My husband thinks IABU for NOT allowing

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Toilet brushes in the house.

I have a toilet duck one with disposable brushes which you flush after one use.
And strongly feel this is the only option for hygiene. I can't bear the thought of my toddler or baby getting their hands on a poo encrusted toilet brush, or god forbid coming anywhere near the poo water which is always to be found pooling in the bottom of the toilet brush holder.

In my opinion it is beyond minging to own them, especially if you have young children in the house.

My husband thinks I am an anal germ hater.

What say the wise users of Mumsnet?

And if poo is so abhorrent that polluting the environment with "disposable" cleaning cloths is preferable then attitude needs looking at!

I hate those disposable brushes. They shouldn't be flushed down the loo. I bet the water companies hate them, too.

Some poor sod will probably find they're swimming with them in the sea. Just use a normal brush and stick some bleach in the brush holder. Or put bleach in the loo when you've finished cleaning and rest the brush in there for an hour to clean. Easy.

Dust is indeed the enemy and it is cunning and ruthless and persistent. I don't understand how there can be so much mud and so much dust simultaneously. If I am brushing mud off the carpets and walls it seems harsh to be dusting so much as well. Perhaps my family is just ueber-grubby.

I have never needed to put hands below water line to get rid of skids.

DH however has had to put WHOLE ARM into loo, to bend - to un block blockage .

Pour various chemicals round loo bowl. Hold breath - disposable opaque plastic glove on hand - on hand - well past wrist - with scrubber - wipe bowl.

No water go nears hand. Dispose of glove AND scrubber ( into nappy sack, into bin). Close lid and flush.

Bleach for under water marks.

By the way those that are loo brush users - how do you stop the drips when you bring it soaking out of the loo? It would in my opinion have to be put into a recepticle in the loo to catch excess water before you took it out.
Otherwise you are dripping and spraying even more loo water round.

nobody has answered yet if you provide disposable shit-wiping gloves for your guests as well or are they expected to carry their own? Or leave the marks for you to clean?

I have just ordered this cleaning duck witchery from Amazon.

elizaregina - I lift up the container and put the brush in it while over the loo.

For your information

www.sthk.nhs.uk/library/documents/stoolchart.pdf

Types 4 and 5 are considered normal.
Type 4 Normal for someone pooing once daily
Type 5 normal for someone Pooing two / three times daily and is the best one!

Bog brushes were banned years ago here.

Sparkling loos achieved by quick spray around the whole thing with Dettol multisurface cleaner + loo roll plus a good shot of bleach round the rim.

Now, finding the best bog roll for the job that doesn't break up into little pieces nor is so thick it blocks the loo was a challenge!

Current favourites are Cushelle (best), Nouvelle or one of the better Aldi ones.

p.s. and I have Crohns so am the queen of shit-splat...I would die rather than have an unclean toilet for someone to use after me so I had to find a quick, non-minging way to clean them as I often have to do it multiple times a day.

As for poo above the water line...spray with dettol, put a piece of loo roll over it, a drop of bleach and leave for half an hr. flush - look no poo and you didn't have to get yer hand in!

I really am an expert lol! Need anymother tips?!

Any >other

So healthy poos leave skids as hard / clean poos are a sign of Impacted stools.
To obtain a type 2 your stools would have been in your colon for several weeks rather than the normal 72 hours!

nobody has answered yet if you provide disposable shit-wiping gloves for your guests as well or are they expected to carry their own? Or leave the marks for you to clean?

I don't leave disposable gloves for guests. I just hope they don't leave a skid. I also think that they would be sufficiently sensible enough to grab a wad of loo roll and clean it up around the bowl. I also have cleaning spray to hand in many loos.

As for the below the waterline. Just leave it. I don't get freaked out about stuff like this. A pop of bleach and a flush it will go eventually.

The poo hysteria on MN has me in fits.

And Hazle the argument that cleaning up skids with loo roll is more hygienic than a brush is because a lot of the time loo brushes are not cleaned correctly and are vile.

I'm unsociable and the only guests I have overnight are close family. They aren't bog brush users either but know, on pain of death, not to leave skidders in my toilet. Anyone popping around for an hour or so I'd expect to hold it a while I guess.

If we ever end up in a house big enough for overnight guests to be welcome, I guess I could put one out specifically for their visit, then throw the fucker away.

I haven't been on MN very long,but am seriously thinking about changing my name to bog brush!!

There was a thread about this on nm a while back, one of the posters said when their son was a teenager he used to do gargantuan poo's that wouldn't go down with one flush so she used to have to don tea towel round her face and heavy duty rubber gloves armed with stick and break the fucker up for it to flush down!

My brother once did a poo that literally poked out the top of the water. Just stood there, upright, withstood the force of the flush and copious amounts of bleach for nine long hours. I can laugh about it now, but at the time i was

at hardcore poo

"As for the below the waterline. Just leave it. I don't get freaked out about stuff like this."

But you are just one teeny, tiny person in a sea of humanity who would get freaked out, so it would seem.

Pus the idea of leaving a calling card is, for many, just unthinkable.

Phyllis - that is one tenacious poo.

Poos that don't leave skids are not ALL hard. My shit is perfect.

There are pros and cons to having a toilet brush. I personally don't have one - I pour bleach and hot water around the bowl and use a coarse sponge thing round the bowl with jif - wearing gloves of course, which are my "toilet gloves". I then put the sponge in a freezer bag and dispose of straight away. It's a faff but I can't have a toilet brush around because of my son - he is SN and I'd fear he'd use it as a hairbrush If your DH insists on having a toilet brush, maybe he should clean the toilet (apologies if he does do this).