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How to clean the toilet and clean the toilet?
Sometimes, starting to clean the toilet, it turns out that the water in the toilet is badly washed off and remains in the bowl along with sewage. Plumbers in this case do not want to cause, and therefore there are several questions at once: how to clean the toilet with your own hands, and what cleaning products after that clean the toilet.
Preparatory work
Clogging can be caused by various reasons. Sometimes a cork arises due to too hard water or urea, the sediment of which is deposited inside the pipes and blocks the passage. Often the blockage occurs due to the fault of the owners, who pour the remnants of food, fermenting canned food into the bowl, sometimes rags or other objects that do not dissolve in water and get caught on some ledge, get stuck, creating a cork.
Before you start cleaning the toilet or cleaning the sewer pipes, you need to wear long waterproof rubber gloves, a rubberized apron, get a gauze bandage: the smell will not be pleasant. Used cleaning products contain a lot of toxic and unpleasant substances that can cause poisoning.
Also, when cleaning the toilet and cleaning the pipes, you will need a sponge, toilet brush, disinfectants and antibacterial cleaners for sanitary ware, gels, soap, brush, and a basin for water. Starting to clean the toilet, you need to determine the sequence of actions. If the water goes badly into the sewer pipe, the first thing is to clean it.
How to clean the toilet
Before deciding which cleaning agent to clean the toilet, it is necessary to determine the cause of the congestion: a common standpipe may be blocked, and then plumbers will have to be called. It is quite simple to do this: it is enough to open the water in the sink, if the water does not go down the drain, then the problem is most likely in the general riser. If the water is little by little, but leaves, then the toilet is clogged and the problem can be solved on its own.
If a foreign object has fallen into the sewer drain, and this is known, it is necessary to determine where it is located. To do this, scoop up water in the toilet, put on a long rubber glove, apply a gauze bandage on the face (the smell will not be the most pleasant), reach into the drain hole and determine whether it is possible to reach the object using a probe method. If it is a rag or a soft object, it can be pulled out easily, if something is hard, then in order to get it out of the toilet bowl, you need to push it with a wire, making a hook at its end.
If the cause of the cork is unknown, you will have to use various cleaning products for the toilet, mainly gels and powders.
Water
The easiest way to clean sewage pipes is to rinse them with water. To remove the blockage, you need to pour into the toilet ten buckets in a row of hot water (not more than 60 ° C). It is necessary to pour it in different ways: fill it from different sides of the bowl, jerking, with a powerful stream.
You can also connect a hose to the hot water tap, direct the other end as far as possible to the drain and open the maximum head. If this method does not help, and almost no water will leave the bowl, stop cleaning with this method, otherwise the toilet will overflow, the water will be on the floor.
Air eliminators
You can try to clean the toilet using a plunger whose rubber suction cup is larger in diameter than the drain hole. This method will help get rid of the cork, if it is formed in the siphon or pipe, which leads to a common riser. Yielding to the pressure of air and water, the tube will move, fall into a large pipe and go down.
Before starting work, tightly close the drain holes in the bathroom and in all sinks, then pump the water with a plunger with sharp movements. If the water is gone, it must be poured out of a bucket or cistern and continue pumping until it starts to leave at its usual speed.
Soda and vinegar
If water and plumbing do not cope with the cleaning of sewage, the clog can be removed with soda and vinegar. To do this, scoop out almost all the water from the toilet bowl, leaving a small amount below, pour half a pack of soda, and completely drown it in the remaining water, pushing it as far as possible.
After that, pour in a glass of vinegar, and wait for the end of the chemical reaction (about twenty minutes). Next, pour boiling water into the bowl, if the connecting corrugation is made of thin plastic - confine yourself to hot water (up to 60 ° C), otherwise it may burst.
Chemistry
If it was not possible to remove the cork with simple methods, gels or powders designed to eliminate blockages in the drain pipes (Mole, Sanoks) are capable of removing it. They are able to eat away all that has accumulated inside the sewer pipes - mineral sediment, hair, grease, and salt. If the pipes are heavily overgrown, the maximum effect will not work, but they will be able to break through the blockage.
In order not to bring the sewer system to such a state, it is advisable to clean the pipes at least once a month with cleaning products for plumbing.
Sewer cable
If the blockage does not break through at all, you need to purchase or ask your friends for a flexible sewer cable. They need to clean the toilet, making rotational movements with a handle so that the coward can safely go through all the bends of the pipe, and also hesitates and smashes all the deposits and blockages that caused the cork.
When pulling the cable from the toilet after finishing the cleaning, you should immediately put it on a rag previously laid on the floor, and then wipe it with antibacterial liquid soap or dishwashing detergent: otherwise, the cable will stain everything. Having finished cleaning the toilet, take off the gloves and carefully wash your hands with antibacterial soap.
Toilet cleaning
When the toilet is completely clean, the bowl, as well as the space around it, must be washed. To do this, take away all the things near the toilet bowl so that they do not interfere with cleaning or do not fall into the bowl and do not clog the sink. If the means intended for cleaning the toilet bowl gets on objects, they can deteriorate and they should be thrown out.
Put on gloves again, take a rag or sponge, soak in soapy water, wipe the toilet and leave for half an hour: dirt under the influence of soap and water will take off and it will be easy to clean. After that, soak the washcloth in hot water and wash the bowl well from the outside.
Using water, soap, cleaning products for the toilet, it is good to wash the inside of the toilet bowl from lime, rust, stains. Judging by the reviews, Sanoks cleaner does a good job with this, but you have to be careful with it. For example, the gel of this company contains oxalic acid, which is able to corrode thin enamel or marble, so you should not pour a lot, and you should read the instructions before use.
The tool is first applied to the inside of the toilet and leave for some time. After this brush clean the top of the bowl, removing dirt and rust, then wash the bottom well. After finishing work, flush the water out of the tank and rinse the inside of the toilet bowl using the brush (this must be done several times).
After that, wash the lower and upper parts of the seat (using a different brush so that microbes from the toilet bowl do not cross over them), using antibacterial gel, soap, powder and other means.
It is also necessary to wash the toilet bowl on the outside with a disinfecting gel, as well as the tank and the handle with which water is drained. When you have finished washing the bowl, wipe the toilet with a soft cloth, removing the remnants of the antibacterial agent.
After washing the toilet, sweep up the floor rubbing, then use flooring and tile around the bowl with a solution of soap or a disinfecting gel to wipe the floor with a rag.
At the final stage of cleaning, wash with a disinfecting gel and wipe all the things that are in the toilet (to do this, put on gloves that are not intended for cleaning the toilet bowl). At the end of the work, take off the gloves and wash hands and face using antibacterial soap.
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