toilet paper then a load of this in the bowl under the rim so it drains down, you don't even need to scrub.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I hear that due to the phosphoric acid content, it is possible to clean you're toilet with Coka Cola or Pepsi.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

If the colour below the waterline is unsightly then scoop out all the water, carry on with a sponge until it's dry and pour any type of boiling vinegar over that. Flush when cool. I've done it moving into countless flats and long-empty houses.

 

[existentialist]

If the colour below the waterline is unsightly then scoop out all the water, carry on with a sponge until it's dry and pour any type of boiling vinegar over that. Flush when cool. I've done it moving into countless flats and long-empty houses.

I do wonder whether the glaze on loos loses its smoothness over time (the impact of all those turds, maybe? ), and thus becomes harder to clean? My U-bend definitely seems to get a lot grubbier a lot more quickly than I've come to expect.

Oh, and another thing - what's with all these air freshener sprays in bogs? In my experience, all they do is to blend with an often not massively intrusive shit smell with a vast chemically-perfumed miasma which is a lot harder to avoid noticing than the original smell - a smell which, with appropriate window opening and door closing, usually disappears pretty fast anyway. Won't have the stuff. Grr.

 

[WouldBe]

I do wonder whether the glaze on loos loses its smoothness over time (the impact of all those turds, maybe? ), and thus becomes harder to clean? My U-bend definitely seems to get a lot grubbier a lot more quickly than I've come to expect.

Sometimes the glaze doesn't go all the way round the Ubend.

Oh, and another thing - what's with all these air freshener sprays in bogs? In my experience, all they do is to blend with an often not massively intrusive shit smell with a vast chemically-perfumed miasma which is a lot harder to avoid noticing than the original smell - a smell which, with appropriate window opening and door closing, usually disappears pretty fast anyway. Won't have the stuff. Grr.

No window in my bathroom.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I do wonder whether the glaze on loos loses its smoothness over time (the impact of all those turds, maybe? ), and thus becomes harder to clean? My U-bend definitely seems to get a lot grubbier a lot more quickly than I've come to expect.

You need to make sure you have sufficient teflon in your diet. Works wonders.

 

[wtfftw]

Thing is, I really only need my khazi to look nice. I don't get this obsession with sterilising lavatories. Of all the items in my home which, in some fit of perhaps complete lunacy, I might decide to, say, eat my dinner off, the Armitage Shanks is pretty much at the bottom of the list. I don't really care if my loo is Full Of Germs, on account of the only thing that is going anywhere near it is my arse. So long as it doesn't a) stink, or b) look like a Young Ones studio set, I'm pretty cool with it.

Is the "loo cleaner" stuff really only about sterilising?

The black harpic sorts limescale apparently and visible dirt. I doubt my loo is ever sterile.

 

[kittyP]

Harpic "White and Shine" is magic!
Squirt it under the rim, enough so it flows down the sides of the bowl and into the water, leave for an hour (sometimes I just leave it over night) and tbh you could just flush it and walk away and it would be sparkling but I do tend to give it a short scrub with the toilet brush just to make sure nothing builds up over time.
I do that about once or twice a week and clean the seat and the sides of the bowl with antibac wipes.
It pleases me how clean my toilet is