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I used the product Iron Out and followed the instructions on the bottle. I didn’t do any emptying the tank or adding hot water. Before going to bed at night, I raised the water level above the stain line, poured in a half cup of Iron Out into the existing cold water and let it sit overnight. In the morning the tank was lily white.

As a plumber: 1. First ventilate the room when cleaning. 2. Bleach and scrub first to get the mold out. Those spots on the refill tube and top of the fill valve is mold. I have seen tanks filled with it. 3. Pouring hot water in a cold tank can crack it due to the sudden huge temperature change. 4. New toilets come with cheap coated steel bolts that rust out. Use the old brass bolts or buy new along with good quality black laminated washers. Throw away those cheap white washers that come with the tank. They disintegrate. 5. Put rubber washer on bolt through tank. Underneath put metal washer and nut to seal the tank. Then put the tank onto the bowl and you only need enough tightening so the tank to bowl gasket does not leak. Less stress on the tank. Then put something solid between the tank and wall to support it when people sit and lean back. Less stress on the tank to bowl connection. Edit. A couple people asked for any more advice. The float ball in this video is rubbing on the side, so the rod needs to be adjusted or turn the entire fill valve. That particular fill valve is a Mansfield 08. If you set the water level close to specifications at about 1/2" below the top of the overflow pipe, the rubber diaphragm will wear in, and the water level will sometimes endlessly dump into the overflow and never dhut off. Huge water bill. Set the level at 1 inch, and check it until it settles in. When cleaning the tank, you can pull out the refill tube and use it to hose down the bottom and sides to flush out the crud. Always wear gloves because there is mold and bacteria floating around in there. Different subject, when leaving the house for an extended period, even for the weekend, turn the water off at the water meter or wherever it enters the house. If a pipe, water heater, toilet, etc., leaks, then the only water comes from what is in that pope or fixture. No continuous source of water to run for days, weeks, or months while you are away. You come home to a destroyed house and huge water bill.

I cannot believe I've lived in the countryside on well water with lime and rust stains for over 20 years, yet no one, not one single neighbor or friend, ever mentioned this great tip! Thanks so very much!

I use cup of white vinegar, tsp Dawn and tablespoon of baking soda. Add to drained tank leave in overnight. It completely cleans the toliet tank. No scrubbing.

We saw this vid & thought”well ok!”!Ordered a bottle,it arrived & we followed the process. I was about to leave a snarky”all it did was leave a blueish coating inside the tank”comment,when,next day,I checked again.The blue film is gone & the tank very clean!! Wow!! Thanks for posting the vid.

My toilet cleaning tip: If you have stains right under the inside rim of your toilet that are hard to scrub and really caked on there, take some toilet paper and dunk it in a tupper ware of white vinegar and then squeeze out most of the vinegar so its just wet and stick it to the inside rim under the toilet boil ring. The moisture will help it cling to the side of the toilet. I let it sit there for like an hour and the stains are gone. You can basically just flush the toilet when your done to clean up the tp.

Yeah .. "The Works" will melt iron stains and dissolve the rust away .. it states that it is safe for septic systems right on the bottle .. been using it for years and highly recommend it 👍

Thanks so much for your video that popped up randomly today! Can't wait to try it. I have well water with a lot of iron silt and my tank looks just like this.

Many thanks! Really useful stuff 😊

Great Video, sir!👍🏽 Love the chapter chops in the video. Wish more content makers would learn this VERY useful method.

Worked great! My tank was black and it looks beautiful now. Thanks for the helpful video. It was very simple and I got awesome results. Tomorrow I’ll tackle the other bathroom

great. Thanks so much...very helpful!!!

Thanks for the tips, I love cleaning suggestions. So Easy to understand this when I see you do it.

Just did this! Wow, what a big difference! Man our toilet was completely caked! Now it’s all clear… amazing, thanks ! 🚽

This worked wonders. You sir are a genius. This is a set it and forget hack!!!! I have tried all kinds of tips. This one worked!!! Woke my Husband up to tell him how much I loved this.

Thank you! The Iron OUT began to work as soon as I poured it in! I was satisfied after 20 minutes.

Before I start, I give the toilet tank water a swirl with the brush to suspend the grit on the bottom, making dirty water and flushing 2x's, you are then starting without the settlement on the tank bottom or in the bowl and just attacking the stained sides with the cleaner.

I am going to try this. Thanks.

Need to try this, Thanks

This worked fantastic for me! Twenty years of brown buildup gone in a couple of hours.

Love it how u dont have to scrub and its genius how u use towels on top nice

Will try thank you for sharing 👍

IMPRESSIVE! OUT AND THIS VIDEO REALLY WORKED! THANKS TIGHTWADDIY

I just cleaned my toilet tank today! I did exactly what you recommended and was shocked that it looks so great now. Thank you so much for your advice. I will now start using the Rust Out to keep the stains out of my tank!

Great tip. Thank you.

GREAT hack....well done

What a great idea! Thanks.

I use lime out when it’s bad, but if you drop a couple of denture cleaning tabs in the tank, it works wonders. And you don’t have to drain the tank or add hot water.

Helped a lot thanks

Thank you for this useful information. I can’t wait to try this to prolong the life of our toilets.

Very good. I will try it thank you

Wow! That's a new one on me works 100% better than other stuff i tried.Thanks for sharing that was amazing!

That is so fantastic 👏. The first thing I tell anyone about their toilets are the tanks 😀. Don't worry too much about the bowl, but to always check the tank and clean it

You were right, I’m amazed when you’re done! I pet sit about 25 weeks a year. Since the toilet isn’t being flushed it can get funky back there!

This is very grate thing thanks so much

Just a word of caution!!! Towels will wick water, so keep and eye on the towels if you lay them over the tank like shown in this video. You could end up with a bunch of water on your bathroom floor. The towels will actual wick the water up out of the tank and the water will be pulled over the top and then drip onto your floor. You may not think this would happen but trust me it will. So if you do this leave the towels there, let's say over night while you sleep, when you come in to check on it, you could find half the water from the tank on your bathroom floor. Yes the towels will stop wicking when the water level in the tank drops below the reach of the towels, but this can still end up being a lot of water and your floor can be very slippery. Just be cautious and know that wicking is a thing that can happen. I have left towels in a 5 gallon bucket of water and ended up with 4 gallons of water on the floor.

So this must be why my basement toilet water was iron-y when I first flushed after not using it for probably many months. Never thought to routinely flush it or better yet, clean the tank. Mine must be filthy. Thanks!

Superb with a simple procedure. Well done.

Thanks for sharing.

So glad to find this video , worrying a bout my water tank was causing me to lose sleep . Now I am thinking of getting a glass lid to show off my float valve.

Looks good

Wow! That really works! I'm going to try it!

Thank You

Thank you for a great idea for cleaning toilet!

Thank you live n learn👍

One cup vinegar, half cup baking soda and tablespoon of dawn. Let it sit a couple of hours then lightly brush and flush with hot water about 3 times. This works for me. We lived out in country we had our own septic . This method wirk really well 👌

Awesome job thank you for sharing

If the toilet is close enough to your shower and if you have a handheld shower, you can easily hold the shower wand over the tank or toilet bowl and spray in hot water. I use this method and it works very well for me.

THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION 😊

Big difference for sure on this ........ looks great ~

Thanks 😊 very much. Can't wait to try this. I ordered from Amazon thru your site! Thanks again! 😀

I used my steamer - something called a costway steamer to get the other stains. Good idea using the Out product!

I've always just left water on,used water already in tank. Works just fine. My tank was dark brown, looks new after Iron Out.

OK, I just tried this. Game changer! I will have to do this on a regular (maybe 6 month) basis as our water is extremely hard and this tank had years of deposits. I should have taken before and after photos, but I guess I was embarrassed. :-). Now I am trying it on the hard water deposits in the bowl.

thank you

Thanks Budby, Got it , Love from Persian kid of Minnesota, Stay Safe !!

You’re my kind of man...one that loves a clean toilet like me...lol

Thanks for sharing

My mother used to clean the tank once a week when she cleaned the toilet bowl with whatever she used in the toilet bowl and it never got to this stage of dirty or rusty, always spotless. However, she wasn't the type of mom that taught me anything because "she could do it faster" she had no patience to teach so I didn't find this out until I was in my 30's or 40's.

I"ve used Iron Out on the interior of my dishwasher too. Just fill the soap dispenser with then Iron Out and run through a regular cycle. It comes out fabulously! Iron, hard water stains gone!

We bought our house in 2020 and all three toilets over time went from pristine white with standard, regular cleaning to...red/brown/black stains. We have well water and after enough googling I realized it was build up of minerals over time. We know our water is high in manganese. I picked up your recommendation and let it sit over night. While I totally skipped the warm water part, it cleared up 90% of what was in the tank minus a little debris at the edges. Awesome video, extremely helpful, this did exactly what it needed to do. Thanks!

Out White Brite worked amazing. Thanks for the helpful video. Next time I will fill it passed the water line to clean that part up.

Great tip!!!

I used a 28floz bottle of CLR at full strength, using half in the upper tank and half In lower bowl. It worked great so far. Killed the rotten egg sewer gas smell too.

Great video. I will try this today

Thanks for ur Tips bro 👌

Amazed and happy to know that my ceramic flush tanks can be cleaned on the inside!! Please tell us if the plastic siphon and pipes inside, or the metal screws inside (ours are brass) whether they are safe from the aggressive bleaching effects of the product used here

I was pretty skeptical this would work but gave it a try anyways. Up to the fill line was totally black when I tried his idea. The tank has not been cleaned in over 10 years. It worked!!! Granted I had to perform very minor scrubbing to remove the light film at certain spots after the initial clean. Now looks like a new tank. Thank you. Only issue was I did it early in the morning while wife was asleep but she had to go do her business and got a whiff of the chemical smell even though I was venting it. Lets just say she got rather upset. I kind of didn't tell her I was going to do it.

Very grate idia thanks so much

Awesome gonna try. Sick of rust stains. Tried this and that. Some difference but not like what just saw. Gonna try THANKS

Try a little of everything on cleaning a small section of the tank . I was going to use scrubbing bubbles tub and tile cleaner . Haven't done it yet mine is dark brown to a close black .

I will definitely try this because my tanks are terrible with rust. Thank you so much !! I hope this works for me.

I've used Milliard citric acid (powder) from amazon that I initially used to clean my humidifier.

Excellent Video. Thank you.

CLR works great and requires almost no scrubbing or agitation. It will also remove the build up that makes you need to replace you flush/fill valves and other plastic tank innards.

This is the second one for the basement bat. kzfaq.infoUgkxOuLt8IL_GxhhaK8DBuKEL-zV0UJVpWZn , works great

Thank you for your help!! I'll get some of the product at Walmart. My toilet is very filthy with old tabacco smoke too. I will try to use this to clean the toilet and perhaps it will clean it out! Lynn

Nice work

Every 3-4 months I clean my toilet tank & I use Dawn dishwashing detergent & brush to clean it & I don’t have any built up water stain so far....

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Thank you doing this soon

Thank you so much. Awesome. I appreciate it.

That's great! Someone got a small flashlight stuck in the toilet and the other bathroom toilet has issues with one floor bolt. Looking at prices of new toilets and how some come with plastic bolts to attach to the floor and plastic seats, I think cleaning mine, taking out the flashlight and securing to the floor is not only cheaper but the old toilets will probably outlive the new ones. I had an old dishwasher once at another house that worked fine, I just didn't like the looks of it. Replaced it with a new one that broke in one year just after the warranty. That taught me a valuable lesson. If it's old and broken or has a flashlight stuck in it, just try to fix the problem The new stuff is really expensive crap.

I like "The Works" toilet cleaner. **As pointed out in a comment below (thank you), not safe for septic systems. Keep area ventilated as chemicals are very strong smelling!** Sold for $1 at dollar stores, a bit more at Walmart. I flush then squirt the toilet cleaner all over everything inside the tank while the water fills. This also allows some of the product to go inside the toilet bowl. Leave it in there as long as possible. I try for at least four hours. Flush and done. I rarely need to scrub. For bad rust, "iron out" is #1 for getting rid of that. Toilet cleaner is a great hack for many hard to clean things.

Thanks for sharing that with us!

Thank you. Excellent idea! Bavo!!❤🙏👍

Be careful what you put in your tank. I was using those large Clorox tablets to keep tank and bowl clean. That they did, however; I found they ate up the o’rings in the mechanism on both toilets necessitating a plumber visit. He said not to put anything in the tanks. No more easy clean bowls.

Always be careful what chemicals you put into your holding tank. Certain chemicals break down the plastics and rubber. Almost all the parts inside of a holding tank are not that expensive but you will find yourself replacing them if they become deteriorated from chemicals. Always read the warning labels and happy cleaning.

Thank you for sharing.

That was AMAZING!!!! Since I'm sensitive to chemicals, I used Biokleen's "Oxygen Bleach Plus" (oxygen bleach is not bleach and is septic safe too) and it worked AMAZINGLY!!!! My toilet tank wasn't as dirty, but the water turned BLACK. I couldn't believe it! Thank you so much for this wonderful hack!!!!

Great video. As a professional plumber, my only question is how does the internal parts handle the chemical? That toilet uses a gasket for a flapper. Under normal circumstances it can last 5-10 years. If you’re still getting good mileage, then a definite home run.

Did you clean white fill tube and fill valve too on the toilet? In the video they appeared to have either rust or mold on them.

As others may have noted, it is a variety of things that can cause the discoloration. One is mold, another is bacteria...May not harm the toilet but I wouldnt want to leave that grow for so many years for possible health reasons. Also, its just nice to see a sparking white tank!

VERY good job man

oxalic acid, available in most home centers and hardware stores. I buy it in bulk for cleaning rust stains on the boat, masonry cleaning, wood etc.

Be careful. I used that once and ended up having an terrible asthma attack and I don't have asthma. I even wore a mask and took all the necessary precautions.

Thanks for ur Tips 👌

I use that Out on white clothes and towels!! It’s gives a strong whiff once you sprinkle it out. I have to hold my breath!!!

I went to Walmart and bought this, and noticed they also had a toilet tank cleaner which almost had the same ingredients, but was minus one. So I bought the one for laundry so that if I had a grungy load of whites I could try it in there as well. That is, if I have any of this left after cleaning my 4 toilets. I had stringy red algae growing in my tank.