The Clorox (“Clinging Gel”) Bleach instructed me to use 50% more product (6 oz per bowel application, as opposed to the 4 oz per bowl specified by the other two products), so I was generous. They are more visible on this third of the toilet only because of the direction of lighting in the bathroom.
(I should note that this toilet is probably over 20 years old.)Īs it turns out, none of the three products removed these gray streaks, so they will probably require some serious elbow grease and a pumice scrubbing stone. The rust deposits were gone, although there were still a few left over “gray” streaks where the water goes down the bowel. I then gave that third of the bowel a good, but not super scrubbing (around 30 seconds) with a green scrubbing sponge. In this case, it was to remove water from the toilet bowl (I turned off the supply valve and flushed, lowering the water level quite a ways past the normal level), and to leave the acid to sit for 15 minutes (the other two products specified 10 minutes of siting time).
I followed each manufacturers’ instructions for “removing tough stains”. Presented in order of their effectiveness:
