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This may not be exactly your
most favorite house chore but unless you are willing to
pay for some professionals to do it for you, you will need
to know how to REALLY clean your toilet. Besides, it is
considered to be one of the most important parts of your
daily house maintenance. But by really cleaning your
toilet, we don’t only mean that you should practice
flushing it the right way. You have to know some basic
maintenance tips that will ensure the cleanliness and the
freshness of your toilet.
It all begins with religiously practicing the habit of
maintaining your toilet. Otherwise, you might find
yourself having second thoughts whether to sit on your own
bowl or not.
For easier cleaning schedule, you can divide the cleaning
process into two namely: cleaning for maintenance and
cleaning for appearance. Both have different working
principles but have almost similar results.
Cleaning for maintenance (this covers the need to clean
for health)
Make it a point to attend to your toilet need everyday,
this habit would only take a while. Incorporating the
toilet maintenance habit with your shower habits would
make the work a lot easier for you. Everyday, perhaps
every morning before you go to work or every night during
your relaxation bath, you should sprinkle or spray the
toilet with a toilet cleaning agent. Combine this with
light brushing or wiping of unnecessary impurities from
the bowl. Pay close attention to hard surfaces or to
deeply imbedded stains. During the initial stages, this
might seem quite a lot of work but repeating the process
habitually and on a regular basis would mean lesser work
each time. If you do this, you would be assured that you
no longer have to work on the toilet intensively during
weekends.
Cleaning for appearance
Cleaning for appearance means more intensive removal of
the stains. Your main aim here is to maintain the original
appearance of the toilet bowl, resembling its look when
you first installed it. During the cleaning process, you
have to focus on really dark surfaces, both in the inner
and outer parts of the toilet. Emptying the toilet bowl
with water first usually works well as this gives you more
space and lesser hurdles to work with.
This begins by removing the connection between the main
pump and the toilet. After which, the toilet bowl must be
flushed several times until all reserve water is emptied.
Then, you can begin the work.
Remove the stains using several cleaning agents such as
muratic acid and specialized toilet cleaning agents,
depending on your preference. Treat all surfaces while
brushing, wiping or spraying the cleaning agent. Once the
entire surface of the toilet is done, you can now start
reloading the water reserve. Don’t forget to place toilet
bowl disinfectant so as to help extend the cleaning
process.
If you have children in the house, however, and you are
very cautious of using toxic substances, you can find
great alternatives that work great as well. Here are some
of them:
To help keep the odors and clogs, it is advisable that you
pour one cup of baking powder on your bowl every week.
Also, make use of citric acid to remove the stains in the
toilet.
Orange juice helps a lot as a toilet cleaning agent. Use
two teaspoons a day, put these in the toilet swish, and
then let it sit for a while. For finale, scrub the toilet
vigorously while adding more orange juice powder.
Plain cola works well too! Try pouring a bottle of cola on
your bowl, let it settle for an hour then flush. You will
se how wonderful carbonated beverages work.
You can try leaving vitamin C capsules in your bowl too.
Since it is an acid-based substances, impurities in the
bowl and stains will likely react to it and thus, loosen
their hold on the bowl.
As you can see, even ordinary things in the house could
make good toilet cleaning agents. |
