To think that you don't really need to use bleach for everything all the time?

[SusanMichelson]

I keep seeing people commenting on how often they use bleach in their cleaning routine and I'm really surprised by how much it seems to be used.

I never use bleach unless someone is ill and usually not even then - just a disinfectant spray.

My kitchen and bathroom are lovely and clean. I usually just use a damp sponge or cloth with a bit of washing up liquid or whatever.

I don't get why people think bleach is necessary - and it is so poisonous, not just to us but to fish and so on. It makes me really to think there's so much of it being washed down the plug hole.

AIBU to think it doesn't really make things any cleaner than just soapy water or maybe another less harsh chemical for really tough stuff?

I promise I'm not an eco warrior or hippy. It just never really occurred to me to use the stuff except when we had a superbug and then it was necessary for a few months. Nasty stuff!

Yuck. Mini, it just says 'D&V clear up' to me and I would be refusing any hot beverage offered.

See it just means "its sunday" to me (the day my mum did the cleaning which also meant clean bed sheets! Yay!) or the soaps are about to start if i smelled it in the kitchen (because she washed the counters and in it and then soaked the dishcloth after dinner) so bleach has a good association for me. I dont think i ever associated it with being ill. For some reason i think she might have used milton for when we were sick? Is that possible?

Ooh yes msgrinch you don't want a verruca spoiling your wedding. But where's the carpet?

I hate the smell of bleach, but I do use it sometimes. I have a bottle of Harpic bleach next to the loo, and I tend to put some down the kitchen plug hole every now and then, as, like a PP said, it gets a bit whiffy sometimes. I never use it on the floors though as the smell lingers for hours! I love the smell of Dettol and I use that for floors etc.

Wrong thread perhaps Sparkling?

Me thinks sparklingbrook will become a toxic river with the overuse of bleach on this thread. I am becoming anti-bleach reading it. Surely if you bleach absolutely everything, when you come into contact with the dreaded lurgy germs elsewhere you can't possibly have built up an immunity against them?

Carpet holds dirt even when you hoover loads plus the dresses tend to drag on it anc pick up/leave threads so we went for a laminate flooring in the changing area so it's a bit more hygienic and easier to work with (apart from our knees doing fittings).

Wrong thread? I was replying to Msgrinch

Yes, it has zero association with d&v for me.

I love Milton too and use it for cleaning the food waste bin.

Oops - ignore my last post, just figured out what you meant SB

Ah, not thought of that msgrinch. Do you use one of those kneeler pad thingies like you have for the garden. I remember standing there forever while many pins were put in mine

What do you use to clean your toilet bowl? Just interested as that's all I use bleach for. That and to clean my floors with.

ecover toilet cleaner?

I have a bottle of spray bleach for mould, which I go through once every few months.

what are people doing in their bog that they need it to be bacteria free?

We were discussing getting one of them! Me knees look like two battered heels. Worth it though.

Doesn't have to be just D&V clearup/ disguising, anything could have happened. And whatever it is it's not good.

Think I've gone beyond bleach. I use AMMONIA!

see i hate the smell of vinegar so i cant use half the alternatives i do have a vinegar spray that gets the side clean but it stinks (of vinegar obviously) and i hate it

Why does it mean 'disguising' rather than just cleaning? do you think people who just use fairy or whatever are disguising something too? Surely everyone is just cleaning?

Don't get the bleach thing, it's just an unnecessary habit IMO. Terrible for the environment and harmful to breath the fumes in.

I'm loving the idea that i'm trying to disguise the fact i prepared dinner or walked on the floors!

I use Waitrose or Sainsburys own brand pine toilet cleaner in the loo, or anything similar from the £1 shop.

I am a serious emetophobe, really have an enormous level of anxiety about vomit, and yes I would use bleach for cleaning if I thought it had any preventative effect on d&v bugs. But it doesn't, so I don't, and we are very rarely ill.

No Surly I just think that the awful smell is a handy by product of using bleach to clean. It lingers in the air so you can't smell anything else at all.

Oh And When I say 'I' clean with bicarb/ vinegar/ lemon, I mean our wonderful cleaner does 95% of it... But she has said she only uses that kind of products where possible now as has converted or convinced everyone else she helps to swap more chemical products to those without or less. She says many now seem aware of harm they can do to children if they get hold of so would rather they weren't in the house at all.

The only thing I use bleach on is the toilet.

The rest of the time I use a disinfectant spray.

I like bleach in the loo the kids use. It's the knly way to get rid if the piss smell. I put cloth withbleach outside, around, and put some inside the loo.

I have somemore eco-minded friends whose loos are all brown inside (like a brown crust) , and smell of poo/pee. They think that is normal.

I like a bleached loo

Baby - I can assure you our toilet is sparkling white