Loo brushes

[eebagum]

AIBU to ask... those of you who don't use loo brushes as they are, quite frankly, disgusting, how do you clean plop marks off the inside of the toilet?

Came into the downstairs toilet this morning to discover a child had left skid marks inside the loo, and as it hadn't been used since yesterday afternoon they had dried on. Put bleach down to 'soften' it, left 5 minutes and flushed but the turd tracks marks still remained. Only way I could get them off was with the loo brush!

I know many people think they are disgusting and don't have them, but what do you do instead??

I dont have a toilet brush as I do think they're gross. You just leave the bleach down the loo over night. 5 mins wont do anything

I use the Loo Blade.

Sigh.

Get a decent quality loo brush. After every use flush loo and rinse loo brush in the flushing water.
Lift up loo seat and lay brush horizontal trapped between rim and seat. Squirt a little bleach over brush and leave in place to drip for half an hour, then replace in holder.

Result - clean loo, clean loo brush, no sweat, no mingingness.

Loo brushes don’t bother me at all. I was browsing for a new one when that device popped up. I sit mine in bleach.

One thing I do hate is a rusty loo brush though, so I alway go for plastic now. The pretty ones don’t look pretty for long!

Wasn’t there a thread before where someone wanted to clean a toilet brush in the dishwasher. I’m all for a toilet brush, but then again I use the same laundry basket for clean and dirty and I don’t wash sheets and towels every day.

Get a loo brush and wash it in the dishwasher

Get a loo brush and wash it in the dishwasher

Nooooooo..............................for the love of God NO

Wash it in the dishwasher is this for real if so that is absolutely disgusting

Who eats from their loo brush or toilet bowl? Hands up?

None of you?

Thought so.

Loo brushes shouldn’t be used to clean whole turds - just skid marks - so those can be rinsed away pretty easily!

I never understand why people get so wound up about them.

I have one of these hides the offending item.

Mumsnet is so fucking weird about loo brushes, I can’t even fathom it.

Jesus MN just buy one with a holder that can take some bleach! Sometimes with multiple loos in the house there can be dried up poo that needs to be buffed away...I ain't putting my hand in there to buff the s**t away so a toilet brush will have to do! Honestly 🙄

No loo brush here

Soften with bleach
Wipe with tissue paper
Job done

As an aside does anybody find with newer compact toilet more skids/shit stains are left in toilets?

Thesuzle I have got one of them two headed brushes as well , I have had it years !

closes eyes so can not see the withering / shocked / incredulous stares

I use the toilet duck handle with a folded bit of quilted loo roll. Works as well as the pads. No extra expense. Loo roll is easy to flush too.

I have three toilets (3 storey new build) and of the three Male members of the household only two currently use toilets. Guess what happens? Lots of dried in, crusty poo, stuck all around the loos.
I refuse to clean up after my husband so he cleans our en-suite toilet, but I clean the mid floor and ground floor toilets - both are usually thick with it because our biggest is only 4 and can’t sit far enough back. He also often forgets to flush. Sometimes an entire day can go by before someone goes to use that particular loo and it’s dried on then! So the only solution is a toilet brush.
A cheap nasty plastic one for the boys bathroom (rinsed in bleach and flush water because we also have an 18 month old and I can’t trust he won’t touch it/lick it/whatever) and a cheap plastic one for downstairs (kept in bleach).
For our en-suite we have one that matches our bathroom furniture, as it doesn’t get used as often, hubby remembers to flush and the toilet is bleached whenever it’s used.

Again?? Seriously

Soften with bleach
Wipe with tissue paper

Sloshing excessive bleach around and sticking my hand down the bowl are both big no’s from me.

Why would you do that when you could use a brush? Mind boggles.

LittleRen that looks like a good thing in theory , until the DCs find it makes a great water pistol .

Loo brush, rinse under the flush, put bleach in the holder, replace as needed.

@WhoWasIt

I fill the holder with water a bleach and soak it at least once a week. It also gets rinsed with cleaner after each use. Mil claimed a loo brush was disgusting but wanted one of the pew droplet collecting pedstal sets. She also doesn’t clean under her loo seat so there is a stain where droplets of wee collect.

Most posters are saying Mumsnet are weird about loo brushes but I'm reading on this thread that most Mumsnetters have loo brushes! I guess they're not that unpopular.

I don't have a loo brush for the sole purpose of wanting less to dust/clean in the bathroom. I just use bleach as soon as I spot a skid mark!

80p from Wilko. Keep clean with bleach, replace regularly. Job done.
My friend won't have a brush, says they are disgusting; she has boys, underneath her toilet rim is encrusted with yellow uric acid crystals and skid marks have to be wiped off by hand. How is that less disgusting than a brush?

I was just joking about putting the loo brush in the dishwasher, but after some of the stuff I have read on here it wouldn't surprise me if some mumsneters do just that.