We have real problems with iron in our wellwater. We have an iron stain around the top of the water level in the toilet bowls. What works well to get rid of that? Have used Comet and Barkeepers Friend... no luck.

The iron oxide ,(rust) has leached into the porcelain and is under the surface.It can't be scrubbed off. It must be soaked out with bleach or CRL. When my exwife stored some cookie pans in our bathtub, (don't ask), I had to lay down paper towels and soak them with bleach every day for two weeks and still didn't get it all out. I have no idea, short or pulling the bowl and filling it with bleach, how you would remove rust stains from a toilet bowl. Good luck, Tom

Thanks Speedball. We'll try it.

Go to the hardware store. There are special products that remove rust from clothes and carpets. I've used those products successfully. Our water company provides a product called Rover, when they screw up when flushing the mains.

Thanks KS. I'll check out the Rover.

Kiss, This stain isn't in "clothes and carpets", it's become part of the porcelain finish. This isn't a surface stain that will rub right out with a "magic cleaner". You have to soak and pull it out. It took me two weeks with my bathtub. Cheers, Tom

OK, speedball. Your giving me a hard time.

Here is a link: Rover Rust Remover (57961) (http://www.mendingshed.com/rovrusrem.html)

That states:

Fast acting and easy to use on clothes, dishes, glassware, kitchen fixtures, bathroom fixtures, painted surfaces, concrete, water softeners, or just about anything!

Maybe you should have asked AMHD <G>. It's not a CLR type product.

Last time I checked, a toilet is a bathroom fixture.

I'd try that hardware store again and look for a brown plastic bottle of Whink. Whink Rust Stain Remover (http://www.whink.com/rust_stain_remover.htm) This works on precelein as well as fabric, it oxidizes the iron almost instantly.

OK guys! I surrender! I used bleach to pull the rust out of my tub. Guess I should have searched the web for a better solution. My bad! (hanging head) Tom

Thanks for all the advice.