How to Bleach a Toilet

Toilet Bowl

• 1

  Cover both hands with rubber or latex gloves and raise your toilet's lid.

• 2

  Pour a quarter cup of bleach directly into the water inside the toilet bowl. Hold the measuring cup close to the water when pouring to prevent any bleach from splashing. Maintain a safe distance from the interior of the bowl to prevent the inhalation of bleach fumes.

• 3

  Distribute the bleach and water solution throughout the bowl using a toilet brush. Include the underside of the rim and the entrance to the drain hole.

• 4

  Allow the bleach to remain in the water for 10 minutes.

• 5

  Flush the toilet. Scrub the inside of the bowl thoroughly with the toilet bowl brush

Toilet Bowl Rim

• 6

  Combine 1 ounce of bleach with 7 ounces of water in a liquid measuring cup.

• 7

  Set the bleach solution aside long enough to remove the lid covering your toilet tank. Set the lid out of the way.

• 8

  Locate the overflow pipe inside your tank. The pipe stands vertically and contains an opening at the top.

• 9

  Pour the bleach solution into the opening at the top of the overflow pipe.

• 10

  Allow the bleach solution to work for two minutes before flushing the toilet.