to tell you how to use a loo brush?

[OohMavis]

BECAUSE I AM RIGHT.

A toilet brush is not for removing skiddies off the bowl. It's not. You don't take what is supposed to be a permanent fixture of your bathroom and smear it in shit, then leave it there, festering and breeding in its own little bowl of filth. That's fucking minging. This is why the poor toilet brush gets such a bad rep, you see, people are doing it all wrong.

When you skid the toilet, you take a piece of toilet paper, and you wipe it off. And before you all go "but Mavis, that's also fucking minging", well, I can only say it's minging if you don't intend to wash your hands before you leave the bathroom. Who's ready to admit to that then

"I buy a new one every week" - well, the environment hates you and you're probably going to hell. And you still have a pooey brush in your bathroom for seven days emitting its pooey vapours. So.

The intended purpose for a toilet brush is to clean. Like with bleach. When you clean your loo. Once a week. And then back it goes, all germ-free because all it's done is swish about in very concentrated bleachy water, until the next time.

Can I say or is that totally out of fashion nowadays?

Curly doesn't that just spray everything off and right back in to the atmosphere around you...?

It's from the warm tap a few inches away!

Quite want a loo gun now. £28 !

Ok so bleach, leave, scrub, then flush. I always kind of think germs and bacteria need a scrub first to leave them open to bleach?

far too much work in this, bleach everyday two small boys and a dh quick swirl and a brush, ad then change brush every 3 months... our toilet pressure is huge, so any shit stains get swished away

The law is that everyone intending to poo puts a couple of sheets of loo roll down the toilet first. Poo hits loo roll then mostly swept away in flush. DH mostly doesn't do this as he forgets DH cleans his own shit from the toilet, I don't ask how and I don't win s loo brush.

*owns not wins. That would be a shit prize 😳

So is it out of order to put it in the dishwasher then OP?

For those who think wiping the skiddies off the pan with your actual hand with toilet paper is disgusting... how exactly do you wipe your arse? With the toilet brush? Didn't think so.

MsJamieFraser love your username.

Good point UnGoogle. Exactly!

I hate them. I buy those flushable things. Clean round the loo with paper sometimes but every week x2 I give a good scrub around and go further down u bend with the handle gripping pads. Can't remember what it is called. Aggies and Kim used to make me want to vomit when they lifted some of those brushes urk!

This support is heartening. I feel this should be made into one of those buzzfeed-style mumsnet articles and immortalised so everyone knows the truth.

Shit prize

I agree with your rules, OohMavis, although I would add that sometimes just sticking a piece of toilet paper to errant poo and reflushing can sort the problem out without unseemly scrubbing.

However.

Despite my use of this policy, my loo brush still often turns up covered in shit and submerged in an inch of poowater. I assume DH is to blame, as DS is still sussing out the complexity of bottom-wiping and not yet ready to move on to skid removal. Perhaps some sort of bogbrushcam is in order

Mavis, in the nicest possible way you are possibly the most bonkers woman I have ever heard. Who gives a fuck about how to use a loo brush? Clean your teeth with it for all I care!!

Now go and make a new years resolution to get a life.

Ooh, that's me told

Always one Mavis

And don't subject the poor brush to scrubbing in a toilet paper stuffed bowl, only for said paper and poo to become entrapped on the bristles of doom and be left there to dry out for the bathroom attendant to find.

Can I add to your rules Mavis - once you have replaced loo brush into holder, squirt the bristles liberally with bleach or toilet cleaner. So it's clean and impregnated with cleaner ready for the next person.

Now I'll tell you my favourite loo brush story which I always tell on these threads.

The loo brush at work is a festering specimen of minging scum. It used to be white, and is now stained a browny orange, with many many shit crumbs in between its bristles.

I had to use it one day - emergency skiddy situation, I'd wiped away what I could but some of it was unreachable. I had to use the brush.

But the brush was one of those old fashioned industrial ones with a screw on head. And the screw had come loose, and the head fell off into the toilet.

I had to reach in and pick up the shit stained head, and screw it back onto the stick with my bare hands

It's still there, hasn't been changed in years. There's really no excuse considering they're about 50p in Ikea!

Nope. It's the best weapon in the universe. according to my 10 year old who was waving it at his smaller brother whilst making "schwwwuuum, schwuuuum" noises

I have converted to the No Loo Brush mantra.

I have a disgusting story to share regarding the removal of skidders. A woman I know vaguely (who is fucking odd to say the least) once started a conversation with me about moving back in with her father. He was explaining his preferred method of shit removal using his bare hands and then washing them afterwards. She was horrified at first, until he demonstrated, and then she started doing the same she was actually attempting to convince me to try it!

I feel better for sharing that.... It felt like a form of abuse...

In this house we don't have a loo brush anymore because the idiot foreign student used it to poke his turds down the toilet. I have discovered that my highly pressured shower head can do a marvellous job of blasting clean the bleached loo. Our bathroom is that tiny. Fwiw, the shower head doesn't go below the seat, I angle it from high above. For stubborn skidders I'm in the bog roll scrub brigade.

What's with the toilet threads tonight?

And enough with the bleach talk. It's revolting and makes me heave. I feel like I can smell it reading this thread.