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Toilet Bowl Ring - 3 Different Types (House Cleaning Secrets 2017)

Feb 27, 2020
Hi, I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner. This is a show where you can ask a question about

house

cleaning

and I'll help you find an answer. Now, today's question comes from a homeowner who wants to know, "What's the problem with the

toilet

bowl

ring

?" He says, "Every time I walk into this bathroom that we never use, there's a

ring

on the inside of the

toilet

. What's up with that?" Alright. Well, let's talk about toilet rings, so to speak. There are three

different

types

of toilet rings. Once you understand the

different

types

of toilet rings, you can go ahead and decide how you are going to clean them.
toilet bowl ring   3 different types house cleaning secrets 2017
The first is a rust red or brown ring. This is due to the mineral deposits of calcium and magnesium that come from the water. So if you scrub and scrub and scrub the inside of your toilet and can't get it clean, it's probably a hard water stain that has etched into the inside of the porcelain

bowl

. There you go. The second type of ring is a black or green ring, which simply rings right around where the water settles in the toilet, and that is mold. Now you know: that's mold. The third type of toilet bowl ring is pink and is a ring of bacteria around the inside of the toilet.
toilet bowl ring   3 different types house cleaning secrets 2017

More Interesting Facts About,

toilet bowl ring 3 different types house cleaning secrets 2017...

First, let's talk about rust and how we clean it. Now the rust will be the most difficult ring or dirt to remove on the inside of your toilet, because it etchs into the inside of the porcelain. It is very difficult to get rid of it. The most effective way to achieve this is with hydrochloric acid. Now, hydrochloric acid is a caustic material. If you look at the SDS sheets for the chemicals you use to clean your toilet, you will see what the different breakdowns of the chemicals are. Now, SDS stands for Safety Data Sheet, and every chemical manufacturing company is required by law to produce an SDS sheet.
toilet bowl ring   3 different types house cleaning secrets 2017
So, if you're going to buy a particular chemical, you might want to go online and do some research first. What you can do is write the brand, the name of the product that you want to use and right next to that write SDS. You must open the chemical data sheet for the product you wish to purchase. Now, of all the different toilet chemicals on the market, the one with the most hydrochloric acid is the Lysol brand, which is Lysol toilet bowl cleaners. That is the one with the greatest amount. Now, that being said, you should take some precautions if you decide to use it.
toilet bowl ring   3 different types house cleaning secrets 2017
I'm not criticizing the brand. I'm giving you fair warning, and this is printed right on the label. It is printed on SDS sheets. Because it is caustic, you want to make sure you wear gloves or don't touch what is actually being put down your toilet, because it will cause a chemical burn on your skin. It's also bad to inhale, so don't smell it while doing the project. Not good for pets or children. So if you're going to use this, use it when no one else is around. But it does remove hard water stains from inside the toilet.
Now, myths are circulating like: "If you pour a can of Coca-Cola down the toilet,..." Don't pour cans of Coca-Cola down the toilet. That's not what Coca-Cola is designed for. It doesn't do a great job. Just stay away from all these domestic urban myths. Well? You need hydrochloric acid or pumice stone. Now, a pumice stone is a natural, non-toxic way to clean rust from the inside of your toilet. What you are going to do is wet the pumice stone. Get it absolutely wet, because if you use it it dries... It's a stone. It's a stone and you're going to scrub the inside of the porcelain.
So as you rub it, even if it is wet or dry, you will scratch the porcelain. Now, the hard water stains have already etched into the toilet bowl, which... Anyway, it looks unpleasant, so you may not care about removing the rust, but now you're scraping the inside of the porcelain . So, you're removing that finish, which... Here's the caution: It's now more susceptible to future stains, because you've erased that finish. So, just that so you know, and very clearly, that if you use a pumice stone on the inside of your toilet, you are scraping the porcelain. There you go.
But it's non-toxic and looks better than having all the rust stains inside the toilet. Now, there is another method that is also very effective. If you have a couple of denture tablets, you can put them down the toilet, close the toilet lid, and leave them overnight so that as it disintegrates, it eats up a lot of the rust and stuff that's on the inside of the toilet. teeth. bathroom. So, that's one way to get rid of the number one type of toilet rings. Okay, now number two, which is black mold or green mold. Now, this is an interesting concept, because what we put into our bodies is eliminated through our toilets, so we are talking about a sewer system that discharges and empties into the pipes.
We're going to just say 'the pipes', because who knows where those pipes go, but they go through the building you live in, or the

house

, or wherever. But the water doesn't always come out. There's remains of whatever was inside what you just dumped, part of the sewer, that stays inside those pipes. So once you flush and the toilet looks nice and clean, the dirty water will go somewhere else. Now, because of the nature of toilets, when we flush again, we have to bring that water back, and it comes out through the little holes that are at the top, just below the edge of the toilet seat.
Just below that edge, all the water comes back and gives water to then flush the toilet again. So what's happening is when you bring that water back, you're bringing the water through the pipes that you just emptied the entire sewer through. Water comes back through those pipes and that's why you'll notice the small dark rings of mold around the inside rim of the toilet bowl. That's where that comes from. Now, if you see a black or green edge and it's greasy, it's probably tar or nicotine. In all the houses I've cleaned over the years, I can walk into a house...
People say, "Look at this ring. What is this about?" "That's a nicotine tar ring." People will say, "No one in my house smokes." Guess what? Yes, they do it or they chew tobacco. That's a nicotine stain. It is very easy to detect, because it is thick and greasy because it has tar and that is not removed very well. That's how it is. It sits in the water and when it goes back into the water it just builds this weird little ring that comes back every couple of days. I mean, every other day. You can try to kill the bacteria and you can try to flush it out, but it will keep coming back, because that's the nature of what toilets do.
We remove wastewater, but then we return the water to remove more wastewater. So there is a constant process of sewage inside that toilet, which brings us to number three. The third type of ring is a pink bacteria ring. We call it "bath ring" or "bath mold". It's not really a mold; It's a bacteria. You find it inside showers, sinks and toilets. Now, what it's based on is this: it's a mixture of airborne pollutants and dust that settle with water and body excrement. It could be feces. It could be urine. It could be sweat. It could be dry skin cells.
It could be things you wash your hair with. When you mix it with soap, like with shampoo, that's where you see it inside your showers. When you flush the toilet, there is a lot of extra stuff from the body that now mixes with pollutants in the air and settles as a pink ring inside the toilet. So how are you supposed to clean this? Well, for black, green, and pink mold, you can use a simple cleaner, something like Bar Keepers Friend or Comet Cleanser. You just put a little cleaner in there. It's a powder. You shake it in there.
You take out a toilet brush. You clean the inside of the bowl and rub it very well. As you rub it, make sure to rub under the edge. Remember when the water comes back and you have all that mold up there? That's where it's installed. So, that clean water is reaching the area you are

cleaning

now; but, if it comes from mold, there will always be bacteria inside the toilet. Going back to the guy who walks into his guest room and there's a toilet ring in the toilet, it's important, if you have unused toilets in your house, that you go in and flush them every day.
Maybe once a week or every two weeks... This is where your house cleaner comes in... you want to make sure that you actually use the toilet bowl brush, put a little bit of cleaner in there and try to delete it. bacteria and keep them at bay, because even if no one is using that toilet, all of your wastewater still exists. As the sewage pipes leave your house and the water sits in the toilet, there are still bacteria there. It's still building up. Therefore, you should make sure to rinse and clean it continually. Don't be neurotic about it.
You don't need to use the cleanser every day, but probably two or three times a week. There are a lot of people who think, "Well, I have a house cleaner. I don't need to clean my bathrooms until the house cleaner comes." "Oh." If you do. If you do. It is a breeding ground for bacteria and is the gateway to wastewater. So every time you flush the toilet, yeah, there's a ton of toxic toxins - body chemicals, body waste, all of that - being flushed through the system. As it goes through the system, traces of that remain.
So please, please, clean your bathrooms regularly. It's super important. You may even want to have a multi-purpose spray inside your bathroom so that on a regular basis, like two or three times a week as part of one of your routines, you scrub the toilet and clean the toilet seats. down, or behind the toilet seats, or the handles, or all those things. All those things accumulate germs. Then, another thing I should mention is… This is a concern for every house cleaner. From all my friends who clean the house to you, I have news for you. Each toilet needs its own brush.
If you have one toilet brush for your entire house and you have five bathrooms, you are missing four toilet brushes. You have to run out and buy four more toilet brushes. Each toilet needs its own brush. Because I don't want you to carry a toilet brush from room to room in your house. I don't want a house cleaner coming in from outside who comes to clean your house every two weeks and brings a toilet brush to clean your toilet, because he's been in all kinds of other people's bathrooms, right? Have your own bath brush and have one in every bathroom.
When you go out, if there is a particular incident where you feel that the toilet is very dirty, stop right there. Scrub the toilet. Just make sure you get all that stuff out, loosen it up. Rinse the brush. You can even rinse it in a bathtub if you want, but make sure it's clean. Flush the toilet. Then do it every other day. That way you can keep toilet bowl rings at bay. If you get ahead of your toilet bowl rings and clean them before they require much maintenance, you won't have to use heavy-duty hydrochloric acid or pumice stones.
You can just clean them from the beginning and keep them clean. So, that's the crux of the issue about toilet bowl rings. I hope that helps. Very well, and until we meet again, leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.

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