Used one of those Affresh pods today. It’s the second one I’ve used. Not entirely convinced it’s achieving much but it was a nice day to have several gallons of hot water sloshing around in the house.
Last month I noticed just how crud filled the softener dispenser was, and there’s no way to take it apart so I just had to sort of reach into the holes and do what I could, fill it with water and such and just shake it around trying to dislodge everything. Figured I should probably start cleaning the tub as well.
I only have experience with North American style residential toilets, no idea if this works with those high pressure commercial toilets or different ones from around the world, but…most toilets I’ve met, you can flush them by rapidly pouring a bucket of water into them, they’ll flush, and then the bowl won’t be refilled because the cistern mechanism hasn’t gone off. So if you need an empty bowl that’s a quick and easy way to achieve it.