Whats the best way to get rid of a toilet bowl ring?
Bleach isn’t the solution because it may take the color out of a ring, but the ring itself remains and keeps on building up and staining. When the ring is young and tender, an enthusiastic brushing with acid bowl cleaner will generally remove it. If the chemical action of the bowl cleaner doesn’t entirely dissolve the mineral buildup, you can scrub it with an abrasive (green) nylon-backed scrub pad while the acid is working. An old ring is a real encrustation that calls for mightier measures. Forget about sandpaper, razor blades, and other remedies than can result in damage to you as well as the bowl surface. Take a pumice stone, wet it in the toilet water, and rub it on the ring, being sure to keep it wet the whole time you are scrubbing. Don’t use pumice bars on colored, enameled, or plastic fixtures – only on vitreous china toilets. Once a ring has been removed with a pumice bar, weekly use of bowl cleaner thereafter should keep it from reforming.
