Aside from looking, frankly, disgusting, unchecked limescale can affect the efficiency of your toilet too. If allowed to build up, it can plug the water portholes under the toilet rim and result ...

This smart toilet is armed to the teeth with features such as an integrated jet water bidet, which eliminates the need to ever buy toilet paper again, giving it an ecological and sanitarian edge.

So if you find yourself flushing the toilet multiple times, hoping against hope that you won’t have to break out the gloves and a scrub brush, you need to know: You don’t have to live like this.

Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist for 46 years. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in the Australian ...