Would it be absolutely disgusting to...

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Put loo brushes in the dishwasher on their own, on hot setting, followed by a hot wash on empty??!!!

Hot water kills the active ingredient in bleach. Only use cold.

Shit in the dishwasher?

Nah, no thanks.

Good grief silvery, I'm astonished you've had the same loo brush for 15 years. Thanks to a couple of posters about using bleach only with cold water. I didn't know that and always soak things like tea towels (that have been waiting ages for washing) in the hottest water poss! 🤔

Never had a toilet brush, totally unnecessary IMO.

Horsey, funny (not) if someone didn't realise it was there and sat on it, yikes...

Heres a thing, every toilet user in the family just wipes skids with toilet paper. The toilet brush is never used for shit, but for scrubbing the toilet with liquid cleaner. The last thing I want is a brush with shit on it, use something disposable. With little children I clean up straight after them it remarkably easy. No need to leave it to dry

"A loo brush is rarely used in my house, I use thick bleach to get rid of splatter and toilet wipes to clean the bowl, edges and seat toilet that can be flushed away, I also limescale once a week."
I agree, but please dont flush the wipes down the toilet, what ever they say on the packet they do not degrade. Only excrement and minimal toilet paper should go down the pan

Jem, no I don't like mixing tea towels with underwear, but now save up various types of things, hence in my post I have tea towels hanging around ages then have to bleach. I think loo brushes are unfortunately a necessity. I have thought about not having one, and think I could with gloves on deal with my own mess like that but not other people's.

If you do this please inform me before I eat off your plates

That is absolutely disgusting. Please do not do that.

Leave in a bucket of boiling water with bleach.

I splash some bleach/zoflora in the brush holder after each use, and they dont seem to get too gross.

Noooo. Beyond grim.

J E S U S ON HIS LITTLE RED BIKE ON THE WAY TO MASS NO!!

@fartfacemcfartfaceface I am so stealing that one

J E S U S ON HIS LITTLE RED BIKE ON THE WAY TO MASS NO!!

Why am I incapable of reading that in anything other than an Irish accent lol?

How else could you read it lol

Just flush the loo brush in the loo to get rid of bits then soak with bleach in its holder. If it's gotten too grim just chuck it and get a new one. Its probs okay to put it thru the dishwasher in terms if germs but it's the thought of it that's pretty gross. I wouldn't feel happy using the dishwasher after that even if I was being illogical!

You need to ask ????

Heres a thing, every toilet user in the family just wipes skids with toilet paper

And exactly how does that work for under water skid marks? 🤮

Pour bleach down and leave - it'll be gone in an hour

Or get them to put a bit of loo paper down first (can't believe I'm going to use this term, but it gets the idea across... as a 'landing pad') - it makes less noise and keeps things tidy.

I just use toilet cleaner to clean the brush but if you have to do it then at least do it in the washing machine on a hot wash. Not the dishwasher.

Good for you op for not leaping to the ‘buy a new one’ response. How horribly wasteful; this is why we have seas full of plastic rubbish!

The best reply on here is treat your self :-D please do !

I put a lot of things in my dishwasher but even I wouldnt do that.
Plus the loo brushes are 60 p in Wilko so the dishwasher run would cost more than replacing them.

I think this is just about the grossest thing I’ve ever heard of and that’s saying something after watching ‘The Human Centipede’ last night. Vom.

That’s repulsive