To think: If not a bog brush, then what??

[TheoriginalLEM]

Cleaning my toilet today, with a bog brush, thinking "oooh, if mnet could see me now" but then i got to thinking, so what exactly would i clean my toilet with if not for a bog brush that i pay 50p from tesco and replace often?

I live in a hard water area and limescale, general crud builds up really quickl So what else would i scrub at that with???

or should i be using fairy wings or something?

OurBlanche, you put your hand down the loo GLOVELESS? So do you have a new pan scrubber each day?

When you run out of carrier bags, you could use dog poo bags, which would now be less expensive than carrier bags. Or nappy bags. Also they don't have the little aeration holes in them?

Osmiornica, it IS different because lumps don't stick to it and get entwined between and lurk in the bristles. But apart from that your point is fair. You have to also bleach the stick.

They also cause blockages in the sewers - the only things that should ever be flushed are poo, wee, and (normal) toilet paper.

you put your hand down the loo GLOVELESS?

It's just clean water. Any above the waterline skids are cleaned as they happen with a wodge of toilet paper. Below the water line skids just flush away. So basically you are just putting your hand into clean water and rubbing with a cloth to keep things nice and shiny. Then wash your hands. Way more hygenic than wiping your arse after a shit and you don't (I assume?) wear gloves for that...

I clean my toilet daily, sometimes more but I use bleach and a toilet brush (I buy cheap ones and replace them regularly) I use anti bac wipes for everywhere else. What is wrong with toilet brushes??

i would have no problem putting my hands down the toilet but to do that you have to get really close and id be afraid of splash back!

I use bathroom wipes and a disposable glove

What is wrong with toilet brushes??

Personally speaking:

1. Other people use them to clean skids and put the shit smeared brush back in the little pot to ferment.

And more importantly

2. In the toilets I have experience of you cannot clean adequately u der the rim, especially where the water comes into with a toilet brush. They all don't get into the "corners" at the bottom of the toilet where the water exits, and they also don't fit into the exit hole to be able to clean in there properly.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine, that sort of sounds vaguely logical...but it isn't really clean water, is it? I mean, you wouldn't wash your hair in it, for example.

I keep disposable gloves in the bathroom for pulling hair-ropes out of the plughole (lots of DDs with long hair). I might start using them for wiping too.

Weekly scrub, with scrubby thing, daily wipe with loo roll as needed.

There is nothing down the loo that I didn't voluntarily out into my mouth! It's just been through an extra process or 2... including the loo being flushed, so there is very little mess left in there anyway!

And there is no splashback, I don't paddle in it

Why would you need gloves to pull hair out of plugholes?

It's hair, soap scum and skin cells... again all of which have been on your body anyway.

Why would you need gloves to pull hair out of plugholes? I find it cuts into your fingers and finger nails with bare hands. I have a useful brushy thing that my DMIL gave to me. (She was into that sort of thing.)

Ah! I use my fingernails to root it out... never had it cut into my fingers though.

I do use a toothbrush to scrub the plughole though (a cheapy one bought specifically for cleaning )

Below the water line skids just flush away

I've seen plenty of evidence that this is just not true (worked as a chambermaid)

Why would you need gloves to pull hair out of plugholes?

because when hair, soap scum and skin cells have combined into a slimy old rope down the plug hole, they are disgusting, and I try not to touch disgusting things with my bare hands wherever possible.

Plus I'm not convinced about stuff in the loo being what I put in my mouth. I put food in my mouth but poo comes out of my bottom, just like I put bread in the toaster and take toast out of it. Well, not quite just like, but similar. Bread and toast are different and bacon sandwiches and poo are different.

oh my at using fingernails to pick out slimy hair rope from plug hole.

OurBlanche I envy your fortitude!

I've seen plenty of evidence that this is just not true (worked as a chambermaid)

I think that the cleaning with citric acid crystals is what does it. It strips off all limescale, leaving the whole pan shiny and slippery enough to be mainly self cleaning. And as I said, we also swipe with loo roll as and when necessary - not many guests do that.

I too have been a chambermaid... but let's agree not to swap horror stories. If fourkids finds the idea of slimy hair ropes a bit much I hate to think what we could do to her with some of our best stories

The plugholes are best solved by squirting a tube of cheap hair remover down and leaving for a while...generally solves the problem!

Lucky you that your plug hole just has hair, skin and soap scum. Despite putting bleach down it once a fortnight, my shower "plug" hole is always mouldy as well.

On the original question, I put my gloved hands down the toilet and clean with a j-cloth. Then j-cloth in nappy bag and into bin, wash gloves (soap and water, same as after using toilet), squirt bleach round toilet. Now feel free to tell me what's iffy about that as sure you'll be able to!

Immac down the plug hole - that's a great idea! Though smelly...

@Ali, all i wold comment is put your hand in first then after you put bleach. Surely its the other way round?

AliMonkey, it's all about freedom of choice. As long as no-one expects me to put my hands down the loo, I'm relatively happy. I just can't quite get to grips with the fact that other people don't mind doing so...

I've always felt that way. Once, when I was a child, I dropped something down the loo at someone else's house. There was no way I was going to stick my hand in the water so I manoeuvred said object up and out with two toothbrushes that were handily also in the bathroom. I dropped the retrieved object and toothbrushes in the basin and rinsed them in the hottest water the taps would produce, then replaced the toothbrushes in the toothbrush holder using loo roll in case they were still germy, and wrapped my retrieved object up in loo roll as well before handling. Possibly I have a few minor issues. A thousand apologies to the owners of the toothbrushes. As far as I know you didn't become ill.

Clearly I am now older and wiser. Now I would call DH to assist in the retrieval.

Ah! Now you are clearly more determined than I am, fourkids . Other people's loos are an absolute no go area for me Though I shall remember your Two-Toothbrush Method of Retrieval for future reference

OurBlanche, not your own toothbrush obviously. that would be foolhardy.

Thanks, I shall remember that detail too!

Though it would be for DHs benefit... my toothbrush is electric and to expensive to abuse