How To Clean Urine Scale From Toilet Bowl

The secrets to achieving a spotless toilet!

Friday June 23, 2017

Clean and simple: a series of blogs from Cleanline expert Rod Hale.

We asked our Cleanline practiced 'What cleaning routine should nosotros utilise to remove stubborn stains from the toilet bowl?'

And here's what he told us…

Cleanline Expert – Rod Hale Twitter – @rodhale2

It's not glamourous, just the fact is, 1 of the virtually important tasks in housekeeping is cleaning toilets, whether they are situated in a luxury guest room or forepart of business firm communal washroom – all toilets must exist spotless.

A toilet that has been cleaned well will be free from whatsoever stains or 'high tide' marks (caused past uric scale), with clear water in the bowl and a fresh, pleasant fragrance. One of the trickiest parts of cleaning toilets, and one which I am asked well-nigh frequently, is removing the build-upwardly of uric scale.

So what is uric calibration? Uric scale is acquired by minerals in the water used to flush the organisation and deposits of uric salt crystals from urine. Over time, the salts glaze the inside of the toilet bowl, leaving a 'high tide' mark where the water sits in the bowl. Uric scale tin can also course in the pipes, restricting the menses of water and waste product into the sewer.

Uric scale is a common crusade of smelly and dirty toilets – so swift removal is a must. They don't simply await unpleasant merely they are also an ideal convenance basis for leaner.

The best daily routine for cleaning toilets, which deals with uric calibration before it becomes a problem, is as follows:

Push button the toilet castor into the basin and pump it up and down vigorously v or vi times. This cleans the bowl of debris, and lowers the water level to betrayal the 'high tide' mark where minerals and uric scale are usually deposited
Using the directional nozzle, squirt Cleanline daily toilet cleaner under the rim all the fashion round and permit it to run down into the toilet bowl
After a few minutes, brush the inside of the basin vigorously paying attention to nether the rim and the 'loftier tide' marking
Flush, and if required squirt some other small-scale measure of Cleanline daily toilet cleaner into the bowl as visual proof that the work has been completed

If you run out of toilet cleaner, it takes longer, simply here's the old-fashioned way of doing it:

Follow stride one above
Pour about a cup of vinegar into the toilet bowl and swish it around with a toilet castor. Allow it sit for about five minutes
Add about i cup of baking soda to the toilet bowl and follow it by adding another cup of vinegar
Allow almost 10 minutes whilst the fizzing activity does the cleaning
Swish the mixture around the toilet basin with the toilet brush, making sure to get the solution onto stains above the h2o line and the "high tide mark"
Let the vinegar and soda solution sit down for a few more minutes, then scrub abroad any remaining stains and flush

I railroad train housekeeping staff in catering and hospitality operations throughout the UK, and I always recommend this uncomplicated cleaning routine with Cleanline daily toilet cleaner. I'k happy to say that the feedback is always positive, and housekeepers are well pleased with the results.

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