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Why do people on mumsnet hate toilet brushes? 🚽

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Chloefairydust · 27/10/2022 02:32

So it has come to my attention that toilet brushes are unpopular among mumsnetters … I own toilet brushes, and always have done. I don’t know how you would clean a toilet without one, I see it as a necessary thing in the house.

Can anyone explain why they are hated so much?? And how else I should be cleaning my toilet? 🤔

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Chloefairydust · 27/10/2022 21:52

Sarahcoggles · 27/10/2022 19:38

I have a toilet brush in each bathroom.
I put toilet cleaner down, leave it for a few minutes, then use the brush to scrub the bowl. Then I flush, keeping the brush under water, and move it around to get rid of any bits of poo. Then if necessary I'll flush again. Toilet brush lives in a container that contains toilet cleaner.

People who use a cloth and gloves - what do you do with the gloves afterwards? I've had to use gloves in the past if the toilet is blocked, and it's a right pain. I have to wash the gloves afterwards, which I do whilst wearing them, in the sink. Then I have to clean the sink and taps thoroughly.

You can use the toilet brush for this too, you don’t need to stick your hand down there.

If someone in your house does a big jobbie and blocks the toilet just break it up with the toilet brush🤷🏼‍♀️

I would never want to put my hand in a toilet bowl🤢

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EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 27/10/2022 21:59

LadyVictoriaSponge · 27/10/2022 19:53

All these grim cloths and gloves that have been town the toilet, where do you rinse the shit stained cloths? I shudder to think of them going in the washing machine, that is just as bad as toilet brushes in the dishwasher, utterly grim and surely you would have to bin the gloves after use, particularly if you have had to scrub stains off the bottom of the pan when your gloved hand has been submerged in the toilet water, I suppose you could put them in a bucket of bleach which, when you think about it, is the same as a toilet brush sat in bleach 🤷🏻‍♀️It really does not sound more hygienic at all, in fact the chance of cross feacal germs transmission must be a lot higher with cloths and gloves flapping around the bathroom and other places, a toilet brush is far more contained.

What do people do with reusable nappies and sanpro? Don't they go in the washer ? Or when your baby shits all the way up its back 3 times a day 😒

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