To ask for an explanation re: toilet brushes

[Eliza9917]

I keep seeing them mentioned and wonder whether I am supposed/not supposed to have one.

I personally like those things where you attached a wipe that then flushed away but I don't think they sell those anymore.

Fly lady suggests that you put shampoo in the holder and a bit if water.
Use a different loo each time you go and once a day each one gets as wish round. I've tried it . It works.

Completely freaked out by the thought of a loo brush in the dishwasher. Are you the same poster who used to wash the potty in the dishwasher too? Faints.......

You all need one of these in your lives!

looblade.com/buy

Does the job of a toilet brush but without minging bristles and I have yet to find a collection of (vom) dirty water at the bottom of the holder. The blades are rubbery and dry v fast and you could easily give it a clean with water/bleach or whatever. Changed my life I don’t mind saying. (Note: I am fairly sad, yes).

I also think loo brushes are a kindness yo visitors who may not wish to leave skid marks in your toilet.

The no-bog-brush-brigade are presumably ok with guests leaving a streaky toilet bowl?

It's not as if a toilet brush is used for anything else. You don't clean the sink with it, and everytime it is used to clean the toilet it gets doused in bleach anyway.

The no loo brush seems weirdly squeamish/prissy about the realities of what a bathroom, and specifically a toilet, is used for. Shit happens. To me its like the toilet roll dress trying to hide, or at least dress up a spate loo roll, as if they are embarrassed by it.

If someone in our house does a massive turd and leaves poo skids all over the loo bowl, then I squirt a bit of bleach down and it goes

You know you're just bleaching the turds without actually removing them, don't you?

Bleach does not remove actual dirt. Bleach is for disinfecting clean surfaces.

The Joseph Joseph ones look good and easy to clean. I’ve reserved one at Argos to collect tomorrow. I will report back!

I'd rather use a loo brush than be squirting bleach.

I use jif and a cloth (j cloth type) and just throw it away? Never have a problem with limescale, and the idea of a brush seems really unhygienic to me

But what about your guests Lellochip? Do you leave a cloth and jif out for them to use?

I use a loo brush and a tissue. I wash the brush under the flush.

Headofthehive55 What "holder"? The cistern?

I have a toilet brush. You can't get the toilet really clean without one as sometimes they need a good scrub. I agree they are gross though, so I just buy the cheap ones and throw them away every few weeks or so. Rinse them out with bleach too.

speakout you just made my day

I need one. I'm not saying anything else.

I get that I'm bleaching the skid, rather than removing it with a brush, but if you remove it with a brush, you've then got poo skid on the brush that is then going to sit in a moist pot in the bathroom for months, being dragged in & out every now & then to get more shit wiped all over it.

I'm not squeamish about poo, I just see no bog brush as the lesser of poo/two evils.

Nope, to be honest never thought about guests needing to clean my toilet and never had the issue crop up!

I have been known to drop a few squares of toilet paper 'strategically placed' if I need to use a toilet that doesn't have a brush ... just in case. Prevents marking the toilet at all.

IKEA toilet brush used to be 45p (probably gone up now) I keep 5 spare ones under the stairs, as we have 4 toilets, so can always replace them regularly.

I use the ikea basic loo brushes. The holder is easy to clean and the brush is flushed under water to remove any poo - apart from when dh does do it properly 🤢. Brush thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed when loo is scrubbed.

Nothing would induce me to put my hand down the toilet to scrub poop off. It’s just a horrible thing to do. Nowt wrong with using a brush as long as it’s bleached every week.

Poo skids on the brush are surely removed by agitating the brush in the pan/flushing the loo, repeat until brush clean.

Putting a poo stained brush back in the holder without rinsing it off is minging. Maybe this is where the haterz are going wrong?

I do that too Headofthehive I put any soap I didn't like (shampoo, hand soap or whatever) into the holder and so the brush is ready for a quick scrub round every day. It works. I like Flylady's ideas.

Deux, do you really think that swishing water gets all the poo off your brush? It might get the big lumps off, but it won't actually get it properly clean, so it still sits its little moist container with a tonne of small/micro bits of shit on it.

Oh lawks. I once started a thread about bog brushes. I don't see how you're supposed to do without them, though I realise this is not a popular opinion on MN. What are you supposed to use? Your hand?

Grateful to BewareOfDragons for the tip, though. Doing a poo and leaving marks in someone else's house (because they belong to the non-brushing brigade) is the stuff of nightmares. I will be adopting this forthwith.