{"id":1559,"date":"2018-07-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/pumie-toilet-bo\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T01:02:16","slug":"pumie-toilet-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/pumie-toilet-bo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumie Toilet Bowl Ring Remover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 1927-type porcelain bathtub, and it once looked that old. I tried fruitlessly over the years to remove the dinginess at the bottom with scouring pads and liquid tile cleaners. Then someone gave me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000BPRDCW\/cooltools-20\">pumice scouring stick<\/a> and I was able to restore the tub to good-as-new condition (without marring the finish). It took ten or 15 minutes, and required several rinsings and re-scrubbing of spots I&#8217;d missed, or hadn&#8217;t worked on hard enough. But in the end, it really worked; and annual touch-ups require three to five minutes. I wouldn&#8217;t use these sticks on plastic, though. They&#8217;re so abrasive they&#8217;d scour into anything softer than glass. As such, the sticks are also good for removing paint from concrete and tile, baked-on build-ups from ovens and grills, and rust from garden tools.<\/p>\n<p>I got one recently for $8.50 at True Value. Pumie also makes a less fancy stick without the plastic handle that costs half as much at True Value ($4.50). I recommend spending the extra bucks: the handle makes it less yucky when scouring a toilet bowl ring, and it doesn&#8217;t require you to wear gloves to protect your hands when scouring a tub. These sticks last long enough that it&#8217;s worth spending more for convenience. Mine wore down about 30% while doing my tub the first time, and about another 7% getting out some nasty persistent stains in my toilet bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Heavy-duty stain removal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[235],"tags":[956,701],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31840,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/31840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}