Clean Your Hull With Toilet Bowl Cleaner

Save money and clean your hull with tidy bowl

[@Drjnorth]

It does work great - I have also used "the works" with good success - but you need to protect your trailer!! Hydrochloric acid will not be friendly to it. I hose down trailer before and a lot after application because it will continue to drip off the hull onto it. Or put a tarp over the exposed parts of the trailer where you are working

[@dennisedwards8954]

Thx for preventative insight

[@Dannon1111]

it worked great.. I live on the lake so my boat gets very stained. I made sure to read the ingredients first because many of the cleaners didn't have the acid or it had very little. Kaboom is what I used (purple bottle).... its very strong (wear gloves and hose down your trailer). I also cut it with hydrogen peroxide so that it sprayed better. I'm blown away at how well it worked... I wasted a whole day scrubbing prior to this trick.

[@garysullivan9243]

Thank you! Just did this today. It works! A $2 bottle from "dollar store".

[@richardt7926]

Wet the area first with water, leave on 10 to 30 minutes depending on how dirty the hull is. WORKS GREAT!!!!!!!!

[@josevillarreal2371]

Thank you for this tips .. It really worked. I wish that I could show here the before and after pictures... it could not believe. After I rinsed off with fresh water, just waxed and you are good..

[@OtisHumphreys]

I use the Dollar tree stuff. It does work great but you have to wax it after and keep it off galvanized metal...and your pants! It will eat right through them.

[@joeyf504327]

It works great! Lowes, 2 pack for $3.90 with tax. I bought "The Works" Exact same as Lysol but not blue.

[@roberteverhard7423]

All the yacht captains recommend using Magica, much less toxic and nicer to the gel coat and boot stripes.

[@timothyschertz2050]

Late to the conversation, however, if you use acid or any bleach type solution you must follow with a wash and good wax! Acid takes stains, algae, and buildup along with your wax/protection!

[@MuhammadKhan-sk4fr]

Thanks. It works good on fiberglass swimming pool too.

[@zorro12498]

what am I doing wrong, tried it , didn't work at all. Maybe mine is just so dirty yellow, we bought it used and who knows how long it has been like this.

[@jkiggens]

What about where the hull is sitting on the trailer bunks? Does that cleanser soak into the carpet and then eat into the Gel Coat that is sitting on the carpet?

[@nightlife1970]

it wont eat the gel no matter how long you let it sit.

[@gwizz777]

Spray on rinse off? Do you have to scrub it off?

[@nightlife1970]

nope just rinse it off

[@rx7dude2006]

Been a detailer for 15 plus years and FSR is the way to go and it wont harm the environment like toilet bowl cleaners.

[@dtesch01]

what is FSR?

[@flash521]

What environment?

[@nozrydr1]

I got the Lysol Toilet bowl cleaner from the "Dollar Tree" used it on my boat, worked great.

[@TheIndianscout]

Is your boat aluminum or fiberglass?

[@TheJim91303]

lol You call that bad ! Mine gets 500 times worse but I use about 6 bottles of "the works" from the dollar store. Spray it on.. let if soak. Then I use my pressure washer to rinse off.

[@brandonsawyer5580]

Works better mixing it with spray nine as well been doing that mixture for 13 years

[@stevegreen1391]

Use muratic acid on the hull of fibreglass boat mix it 50 50 dont breath it in. It works amazing or the Lysol deep bleach if its not to bad

[@YZFR1mart]

Companies that brand and sell products at an over priced value must friggin hate Google and KZbin lol

[@mattwhalen892]

I would pay for something more natural that wasn't as poisonous to groundwater

[@nightlife1970]

@@mattwhalen892 just use vinagar then. It will not work as but it's a natural acid.

[@paulhughes6764]

thanks works great. and at a fraction of the cost 😃

[@hkm_865]

Worked awesome! Thanks

[@billyloomis5081]

I seen a video that used the same toilet bowl cleaner but they also mixed in hydrogen peroxide, anyone try that? I have a used 75hp Merc, it has sat in the water on a pontoon boat then outside on the trailer and the lower unit looks horrible. Think this will be ok on a boat motor ?

[@seapearltoo1]

did you use "tidy bowl" in this video and i missed it?

[@nightlife1970]

seapearltoo1 it is toilet bowl cleaner yes. Lysol brand in this video. Tidy Bowl would work the same

[@bumbykitty]

LOL, did this kill your lawn?

[@nightlife1970]

nope

[@helmersfamily]

use a cup of iIron Out to a gallon of warm water. brown stains disappear!

[@davidandersen9186]

do you dilute it

[@nightlife1970]

David Andersen no

[@davidandersen9186]

nightlife1970 OK . thanks for the quick response I'm trying it tomorrow.

[@davidandersen9186]

used it today. got some off but there is still some brown stains that aren't coming out.

[@nightlife1970]

was it a boat that sat in the water for a long time. May need to do a second application or use a soft brush and work it in a bit better, or just let it sit longer. I have done some nasty looking hulls, it has always gotten the gunk of. Unless there is some issue with the glass on the hull, it should come off.

[@davidandersen9186]

nightlife1970 feels like it's rough maybe hard water build up or lime, not sure. doesn't want to come out

[@lindamuvic8110]

Works great, Thank you.

[@dshogan6174]

Here is WHAT to use, but we wont show you how it worked 😂

[@nightlife1970]

What are you smoking?

[@justinwollitz2702]

Wink Rust and Stain remover

[@bigm355]

mary kate on and off hull cleaner is jus as cheap and works 7 times better !

[@nightlife1970]

Thats funny it shows up on Amazon for 16.99.. That is more than 8 times the cost of the toilet bowl cleaner I used in this video....And what is the active ingredients in Marykate? Well let me save you the trouble of looking it up. ACID...same thing as the toilet bowl cleaner...It may have a higher concentration of acid in it and that may allow it to work faster...but 7 times better nah it does the same freaking thing

[@bigm355]

Buddy i tried all kinds of house hold cleaners including toilet cleaner and it didnt phase the stain on my boat. I even tried bleach white and nothing! Mary kate was the only thing to clean the stain. Glad you wasted the time to do all the research though!

[@nightlife1970]

I worked as a detailer for a marina...you know what we used to clean even the most nasty, 5" long hairy sat in the river all summer long hulls. A diluted acid...Guess what the active ingredient is in all these "Boat Hull" cleaners...you guessed it a diluted acid......Care to guess what the active ingredient in most toilet bowl cleaner is? You stated Marykate was just as cheap..it's not As for the other products not working...yeah bleach wont do a thing. You need acid. If you used toilet bowl cleaner, either you did not use one with acid as the active ingredient or you did not use it correctly. There are hundreds of videos showing that it works. Go to any boating board on FB or forum on the web and ask what people use to clean the brown stain off their hull. 80% of the reply's will be toilet bowl cleaner. The others will be pitching one of the more expensive "hull cleaners" that are acid based cleaners.

[@tomdawson256]

Mary Kate is only for use on fiberglass hulls. And much more expensive than Lysol.

[@tadasis1237]

You buy a boat that costs thousands of dollars,and then you realize you can't afford a proper product that costs 10-30$ and you use toilet bowl cleaner insted...So why you bought a boat??????

[@joepiershalski5432]

True...... but I've tried Mary Kate on off ..... and starbrite Hull cleaner... Nothing works

[@900stx7]

Why spend $10 to $30 on a cleaner when toilet bowl cleaner works just as good for a fraction of the price ? It's called being smart with your money.

[@dennisedwards8954]

When I buy lunch meat I buy from a local meat shop rather than a supermarket. Yet, I use store brand mustard. Am I wrong? Must/should I slather on at least Grey PoopOn with a snobbish flare? I thought that I get to decide the utils from my dollars? Oh well, I'm still learning.

[@davenye7693]

Yep I bought a boat that cost a lot of money. It costs lots of money to put fuel in it too...Guess what I can put 4 more gallons of fuel in it just because I used toilet bowl cleaner and not some over priced boat cleaner. Just because I can afford to pay more, does it mean I should waste my money on it. SO why you make such a dumb comment...Wanna show some more ignorance?