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Post by sss3 on Feb 26, 2016 2:46:57 GMT
Toilet tanks have a lot of rust. Literally, there are chunks of rust in them. What has to be done to stop that? Don't want to think about what I'm drinking.
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Post by gracielagata on Feb 26, 2016 4:12:44 GMT
Can you remove what is there? Is that what you are asking? The CLR cleaners work wonders, let it soak as long as you possibly can, and use one of the thick ones, the ones with the angled neck on the bottle. They work best. That pumice cleaning stone works great to help it along. And something random that I can't prove, but swear helps- I use baking soda as a deodorant over top of the roll on crystal kind. I apply it by getting a bit on my finger tips and rubbing it on my skin-- standing over to toilet to catch excess. Our toilet seems to be much easier to clean and always gets less build up than the other, which does not get this 'extra treatment.' lol To make our toilets worse, we don't flush for all pees, so that urine sits and helps to discolor the toilets... again, the baking soda seems to help there. I have actually started dropping a bit of baking soda in the other toilet as an experiment to see if it helps, but we are in the early stages, so I don't have any real data yet. lol Man, I jut reread your first post, sss3- its the tank not the bowl!! lol Oh well, I will leave my comments, maybe they will help someone!! We have chunks of reddish-black stuff on occasion in our tanks as well- manganese maybe? It seemed like it was really bad when we first bought the house, when the house and well sat stagnant for a year before purchase... I wondered if that wasn't the reason. I don't think it can be stopped, just filtered (which I guess is technically stopping it lol). So a filter that is more than just sediment? Anyhoo...  |
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Post by spacecase0 on Feb 26, 2016 4:28:21 GMT
redo your water system,
take your source of water and spray it into a large water tank (500 hundred to a thousand gallons or so), a float switch to stop the flow into the tank when it is full
make sure the tank is vented to the air
then pump water to your house from about 6 inches to a foot over the bottom of the tank
that takes care of all kinds of iron in the water
the water you drink is way more critical than build up in the rest of your water use
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Post by farmchix on Feb 26, 2016 4:29:01 GMT
I occasionally drain mine and use CLR or the works in it. CLR also makes one of those blocks you can use (you drop in and leave for a month until it dissolves). They are supposedly safe for septic. I would clean it before using one of the blocks--beware, if tjere is a ot of rust, it will be ugly for the first few weeks.
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Post by sss3 on Feb 26, 2016 15:17:14 GMT
Both toilets have chunks of rust. One is new. Have city water. Cleaned them out. Rust on tank isn't a problem. On new toilet there was some sort of lime on top of water. Going to call city. Will wait till chunks of rust reappear. Just so I have proof. Drinking water from store bought. Really surprised this happened with city water.
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Post by Melissa on Feb 26, 2016 16:18:21 GMT
You can't depend on it even if it is city water. Look at what happened with Flint...
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Post by Cabin Fever on Feb 26, 2016 18:53:32 GMT
Iron in low oxygen to no oxygen water - which is the case in most groundwater - will be in a dissolved form (ie, ferrous iron). When the water is oxygenated, the iron comes out of solution and becomes ferric iron. This is the form of iron in your toilet.
I would suspect if you filled a bucket with water, the water would be clear. If you left the bucket for a day exposed to the open air, the dissolved iron would come out of solution and the water would turn reddish.
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Post by sss3 on Feb 26, 2016 19:50:29 GMT
I'm not cooking or drinking any of this water.
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Post by wolfmom on Mar 10, 2016 1:06:42 GMT
Iron in low oxygen to no oxygen water - which is the case in most groundwater - will be in a dissolved form (ie, ferrous iron). When the water is oxygenated, the iron comes out of solution and becomes ferric iron. This is the form of iron in your toilet. I would suspect if you filled a bucket with water, the water would be clear. If you left the bucket for a day exposed to the open air, the dissolved iron would come out of solution and the water would turn reddish. And here I thought it was my 1964 house pipes when I saw the reddish flecks in the bottom of my Big Berkey and the reddish water coming out of my tub faucet when it isn't used in a while. |
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Mar 18, 2016 21:29:49 GMT
Toilet tanks have a lot of rust. Literally, there are chunks of rust in them. What has to be done to stop that? Don't want to think about what I'm drinking. I know I'm being naughty here, but I had to laugh when I read your post...are you drinking out of the toilet?   I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know what you meant, but it just struck me funny and I can't seem to help myself....I love a good giggle. I use The Works on the rust build up in my toilet tank - it doesn't get rid of all of it, but keeps it to a semi-acceptable level. I have a lot of rust build up in my pipes from years of running well water through a poorly functioning filter system and having the iron settle out in the pipes. Even though I have a really great whole house filter system now, I still get sporadic rusty water coming through the faucets, especially if I'm turning the water on and off a lot... I think it stirs up the rust when there is turbulence in the pipes. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 3:48:35 GMT
sss3, you inspire me Here I am thinking just keeping the toilet itself clean equates good housekeeping yet here you are going into the toilet tank which I must admit I haven't ever peeked into myself. It's always good to know there is more you can do/clean! Melissa, Flint's story is sad. I don't know how the people living in that city could ever have peace mind or go back to trusting their government one iota.
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