FGS!!! Come and tell DH that toilet brushes are DISGUSTING

[thebrownstuff]

I know that we've had this toilet brush conversation numerous times....but, Please come and let DH know that I am not being unreasonable to have put our toilet brush in the outside shed.

The sight of toilet brushes makes me feel sick. I bought those clip on flushable toilet brush thingys which I think is the more hygenic and pleasant approach to getting rid of the shit as it were DH claims that everyone he knows owns/uses toilet brushes

Namechanged for this as I don't want DH (yes you) to know my regular name. Go easy on him as the argument has come up while he's making himself useful cleaning the bathroom, so it's not all craziness from him.

I've got a revolving toilet roll holder. So you don't have to look at it. It disappears into the wall like magic! I'm not even making this up.

Stop putting disposable cleaning tools down the loo. You will be meeting them again when picking them out of your sandcastles in St Ives on your holliers. Ditto vast amounts of bleach, which is just about the most damaging thing you can introduce to the water system.
Honestly, between the numpties that need additional plastic tools to enter their own bathrooms in case the germs attack them with spikes and that kid who needs to do a poo at Paul's because Paul's Mummy uses air fresheners, I am worried for us all .

I normally use a bit of bleach with the toilet brush, but will now have a go with white vinegar.

And we are pretty immune to most germs here, because I insisted that I wasn't going to antibac everything in sight! We are clean (sparkling, even) and tidy, and very little ever in the way of tummy bugs, etc.

There is no way I would waste money on a disposable toilet brush, that according to some of you isn't even up to the job anyway! Of course, the manufacturers aren't really out to make vast profits from those of you who buy these? Surely not!

(And the same goes to the soap dispenser you don't touch, what a stupid gadget. After all, your hands are minging anyway if you need to wash them, but after you've used the soap and washed your hands, they are clean in any case.)

"skiddies underwater".

Oh yes, I knew the brush was used for something

"quite disconcerting when you see one covered in decayed poo. With orangey tinge. And limescale. And a pubic hair intertwined within"

Oh my god.

Right so have just visited a friend who has no toilet brush.

DS did a poo . I have to use loo paper to clean it off and this required scrubbing around inside the bowl.

The loo didnt look to clean TBH- not filthy but would rather not have had to put my hand in there and beneath the water.

I poured some bleach in first and flushed before I scrubbed with paper.

What a faff- wouldn't a loo brush have been helpful?

We have a toilet brush and I use it to clean the toilet, don't have a problem with them at all.

I bleach the brush and holder in boiling water regularly - I wouldn't say this makes it clean enough to lick but it's clean enough to stand at the side of the loo and be used to clean the odd skiddy off and clean the loo with my enviro friendly loo cleaner.

Wow, I can't believe how many of you are sucked in by the silly disposable toilet brush things. An incredible waste of resources, money and everything.

Plus, I'd rather have a bleached (but possibly harbouring as many as three germs) toilet brush sitting in its container (you know, the thing that stops the poo escaping and running all over your bathroom) than come face to face with a semi-degraded shit covered flushable toilet brush on the beach with 2 year old DS. Now that's vomit inducing.

Am also intrigued by those of you with no toilet brush and no manky disposable thing. DS's poos just don't go without scrubbing! Do your children do more civilised little poos than mine?

Pathetic!

We have a toilet brush which I pay very little attention to beyond holding it in the flush after use. Every now and again I throw some bleach at it.

DD's (15 months) fave pasttime is, while I am helpless in the bath (a.k.a. can't be bothered to get out), to take the brush and start cleaning the loo with it.

DD has never ever been ill. Last time I was ill was about 2005. DH had a slight cold a couple of years back.

Really, if you hold it in the flush it is pretty clean! And wash your hands after.

You are touching MUCH more grime every time you get on the tube etc. You are holding that handle just where, 10 mins ago, a guy got off who didn't wipe his bum very carefully and didn't wash his hands after either! Live with it.

I would rather die than be a corporate bunny and buy one of those silly disposable things.

bump: "We have a toilet brush which I pay very little attention to beyond holding it in the flush after use. Every now and again I throw some bleach at it."

That's me too. Bet my dh does not even think of it.

I thank my lucky stars I can sit next to a loo brush without its toxic waves of germs affecting me either physically or mentally. And I seem to be raising children similarly unaffected by loo brushes or germs in general.

Thank god for mental health.

Indeed - I don't think I have ever devoted so much thought to a loo brush till today!

Those of you who use the disposable efforts, what are your children/guests supposed to do if they leave marks? (See hippo's post).

I have a toilet brush so that everyone can clean their own skid marks off the loo, at the time they are created.

If I used those disposable thingies, I'd have to clean everyone else's skid marks off. And the marks would have to sit there until I got round to cleaning time. Now that really would be grim.

Just a thought but have you ever been to view a house (council or private rent or even to buy) where the owners have given no thought at all to lavatory cleaning?

Brown scum all over the entire bowl. Some people do live like that and have never thought to clean the thing, accepting instead that the ceramics will eventually look like the loos in grim pubs.

They put fag ends down them too. I know. In the bathroom of my house there are burn marks on the edge of the bath! I smoke but I'm able to manage a bloody bath without a cigarette FFS!

Perhaps we should embrace any and all forms of lavatory cleaning? And all get along

As an aside, I always make sure that the lavatories are free of skids before my cleaner arrives as well as other general tidying.

The other day she went in the downstairs loo and left a skid worthy of DH before he was trained so I cleaned it off

"Am also intrigued by those of you with no toilet brush and no manky disposable thing. DS's poos just don't go without scrubbing! Do your children do more civilised little poos than mine?"

Since moving to this house, I've had all 3 bathrooms refurbished, basically because the old ones were naff as and some with other problems like leaking shower etc so needed a spruce up. And one thing I have learned in the process is that all toilet bowls/pans are not equal.

The one in my ensuite is absolutely ABOMINABLY shaped for catching skids - it curves in all the wrong places, or something, I have no idea but you are lucky if any poo actually ends up being flushed. Well not quite but you get my drift.

So anyone who is smugly proclaiming that bleach is all you need, it may well be the case depending on your water line/height, shape of pan, etc. But I can honestly state that without a loo brush or similar tool, my loo would NOT be clean.

And no, I dont wish to stick my hand down there each time, even with gloves.

To those who do stick their hands down there with rubbber gloves on, do you bleach the gloves? If not, they are less clean than my loo brush.

If you throw them out each time, shame on you. Seriously.

Sloany - so if one was to be in the process of re-doing their bathroom - which toilet do you feel would give maximum...umm....poo drop & flush and least skid creating??

Squeeze some bleach on brush the stick it under the main force of the flush in the (clean) loo - one clean brush.
I agree that the idea of them is a bit grim, but the expense and landfill aspect of the disposable ones is pretty mind boggling and possibly not a lot more hygienic.

ChippingIn and Sloany - apparently in some nations they actually prefer loos that are shaped so that the poo lands on a little platform rather than going into the water.

I gather this is so they can inspect it and gauge their digestive health accordingly

I'm not a fan of the toilet brush. They ming. I use the disposable toilet brush tool but instead of using the wee things that you buy to go in it, I just stick a bit of toilet roll in it and wipe away til my hearts content. Simple.

We have one of those!

have no-one else's kids tried to clean their teeth with them or brush their hair with them? mine have... they are both still alive and thriving.

Making a mess - mine have - it was at that point that the toilet brush ban was introduced here

Chipping - none of mine are skidproof but the ensuite one is an Armitage Shanks of some kind but there are that many different ones god knows which one it is.

My 2nd bathroom is the best one, its by Bristan but once again I'm not sure of the model...

Hey when I was in Milan they had loos where your turd would land on a flat bit, not suspended in water, then be swept away by a fairly strong stream of water coming from in front of it. It was pretty effective. Not sure if it was totally skid free but it would have been very easy to remove any residue with a wad of toilet paper and reflush as nothing under the water line or too far away. If I had one of those, I wouldn't need to own a loo brush.

dh has his arse hole in the middle of his back so sprays!i make him clean it with a bog brush,god knows how else?