To think about not having a toilet brush?

I keep a squeezy bottle of water (either empty washing up liquid bottle or, more frequently, emtpy ketchup or mayo bottle) by each loo. If evidence is left above the water line, this is used immediately to shift it. I then use, once daily, a very small amount of bleach. I have one loo brush, which is by the toilet that guests use, to give them the option. I check it after guests leave and clean and disinfect if it's been used.

I live alone with no child visitors so no risk to youngsters and I know I never walk away, leaving any residue to set hard so there is never an issue.

My husband was quite embarrassed at first with not having a toilet brush because it meant on occasion I would see the remnants of his toilet trips. And I am sure some guests to our house feel this also. But poop is normal and natural. Give it a bit of a bleach and close the toilet lid, it will be gone with the next flush.

Lol not embarrassed enough to clean up after himself.

I think a lot of people who don't own a loo brush:
a) do not live in hard water areas
b) don't have an older bathroom where the surface under the water in the bowl has become more matte and marks adhere to it that are not removed by flushing or simply leaving bleach in there
c) have not learned how to properly rinse a brush using the flush
d) are too thick to understand that chemicals used with a loo brush kill any bacteria and virus it picks up.

As you were.

We use the cheapest thick bleach and a tiny bit works fine. Nothing else is required, just give it a few mins.

I'd assume if we had a guest and he really needed a toilet brush not knowing we just bleach would be the only downside, but other than that I am never going to get one ever. Also no 'gloves for that purpose' etc. here. Really easy.

Luckily, we all like the smell of a bit of bleach and don't mind it's strong as only need sometimes and only need a tiny bit.

I got one earlier in the year (actually because of mn!), was great until the kids started using it and then just leaving it, covered in poo, in the stand. Thinking of getting the silicone one but aside from that I am now back to being against toilet brushes and I just use bleach and toilet roll!!

I have never had a toilet brush as, I agree, the idea of them disgusts me. I've only ever used bleach. Just put bleach down straight after going and it destroys any 'evidence'.

Why not use a cloth or something rather than putting wipes into landfill every day?

I have a silicone one. It's only used on the toilet with toilet cleaner, not for scrubbing off skid marks so it's not dirty

I know lots of them Hyacinth. Maybe you don't get out much from that stately home... 🙄

I have that one too -
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The only place I have seen them called lavatories is the occasional National Trust place. Maybe people want to suggest they live in a stately home

This is our home bloody bane of our lives! DH hates them. I'm a bit of a diva with grubby toilets ... HATE them!
I bleached and bleached the toilets on our house and it's still it clean --- bloody hate it - so I bought toilet brushes ... u til our then 1 year old came out of our toilet holding aloft said toilet brush like a bloody Excalibur sword 🙀 and DH said .., 'nope!' 😷 ... 🤯🤯🤯
We now have bleach again and I loathe my toilets with ick in them ... 🤬🤬🤬

I have a brush. It's never used on skids, though.

Toilets get flushed until clean. A little bleach poured in after poo.

Every night I pour a little more bleach around the rim of the flushed downstairs toilet and leave it sit for twenty-thirty minutes while I do before-bed stuff. Then I do a quick scrub with the brush and flush while the brush is in the water.

The handle gets wedged under the seat to drip dry overnight, put in the pot dry the next morning.

I do the opposite with the upstairs toilets in the morning.

I'm disabled so upstairs/downstairs only get used either in the day or the night so plenty of time for the brushes to dry.

Although my toilets have always looked sparkling clean after the flushing and I don't live in a hard water area, I like to give a scrub just to make sure I don't get a build-up of mineral deposits or staining from our water supply (we've had what I'm told were red-staining iron leaks in the supply a few times). This staining doesn't get noticed until it dries onto the porcelain and is a bugger to get off later.

Bleach is terrible in septic tanks but when used carefully in small amounts in a mains system is better than other cleaners. It breaks down into salt and water and, importantly for me, doesn't kick off my asthma like toilet cleaners do.

I don't believe my brush is as germy as many people believe their brushes are. Especially if they dive straight into shit. It's bleached, dried and replaced in its pot. I don't use it to wash my back or scrub tea stains from my mugs!

Where do people call them lavatories? No-one says lavatory here (South Yorkshire).

Public toilets always have a sign that says "toilets", so why are people so odd about calling it a toilet?

It's no different from Americans calling them restrooms or bathrooms.

I also think it's necessary for guests to have the option, I'd be mortified to leave a mark in someone's toilet but equally I'm not going to go hunting for bleach and gloves in their cupboards either.

Same, we rinse it in the flush and then bleach it so it doesn't get too grotty. As soon as it starts to look gross we replace it.

Maybe all us bog brush owners should have a sign made for the door.
BEWARE OF BOG BRUSH.

I prefer lavatory to toilet, but find "loo" beyond twee.

I'm dead rough though, and usually call it the bog.

Same here. The limescale builds up really quickly.

I get HG Limescale remover from a plumbing suppliers and give it a blast every 3-4 weeks.

I suspect you might be right about the real world @User2856948, but I have seen too many threads on mumsnet where posters are too snobby delicate to say toilet

We have two. One in each loo. I'm pushing 70 and have had one in every home I have lived in since I was a child (to say nothing of the loos in the workplace). The number of people I have heard of who were infected by any sort of disease caused by having a loo brush in their house and/or workplace is exactly ZERO.

I'm keeping them.

Remember there's nothing in a lavatory bowl that you didn't put in your mouth at some time earlier.

I love this thread.

After my Mum died I helped Dad with practical stuff and realised they didn't have a toilet brush! I bought one but have ever since wondered what in earth Mum used. Her bathroom was always clean!

I say toilet, most people do, I think PP was just being a bit snobby, she mentioned her builders saying it

I think cleaning companies have a lot to answer for. All these disposable products, massive s of chemicals being poured into our waterways, over marketing of “KILLS ALL GERMS” has made people terrified of doing a bit of basic cleaning.

Maybe it's regional? I live in Yorkshire where people call a spade a spade, and a toilet a toilet . I also say loo, and when I am being tongue in cheek I say facilities (a standing family joke).

I really don't know anyone who says lavatory. The only person I knew who called the toilet a lavatory was my dad (working class Londoner), who would now be 114 years old if he were still alive.

If I used the term lavatory in my local I would have the piss taken out of me.

Sorry, you don't know a single person who says toilet? I must move in very different circles to you, or be from a different part of the UK. Pretty much everyone I know would ask "where are the toilets?" in a restaurant /pub /cafe. Nobody would ever ask where the bathroom is. My family all have settees in their lounges. We do tend to have pudding at home, but may well have dessert in a restaurant.