DP wants to buy...

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...toilet brushes I loathe them, they're vile germ-infested sticks of evil, but he says "we need them". Only because you pebble dash the toilet, pal! I cannot hold my head high on Mumsnet if I have these monstrosities in the house. Apparently "they're gross", is not a reason not to buy them - how do I convince him not to??
Disclaimer - I clean our toilets very regularly, so it's not like they're actually left dirty for more than 24 hours!

Whoever cleans the toilet most should get to decide.

What do you clean them with? I use a bog brush and then swill it in the flush. It only gets used for the toilet, it's not like I then use it to wipe the sides down. If he uses them, let him buy them.

They are gross. Dd2 has poo issues. Nothing better than a kettle of boiling water and not an atom leaves the pan!!!

@Crinkle77 that would be me, but apparently I'm wrong. I bleach the damn things, somehow I manage not to make a mess of them in the first place though!

I have one that's in a long holder not just a little tub. Its never actually covered in poop or has poop on it. As PP said I use them swirl it in the water as I flush and pour bit of bleach on as I go. I also spray it's holder inside with dettol..

I can imagine our two year old using it as a light sabre though, he has his father's sense of humour

I have one in a long ceramic holder. Each week it is filled with boiling water then bleach to steep.

I don't see the big issue. Why are they so gross? My toilet brush had never touched poop. I use it to give it a good scrub after bleaching and change the head regularly.

How messy do peoples toilets get that they need to clean it with a loo brush? I have never owned one, have 2 grown up sons and they have never left any marks after themselves in the toilet. I use bleach regularly ..

how the fuck do you get the shit off the sides of the toilet without a toilet brush?

Bleach is my friend in clearing skids from the bottom of the pan

DP is also bog brush adverse. We have a Toilet Duck flushable pad type instead and I hate to admit it's actually really good

We never get marks on the toilet, or I assume people clean up after themselves. Maybe we just aim right.

lol, well good for you that you do the right sort of shit

I guess it depends on your bowel. DH regularly leaves horrendous skids. We don't use bleach for environmental reasons so the only option is a brush. Loo cleaner doesn't shift it and there's a risk of boiling water breaking the toilet, plus it doesn't clean it. Not sure how else you'd get the skids off!

Only on mn would you be told you shit wrong

cleaning up after yourselves is the entire point of a loo brush

DS1 is 13, a lovely age, but his shits are the size of cows and, frankly, how he's meant to aim one of those gargantuan boulders into the lav without hitting the sides is beyond me. I'm weird about loo brushes and in a perfect world I wouldn't have them. But in a perfect world my 13 year old wouldn't do shites the size of Hawaii, either, so I'm sticking to them.