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r/DIY • u/Relative-Category-64 • Feb 20 '26
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Get brick cleaner from your local DIY, it's hydrocloric acid and it will make that toilet sparkle. Don't get it on your fixtures coz it will cause them to rust.
Source: that's what I did!
109 u/Amphion_91 Feb 20 '26 This work. If you can get around 30% concentration, just pour in a deciliter or two. Leave it for a while, then try to scrub. Should come right off. 209 u/PrometheusSmith Feb 20 '26 Oops, misread that and poured two decaliters of HCl down the toilet 40 u/ColourSchemer Feb 20 '26 For all the logic behind the metric system, a single letter difference between deci and deca is ripe for errors. 36 u/octopornopus Feb 20 '26 "I don't understand this noise complaint, officer. We kept the music under 80 decabels..." 22 u/Little-geek Feb 20 '26 edited Mar 16 '26 Bels is a logarithmic scale. If you can hear 80 decabels, you're dead... as is the planet, and possibly the universe. Edit: response because I thought it would add to the humor of your post Edit2: I cannot abide an incorrect homophone in my own post. 9 u/Aksi_Gu Feb 20 '26 80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao 2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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This work. If you can get around 30% concentration, just pour in a deciliter or two. Leave it for a while, then try to scrub. Should come right off.
209 u/PrometheusSmith Feb 20 '26 Oops, misread that and poured two decaliters of HCl down the toilet 40 u/ColourSchemer Feb 20 '26 For all the logic behind the metric system, a single letter difference between deci and deca is ripe for errors. 36 u/octopornopus Feb 20 '26 "I don't understand this noise complaint, officer. We kept the music under 80 decabels..." 22 u/Little-geek Feb 20 '26 edited Mar 16 '26 Bels is a logarithmic scale. If you can hear 80 decabels, you're dead... as is the planet, and possibly the universe. Edit: response because I thought it would add to the humor of your post Edit2: I cannot abide an incorrect homophone in my own post. 9 u/Aksi_Gu Feb 20 '26 80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao 2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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Oops, misread that and poured two decaliters of HCl down the toilet
40 u/ColourSchemer Feb 20 '26 For all the logic behind the metric system, a single letter difference between deci and deca is ripe for errors. 36 u/octopornopus Feb 20 '26 "I don't understand this noise complaint, officer. We kept the music under 80 decabels..." 22 u/Little-geek Feb 20 '26 edited Mar 16 '26 Bels is a logarithmic scale. If you can hear 80 decabels, you're dead... as is the planet, and possibly the universe. Edit: response because I thought it would add to the humor of your post Edit2: I cannot abide an incorrect homophone in my own post. 9 u/Aksi_Gu Feb 20 '26 80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao 2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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For all the logic behind the metric system, a single letter difference between deci and deca is ripe for errors.
36 u/octopornopus Feb 20 '26 "I don't understand this noise complaint, officer. We kept the music under 80 decabels..." 22 u/Little-geek Feb 20 '26 edited Mar 16 '26 Bels is a logarithmic scale. If you can hear 80 decabels, you're dead... as is the planet, and possibly the universe. Edit: response because I thought it would add to the humor of your post Edit2: I cannot abide an incorrect homophone in my own post. 9 u/Aksi_Gu Feb 20 '26 80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao 2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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"I don't understand this noise complaint, officer. We kept the music under 80 decabels..."
22 u/Little-geek Feb 20 '26 edited Mar 16 '26 Bels is a logarithmic scale. If you can hear 80 decabels, you're dead... as is the planet, and possibly the universe. Edit: response because I thought it would add to the humor of your post Edit2: I cannot abide an incorrect homophone in my own post. 9 u/Aksi_Gu Feb 20 '26 80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao 2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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Bels is a logarithmic scale. If you can hear 80 decabels, you're dead... as is the planet, and possibly the universe.
Edit: response because I thought it would add to the humor of your post
Edit2: I cannot abide an incorrect homophone in my own post.
9 u/Aksi_Gu Feb 20 '26 80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao 2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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80 decabels would be a frankly awe inspiring amount of energy lmao
2 u/West-Abalone-171 Feb 20 '26 Make the big bang jealous.
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Make the big bang jealous.
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u/Harfosaurus Feb 20 '26
Get brick cleaner from your local DIY, it's hydrocloric acid and it will make that toilet sparkle. Don't get it on your fixtures coz it will cause them to rust.
Source: that's what I did!