My husband thinks IABU for NOT allowing

[Nooneelseisallowedafergus]

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?

[Softlysoftly]

I was at the microwave user too how gross!

Plus Adora throwing away your loo brush weekly wtaf how wasteful.

We have one in every toilet, DH has a restaurant, I shall hand us in to the environmental health people in the morning.

[elizaregina]

I dont know what anyone would microwave a scrubber.

they are really a pittance to buy - a value pack of 12 is 60p somewhere....

I have to generally scrubbers are something people want to conserve - they should be seen as a disposable item - use them a few times ( not in the loo) and throw.

from the way some people talk about scrubbers on here i wouldnt be surpised if someone was sanctamonioulsy carefully washing a cup with an old scrubber they used in the loo bowl, thinking about how incredibly clean they were.

[seeker]

Whqt makes me furious on threads like this is the realisation-(it feels newly horrific every time it hits me) that there are women who clean the loo after their men, and men who expect women to. It's up there with the most depressing things in the world. Why on earth would you put up with that? Everyone aged, say, 6 or over, is capable of dealing with any mess they leave in the loo!

[INeedThatForkOff]

Eugh. Bog brush holders always have a pool of greyish-brown shit water in the bottom. Sod the DCs - I just won't have one because I know what's in it. As for the scrubbing conundrum, I use one of those disposable blue and white cloths for the whole bathroom, the toilet being last to be cleaned, then it gets chucked in the bin.

As for toilets with brown or green build-up in them [off-topic shudder], there is just no fucking need. Ditto the orange bacteria that collects on shower tiles if they're not cleaned often enough I had to deal with both of those, and worse, when our last tenants left. I fucking hate scummy bathrooms

[elizaregina]

ooh but ineed - a cloth ? with no grip or friction> how does that clean? you need to scrub the loo.

[Primafacie]

I had to buy bog roll holders last year, does anyone know why they are so expensive? I swear we could have bought a microwave for the same price, and we were not looking for anything posh, it was all bog standard stuff (HA!). £59 for a bit of metal?

[wiltingfast]

Hate the damn things but believe them to be a necessary evil. Besides no way am I sticking my hand down the loo except in cases of dire emergency. Have 2dcs but I don't let them play in the bathroom so it's never been an issue. They are beyond vile tho. After reading this thread I might take to buying cheapy ones that I can replace more often. (No way am I going to start cleaning the tb! Yuck!)

[wiltingfast]

Then again, maybe not 'cause at least the ones I have are really well sealed up (ikea), actually quite hard to open them. Probably child proof in fact!

[HazeltheMcWitch]

For those looking for cheapy bog brushes, Asda SmartPrice is your friend, @ 53p

[elizaregina]

i am sure i remember alex polizzi on hotel inspector on her hands and knees showing some usless hotellier how to scrub out a vile tb. i think she is a really pretty and elegant lady...i really admired her for doing that.

[elizaregina]

or maybe it wasnt her and it was a double?

[DeepRedBetty]

Primafacie no-one has to buy bogroll holders, especially ones that cost £59. All the bog bits - spare rolls, sanitary protection, spare soap, spare hand towel, spare Bloo (hardwater area) - goes in a basket, by the bog. Easy to reach in case of emergency, easy to move when cleaning. And made of a nice shiny sort of willow, so easy to clean once in a blue moon when I get round to it

[EverybodyisdeadDave]

I have a loo brush.


It has yet to revolt and form an uprising to take over as Leader of the household. Must be one of those non evil type one, an apparent rare breed.


If I use it, I just whack a load more bleach one it and clean it in the flushing water of a cleaned toilet.

[ladymariner]

I have a loo brush, in fact I have two.....bleached, ready to use, haven't attacked anyone yet.

I also prefer people to take their shoes off if they come into the front room as I have a beige carpet. I don't ask them to but most people do, we ALWAYS take ours off when we go to other peoples houses. I think is rude not to. If only our guests from the weekend thought the same I wouldn't have had to spend ages cleaning the fucking mud stains off my carpet tonight from his bastard trainers.....

[HelenLynn]

INeedThatForkOff I'm pretty certain the orange hard-water stains aren't bacterial; they don't grow in the least like bacterial colonies, they look very different. I think they are to do with minerals in the water, probably some of the same ones that make it hard in the first place.

I mention this out of pedantry rather than as an objection to your general observations about orangey bits. Although since they're no more animate than the grout underneath I personally feel somewhat the same way towards them as I do towards dust, viz. largely indifferent.

[recall]

YANBU , toilet brushes are just wrong

[SquinkiesRule]

I have one I replace it every so often. None of the kids have touched it, no one got sick from it.
What I want to know if what the hell you are feeding the family that you need to scrub poo stains? Nasty! If there's poo we re flush and it's gone. To clean I add bleach scrub about with the brush and viola all done, no poo encrusted brushes here. and they have been dipped in bleach so that cuts down on the germs.

[INeedThatForkOff]

I'm pretty certain the orange hard-water stains aren't bacterial; they don't grow in the least like bacterial colonies, they look very different. I think they are to do with minerals in the water, probably some of the same ones that make it hard in the first place.

Look up serratia marcacens bathroom. It comes off with bleach and a bloody good scrub, and had never formed in the four years we lived in the house that our tenants took 18 months to grime up. Same with the green toilet bowl, which is why I think, hard water or not, if it builds up I doubt it's cleaned regularly enough.

Cloth vs scourer ... Hmm, I tend to think it's fine, but that's because everyone is responsible for cleaning their own skids as and when, and the loo is cleaned often enough for there not to be any ... erm ... matter in it. Maybe I'll switch though.

Oh and I'll telll you what else I've noticed having moved a few times in my adult life - no fucker ever scrubs under the rim. Eugh. It mings to hell when you have to do it after first moving in, but if it's done regularly the cloth comes out clean. A squirt of bleach is Not. E. Nough. Same with the overspill on the handbasin. Scrubbed enough black ones to know that people just don't bother.

I'm not a cleaning obsessive. Joking aside, I'm not. I just like my shower screen buffed.

[MidnightMasquerader]

Has anyone mentioned poo vapours yet?

OP, just get a long drop, and then you won't have to worry about cleaning it at all.

I would recommend a lid for it though, if you've toddlers about.

[Softlysoftly]

What is the orange residue then? Never seen it before I moved here have been fretting about it. It's stained the bottom of my steriliser and yes I I need to scrub it off loo/shower etc.

[Fairylea]

Why why why are people cleaning toilet brushes ?!!!

Just buy a new one every so often ! Tesco value ones are so cheap !!

[INeedThatForkOff]

Have a look at this softlysoftly. I only looked it up myself after cleaning up after our grubby tenants while pregnant.

[PessimisticMissPiggy]

Laughing at the brush being used as a back scrubber!

I rather liked the Dutch toilets with the poo shelf so you can examine what you've done. Easy to wipe away any skids too!

[INeedThatForkOff]

[valiumredhead]

Even if you smeared yourself in poo you wouldn't automatically get sick.

We are in a hard water area - we need a brush.

It's not like it is used for anything else, is it?

Tesco ones are beyond cheap and we replace every month.

When ds was small I kept him out of the loo, problem solved.