How often do you clean your bathroom?

[DucklingDaisy]

I know The Organised Mum Method says everyday and I just want to know if that’s genuinely the norm. I manage more like twice a week…

Every day, my immune system is shot to pieces, so have been advised to. Same for the kitchen.

Good thing I get up early.

I’m glad I’m not some disgusting outlier not doing it daily! I’m a SAHM with a baby, 3-year-old and a husband who works from home half the week, so I think it probably gets muckier faster than people who do it more.

I do run a loo brush round or get my hand and some water and rub the sink basin if I notice mess.

Once every two weeks when the cleaners come. If I had time to clean I wouldn't need to pay!

I do run a loo brush round or get my hand and some water and rub the sink basin if I notice mess.

😮 you mentioned a loo brush!!!

🍿 👀

I only clean mine when someone is coming round and will see it. So maybe once a month, maybe less? I give it a quick rub when I do the weekend whizz round the house but that isn’t a proper clean.

You have very young children, why would you be doing it daily 🤣🤣🤣
I do have a stack of cloths in the bathroom so it’s easy to clean the sink and taps with just water.

I do a deep clean of the bathroom once a week but wipe it down daily with just water like the sink etc.

I know this is a mumsnet thing, but what do people who object to them actually clean their toilet with? Fwiw I don’t have a normal one that just sits there in a little pot because I do find that tends to get gross.

I’ve got a (not that effective…) silicone one for people to use if they need it right after going, and a couple of long handle brushes that I treat as normal cleaning implements, clean after use and keep in cupboard under the stairs.

I think keeping things in a convenient place would help me a lot, actually. My house isn’t surface level chaotic, the floors are clear except when kids have got toys out and things are in cupboards etc, but the cupboards could be far more rationally organised.

I’ve moved house three times recently:

• once with a 2 week old
• once, internationally, with a 14-month-old
• once pregnant with an almost 2-year-old

which hasn’t helped. I feel like I need a week with no kids to get fully organised but that isn’t happening for years.

I know this is a mumsnet thing, but what do people who object to them actually clean their toilet with?

I guess toilet paper and wipe off the "cling ons".

Every day. The boys in my house seem to find it impossible to aim when they piss. The bath is always black from muddy kids after each bath.

I'm not obsessed with cleaning, just have seemingly feral children!

We keep the loo clean as we go along. I clean the basin properly about once a week, and the floor every two - three weeks probably (should be more). Other bits as I notice them. I don't think I've ever done what you'd call a deep clean in one go.

I've certainly never removed the loo seat and soaked it in bleach in the bath and I've never heard of anyone doing that before.

I defend your right to do it, but I wonder if you know what you’re achieving and why?

I used to do a few things because my nanna used to do them (she half raised me), but when I questioned it’s logic, decided it wasn’t needed in the modern world.

I deep clean the toilet on Mondays ( remove the seat and soak in the bath with a bit of bleach)

OK, you’ve got me there. WTAF?

Unless someone has dysentery , Ebola, salmonella, cholera, or something equally hideous, a thorough hand wash after putting your arse on a loo seat is surely to god enough?

See I think this depends on how hard your water is. I live in a hard water area and my bath and sink look grubby pretty quickly.

That said, I do a proper clean once a week but clean the toilets twice a week. The sink gets a wipe down with a cloth every day because my children are like hippos and splash everywhere.

Forgot to add - every day?! That is the one part of TOMM I could never get my head around. Everything else is logical. But not that.

Dirty, no thanks. Pubes, no thanks. Skid marks, no thanks. But, none of these require bleaching the environment daily.

Soap will deal with virus’ and germs. I wouldn’t use a cloth on a toilet then anywhere else, but beyond that it’s not a special case.

Corona virus hygiene should have taught us a bit surely. Wash your hands is the best thing you can do for germ control.

Thank you @LoveBluey. I was starting to feel like the odd one out. You are my sort of people! 😁

Full clean on Friday's and Monday's and then Tues - Thurs clean sink and toilet. Sunday is a day of rest 😬 (or at least from cleaning the bathroom).

Yep germs I suppose. Bleach does what it says on the tin, as the phase goes. You do realise that what goes down the sewers goes into a chlorination process? It all gets bleached sooner or later.

As for soap; I'm intrigued how you the loo with soap?

Once an hour

except if you look at the figures for effluence being put into our rivers and the sea, it's not getting treated. You're putting bleach into rivers and killing marine life - not by your own hand, but nonetheless this is a real issue.

The germs 'in' the toilet are never going to touch you. A soapy cloth around the outside of the bowl, the seat and the top areas is more than adequate. You're not sloshing bleach at the contact points, you're simply tipping it on the surface that no one touches.

I remain to be convinced. It SMELLS clean, but it's not really adding much.

As I say, I'm happy to be proven wrong - I could well have missed something, but so far I'm not sure it's a great move.

Thank you for discussing this though

Is shower spray worth it? I always assumed it was a bit of a gimmick...

Yeah emptying raw sewage into the sea ain't great, but that's perhaps to do with town planning not making housing developers contribute infrastructure money for water processing plants to facilitate the increase in capacity of sewage from new housing estates.

I don't understand why you'd go to the effort to clean the loo seat, outside of the loo but not the loo bowl though. Yeah those germs down my loo bowl are not touching me but it would bug me as a half finished job.

I'm not massive on cleaning but for me the loo is a top tier cleaning level along with the bathroom basin, kitchen sink, and kitchen work surfaces. Everything else can be put off.

Oh I love my daily shower spray. I find it keeps the shower screen clear of water marks Inbetween proper cleaning of the shower, which I find a pain to clean, so I find keeping on top of it with a bit here and there calls off the big clean longer. Spraying down the shower screens with shower spray after my morning shower is just a thing of habit now.