It does work great - I have also used "the works" with good success - but you need to protect your trailer!! Hydrochloric acid will not be friendly to it. I hose down trailer before and a lot after application because it will continue to drip off the hull onto it. Or put a tarp over the exposed parts of the trailer where you are working
it worked great.. I live on the lake so my boat gets very stained. I made sure to read the ingredients first because many of the cleaners didn't have the acid or it had very little. Kaboom is what I used (purple bottle).... its very strong (wear gloves and hose down your trailer). I also cut it with hydrogen peroxide so that it sprayed better. I'm blown away at how well it worked... I wasted a whole day scrubbing prior to this trick.
Thank you for this tips .. It really worked. I wish that I could show here the before and after pictures... it could not believe. After I rinsed off with fresh water, just waxed and you are good..
I use the Dollar tree stuff. It does work great but you have to wax it after and keep it off galvanized metal...and your pants! It will eat right through them.
Late to the conversation, however, if you use acid or any bleach type solution you must follow with a wash and good wax! Acid takes stains, algae, and buildup along with your wax/protection!
lol You call that bad ! Mine gets 500 times worse but I use about 6 bottles of "the works" from the dollar store. Spray it on.. let if soak. Then I use my pressure washer to rinse off.
what am I doing wrong, tried it , didn't work at all. Maybe mine is just so dirty yellow, we bought it used and who knows how long it has been like this.
What about where the hull is sitting on the trailer bunks? Does that cleanser soak into the carpet and then eat into the Gel Coat that is sitting on the carpet?
was it a boat that sat in the water for a long time. May need to do a second application or use a soft brush and work it in a bit better, or just let it sit longer. I have done some nasty looking hulls, it has always gotten the gunk of. Unless there is some issue with the glass on the hull, it should come off.
I seen a video that used the same toilet bowl cleaner but they also mixed in hydrogen peroxide, anyone try that? I have a used 75hp Merc, it has sat in the water on a pontoon boat then outside on the trailer and the lower unit looks horrible. Think this will be ok on a boat motor ?
Thats funny it shows up on Amazon for 16.99.. That is more than 8 times the cost of the toilet bowl cleaner I used in this video....And what is the active ingredients in Marykate? Well let me save you the trouble of looking it up. ACID...same thing as the toilet bowl cleaner...It may have a higher concentration of acid in it and that may allow it to work faster...but 7 times better nah it does the same freaking thing
Buddy i tried all kinds of house hold cleaners including toilet cleaner and it didnt phase the stain on my boat. I even tried bleach white and nothing! Mary kate was the only thing to clean the stain. Glad you wasted the time to do all the research though!
I worked as a detailer for a marina...you know what we used to clean even the most nasty, 5" long hairy sat in the river all summer long hulls. A diluted acid...Guess what the active ingredient is in all these "Boat Hull" cleaners...you guessed it a diluted acid......Care to guess what the active ingredient in most toilet bowl cleaner is? You stated Marykate was just as cheap..it's not As for the other products not working...yeah bleach wont do a thing. You need acid. If you used toilet bowl cleaner, either you did not use one with acid as the active ingredient or you did not use it correctly. There are hundreds of videos showing that it works. Go to any boating board on FB or forum on the web and ask what people use to clean the brown stain off their hull. 80% of the reply's will be toilet bowl cleaner. The others will be pitching one of the more expensive "hull cleaners" that are acid based cleaners.
You buy a boat that costs thousands of dollars,and then you realize you can't afford a proper product that costs 10-30$ and you use toilet bowl cleaner insted...So why you bought a boat??????
When I buy lunch meat I buy from a local meat shop rather than a supermarket. Yet, I use store brand mustard. Am I wrong? Must/should I slather on at least Grey PoopOn with a snobbish flare? I thought that I get to decide the utils from my dollars? Oh well, I'm still learning.
Yep I bought a boat that cost a lot of money. It costs lots of money to put fuel in it too...Guess what I can put 4 more gallons of fuel in it just because I used toilet bowl cleaner and not some over priced boat cleaner. Just because I can afford to pay more, does it mean I should waste my money on it. SO why you make such a dumb comment...Wanna show some more ignorance?
