To not clean the toilet if there's no toilet brush?

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DM is demanding I clean the 'filthy' (one stain) downstairs loo.

That would be fine except she's removed all the toilet brushes as she doesn't agree with them and replaced them with those duck loo replacement things. Which she won't buy as they are too expensive.

So basically she has told me to scrub someone's shit with some toilet roll! I used to be a cleaner and I've seen some weird stuff but never this. I've refused and been told I'm disgusting and lazy. AIBU?

Whose loo is it?

Why do you have to do it?

Is it her toilet?

YANBU.

I don't care what mumsnet says, cleaning toilets without a brush is minging.

It's gross! Tell her get a brush or clean her own damn toilet.

She's replaced them with what? And if she won't but them because they are too expensive, how has she replaced them?

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She needs rubber gloves, a cloth, a bucket of hot water and whatever bathroom cleaning product is preferred. Spray sink, loo, shower, bath etc with product. Use hot water and cloth to wipe clean - sink first, then shower/bath and finally toilet.

Rubber gloves are for cleaning not washing up and cloth goes in the next towel/cleaning cloths wash

I live with her and actually contribute more than she does. But yes she's got rid of the toilet brushes and has told me to use my hands to scrub someones shit off the toilet. In all my days as a cleaner I have never had that! !

Um, Catinthecorner, am I understanding correctly - you clean the loo with a cloth that you then wash in with your towels?

My mum has also removed the toilet brushes, but luckily she hasn't asked any of us to clean off shit. She has a cleaner so presumably the cleaner brings her own toilet brush. It's madness, though, there always needs to be a toilet brush. At work we also don't have one which makes for a pretty gross experience most afternoons.

I actually like just giving it a wipe round very regularly with the brush and put bleach down. Now I can't do that I think she's realising that a squirt of bleach isn't enough... unfortunately tonight I got the short end of her temper. At 29. On a Sunday. As an ex cleaner.

I want it kept clean as much as she does! But theres no brush, and those duck removable cleaning things that you use once. So of course she doesn't want to use them

Her alternative was my hands and toilet roll. What did people do before toilet brushes? I'll try it out maybe

Cut a piece off a washing up sponge to attach to the toilet duck handle. Scrub toilet, rinse and dispose.

Ah the toilet brush dispute. We're probably due for another one about now.

Is your DM a Mumsnetter OP? Most people on MN seem to think loo brushes are the work of the devil.

Can't see how you can actually clean the loo without one and I'd much rather have a loo brush that I change regularly than some horrible shitty cloth that gets washed with my towels.

And as for using your hand, well words fail me.

Yanbu. If there is no brush provided I assume the owner of the toilet isn't bothered about skids.

Actually I generally use a boil wash for cleaning cloths and steam mop covers and what have you but I figure in this instance it would be one cloth so not worth a wash on its own and most people use a hot wash for towels and the heat is the important thing.

Glad someone finally asks, as I had been wondering how the fuck people are supposed to clean toilets without toilet brushes. I had thought there was some mysterious British toilet cleaning instrument that could be used instead.

But apparently, there isn't.

YANBU, just refuse. Toilet brush, or she cleans the toilet herself. If she wants to decide how it is cleaned, she has to do the cleaning herself, easy as that.

Hands up, I am a MNer who thinks toilet brushes are rank. Little bits of shit embedded in them if people don't clean them properly, get all shut stained etc. Just rank.

I flush, then if there is, erhem, 'residue' I squirt some bathroom cleaner on it. Flush again, if still there I get a handful of like roll, or a flushable wipes and get stuck in. Then wash my hands.

So far I have never managed to get a scrap of shit on my hands.

I realise I am in the minority on this thread but the thought of a shit stained brush in my bathroom is rank!

shit stained
Loo roll

You live there, buy a loo brush. Problem solved.

I don't have a loo brush. They make me a bit queasy. I do a daily wipe with a antibac wipe, bit of loo cleaner down the loo if there's a stain. Otherwise bit of bleach every couple of days. I also have a thing in the cistern.

All these wipes and boil washes are ruining the environment. Loo brushes are not.

If you live in a hard water area the only thing that will sufficiently tackle the bastard limescale and my DH's poo residue is a brush.

You can get ones where you can't see the brush...

The cleaning tablets for inside the cistern wear away the rubber fittings in your toilet.

Found that out the hard way, there are some pipes you do not want to spring a leak.