Nobody likes cleaning toilets, especially when they are caked in built up limescale (and we won't mention what else).

Limescale can appear as brown, orange or pinkish stains on your toilet bowl, taps, shower head, walls and mirrors - and can be both embarrassing and difficult to remove.

One woman took to the Facebook group Hinch's Army to beg for aid after having no luck with her own toilet basin.

Sharing a picture of the stained apparatus and a selection of cleaning products, she wrote:

"Delight Help. Been trying to get this off since I moved in and got it off a bit (was a lot worse than this!) But still tin can't go rid of it all and I'm fed up with it now, tried everything in motion picture as well as bleach, vinegar method and cola method."

Women flooded the comments to offer their advice, with many maxim that she needed to get rid of the water in the basin to actually clean it.

"Water needs to be taken out (use a mop) so use Cola, so echo with bleach if need be," one suggested.

"Empty the water out and then black Harpic it overnight and scrub away hands in the morning!" some other said.

"My toilet was thick with limescale when I moved in, I got virtually of the h2o out and used HGlimescale remover. Left it in over night and the toilet was left brand new," a third said.

Others recommended scraping the limescale with a 2p coin (though you lot should be careful not to harm your toilet this mode).

Limescale should be cleaned from household appliances considering it can restrict the flow of h2o in your toilet, pipes, taps, shower heads and kitchen appliances such as dishwashers.

The blog FantasticCleaners recommends the vinegar method for cleaning limescale.

"While you tin buy a variety of specially designed toilet cleaners to remove the unsightly limescale stains, y'all can achieve the aforementioned issue with a bottle or two of white vinegar and some elbow grease," it says.

"The acidic nature of vinegar is perfect for softening and lifting limescale and information technology is nowhere virtually as expensive as a commercial toilet cleaner.

To make clean your toilet with vinegar follow these steps:

  • Cascade i litre of undiluted white vinegar directly into the toilet bowl, being certain to pour information technology around the sides of the bowl.
  • Allow it sit for three-four hours.
  • Scrub the toilet bowl with more white vinegar.
  • Flush the toilet to rinse away the stains and residue.
  • Repeat until the toilet bowl is clean and sparkling.