How do you clean your loo!

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Aibu to wonder how everyone cleans their toilet?! I'm more talking about the seat, the lid and under. Do you use a cloth you then wash or a disposable cloth or wipe? How do you get in all the books and crannies to get it clean? It's job I hate doing and I can never get it as clean as others.

I recycle sponges that I initially used in the kitchen too.
Spray with gen purpose cleaner and wipe

If the bowl is looking a bit grungy, I chuck a denture cleaning tablet in and leave all day/a few hours - really effective.

Occasional soak/douse in loo cleaner (harpic type) - I don't like the smell of bleach.
I genuinely didn't realise for years that you had to do more than squirt squirty stuff under the rim. Had had the loo from new, and the build up of limescale and grot was disgusting, used everything from brillo pads to trying to soak in the k-rock stuff, and eventually checking with a dental mirror. Cleaned regularly now (and still checked with a mirror from time to time).

gamerchick I just can't comprehend needing to use a steamer a toilet grin

Honestly I would have said the same before I tried it. Especially in a house of males. Just steam and it lifts all that stuff that washing doesn't. Especially around the base of the toilet and it smells properly fresh. It's a twice a year job but it honestly looks, feels and smells cleaner than normal cleaning does.

@WellErrr how else do you unblock the toilet?

By getting a stick or twig from outside, poking it till it breaks up enough to flush, then flinging the stick across the field.

Obviously.

@gamerchick I agree. The steamer lifts grim when there is none.
I use mine on the shower cubicle otherwise you get a build up of scum on the tracks.
I use to use it on tiles but I swear by astonish anti mould leave for 10 mins and wipe.

@WellErrr 😂
Thankfully I've never had a large blockage.

@gamerchick half tempted to get one. Will report back if I do

I bought a steam cleaner for my sister yesterday (odd gift, but she mentioned she'd like one. it's her birthdays soon) reading and watching reviews, I came across a bloke that steam cleans the tiles in his bathroom EVERY week.

I use old toothbrush which I stash behind the toilet. I buy packs of 3 or more in cheap shops. Wipe down with old/oldest cloth then BIN cloth.

Brush with bleach or loo cleaner for the bowl; bathroom cleaner or dettol spray with washable clothfor everything except the rim and underside of the seat which I clean with loo roll sprayed with cleaner then flushed.

I hope with all this bleach going down the loo none of you have septic tanks

I do Surplus...! Is that not ok!?

@WellErrr bleach kills the bacteria in septic tanks which is essential in breaking down solids. Without the bacteria the soakaways become blocked and the tank needs to be emptied or else it overflows.

Many people seem to have come to the conclusion that septic tanks have to be periodically emptied but they are designed to never need emptying.

I use washable cloths. The blue one is for the toilet. Clean all the outside bits and work my way in. Use toilet brush (which has a little side scrubber for doing under the rim) for the inside of the bowl. I use a toothbrush for cleaning the bit where the toilet meets the floor.
I'm sick a lot (medical condition) so I have gotten used to cleaning all the little difficult bits with the tooth brush and cloth corners.

I use loo roll and spray to do the seat. Bleach is as and when. I don't drink the toilet water so I'm not too worried about regular bleaching.

Bleach and a toilet brush for the bowl. The rim/under the seat, I use an old dish sponge and bleach, then antibac spray and wipe down with loo roll.

The dish sponge goes in the bin afterwards.

Spray the toilet all over, wipe over with a cloth, toiler brush for the bowl. Cloth get's washed.

Some of these cleaning methods are mad.

Another one to admit the cleaner does it, I stick bleach down most days if I remember

I spray the whole toilet with cleaning spray/bleach then work around it from the botton to the top then to the seat once or twice a week with a cloth. Boil wash for the cloths. I also put bleach in the toilet scrub with brush and leave it for 10 minutes so the brush is bleached too. My toilet seat is as new as the day it was bought, no longterm pee stains that I have seen on other toilets, and brush is as clean as it can get.

Toilets are dirty the cleanest way is probably disposable but with the germs that hang around the bathroom regardless of cleaning method it makes no odds how you do it imo.

warm soapy water and a cloth.
cloth goes in the wash after.

Ohhhhhhh. This is perhaps why ours needs emptying 🙈

Another good hack is periodically pour a full kettle of boiling water down the loo and a good squirt of dishwasher, and leave that overnight. That dissolves the stuff in the u bend.

Dishwasher what?

Rinse aid?
Powder?

Put bleach in the toilet. Spray white bowl seat etc with any bathroom cleaner though I love stardrops pine disinfectant, it's so so shiny. Then I use a brush (not a loo one, a bottle with bristles on one side) on the inside, any old fabric or old socks etc to clean the white areas, then buff it all down.

It's an effort when someone always needs a piss during the cleaning tho...

...when we had a cleaner they used to just wipe the seat and not under it.

we wondered about the smell, took us ages to figure out what it was

Inside it:a daily bleach spray & loo roll wipe, then toilet duck under rim. Outside of it, I sponge wipe with bleach spray. Sponge washed with boiling water & washing up liquid straight afterwards & only used for loo nothing else.

Why are people so scared to put their hands down a toilet? Doesn't anybody wash their hands after cleaning it?