DH insists he wants a new toilet brush. I think they are eughhhhh!

[JintyMcGinty]

AIBU in refusing to buy one of those toilet brush things that sit next to your loo? DH says we absolutely need one and thinks they are for forcing poos down the loo that refuse to flush (very important, apparently ) and for "cleaning" the loo.

I think they are really unhygenic [vomit emoticon]. If you use them, poo clings to them and no one ever washes them afterwards and so they smell. And guess who will have to bleach/clean the horrible thing? What's wrong with DH simply cleaning the loo more regularly? Does anyone else use them? Are they necessary? Is it just me who gets the heebie jeebies thinking about them?

I have just read my last post back to myself and laughed - who knew I had such firm opinions about shitty brushes

PMSL at tatty.

Tescos's loo brush is less than 50p iirc - I just change often!

I've got a lovely posh one - it's in an enclosed ceramic pot with a stainless steel lid. The brush bit can be replaced and new ones are cheap and widely available. I keep a bleach/water mix in the bottom of the pot and it sits in that so it doesn't make a dirty puddle, it doesn't smell and the only time I see it is when I clean the toilet. I don't push floaters down with it and it's rinsed in the flush water after each use.

I never knew any other method existed until I joined MN

In the rare event of a non-flusher, I get a stick from the garden to break it up. The stick is then wrapped in newspaper or a carrier bag and put in the outside bin.

PMSL at tatty

If your loo has a "P Trap" like ours, instead of a "U Bend" the poo sometimes does not go away as it has to climb uphill. Toilet brushes sre handy in this case, or a shotgun. I'll always clean it with bleachy water and rinse well as the boys quite fancy having sword fights with them.

whats the problem - here the loo brush is washed and cleaned in the flushing bleachy water before it goes back in the pot, with a squirt of bleach on it, and it's used ONLY for that job, nothing else

PMSL at shotgun

am imagining you blasting the poo and it covering the entire room! ew!

did you mean shotgun for the poo or the person who does it?

I find loo brushes gross. For poos that don't want to flush the problem is generally sorted by more water to force it down, so pour a bucket of water down at the same time as flushing. For marks above the water line - a disposable wipe, and ecover toilet bleach for below the line. I also have a sad habit of lining the bowl with paper before I go.

ashamedandconfused If DH is the culprit he could get both barrells if I'm faced with it, but if it's one of the DS's I just marvel that anything that huge comes from such a tiny body. Almost worth sticking a little flag in the top and taking a picture..

PMSL at Tatty - I never realised so much thought went into bog cleaning!

Trolly I'm always slightly amazed at the Megapoos that DD3 can produce - she's a dinky little 4 year old yet creates turds the size of a baby's arm. I'm inordinately proud of them and call DH to admire their form and marvel at such wonder.

I think toilet brushes are DISGUSTING. I use bleach for any marks. Never had the situation where poo would need to be forced away but have heard that tipping a basin of water down toilet at the same time as flushing would do the job.

Surely bleach just takes the colour out of the skidmark - ergo there's still a poo-mark there; just a very CLEAN poo-mark?

Oh, I know where you are coming from OP. I have a loo brush, I don't have to push poo with it but I do use it to clean the loo. I do as GOML says and scrub the loo whilst flushing to get rid of poo bits. HOWEVER this goes entirely against my belief that toilet lids should be down for flushing to prevent wee and poo water from splashing out. So do I shut the lid and have a poo-bit brush? Or scrub brush clean in the fluching water? And do I then need to mop the floor? And have I ever had a conversation where I have mentioned the word poo quite so many times?

Serendipity - If the brush was for cleaning the loo, I might feel differently about them. But for DH, they are for forcing floaters down the u-bend. IMHM it results in much of the reluctant poo clinging tightly to the brush and then the perpetrator shoving the manky brush back in the holder, resulting in murky, bleachy puddles at the bottom.

I think it's time I got a life

its poo, we all do it, get over it.

I've never seen a toilet brush conversation before that has been more a pro toilet brush!
Usually, I feel such a freak for daring to have a loo brush, that I don't contribute to it.

'Hi, I'm solo and I have a loo brush in my bathroom'

I use bleach in the loo brush pot or Zoflora which smells quite nice, but when I'm cleaning the whole room, I run the brush under the very hot bath tap into a bucket before replacing it in the sweet smelling pot.

In the olden days (according to my Mum) you only had a brush ~ no posh pot to keep it in. Mind you, I'm guessing that it was so cold that any germs would freeze dead anyway in the outside lav.

I think they're vile. I have one in my bathroom because my mum was so appalled that I didn't and I couldn't take the nagging anymore. It has never been used.

We have never had a problem with floaters. Bleach will get rid of any skids or discolouration to the pan. I chuck some down there every day and the loo is as white as it was when we bought it!

Obviously I wouldn't let 3yo DD loose with the bleach.......

oldraver LOL at "poo segments"
segments of poo!!!!

It's all gross isn't it?

Can't believe how often some of you buy new ones.. lawks a mercy but I'm a bit of a slattern. I hate cleaning the loo though it makes me heave.

but cleaning the loo with rubber gloves? That's just perverse and Wrong.

That is traumatic the loo brush as pusher of down of a log jam (starts to wretch).
I love the poster who broke it up with a STICK! very good.

Quite why people have arses at all astonishes me. Why, poo comes out of them. Including one's own! Gosh but isn't life just so, ewwwwwwwwww?

Bleach wouldn't get rid of my DP's skid marks. You need to scrub skid marks otherwise they don't shift properly. And a brush is ideal for this.

I'm intrigued by the mention of 'forcing a floater down the toilet'................ eeeeeeewwwwwwwww blerk. Not sure we have that problem in our house ( thank God! (

It ALWAYS puzzles me on these threads why people are worried about the toilet brush being dirty. WHAT are you going to do with the toilet brush that requires it to be clean? The toilet brush is for cleaning the toilet and nothing else! why does it need to be germ free? I clean the loo with brush and a drop of bleach, the brush then goes back in it's holder by the toilet, and is not touched again until next time I clean the toilet. Thebrush doen't go running round the house depositing it's germs everywhere!!! YABU!!!!

Ew toilet brushes make me heave, and my husband is always suggesting we get one (maybe he has brush envy). He never cleans the toilet anyway so I'm not sure why he's bothered.

I'm with with those who use bleach and loo roll to clean the loo. plus we never have floaters - must be a reflection on my cooking that all poos are so heavy they go directly down the pipes.