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?

if you live in a hard water area then

1/ Cheapo smart price denture tablets left overnight are your new best friend!!!! (Also useful for anyone who has ever moved into a new home with a scary trainspotting style loo)

Drop one tab down the bog once a week overnight and use a brush in the morning to keep your loo scale free even in the hardest water areas.

2/ Don't be too proud to own a loo brush. It's especially handy for quick loo rescues during those extended family gatherings where Great Uncle Mike has glue poo!

3/ A quick daily swish and swipe over with a cloth will keep it sparkling (or use a disposable loo wipe if really lazy/you have family staying).

So long as the kitchen, & loo are clean and everyone has clean bed sheets then anyone who comes round can hike their judgey pants as high as they like about the books/toys/crafts left out all over the place - cos you'll have 2 take me as you find me. I'd die of shame if a visitor found my loo scummy though.

Romy seriously man.. i'm weird about my toilets but they really don't need to be cleaned as much as you're doing it

poughle don't worry about it all these gleaming sparkling toilets they probably using infested germy phones and keyboards or opening doors, touching shopping trolleys etc without washing their hands after unbeknown to them someone with pooey hands has touched it first grin]

Give two sheets!! Vom!!

My toilet is beautiful. Plus it has never been pooed in

I only finished silicon sealing it in last night. I am so tempted to stick a lock on the outside and keep my lovely shiny new toilet all for me.

"poughle don't worry about it all these gleaming sparkling toilets they probably using infested germy phones and keyboards or opening doors, touching shopping trolleys etc without washing their hands after unbeknown to them someone with pooey hands has touched it first grin]"

Alcohol gel. Handbag, car and kitchen sink.

Loves me some booze hand sanitiser :)

Givetwosheets - I always wash /sanitise my hands after touching anything that members of the public have touched! Handles on buses is a particular one... in fact, I avoid touching those!
I work in a school, and frequently pull my sleeve over my hand to touch door handles, banisters, etc.

I don't think it's ott to clean the outside of the loo/floor around the loo - if I just clean inside it still smells of stale wee in the bathroom!

Lillamy I assumed most people regularly cleaned the outside of their toilet bowl and the floor.

Those of you who clean toilet daily- do you also clean the floor daily? (sweep/hoover and mop)

I do but my bathroom is downstairs and i do all of downstairs daily due to messy hairy dog. This means my outside of loo is done daily with the mop.

My kids are rarely ill and I'm convinced it's because of my slack hygeine... They have super immune systems! Meanwhile my friend who sprays typos with dettol, deep cleans the bathroom, etc etc... Her son has asthma and is always sick and she admits that it's probably related to the sterile environment.

This has been illuminating. I think I will put a bit more effort into keeping a clean bathroom. But it's good to know that even when I'm not trying, I'm not as minging as some of your skiddy friends

Not typos - toys. It really would be OTT to already a typo

Argh! Spray!

Lol ploughie :)

My dd is rarely ill, I am a clean freak regarding the bathroom in general- and kitchen. The rest of the house i am more relaxed, so you could be right!

You are being silly - i dont clean the floor daily, no. But most days. :)

You are the champion to cleaner methinks! I aspire to be this good , haha

I agree - dirty loos are revolting.

There are cupboards in our loos that are fully equipped with disposable wipes, loo cleaner, lots of extra loo roll, limescale remover tablets etc and I expect people to use them as necessary. The loos and basins obviously get properly cleaned (vacuumed, spray cleaned all over, disinfected) very regularly and the hand towels is washed almost daily.

yanbu
but even worse is the combination of filthy toilet + filthey cat litter.

Oh - and I have a very superior scented cloth sachet that cost a bomb tied to the hand towel rail in the visitors' loo just in case, even though there is a large window in there and it is easy to air.

A candle in the loo seems to sort out nasty niffs. Yankee candle best obviously, but if I haven't been lucky with my Xmas gifts then a cheapo wilkinsons candle in the jar does the trick.

I'd never choose a home where the loo didn't have an extractor fan or window though partly because yes the cat litter tray is in the loo! However I cannot for the life of me understand why some people don't have lidded cat litter trays as they do make a huge difference! These also need emptying more than annually.

Why do some people have carpet in the loo or bathroom? Most places you can pick up a piece of nice hygenic offcut lino for a tenner so why not? Carpets males and toilets are always a bad combi. We've recently been house hunting and even DS is starting to be turned off by toilet carpet pongs.

Ok- just to convince you all i really do have issues with the bathroom. Does anyone else have a basket of flannels for drying hands as opposed to 1 handtowel? i just hate going to dry my hands and finding damp patches on the towel. I like a nice clean fresh towel and even with washing them daily this wasnt happening so i have a towel for 'apperance' that guests are welcome to (and do) use but i also have a basket by the sink of flannels that myself and the dcs use (and guests can if they want) which then gets thrown straight in wash basket under the sink after use.

Our toilet is mostly sparkly (shared house so people tend to clean after using it), but there's a huge stain on the seat where I once spilled some black hair dye while cleaning up. The doorbell rang just when I was about to wash it off, and by the time I finished dealing with that the stain had set - the only way I could think to try and remove it later was with bleach can you tell I'd never dyed my hair before?, which only succeeded in lightening it to a shade of dark brown that looked for all the world like an enormous poo smear

Luckily it's a student house so it's not like we're expecting posh visitors any time soon, but if anyone has any tips for getting ancient dye stains out of ceramic I'd love to hear them...

Oh and to answer the original question, it depends on the type of dirt. Actual poo = gross, but if there are tide marks in the bath or the toilet body (tank etc) looks like it hasn't been wiped down for a while I probably wouldn't even notice tbh.

I've been known to clean friends' loos as well, before using them. I just really don't get how people can be happy living with a stinky, grubby bathroom?!!!

I once visited a house with a trainspotting loo. Couldn't bring myself to use it ahd held on for later. Absolutely vile, made me choke, near sick