I would love to see inside the tank of this toilet. If the tank is covered in black mold it could be the reason the bowl has the black mold ring. Home Depot sells a bleach that is stronger than the grocery store kind. A clean tank could lead to a cleaner bowl.

The water does it! After my chlorine tablets disolve in a few weeks the ring comes back, so it's the water! I would never use abrasives.

You know life sucks when you realize it's almost midnight, and you're watching a video of a guy cleaning a toilet... complete with commercials!

DON'T wait 2 weeks to clean the toilet and it won't get a ring

It’s a result of hard water… That tank needs to be cleaned out, not just the toilet bowl..

They all worked. They removed the ring. The bowl needs to be cleaned regularly because it accumulates a ring. It’s like complaining that your car got dirty a week after washing it.

I pour bleach in the toilet and let it set. 4 hours to overnight. Don't even need to brush. Just flush.

I like the way you take a scientific, experimental approach to reach your conclusions. Use use your intellectual approach that I appreciate. I shows we need to clean the bowl about once a week for sure!

How about using the bar cleaner and a stream machine?

Does muratic acid work?

Just use wet or dry sandpaper the kind that you can get wet sands it right off 😮

I uses sos pads, works nicely and stays clean 3 months

Lime Away does NOT work! Save your money!

Poor glazing. Cheap toilet. Water softener would work

Make sure you are never using bleach with ANYTHING that may contain ammonia (glass cleaners, etc). The combination will produce chloramine gas which can damage your lungs and even result in death.

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Every two to three weeks? No wonder you have toilet rings. Bacteria from bodily waste continually in the bowl will have this growth so clean your toilet Every week or more!! I've had ny toilet and it's over 11 yrs old and looks new.

If you have a water softner use the salt with rust remover in it.

I have a suggestion for those that know what this product is and what it can do - Muriatic Acid or hydrochloric acid (same product). It is available in hardware stores, home centers and other places. I hate the smell because it is airborne acid and it can take your breath away. You need to vent the bathroom when using it and a good idea for his is an open window and a fan. Gloves are necessary. Also if you have a respirator that is for fumes such as this would be a good thing to use. I cleaned a toilet that was close to 50 years old by removing it and doing the work outdoors. It only required application and a stiff bristle plastic brush. Some small amounts of the acid may be available with a squirt top but I feel they are a thing of the past. It works by just being on the surface. I used the garden hose to flush out the acid and to dilute it in the area where I was working. No plants died. The water used in this toilet what treated by the city for high iron content as it was a sea town on the east coast. It did so well, I removed the wall hung sink and did it as well. Ten years later, no discoloration. Every location is different due to the mineral content in the tap water. Pitting will always collect things you don't want but the acid will remove the discoloration way more effectively than the techniques in this video. Be safe.

I clean the toilet at least once a week. And in between if it Doesnt seem clean. I'm picky.

I purchased a new toilet because the 2 year old one wouldn't stay clean. No more abrasive cleaners to scratch the surface, just Zep acid cleaner and no more dirty toilet.

I never have ring around the toilet because every time I poo I clean the toilet.

We have 4 toilets and 3 are about 5 years old. The one we kept is about 45 years old. We changed them for better water savings. So, the 3 new ones all have this ring problem. The original one does not have this ring problem at all. I am going to say they are not making these as good as the old ones. Must be using less material or an inferior product. So don't blame yourselves blame the manufacturers.

Periodically addition of chlorox and a brush does a fine job for me.

I'm curious if it would work to super-clean the toilet, then add a ceramic coating like used for vehicles. I'm not sure how long this would last - maybe quite some time - maybe not very. But filling those pores with a new ceramic coating might prevent the ring from coming back?

Sandpaper from dollar tree works

Talk too much

Could it be a pluming or pipe problem 😮 how about buffing the porcelain smooth?

This guy did NOT figure out how to STOP the stains from reappearing :-( BUT I figured out how to STOP those stains from reappearing by using my own clever ingenuity! if you want to know what I used to stop the rings from reappearing just asked me

When we use Barkeepers Friend, we use a cloth, rather than anything abrasive. The product is supposed to have a very low abrasive and using something that’s more abrasive with it kind of defeats the main advantage of the product.

It's bar keepers friends

Clean with Mrs Meyers toilet cleaner every three days. No more stains. Anywhere anytime! Mrs. Meyers has an acid in it. It kills mold and dissolves minerals.

Clickbait. The problem was not solved. I watched your entire video for no solution. Grrrrr. What a waste of time, both mine and yours. The best part of the video is the comment section. I cannot believe 65k people liked this video.

I think this guy might be right that mold is growing in some hidden channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpicpaGEfJl9Z5o

What a waste of my time. Thumbs down!

Has anyone tried cleaning it and then painting over the pits with the touch-up paint they make for porcelin surfaces?

Pumice….NO!!

And/or we talk about hard water

Try baking soda and vinigar!

I think we might have to do 1 of 2 things: clean under the ring in the bowl +/or think about cleaning the tank (IE vinegar).

Literally not solved! You need a metal scraper to actually eliminate the pitting and smooth out the porcelain at the water line.

First my tolet gets cleaned every couple days but if you squeeze lime away abut every three days that helps to keep rings away and clean

so, the long and short is that the lord of the rings will come back without regularly cleaning or throwing some golum into the bowl.

I just use Muratic acid

only way I can keep mine at bay (older toilet, hard well water) is to be sure to swish the toilet bowl nearly daily with at least the toilet brush. give it a good clean weekly and then about every 4 weeks or so be sure to deep clean the toilet and tank with some bleach, and I wax the ring area with car wax or white paraffin to fill in the pits. I'm not the original owner of the home so I'm not sure what their cleaning routine was, but I am ready to replace both toilets in the house simply because I am tired of devoting a couple hours a week solely to cleaning the porcelain poop shoots. Replacing them would give me a clean slate to work with so I can keep up with them more easily than dealing with the previous owners left over mess. I spent literal hours when I moved cleaning the toilets alone, because they had this ring that developed really quickly and the same ring occurs under the lip of the toilet where the water drains from the tank into the bowl, so there has to be some kind of nasty bacterial/mold colony within that water distribution channel at the top of the bowl that I have yet to find a way clean effectively, and having septic I don't want to do the blue stuff or put Clorox pucks in the tanks all the time.

Pour citric acid in your toilet & the tank & an hour later the ring is gone & you only have to do it once a month.

It is the mineral content of the water itself that is the culprit. My guess off the cuff is that this home has a well and water softener, and the softener likely has not been maintained properly. Backflushing the filter on the softener is a must to clear the filter material of mineral deposits. If the water was properly softened, this would go away.

Muriatic acid..pour some in come back later. Brush and wha la like brand new

I worked maintenance in fast food. I was instructed to use comment. I cleaned them daily.

BUT, after spending about 20 or 30 minutes removing the old crusty toilet bowl ring stain, how do you either stop the toilet bowl ring stain from reappearing or make it extremely easy to clean it off next time? ANSWER: First, was making it so hard to remove that ring stain? Calcium buildup becomes as hard as a rock and sticks to slick services like superglue. So, all you have to do is purchase some Synthetic Lubricant that comes in a small tube at a hardware store. Then, using your fingertip, spread a very thin coat of it directly on top of where you expect the ring stain to appear again at. This Synthetic Lubricant is crystal clear and WILL stay attached to the surface of the porcelain bowl until you wipe it off. Then, as your ring stain builds up enough to become an eyesore, simply take a paper towel and wipe it off. That’s it! Problem of how to remove those crusty ring stains within seconds has been solved! Also, just after you finish wiping the ring stain off the Synthetic Lubricant coated surface the first two or three times, a light film of the Synthetic Lubricant will remain on the surface. But soon after that you will have to reapply another very thin coat.