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We have a "gross" toilet and everyone refuses to use it

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LPJax · 28/12/2014 19:40

So how does it end up in such a state??

We have 3 bogs in our house - one downstairs, one en-suite and the main bathroom. The main bathroom was decorated when we first moved in to a "nautical" scene - pastel blue, sea shell canvas, blue stripey bath mats a seagull and fishing boat ornament on the window ledge.

I loved it.

A year later the carpet is stained with god knows what, the bathmats are stained and stink (no matter how often I wash them), the walls are sprayed with piss and the toilet is full of shit stains and just reeks. No matter how often I bleach and scrub it it ALWAYS looks like this within an hour of cleaning.

Now, DP refuses to use the "shit hole room" and so do the kids. So if nobody uses it - how the fuck is it in such a state????? It's ridiculous. The whole rooms stinks like a blokes pub toilet.

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iwasyoungonce · 20/09/2025 23:06

Omg I am silently cry laughing at this, trying not to wake DH who is asleep next to me! Absolutely brilliant!

Allseeingallknowing · 31/08/2025 15:23

Still a popular subject, though!

lotsofpatience · 31/08/2025 15:07

Carpet in a toilet??? Really? That's insane!

Allseeingallknowing · 31/08/2025 15:06

gamerchick · 30/08/2025 21:30

Because you bumped it. Hmm

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Then why doesn’t MN just close old threads?

chocolatemademefat · 31/08/2025 14:11

No carpet and no mats. Decent washable flooring. And a good talking to with everyone regarding bathroom etiquette. For my own peace of mind and whenever possible I’d check after any of them use it so see who the biggest culprits are. Dirty arses - make it clear you’re not there to clean their filth.

gamerchick · 31/08/2025 13:10

BertieBotts · 30/08/2025 22:51

TBF, it could have been bumped by a pee troll and then that poster saw it in active and responded as though it was current. Sometimes MN just quietly remove a troll/perv/spam post rather than leaving a deletion message.

That's true

KimberleyClark · 31/08/2025 09:33

Dontlaugh · 28/12/2014 19:43

Carpets should be outlawed in bathrooms. How can they be cleaned?! They can't.
Likewise bath mats. What are they for?! Germ magnets and bacteria hoarders. Burn them and if you can tile the floor, or put Lino down, then do it.
Tile behind the toilet so it can be wiped.

Bath mats can be washed. Mine go in with the towels on a hot wash. I don’t have a pedestal mat for the loo though.

BogRollBOGOF · 31/08/2025 07:41

Ahh, 2014 when MN replies were liberally scattered with irreverent, light hearted responses amongst the serious. But always priortising hygiene as ever.

I have been known to refocus my DSs and their aim by "confiscating the toilet seat". A week of having to perch on cold ceramic and that lovely big space to get direct hits in to helped them appreciate the benefits of lifting a seat to aim. Or indeed sitting on a seat for those longer jobs.

SparklyGlitterballs · 31/08/2025 07:13

ZOMBIE THREAD ALERT!!!

Its from 2014 and the OP never returned after the initial (probably made up) post.

Foreverondiet · 31/08/2025 07:08

Replace carpet with tiles. Carpets in a bathroom is an error. Walls need to be tiled to waist height behind toilet or will be difficult to clean, again an error. The toilet can be cleaned with the right material. The bath mats you might need to replace.

NuovaPilbeam · 30/08/2025 22:56

Why the fuck have you got carpet in a bathroom

BertieBotts · 30/08/2025 22:51

TBF, it could have been bumped by a pee troll and then that poster saw it in active and responded as though it was current. Sometimes MN just quietly remove a troll/perv/spam post rather than leaving a deletion message.

gamerchick · 30/08/2025 21:30

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 21:16

So why has it reappeared on Mumsnet?

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Because you bumped it. Hmm

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 21:16

SuPollardsPolkaDotFrock · 30/08/2025 21:06

You do know this thread is 11 years old?

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So why has it reappeared on Mumsnet?

Laura95167 · 30/08/2025 21:15

Carpet AND mats in the main bathroom?

Carpet in the bathroom is why it stinks, pull that up and tile it. Get rid of the mats. Then scrub the walls - vinegar and bicarb of soda, or washing up liquid.

Put a brush and bleach in it. So they can clean up after themselves

SuPollardsPolkaDotFrock · 30/08/2025 21:06

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 21:04

How do you know they have not been pissed on?

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You do know this thread is 11 years old?

Allseeingallknowing · 30/08/2025 21:04

Fabulous46 · 28/12/2014 21:39

Is it really only me that has bathroom carpet and a house that doesn't in any way smell of damp piss

No it's not. I have a cream carpet in all of our en suites. None are pished on and none smell.

How do you know they have not been pissed on?

JingleBellSniffer · 31/12/2014 15:29

carpets?? are you serious? tiles, dear. Lino. Anything. and if your boys are pissing and shitting up the walls you need a serious talk with them.
How disgusting. You can't live like that surely?
piss up the walls is a sure sign ofsomething wrong - not toilet trained properly? or just little arseholes who have no respect?
serious words are needed. I'd make THEM scrub it.
you need a whole new bathroom suite.

Stillyummy · 31/12/2014 08:44

Bump

Inthedarkaboutfashion · 29/12/2014 18:51

Or a whole family with faecal incontinence living in the loft.....Grin

Salmotrutta · 29/12/2014 18:49

My money is on the man in the loft... Grin

Inthedarkaboutfashion · 29/12/2014 18:48

Has OP been back?
Maybe she is busy trying to clean and de carpet the bathroom whilst wearing a gas mask....

I hate carpet in bathrooms. It isn't just bad aims that can cause a problem with the carpets but so can the constant wetness from drips after people have exited fom the bath or shower.
The bath mats need to be binned. There is no point trying to save bath mats which you can't get to smell clean, they are not expensive to replace. But there would be no point putting new bath mats onto stinky carpet so the carpet also has to be replaced.
I can't understand how shit stains can keep appearing if nobody is using the toilet. It is either the toilet has permanent stains or there is a man secretly living in the loft and sneaking down daily to shit all over the toilet bowl or the household members are just lying about using it because they can be arsed to clean up after themselves (I'm betting on the last one).
Bleach the loo and tape it up overnight to let the bleach work without anybody being able to use the loo (you have other useable loos).

Bulbasaur · 29/12/2014 18:47

Bigger question, why are you the one cleaning it? Make DH and the boys do it. Their shit, their problem. My parents would just see a messy room and tell me and DB to clean it. They didn't care who did what. That might be a good start to do the same with DH and the boys.

I don't understand how anyone can miss the toilet. I had a brother and our toilets never got in such a state.

Salmotrutta · 29/12/2014 18:45

Where is the OP?

Do we think she may have fallen down the loo whilst trying to scrub out the stains?

Should we alert emergency services? On the non-emergency number of course.

HaloItsMeFell · 29/12/2014 18:39

the bathmats are stained and stink (no matter how often I wash them)

the toilet is full of shit stains and just reeks. No matter how often I bleach and scrub it it ALWAYS looks like this within an hour of cleaning.

Yes but how often do you clean them?