The great toilet brush debate

[Angie169]

Off and on on all sorts of different I've seen people do or don't use toilet brushes can we get a consensus here why do you use them or why don't you use it for the record I do use one.
I realise so some people think they're are germ riddled
However I have a effective and through way of cleaning them .
Opinions please . . . . . .

I use one. How else is sticky poo poo supposed to be dislodged, not shoving my dainty little hands down the crapper.

I wouldn't use it without some sort of bleach or toilet cleaner though and flush it through at arms length afterwards.

I don't care if there are germs on it, so long as there's no visible solids. It sits in it's holder, doesn't jump out and attack me when I go for a piss.

It's not like I'm stirring the soup with it or using it wash my cups.

anxious I get you, I can't stand the thought of shit encrusted loo brushes in my house.

Narya
Yes. I can see that and I accept that use of toilet brushes

However, we don't really get limescale here.

But I still reject the use of toilet brush for removing fresh shit from bowl

anxiouspeg
Hehe. When I looked at the pic again i realised why you thought that.

I think loo brushes are grim. Bleach is your toilet friend.

Never owned a loo brush. Didn’t realise so many people did. No one in my family does either.. and we didn’t growing up. We all manage to keep a clean toilet though.

I have loo brushes, I stock up on them from ikea.
I use bleach because it disintegrates anything my dh leaves on the sides.
I also have a poo stick (because we have those bastard new loo flush loos that unless you have an Instagram sized tiny shit, it gets stuck) to poke anything stuck around the u bend.

You don't change it halfway through, @BoardingSchoolMater? Tsk, tsk.

For full disclosure, I use a toilet brush, a socket mop and a dish cloth as well as a dish brush. There is no reason for any of them other than I always had them. I use the dish cloth more than once. and my bath towel

Bleach is not my friend. Makes me heave and it stinks.

Another MN thing-you have to use gallons of it for a clean house. As long as you don't mind it smelling like the local swimming pool presumably.

Looblade.

You're all welcome

Bleach is not my friend I thought MNers are supposed to douse everything in Zoflora anyway. The cotton flavour one.

Urgh yes Zoflora. That stinks too.

It does. Once diluted enough not to make eyes water it no longer disinfects. Jut a perfume for the house really.

I have got a collection of sticks from the woods, sitting in a big old jug. If the toilet needs cleaning, I wrap a widget of toilet paper on it, clean the toilet. Paper gets flushed, stick goes on the bonfire.

Toilet brushes are awful, in terms of germs and environmentally. People saying they just buy a new one every month! All that plastic has to go somewhere, landfill. Every single wipe ever used is still in existence - unless it's been burnt.

I'm a bleach whore, sorry 😂 my family seem to have continuous trots (it's more than likely autoimmune or related to hypermobility/ autism. But I'm sorry I actually at this moment in time when I'm under massive duress, could ld not give a shit (pun intended) about a squirt of bleach done the loo 😉

I look like an illiterate trol with my spelling and grammar 🤔

Chuck and get a new one every three months

W-h-a-t???? That's totally raving bonkers. Honestly, it is.

It's really wasteful and bad for the environment, too.

(I don't actually believe anyone chucks loo brushed out at such an insane rate. I think it's just said for effect, in order to look cleaner than the next person.)

brushes. Why can't we edit typos out of posts?

Lots of different thoughts on here, the wilkos sterilising product i was taking about is called Bruclens cleaner and steriliser. £2 a tub 4 tsp in a gallon hot water is strong enough for wine / beer cleaning ( according to instructions )

I use about 6 tsp in hot water to clean the loo brush , clean the loo with just the water thats in the bowl , get rid of as much water as you can , pour mixed solution in , give bowl another rinse then leave brush stood in the solution for as long as possible ( at least half a hour )

For the PP that said they chucked the brush away cos it was going rusty , i have never seen a brush with metal parts - - - - - are you sure the brown marks was rust

Only on MN is using a toilet brush the most disgusting thing you can do, but sticking your hand down a shitey toilet is absolutely fine.

for this very same reason I will not use the plastic hook on toilet fresheners , horrible memories of trying to fish one from around the u-bend

I am in that a pp buys a toilet brush for each bathroom in case a guest might want to use it, then chucks them away after a month or two, presumably largely unused. What a waste!

Don't use one, vile shitty things. It's easy to keep the loo sparkling! Latex gloves, bleach, or powdered harpic, give everything a good scrub with a scouring sponge. When finished take gloves off by turning them inside out, with the sponge inside them. Your hands remain clean, you just throw the gloves away. Rinse everything with hot water

Never had a toilet brush as I think they are disgusting. Have 2 grown up boys and they have never left a mess in the toilet bowl ever. Do not understand anyone who would leave skid marks in the toilet, surely everyone checks the toilet is clean after themselves.

Personally?

I have IBS, as does my eldest daughter. Sometimes this fact means we make a serious mess.

However, I have never had to use a toilet brush, or wipe the bowl with my hands. I simply squirt bleach down there a couple of times a week and do a long flush. No trace after bleach.