Yellow Stain On Floor Around Toilet

Tried using baking soda with peroxide but it didn t work.

Yellow stain on floor around toilet.

Vinyl linoleum floors tend to get yellow stains over time for a variety of reasons. If the toilet were leaking the stain would be either gray. My bathroom floor is turning yellow really bad by the toilet and bathtub. It s commercial tile flooring.

I think if may be due to urine feces being on the floor. It was only glued down around the perimeter and around the toilet. 2 a floor mat with a rubber backing. It seems that when urine residues dry on the surface the stain becomes more intense and much harder to remove.

I think using the bleach made it worse. 1 bleach and or a cleanser with bleach. The darker floor 2nd bathroom showed no discoloration. 3 excessive adhesive bleeding through.

A common phenomenon in public toilets. On jan 2 2019. I wouldn t worry about a leaking toilet. A family member struggles with incontinence at times and there is a dark brown stain around the toilet.

These less obvious stains are caused by small amounts of water seeping through the floor material. Is there any way to remove the stain without damaging the tile. While this type of stain can be small and unobtrusive it still requires attention since a slow leak can seriously degrade subflooring and wooden structural supports. It is not linoleum or vinyl.

For example when toilets or urinals don t flush but people still use them. Nowhere is this more problematic than in a toilet which sees a lot of use and holds standing water constantly. The lighter colored floor showed the yellow stain around the perimeter within 2 years of installation. The rest of the floor is fine.

Our basement was insulated and finished so that wasn t the issue in that house. We have vinyl tile in our bathroom. There are dark stains on the linoleum floor in the bathroom on both sides of the toilet. One powerful cleanser is water and bleach another is using rubbing alcohol over the yellow stains until they fade.

If you have a sheet vinyl linoleum floor the yellowing around the base of your toilet could be caused by a few things. Thankfully there are a number of ways to remove stains and prevent some future stains. It s this one area that is the problem. It can also look like a colored stain and appear some distance from the toilet.

Yellow stains appear when the toilet bowl remains a long time exposed to this substance. Also know as limescale mineral deposits and mineral buildup hard water stains are chalky white residue that form around faucets and water nozzles due to an excess of minerals in the water.