to be annoyed about the state my toilet was left in...

[Lillamyy1]

I spent quite a while cleaning the bathroom yesterday morning, which made me even more annoyed, although I always keep the toilet clean...
A friend came round for a few hours and when her DP came to pick her up he went to use the bathroom and was there quite a while. When I went up there 10 or so minutes later I was hit by the most godawful stench, although to be fair to him we haven't any air freshened and he had opened the window, but oh my god the state of the toilet bowl! Skidder central. It was absolutely rank.
Surely it's common curtesy to flush a couple more times and pour some bleach down to try and get rid of the evidence if you've had a massive skiddy shit at someone else's house (and in fact your own house!) We have one of those toilet duck brushes with disposable heads which is in the cupboard so he couldn't have known it was there but the bleach is right next to the bloody loo!

Merry - why would you catch more bugs?

Hally - how is a bin full of used toilet paper any different from a loo brush? You only use the brush foe cleaning the loo, nothing else, how on earth is that a health hazard?

Actually you probably wouldn't if you empty the bin regularly and wash your hands - no more bugs than you would by putting sanpro or nappies in a bin. However, in countries where people can't wash their hands and dispose of loo paper hygienically, people do indeed tend to catch more bugs.

In contrast, people who use toilet brushes don't all clean them properly - perhaps they do when they are actually cleaning the bathroom, and perhaps all mumsnetters do after every use, but random people using them to swipe poo don't. At best they are swirling the brush a bit and dripping it across the floor and leaving it to fester until the next person adds their poo.

I would be pissed off at some bloke coming into my house for 10 minutes and doing a shit regardless of what he did by way of reparations. Don't shit in other people's houses (unless you're overnight guests)!

Loo brushes are for lime scale???

You do know that vast swathes of the country do not have limescale?

I've been gripped by this thread, by the revelation that people mind you using their loos, that anyone would mind a bit of shit in what is, after all, a loo, and that so much indignant frothing is perceived - by so many - to be normal.

You live and learn, eh?!

You do know that vast swathes of the country do not have limescale?

Yes. I also know that many people have perfectly clean loos and don't own a loo brush.

I'm having such a miserable day but this thread has really cheered me up.

Thank you all so much!

Esp the loo shining up brush.

Have these

While other people are using loo brushes because they are frightened of poo.

Or really like poo and want to collect it. I'm not sure which.

Hally I use the hand basin. A few squirts of neat bleach, hot water, sorted. Then a wipe with anti-bac for the basin. I clean the holder with bleach spray and kitchen paper. But it's not dirty anyway, it's never had a dirty loo brush placed in it!

I never understood MN's issues with toilet brushes until now. This is a revelation. If you're all using them as shit scrapers then I completely get the revulsion!

I am always amused by the Terror of Poo that stalks MN. I do wonder how any of you would live with someone who has a colostomy. Because a skiddy bog would be the least of your problems. After all, toilets were designed to be shat in.

SImmersion- it's not as funny as the Terror of Stranger's Bums............

That should be Summerisle- sorry!

What on earth are people doing with their loo brushes that requires them to be squeaky clean?! It's not a toothbrush. You use it to give the loo a scrub, give it a rinse and put it back. Its location is always either in the holder or in the loo bowl. As long as you replace it a few times a year, where's the issue?

I have IBS and use a variety of cleaning methods for my loo (and any others I visit) but if a flush doesn't dislodge everything, a loo brush is by far the best/easiest way to deal with the bowl.

summerisle - My mum had a colostomy bag for 10 years. She never left the loo in any state like the OP has mentioned.

Anyone who wants to rummage around under the rim or down the u-bend without using a brush is welcome to do just that. Although the prospect is less than pleasant.

The rest of us will continue to use loo brushes for the express purpose of cleaning our loos. Not for removing non- exultant limescale which doesn't affect most of the UK.

I wouldn't rinse a loo brush, now that is yukky

I, too, have never come across anyone who resents other people using their toilet before this thread.

I'm not suggesting that people with colostomies leave the lav in horrid states, Thumb. Just saying that a certain sanguinity about poo becomes an everyday state of affairs.

Yuckier than leaving it to breed and fester quietly in the corner?

ThumbWitchesAbroad , the bags burst sometimes though don't they? I think this is what summerisle might mean about a shitty loo being the least of your worries. DH worked with a guy who had his bag burst at work, luckily he worked with understanding people.

but the MN relationship with poo is a funny one! It just human poo. I find dog poo far worse. Poo in a loo v dog poo on the buggy wheels, I know which I would prefer!

The list of things I do on a regular basis that would upset a Mumsnetter grows by the day................

A rinse in bleachy loo water Dame, not a sink rinse!

My loo brush doesn't fester I clean the loo and flush, squirt of bleach and leave the brush in the bleachy water then flush so brush is rinsed with water.

I would not rinse a loo brush in a sink,I am at the idea and I'm surprised anyone who is concerned about germs would even consider doing it.