What's the most hygienic way to clean a toilet?

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Toilet brush or no toilet brush?!

Use two sticks of dynamite wired to a detonator like chopsticks to carefully lower a larger stick of dynamite into the pan. Gently mist the seat and cistern with two inches of black powder. Put a fresh lemon or something nearby if you like it to smell all poncy and shut.

Retire to a safe distance and delicately detonate.

I hate cleaning toilets.

I've so much sympathy with this. Cleaning mess like this works if, and only if, everybody cleans up after themselves at the point it is needed

Correct - get it sorted. No need for toilet brushes if it's sorted at source!

Thick bleach or thin bleach? How do you stop it splashing your clothes?!

I spray Flash bathroom cleaner over the seat, back but and inside the toilet. Leave it to go and clean the sink in the bathroom. Come back and use toilet brush to clean the bowl then use toilet roll to clean the seat and back bit, flush and it's clean. If it needs more of a scrub l either use the industrial strength bowl cleaner we have or get my DH to don his drain cleaning gloves to empty the bowl and scrub it. I don't understand these people who have a fear of the toilet. As long as you dispose of or wash all cloths out after cleaning it and wash your hands it's no more dangerous than taking a shit in the first place.

adult what song is that you ripped that off for the potty song? It's bugging me.

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to?

I get the cleaning lady to do ours.

Adultchildalcoholicparents - you may have converted me to the loo blade!! And i hate brushes. But I am lovin your work..

OP Harpic 100% limescale remover and loo paper. We live in a very hard water area 'daaan saaf'

Been told not to use bleach in the loo because it damages the ceramic. Occasionally I go rogue and furtively clean with bleach to get below the water line.

We have a loo brush but I can't stand them or the thought of it sitting near the loo in perpetuity. Vile.

Harpic and paper flush away! Much nicer.

what song is that you ripped that off for the potty song?

It's My Party (and I'll cry if I want to) lynnepot

OP p.s. - but to clean the seat and cistern etc - I use flash and toilet paper and flush away. I refuse to use a sponge / cloth that has been on the toilet surface. Disposable all the way! .

If any of use have the flu etc i spray all the surfaces with anti-bac spray aswell

I don't know what type of Mumsnetter this makes me?

Now that is just mean to a compose a song celebrating the vaporzsing of all the germs. Want someone please think of the germs children?

I must be odd because I use a toilet brush, but fill the toilet brush holder half full of bleach/water and change it every other day. So use it then pop it back in the bleach for another day, then swop the bleach water and so on 🤷🏻‍♀️ No one has died in my house!

In our house the brush is just a skidder scraper, not used for cleaning, cleaning is marigold on and cloth by hand. Haha after a few years on MN I’ve seen so many references to the toilet brush debate but never an actual thread!!

Rubber gloves, bleach, old rag, elbow grease.

Now that is just mean to a compose a song celebrating the vaporzsing of all the germs

Do you read Mark Caponigro?

this dude telling the audubon society they shouldn’t be promoting birds might be my favorite internet comment of all time

(Caponigro complains to a leading Bird Society about the glorification of predator birds and will no one think of the insects and plants that they eat?)

twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1081592072866537472

Bonus Caponigro on Ben & Jerry's...

twitter.com/RoyJemison/status/1081763680923123712

Nope never heard of the song it's my party. Who sings it?

[[never heard of the song it's my party. Who sings it?]

Probably lots of other versions but Lesley Gore's is well known among people who know the song.

Hire a cleaner!

My child gets skids all up the bowl every single time, just uses bleach doesnt remove them, ive tried!

Whichever way you want. Is mumsnet really going to decide whether you have a loo brush in your house?
Just decide whether you want to glove up and wash with a minging cloth (cos you know, wipes are bad)
Or whether you just want to crack on and use a loo brush like the rest of the population of the UK

Yes I know that song actually now you have reminded me. Its a nice song.

Has op not responded to the feedback on her thread yet?

toilet cleaner and brush for inside the bowl.
warm soapy water to wash the seat and outside with a cloth.

Parazone do something called 'better than bleach'. I don't use a toilet brush. Once a week I put my gloves on a clean it by hand but it just had parazone down it in between cleans.

Bum hose to squirt away skids.

Bit of bleach/loo cleaner twice a week.

I hate loo brushes because people seem to use them to brush away skids then put them back in holder with poo and loo roll all over them.

Bum hose is also great for getting up under the rim (of the toilet bowl obvs) to get rid of limescale.

“If any of use have the flu etc i spray all the surfaces with anti-bac spray aswell”

What will anti bacterial spray do against the flu virus?