If you don’t have a toilet brush…

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…what would you want guests to do with ‘below the line’ skid marks?

Had overnight stay this weekend with some friends and I felt terrible leaving a mess but there was nothing available. No cleaning products or toilet brush in bathroom.

A wad of tissue paper using my hand then a thorough hand wash. It’s shit, not toxic waste.

Flush the loo. Grab some loo roll. Reach down loo and wipe marks off. Flush loo again. Wash hands. Really quite easy.

Mumsnetters don't poo, and if they do never in other people's houses.

If it was my 'residue' I'd flush, wrap hand in loo roll, scrub, flush again and thoroughly wash my hands.

It'd require a gun to my head before I'd do that for anyone else's though.

Oh dear, I would feel awful if I were to have left any motion marks. Your poor friend

As others have said, you should have used toilet paper

If you did not want to use toilet paper surely you could have removed a sock or stocking, placed it over your entire hand and disposed of it discreetly in bin or taken it home?

What happened to logic in this country. Absolutely horrible.

I take no chances in this situation… I put a wad of big roll in the loo first to catch the poo before it hits the bowl. But if there are any skids, I just clean it using another wad of toilet paper. I don’t expect anyone to clean up after me!!!

We don't have a toilet brush at home (disgusting things!). As everyone else has said - wipe with toilet paper right away and wash your hands.

Pretty disgusting to leave shit for someone else to clean up.

Yeah that. Obviously flush first. It’s just water and toilet paper unless you do it wrong and accidentally touch the poo.

This-^
are you sure there is no spray or similar hidden somewhere?

I wouldn't be taking my socks off to clean somebody's loo if they didn't have a brush. Have to hope they have the required wads of toilet paper and it doesn't block the loo.

This made me giggle. Makes me think of the ridiculous-sounding idea that the Queen must have occasionally farted or burped.

What parallel universe have I stumbled into? Who puts their hands under the waterline? I would be saying "Friend, do you have a toilet brush I could use?"

I would not want to put my hand into a toilet bowl incase there was a residue of cleaning products or bleach that would irritate my hand, no thanks. I think it’s very odd not to have a toilet brush and cleaning products by the toilet. If you replace them regularly they aren’t any less clean than the toilet itself. It was only when I came to Mumsnet I realised people are so anti toilet brushes!

I’m with you! Who would want to put their hand down the loo… 🤢

Bleach does the job, but if they had nothing available then that’s their issue!

You’ve got to be kidding me that it’s deemed normal (and clearly from above posters it’s the obvious answer to OP’s predicament) to be using your hand to wipe excrement from a toilet bowl below the water line?! How absolutely vile!

And how do you think her friend had to go about cleaning up her mess?

Your own excrement. Not random excrement. Not stranger excrement. Not toxic waste excrement. The remnants of whatever you have eaten that day.

Flush once to get the majority off, then toilet paper wad with your hand.

Then wash your actual hand - strangely enough that gets the hand clean!

@ShakyBake I would hazard a guess with hidden (heaven forbid guests suspect toilets are fouled and then cleaned properly!) gloves and bleach at least. Or is it the done thing for people to just use toilet paper and their bare hands to remove poo in water?

It would be less strange if it was on a dry surface but fancy plunging your hands into water wrapped in tissue paper. Those that think this is normal, is your paper made of Teflon? How is it not disintegrating, and leaving you with only your nails to chip away at the skids?! 😂😂😂

Utterly bizarre!

So many people on mumsnet say toilet brushes are disgusting. But are these people then actually sticking their hand into toilets and wiping the bowl (below waterline!) with their hands? Because that’s absolutely foul.

You've just wiped the same excrement (what a great word) off your own derrière with only a few layers of paper. I don't understand why wiping the same excrement from a flushed toilet with a few layers of paper is any different. Leaving it there is, literally, expecting someone else to clean up your shit.

No I'm sorry Ziggedy, but no - I do not agree with you IF it's your OWN poo. You have already been in close contact with your own poo. What is not fair is getting an unconnected/unrelated person to clean it.

Secondly, making sure you have enough fibre in your diet so as to not leave motion marks is something we should all be aiming for. A healthy poo will not mark.

Jug of hot water after flushing once/twice or toilet roll

What a vile bunch you are.

Yep. I agree.