How to Clean That Nasty Toilet Bowl Black Stain

Clean toilet bowl black stain with pumice stone

You know that ugly nasty looking black ring around the inside your toilet bowl? At the top of the water line? It's caused from calcium, lime, or excessive iron deposits. Well, here is the easiest way to remove that black ring stain. You'll need to use a little bit of elbow grease, meaning you apply a bit of pressure, but the results are amazing. Natural and easy to do!

Things You'll Need

• Rubber gloves
• Pumice Stone

Instructions

1. Buy a large pumice stone. Swimming pool stores sell very large pumice stones for cleaning waterline tiles, hardware stores sell large pumice stones, grocery stores sell pumice stones in the mops and cleaning supplies aisle, or you can buy one that is used for the feet at your local drugstore. If you can, buy one that has a handle. Even the Merry Maids recommend using a pumice stone to clean a toilet bowl ring stain in their cleaning tips!

2. Put on your rubber gloves.

3. Wet your pumice stone, and remember to keep it wet the entire time you are rubbing the stain out of your toilet bowl.

4. Flush your toilet and as soon as all the water is drained take your pumice stone and start rubbing around the edge where you see the ugly black stain.

5. You may need to flush a few more times, while you complete the job. The pumice stone acts like an eraser and removes all the mineral deposits.

6. Because I use baby wipes to dust the house, I just experimented with baby wipes (any brand will do). I flushed the toilet and when the water level was low, I swiped a few baby wipes over the black stain and like magic - the stain was gone. I was amazed! If you try this, do NOT flush the baby wipes down the toilet.

Tips & Warnings

• From Garden Web: "Pumice stones (pieces of lava rock, sometimes called pumies) do not scratch porcelain if they are first submerged in water. Used dry, they definitely will scratch. Don't know why that is. They do degrade rather rapidly, and are normally recommended for anywhere standing water and air meet in a container, such as aquariums or toilets, the main two examples I can think of."

• Article property of Toby Lee Spiegel 2008 © Do not copy!