Toilet Cleaners Can Ruin The Insides Of Your Toilet Tank - The Right Way and The Wrong Way

Dave Henry discusses - "Toilet Cleaners Can Ruin The Insides Of Your Toilet Tank"
Hi my name's Dave Henry with Wilbur Henry plumbing, heating and air conditioning. Our phone number is 717-755-5461. Our website address is www.wilburhenry.com/
One of the questions I get is about the stuff you can buy at stores to put in your toilets to keep them clean.
This includes chlorine tablets when you put in the tanks. The problem is the chlorine warps rubbers of your flappers
Any cleaner you get for your toilet make sure its for the bowl only.
Anything you put in the bowl does not affect the working mechanisms of the actual toilet.
Anything in the tank, it will affect the working mechanisms in the toilet.
This includes the blue sludge that goes in there to make your toilets nice and blue. When you put in the bowl it will not affect any working parts of your toilet.
Thank you

[@allanpolk2681]

He speaks the truth. I learned this a couple of years back, after I had to replace the flash flap in both of my toilets because of using the various tank tablets. It only took about one year of the tablets coupled with the calcium in our water for the flaps to harden and warp.

[@iWearLacoste]

If only I'd seen this sooner. My toilet stopped flushing correctly today, and sure enough it looks like the blue tank cleaning thing had partially dissolved and is messing everything up. Definitely take this guy's advice.

[@rentboy15]

The David Duchovny of toilets speaks truth thank you sir!

[@tchatterton]

I wondered why my previous toilet's mechanisms kept going to hell. The complex I live in just gave me a brand new toilet (different reason) from the store and like a dumbass I chucked one of those blue tablets in. Now I'm going to get a blue hand fishing it out. I just began to suspect the blue tab and found your video. Thanks!!!

[@melonface57]

Wish I would of seen this before I put that blue stuff in the tank

[@jasoncarrasquillo3599]

The blue disc tablets also can get caught in the pipe where the flapper goes. This just happened to me today and it plugged up the toilet. Like the video says: DO NOT put anything in the tank!

[@alicias312]

I was concerned about this. So glad I found this. I will certainly be taking this 2000 Flushes product back.

[@DOLRED]

Hello Wilbur. Yep, I just looked at our 25 year old water softener. It has a tiny leak at the control valve. Opened it up and looked inside and see all the washer separators are warped. Right away I knew it had to be prolonged exposure to chlorine in the city drinking water. In 1977 I bought a place and the toilet tank looked as though it had been used as an aquarium, black inside. I put chlorine bleach in the tank and poof, it was clean after a scrubbing. BUT, I learned my lesson when the flapper contorted. A little naive in those years.

[@ritaboudreau6866]

I whh you would have specified which cleaner to use in your tank.

[@markrush5013]

if you buy better quality toilet parts the insert will usually say if you use those drop in tablets it voids the warranty. those things just dissolve into grit and messes up the workings.

[@AdobadoFantastico]

I'm just learning this lesson the hard way now. Luckily a fill pump is cheap but man this is a pain in the ass.

[@gailward9164]

I'm glad I googled this I had fabulous in my tank one week hopefully it didn't have time to damage it

[@bidyutsinha5224]

Most of the people is not aware of cleaning the toilet tank, and it gradually gets rust and finally damaged due to proper maintenance.The solutions published on net is a very good inspiration.Hope a number of people will be benefited from this video.Thanks.

[@MrJustDIY]

I've been using 3inch pool chlorine tablets in my tank for over 2 1/2 years with no problem but a cleaner toilet and tank.

[@marthajane7058]

JUST THE VID. I WAS LOOKING FOR,THE REST ARE ADVERTISING WHAT U ADVICE NOT TO USE.BOUGHT SOME AND STARTED WONDERING IF IT WAS A GOOD IDEA,WORRIED ABOUT IT MAY RUIN THE STOPPER.NOT GONNA USE IT. THANKS

[@FloridaNative_99]

What about the ones that don’t have chlorine on them?

[@irene1234]

What about using denture cleaning tablets? That's a popular DIY cleaning tip people use nowadays. Will that damage the toilet?

[@jasper777777]

What about CRL ? it dissolves calcium, rust, and minerals? Can that be used?

[@Ziggysprints]

I got a panicky call from my mom that her toilet was running. A small piece of the blue "cleaner" she insists on using had broken off and was stuck under the edge of the flapper.

[@christinec.7917]

How about liquid dish soap to add to the tank? Not good?