<p>my thought on reading the title of this thread was * we just have one bathroom for three people- one a H who takes 40 min showers ( I think he does Pilates in there) and one an 18 year old girl…* need I say more? Could we borrow it?</p>
<p>I sure hope I have your problem in a few years! My girls make pigs of themselves in their shared bathroom…boys are messier?..I don’t think so. My solution in the Clorox Drop-in tablets. Keeps everything clean and sanitized…odor free too. I would flush once every couple of days since no one is using that particular potty. Should stay clean for quite a while. Keep the lid down to keep it from getting dusty too (and for the pet’s sake of course)!</p>
<p>If the stains are due to iron in the water, try a product called Iron Out. It works really well.</p>
<p>Bag of concrete mix.</p>
<p>Gee, after I posted this I thought it would die out in about 30 minutes…
Yes, the bathroom in question is in the smaller upstairs area and we never go there if kids aren’t home. Perhaps trying to save some $ and setting the thermostat at 87 on the upstairs AC helps the little bit of stuff left after they clean it grow into pinkzilla. I’ll try several of these suggestions, especially the ones involving bleach!
EK, you are welcome to come use our spare at any time.</p>
<p>Bromfield’s post #23 raises the question: What’s creating the pink stains? </p>
<p>I suggest you have your household water supply tested for toxins. You can do this yourself with a home test kit (available at major hardware outlets), or you can hire a pro. Your public water department might provide household water testing, as well.</p>
<p>A little story: About fourteen years ago, my family moved out-of-state to a first-ring suburb of a major Midwestern city. Our quiet residential neighborhood apartment building was of fairly recent construction, so we were surprised to discover that our building’s water supply tasted and smelled terrible. Moreover, standing water left green-grey stains (which–if not promptly wiped away–dried to almost black) on everything it touched, including our dishes and cookware. My daughter’s Other Parent was worried about the water. I had already lived in and visited enough different places to know from experience that each municipal water supply has its own quirks, so I wasn’t concerned. OthPar insisted, “There’s something wrong with this water!” One day, we saw our on-site manager lugging in fifty-pound bags of salt pellets, which the manager said he used to “treat” the building’s water. I told OthPar, “Mystery solved.” OthPar replied, “Salt pellets don’t make drinking water look, smell, and taste like something out of a dirty fishbowl. Besides, it’s not just our building; the water’s bad everywhere in town.” We drank what OthPar called “guppy water” for the next two and a half years. Then, we moved out-of-state again.</p>
<p>Fast forward to the summer of 2003, our first computer, and my family’s first travels around the Internet. One of the first things my daughter (then thirteen years old) wanted to research was all the different places she had lived since she was born. One night, as she was sitting at the computer, she bellowed, “Listen to this!” As she started reading, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing; our “quiet residential” former community contained one of the EPA’s earliest listed Superfund sites, where toxic waste improperly disposed of by a long-defunct industrial plant had contaminated not only the soil surrounding the plant site, but also the soil under the plant site. This carcinogenic chemical soup had invaded the water table, heavily contaminating the community’s municipal aquifers. I learned that at the time we moved to that community, the Superfund designation had already been active for twelve years (as clean-up responsibility issues bounced around the courts). Today, that Superfund site remains on the “Final” National Priorities List, and the EPA currently rates our former community (from which more than four billion gallons of water were “treated, stabilized, or removed” within a year after we moved away) as “OK,” meaning that human exposure to toxins is currently “under control.” </p>
<p>Guppy water. Guppies couldn’t have lived in that water. We drank it. We cooked with it. We bathed in it. We washed our laundry in it. OthPar was right; something was wrong. </p>
<p>So, dragonmom, if you don’t know where those pink stains in your daughter’s unused toilet are coming from, find out.</p>