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

134 replies

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.

OP posts:
Blondeshavemorefun · 28/12/2014 21:12

carpets do hold the smell of wee so rip up and lino - im assuming your dc are boys?

someone i know has a pissy toilet/bathroom, has carpet and i try my hardest not to wee in their house as their place makes me feel physically sick Xmas Envy :(

vintagesewingmachine · 28/12/2014 21:07

You have carpet in your bathrooms??Hmm

Fluffyears · 28/12/2014 21:04

We had carpets when we moved in, got rid straight away for nonslip vinyl flooring. It looks so much better and doesn't smell.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 28/12/2014 20:56

When we bought our house there was carpet in the bathroom and downstairs loo. The stench of stale piss when we ripped it out was horrendous

thenightsky · 28/12/2014 20:51

hate sitting down doesn't help. DH and DS's bathroom (I use en-suite) are both sit-downers these days and the seat is stained at the front underneath.

Hatespiders · 28/12/2014 20:46

Why can't males sit down to wee? Is it anatomically impossible?

ArchangelGallic · 28/12/2014 20:43

Do you put the lid down before you flush?

Spray from flushing is actually most likely method of pee going up walls. Someone once brought an ultraviolet light into work to check the toilets. It was illuminating to say the least!

BertieBotts · 28/12/2014 20:39

Oh I need to steal the newspaper thing! I don't know who it is, but I suspect DS, is peeing right off the side of the toilet in the mornings and to make it worse the seal is loose on that side, meaning you can clean it once but the mixture of wee and cleaning fluid seeps under the toilet to leak out again the next day Angry

DS is six so I can't really get him to clean it himself but aaaargh. Drives me insane, I'm always the one who ends up cleaning it.

MinceSpy · 28/12/2014 20:35

Well somebody is urinating on the floor and walls. I like the newspaper idea to prove the issue. Rip up the carpet and either use lino or tiles. Get them to scrub the toilet.

thenightsky · 28/12/2014 20:27

DS and DH always protested that they NEVER sprayed when peeing. I proved they did by taping sheets of newspaper to the walls around the loo and cutting a pedestal shaped sheet of newspaper to find around the loo on the floor.

At the end of just one day all the paper was soaked, the print had run and it had gone all wrinkly from being wet.

Titsalinabumsquash · 28/12/2014 20:25

Carpets in bathrooms are a breeding ground for all sorts of unspeakable things.

If you are even slightly at risk of respiratory or skin disease then you will suffer a lot from damp, festering bathroom carpets.

You need washable mats at the very most if slipperiness is a worry.

flamingoland · 28/12/2014 20:25

this site is so full of contradictions- for a bunch who largely claim to be so liberal and inclusive, the replies on this thread are snobbier than my mum in 5th gear hyacinth bucket mode

bloodyteenagers · 28/12/2014 20:22

Well piss on the wall is the males in the house. Piss everywhere else is anyone.
Carpets and toilets are rank.
You don't need a carpet in the bathroom, you need bath mats.
These stop the floor from getting
Slippy, and unlike carpet can be chucked in the washing machine. Hence more than one is needed.
If funds are short, use the small towels in sets, and use the next size up as the hand one.

AlpacaYourThings · 28/12/2014 20:19

Fuck, that is disgusting.

Hatespiders · 28/12/2014 20:14

I think you have a Shit-and-Poo Ghost. You should post about it on the strange stories thread. Could a local clairvoyant shed some light on the mysterious stink? Perhaps the vicar could exorcise it for you?

softlysoftly · 28/12/2014 20:13

I have carpets I will ALWAYS have carpets in a bathroom (not single loo). Firstly I hate cold wet tile/lino in a bathing place secondly they are bloody dangerous and slippy when wet.

Friend of my sister slipped on wet tile when her 2 kids were in the bath and knocked herself out. By the time she came round the toddler had drowned Sad.

I don't see them as a problem but then none of my family would puss on them / the walls Shock

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 28/12/2014 20:10

Weird. Even for MN.

happybubblebrain · 28/12/2014 20:08

Lock the whole family in there and find somewhere else to live.

gamerchick · 28/12/2014 20:08

I definitely would like to see a picture.

merlehaggard · 28/12/2014 20:08

I think carpet is a big mistake.

VivaLeBeaver · 28/12/2014 20:06

Can't believe that noone has yet asked if you have a toilet brush?

whothehellknows · 28/12/2014 20:06

How many boys do you have? My ex used to be awful for sprayback when he would wee and we had a radiator right next to the toilet. It was minging!

SqueezyCheeseWeasel · 28/12/2014 20:05

Merry Christmas, poo troll

Titsalinabumsquash · 28/12/2014 20:04

Ahh this reminds me of my first flat I was allocated after DS1 was born, I walked into the bathroom to be greeted by an avocado suite, dark brown carpet, not only on the floor but half way up the walls to a dado rail and up the side of the bath (wtf?!)
Above the dado rail was dark orange.
The cleaners hadn't been in yet and I'm pretty sure there was a new Civilisation growing in that toilet

Luckily the HA guy saw the state of it and arranged for the lot to be redone before we moved in, they asked if I had colour preference, I said anything other than what it was will be grand. Confused

Vicks72 · 28/12/2014 20:03

Not 3 bathrooms - one bathroom, toilet room & ensuite shower!