Someone Please Answer This "Bathroom" Question?

Question

The bottom of my toilet basin has hard water stains, and I want to clean it, without battling the water in the toilet at the same time.

How do you make all the water empty from a toilet basin?

What do I have to disconnect or do?

Answer 1

No need to disconnect anything.  Just use a plunger to 'slosh'  the water out.  

A toilet basin holds water in a "trap", which is just a curved pipe that goes out of the bottom of the bowl, then goes UP, then down to the sewer pipe.  Water is held in by gravity - it can't flow UP the pipe.  When you flush the toilet, you add a LOT of water in a hurry, which pushes the water in the pipe up and over the bend, where it starts falling down toward the sewer pipe.  This creates a siphon action, pulling MOST of the water out of the bowl, along with, uh, OTHER stuff.

So, just slosh the water out the pipe with a plunger or something, and if you want it DRY, mop up the rest with a paper towel.

Once you are done cleaning, just flush.  You don't want to leave the toilet bowl dry for too long (more than a few hours, if that!).  The sewer gasses can come into your house if there's no water in the trap.  Eeeewww!  (And, sometimes, dangerous.)

Answer 2

There should be a water shut off valve behind or beside the toilet.  Turn it off and flush the toilet.  That will empty the tank.

You can try to plunge the water out of the bowl or use a and pump used by plumbers or lawn irrigation guys to pump out the rest or dip it out.

The only other way, I don't recommend, is to remove the toilet and pour it out.

Answer 3

You can get most of it out by shutting off the flow of water at the line that comes up through the floor and goes to the tank, then flush the toilet.   The majority of the water will siphon out, and  be sure to hold the handle down after you flush, that way as much water as possible comes out of the tank and doesn't try to refill the bowl.   Then take a paper cup, cut it off half way and dip most of the rest of the water out and into a pan.  Any remaining water can be soaked up with a towel.   Or you can just shut off the water and get a shop vac and suck the water out of the bowl.

Answer 4

Turn of the water at the wall valve below the toilet . Flush the toilet. Take a large towel or sponge, and soak the water from the bowl until empty. After cleaning, just turn the water back on, wait for it to fill, and flush any chemicals, or cleaners out.

Answer 5

the easiest way i know of to get the water out of the basin is---get an empty dish detergent bottle, the kind with the small snap cap, put the open cap in the basin, squeeze as much air as possible out of the bottle, now stop squeezing and the bottle will act as a small water vacuum, sucking water into the bottle, empty the water into a sink or bucket.  continue till all the water is out of the basin.  because the tank is still full with water no water will come into the basin till you flush the toilet again.   the basin fills up with water when you flush the toilet because there is a small house that goes into the overflow pipe in the tank, when the tank is full all the water shuts off including the overflow water.

you can also use an empty ketchup bottle that has a small opening at the end.

have done this many times myself.

good luck to ya.

Answer 6

take a cup and bail/drain it down then take a cloth and soak up the rest ,till dry as you want,you don't have to disconnect anything,that water is caught in a trap similar to the one under your sink,when you drain it it will be gone till you flush.......tom

Answer 7

water shut off is behine the toilet close it then flush till it is empty -now do your cleaning

Answer 8

Pour a large bucket of water into it--that will force nearly all of it out.

Use a product called "The Works"--it's great on lime and rust.

Answer 9

Just add rust and calcium remover to the tank and bowl and let it do the cleaning.