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.

Wrapping bog roll around my hand to scrub shit from the ceramic underwater is the way is it? The big roll doesn't dissolve or break up does it? Floating particles of shit don't get on my hands no?

How in the real world is that a hygienic alternative?

We are finally in our new house, renovated but has two toilets which were already here. They are a shallower design to what my partner and I are used to, both of us having lived in a few homes. Four months in we have both had to brush almost every turd, as opposed to very few in our previous place. If they didn't have integral units built onto the wall (those ended up costing us somewhat in terms of labour, etc,) we would have the fucking things replaced. And you expect us to wrap paper on our fucking hands every time? Both of us put paper down first too.

Flush. Silicon bog brush. Swirl. Flush bog and brush. Shake and into holder that has bleach in it...

Fucking bog roll. And where is the poo knife brigade today?

Yep same. Loo brush gets changed once the bristles start to fall out here.

🤣🤣🤣 okay?

The Poo Troll will be rubbing their hands together......... or something.

i have a toilet brush that gets washed with bleach, there’s a novel idea, and keep bleach beside the toilet for stubborn toilet stains.
my lovely cousin was a cleaner and I’m convinced she got her cancer from sticking her hand down toilets to clean them.

Paper down first is what I should have done of course. No way am I putting my hand in to clean.

Of course I apologised profusely to my friend. She then showed me the cleaning cupboard in the utility room including a loo brush and bleach but I still think it’s very strange not to keep it in the bathroom.

Also I think people who claim to have never left a skid mark are lying.

Pretty disgusting to expect guests to sit next to a toilet brush with your family's shit on it!

You're using a toilet brush wrong, if it's got shit all over it when you're done cleaning.

I’ve never been to a house where the toilet brush was hung on display! Usually they’re behind the toilet in a holder with bleach?

Agree. People keep saying this and it’s so weird. Whenever I’ve used the brush I scrub the bowl with it and basically it comes out looking clean (the brush). On the very rare occasion it doesn’t I flush and run it under the flush and move it about and it gets everything off. I never put it back covered in poo!

We use a toilet brush plus Ecover - don't use bleach at all anywhere in the house. Toilet is perfectly clean. Citric acid is brilliant overnight if you have timescale problems. There is an online recipe for making eco toilet cleaner with citric acid and washing up liquid which I intend to try

Thanks, I'll give that a try. The beach does get used fairly liberally in our loos, although I don't use it elsewhere any more. I'm trying to gradually switch everything over to more eco friendly. I've started using washing sheets with white vinegar which seems to leave the clothes lovely and clean.

This . What is wrong with people?

'A healthy poo will not mark' is going to be my response to anyone who mentions skid marks in 2026.

OP, next time use a whisk and a tea towel like Darren in that episode of Extras:

You're not wrong....if you're eating enough fibre (but also not too much, as that can make it too soft!) then you shouldn't really be marking the loo when you go as it should be a fairly well-formed and non-clinging "sausage"....likewise a very meat heavy diet (especially with low fibre intake) often leads to lots of "skid marks" in the bowl, perhaps due to the high amounts of fat and/or protein?

I used to do a cleaning job for a company with a lot of manual workers....you could tell they had diets with too much meat and not enough greens by the fact that the toilets were always in a right state, which we then had to sort out at the end of the day! Yes, with toilet brushes and very strong loo cleaner! We'd soak the brushes in bleach between shifts.

I hold the end of the handle, brush in the bowl, loo seat down then flush it. Spray with antibac and return to holder.

This thread is nuts.

Exactly!

I don't have one. Seen too many manky ones on "Four in a Bed"! 😁

and seen them in people's houses -sitting in a little pool of brown water in their holder. 😬

Your poo is not just "whatever you have eaten that day". It full of bacteria, viruses and potentially parasites.

New fear unlocked - 'poo handlers' touching unwrapped fruit and veg etc in supermarkets.

Also, probably explains why everywhere is covered in dog poo if people think poo is just leftover food that their doggies have eaten

I weep!!!

'Poo handlers' - you make it sound like a hobby! This was in response to a one-off situation in someone else's home. Plus most of us manage to thoroughly wash our hands - I still carry sanitiser to this day myself - just because we might need to deal with an emergency situation doesn't make us all grot gross! Not sure what the dog poo analogy has remotely got to do with this, but I don't have a dog so... weep away!

How about 'poo botherer' ?

That actually made laugh, ridiculous it is!

Silicon brushes don’t have poo on them, they are brilliant. It doesn’t stick. The traditional sort are horrid I agree.

@DerbeeI know right, I'm horrified. What makes it worse is a large proportion of the population don't know how to wash their hands properly either 🤮🤮