To judge someone on their toilet ?

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I know I probably am...

I am no snob, but ...

Jesus Christ, what is it with folk and not cleaning their shitters?

I immediately lose alot of respect for someone who has a filthy toilet. Ok, so a one off fine. Esspecially of kids live there. But I have been to a few mates houses and their toilet is always filthy. I now cannot eat there and always equate them as being grotty :/ its awful, I know.

Am I abnormal? AIBU?

To combine two great MN themes my MIL has what I consider to be an odd approach to toilet cleanliness. Every night before going to bed she puts loads of toilet cleaner down the loo and just leaves it until the next morning. I hate it as I always need the loo in the night and fear the bleach splashback. She isn't particularly house proud in any other way. I just don't understand. Does anyone else use this tactic?

I was childminding and one of the older boys - about twelve at the time - used the toilet and must have made a mess which he then cleaned with the toilet brush. He left about an inch of the brown stuff all round the brush and was obviously too embarassed to mention it. I went in to the toilet later to clean it and almost collased from the smell. Its a small room and the heater had been on all day - the toilet bowl was like a scene of carnage and I've never been able to have a toilet brush since.

After that I'd much rather have my hand down the toilet giving it a scrub - with my rubber gloves on.

Every night before going to bed she puts loads of toilet cleaner down the loo and just leaves it until the next morning. I hate it as I always need the loo in the night and fear the bleach splashback. She isn't particularly house proud in any other way. I just don't understand. Does anyone else use this tactic?

Well i clean mine before bed and put a glug of bleach round that is left overnight and also a squirt in the cistern so yes same method. The cistern bleach means there is always a bit of bleach in the loo.

Night Kilrock bloody amazing stuff!
We live in a really hard water area and this stuff got off 11 months worth of limescale overnight (can't stand smell of toilet cleaners when pregnant and the ones that don't contain harsh chemicals do fuck all for our limescale).

I'm so glad I found this thread - I have such strong opinions about loo hygiene!!
I refuse to have a bog brush in the house - even if you rinse it, a lot of poo germs are going to remain and I don't want to end up with a holder full of shitty water! Even if you store it in bleach and then change the water it's just so much hassle! If you pour thick bleach on a skid, it'll remove it within half an hour.
Re the pee stains around the edge and outside of the loo, it drives me insane always being the one to clean the outside of the loo. And it something I notice not many people actually do!! Any house with a man on it seems to have yellow sticky stains/droplets around the outside of the loo, around the rim, base and the floor around it! At least twice a week I have to thoroughly clean all of those places or it starts to smell of wee.

What pisses me of the most (excuse the pun!) is that DP refuses to clean the loo, and only wipes up after himself if I call him back into the bathroom and point out the puddles he's made!

If I have a DS in the future, I'm tempted to impose a rule of sitting-down-wees in the house!

YANBU It's not like it requires much exertion to keep a loo clean.

I am an uncircumcised male with an interest in Mexican food.

If I didn't clean as I go I'd have been interned by the Bottom Inspectors years ago.

"What pisses me of the most (excuse the pun!) is that DP refuses to clean the loo, and only wipes up after himself if I call him back into the bathroom and point out the puddles he's made!"

I dont understand this. How can he happily leave that for someone else to walk on or clean up? Do you have children? I have two boys and never get these drips- one day my dad was doing work in my house and used the toilet and afterwards there were horrible blobs of pee on the floor! I was disgusted with him. How could he not know he did that and then be happy for me to clean it? Talk about disrespectful. Do you have more than one toilet in your house? If so i would be tempted to tell him he can only use one and the rest of the family will use the other that way he can look at his own filth and see how disgusting he is.

Yanbu

A dirty poo smeared loo is rank

Odd skid mark happens esp with kids - but hard dried on ones

Let alone pubes and piss on Tim

Remember a while back I stayed at a friends after a girly night out - drank too much and was sick in her loo and as was sick saw pubes and piss and threw up even more :(

Feel sorry for cleaners. To have to scrub at someone else's dried on shit is wrong !!!

I'm the same, basic hygiene calls for a clean khazi. pounland sell loo brushes and bleach so it's cheap to scrub the skiddies. As MM says cleanliness is next to godliness. Bless her

"Feel sorry for cleaners. To have to scrub at someone else's dried on shit is wrong !!!"

As a cleaner, first thing i did when i arrived at any house was give all toilets a good dose of spray then got to work on the rest of the house (bathrooms done second to last before floors) so that the cleaner had a good chance of loosening up whatever was there. Only time i didnt do this was if clients were at home as obviously couldnt leave product in the toilet if someone was going to be using it.

I went in McDonalds today and someone had done a shit and left it there, no attempt to flush it at all, tried other loo no paper in there, so I had to go back and flush after someone else yuck!

What is wrong with people! YANBU x a million! I would die of mortification!

I want to know why UK toilets are designed the way they are. We moved abroad and our toilets are the shallower pan design, and in two years we have never had any skids. Why aren't all toilets like this? Any toilet designers MNing tonight who can fill us in?

I'm a Zoflora tart. The best ones are lavender, or the bouquet. Nice to walk into the toilet after adding to the (clean) toilet water, it smells naice and fresh.

Early lesson learned=Never let DP loose with the toilet brush just redistributes poo around the pan including toilet paper

Technique is

• one long flush to get rid of main poo
• short flush using the brush at same time gets rid of residue.

Yup I know the Govt crap about yellow-mellow-brown-down (one flush only) but Im sorry - I am not prepared to have poo floating around, it would be a turd too far!

I have a dirty toilet

I don't know why. I honestly don't have any answers for you. I'm sorry.

sillybilly doesn't it annoy you as a cleaner to have to soak/scrub died on poo - and personally I would wonder why they couldn't clean it theirselves

A couple of years ago I did a temp nanny job for a day and their toilet was so disgusting I refused to use it and walked 1/2a mile into town to use a pubs toilet

2 adults and one toddler ie in nappies so def the parents :(

I've said it before and I'll say it again.....what you all need is what we have here in Asia. A little hose connected to the toilet. They are BRILLIANT for cleaning toilets - I haven't needed a brush for years. They are not even meant for that - you are supposed to wash yourself with it - but you can spray inside the toilet and if the water pressure is good (when the pump is not broken) it gets everything off! Because bathroom floors are always tiled you can give the outside of the toilet a good hosing down too. I cannot see why these have not caught on elsewhere!

(will not mention that a toilet blocks in my house on average every 10th flush and cockroaches regularly crawl out of it)

I hate mucky loos too.

My BiL visited our house and couldn't find the light switch for the bathroom. So he just aimed in the general direction of the loo and missed. The floor was covered with pee which I had to clear up This was about 10 years ago, he has not been back.

Some people are utter filthy cunts.

My poor DH was roped in to lay laminate flooring for a work colleague of mine. It's not his occupation but he's quite handy and she was (and still is funnily enough) single.

We arranged to go around to her house at 6pm to 'measure up'. Well I've never seen anything like it, the dirty minging cow. Apart from living in utter filth and disorder, she asked DH to measure up the bathroom as she wanted different tiles. In the toilet was the most enormous log surrounded by skid marks and piss all over the seat. My poor DH was nearly gagging and had to get on his hands and knees around the toilet pretending to measure up. She stood there as bold as brass, chatting away.

When we left he begged me to make an excuse saying he couldn't go back, no matter what.

She's still one of my Facebook friends 6 years on and although very lovely I can't help but think what a dirty cow.

Dr Funkes - thankyou for the heads up! I have been onto amazon, saw the rave reviews and ordered some of that stuff for our downstairs loo. I am so excited! how sad

Edible hamster that sounds ideal- though the blockage and cockroaches? Jesus, no ta!

Poughie - why, why, why?!!? Please explain, as I cannot ask anyone in RL why their shitter is a state!

"sillybilly doesn't it annoy you as a cleaner to have to soak/scrub died on poo - and personally I would wonder why they couldn't clean it theirselves "

Yes it did. It baffles me more than anything tbh. I understand that if you have a cleaner you dont need to clean yourself but skids are different. I mean, most of my homes were once a week jobs and i could tell which ones hadnt been wiped since i was last there- they were happily burying their asses in their own filth every day for a week. I dont get it. At all.