To think about not having a toilet brush?

Don't be silly. There's no "faux politeness" here. Far from it, in fact. "Toilet" is on a par with "lounge", "settee" (or, worse, "couch"), "bubbly", and "dessert". There are plenty more where those came from. People who are being "faux polite" tend to use euphemisms - "passed away" (or "passed", which is beyond awful) instead of "died".

I don't know a single person who says "toilet", other than my builders.

Call a spade a spade and a loo brush a loo brush.

Same here. So much easier. So much more hygienic than having a toilet brush, and safer around toddlers as long as you keep the pads out of reach.

I've always had toilet brushes, I'll always have toilet brushes.
Only on here is such an innocuous object met with such hand wringing horror.

I have never had one in my house.
Utterly vile, unhygienic filth spreaders 🤮.
There are 4 toilets in my house and they get cleaned every single day and the wipes binned.

I have a silicone one, when cleaning the toilet I bleach, let sit, clean with brush, flush and rinse off the brush with the clean water from the flush.

Every now and again I will sit the toilet brushes in bleach so they are also properly clean. It's fine, I don't use the brush for anything else, I doubt it's much dirtier than the toilet and it doesn't leap at me so all is well.

Bleach after any poo and bleach toilet overnight. My loo is 15 years old and looks brand new.

Bleach literally dissolves it.

I use the disposable toilet duck thingys. Much better than a brush.

I don't like them and think they're 'dirty traps' - I wouldn't have one in my toilets.

I have a Joseph Joseph silicone one with a holder for the bleach bottle

Havnt had one for years. Rubber gloves and a good scrub once a week does the job. I do have toilet with high waterlevel so poop tend to go straight into water rather than newer toilets that have low water level

I can't get over how germ phobic and fastidious some mumsnetters are. A silicon toilet brush cleans brilliantly and is easy to clean after use.

What's the issue?

I think they're disgusting too, I use the duck handle that uses disposable brush heads.

Seriously?
Absolutely everyone I know calls them toilets. I don't understand this faux politeness about not calling a toilet a toilet. Is your name Hyacinth?

Believe me, a waiter would expect you to just ask where the toilets were.

No toilet brush here. Just bleach.

For stubborn poo stained limescale marks use one of these overnight. They are amazing and no touching required

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I don't understand this.

Your toilet brush sits next to the toilet. It's only used to scrub off skid marks or unplug the loo.

What's the problem?
It's not like you're going to use it to brush your teeth as well?
It just sits there, so why is it an issue? Does it give off some kind of toxic gas that ends up sublimating on your cutlery or something?

I use flat head paddle type and the round head silicone brushes, they're really easy to keep clean.

If I understand correctly skid marks are smears of actual poo on the toilet bowl? In that case, genuine question, how does just pouring bleach into the toilet get rid of them? Does it somehow lift the poo off the porcelain? Or react with it somehow to remove it? I don't understand how you get rid of poo which is stuck to the porcelain without scribbling in some way. Or do you pour it down then keep flushing until the force of the water eventually washes it off?

I do have a silicone toilet brush, but very rarely have poo marks so it's generally used with ecover toilet cleaner to clean under the rim, to stave off limescale and to keep the porcelain shiny and sanitised.

Before my partner moved in I only needed to use bleach after every poo but now he's here I have to have a toilet brush and I hate it.

@IDoughnutKnow I’ve never called it a loo and I just don’t want to ask “where is the toilet” to a waiter

I have these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolutionary-Silicone-Cleaner-Bathroom-Scratches/dp/B08HGRY8F4/ref=asc_df_B08HGRY8F4/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=463019260491&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4741261216995043074&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046339&hvtargid=pla-953546549035&psc=1&mcid=fd4244101fbe32e49101f4236d4d0592

They clean the loo and are easy to clean - not at all unhygienic.

But ... why? A bathroom is the place where you have a bath. A public loo is a public loo.

You know how there is only one voice of restraint and reason allowed in a MN toilet brush thread? I have chosen yours.Congratulations.

I’ve got a toilet brush. If debris is present, then it gets flushed before the brush goes in, the brush gets rinsed before going back in the pot, which has a lid so no one gets to see it unless they need the brush. It’s got to be better than all the disposable crap or using loads of bleach each time there’s a mark.

If I’m in public I call it the bathroom

@Purplebunnie yes that would work