I used some toilet bowl cleaner on my toilet seats that I obviously shouldn't have and as a result the finish on them is peeling. The MDF toilet seats are apparently some kind of molded plastic and the finish must be an epoxy of some sort. It's pretty thick and feels something like thin paper when it peels off.
Does any one have a clue about how to peel off the rest of the stuff and what to use to refinish them? Being a diligent sort I naturally got both seat and lid on both toilets before I discovered what I had done. How's this for a tough question for the refinishers amongst us? I can tell you it's a pain in the *** to me.
If you do a search on toilet bowl cleaner ingredients, at least 10 percent of the solution is hydrochloric acid, and they note the rest as "inert ingredients - whatever that means.
I don't know what long term effect that would have on your toilet seat- whet(if the pealing is any indication) the stuff was able to be fully rinsed off the plastic or whether it will continue to affect it.
Might I suggest just buying a new MDF toilet seat? I'm not sure if the cost of that would be worth trying to refinish it.
On the funny side, I remember reading a rather funny poem about "Momma" not being able to use the toilet seat because the paint never dried. Wish I could remember it, as it was quite funny... and perhaps appropriate for the situation at hand.
