Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

How do you clean your loo!

190 replies

newdecadenewname · 09/01/2020 11:44

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.

OP posts:
GiveHerHellFromUs · 09/01/2020 16:12

@Echoblue they can't because they can't dry their hands because all their towels are in the wash after being used once 🙈

largegnt · 09/01/2020 16:17

Spray with bleach or anti bac, leave for 30 mins then wipe over the anti bac wipes which are then binned.

Wildthyme · 09/01/2020 16:18

I install a new toilet every day. Anything else is just grim and terribly unhygienic Wink

stripeypillowcase · 09/01/2020 16:19

Why are people so scared to put their hands down a toilet?

why should I? that's what the loo brush is for isn't it?

BarbourellaTheCoatzilla · 09/01/2020 16:19

Also the same reason why people are STILL using bloody wipes. They're suckered in by the germ marketing and are TERRIFIED of any thought of 'germs'. No wonder kids are getting sicker because we're raising them with no bloody immune system.

Longdistance · 09/01/2020 16:20

I use toilet paper. Spray then wipe and flush. Chuck bleach down the pan, sorted.

GiveHerHellFromUs · 09/01/2020 16:20

@Wildthyme only every day? You use one toilet for a whole 24 hour period? Even when you have guests? Grim Wink

MikeUniformMike · 09/01/2020 16:21

soapy disinfectant an an old rag.

imgonflirtwiththedevil · 09/01/2020 16:22

Spray with toilet bleach. Use a cloth to wipe all over leaving under seta and rim last.

Wash the cloth in washing machine.

Sharpandshineyteeth · 09/01/2020 16:24

Bleach down the loo, leave it, then give it a quick wipe with toilet paper and a bit of bleach if it needs it. Wash hands afterwards

Babyg1995 · 09/01/2020 16:28

Antibacterial wipe on seat and all over outside of toilet put bleach down for a few hours then sprinkle with the bloo foam stuff before bed to leave over night.

jomaIone · 09/01/2020 16:35

How dirty are your toilets? (To those people who can't put their hands down the loo with a cloth to wipe it??

Twice a week I use bathroom anti bac and wipe the outside, the flush handle, the seat and the rim with a microfibre cloth which then gets chucked in the wash basket. I just wash it along with my normal stuff but with Dettol in the wash cycle.

Every 2nd day I chuck some bleach down. Love the smell of bleach. Then once a week I use the Duck flushable toilet brush thing to give it a proper scrub with bleach.

ScreamingLadySutch · 09/01/2020 16:35

And risk a cracked toilet?

There is not a chance that the thick ceramic of a lavatory would worry about 3 litres of boiling water.

Baaaahhhhh · 09/01/2020 16:35

How is toilet paper strong enough to scrub with though?? The best way to remove germs is by "scrubbing". It's the friction that gets them off. A quick spray with antibac is pretty useless despite what the adverts tell you.

Watch surgeons wash their hands, yes, they may be using antibac soap, but the washing action is the most important thing, not necessarily the product you are using.

Fivefourthree · 09/01/2020 16:36

Totally agree Barbourella

Geoffreythecat · 09/01/2020 16:37

Those of you who find loo brushes disgusting, do you refuse to handle money? Because you'll probably find more bacteria etc on a £10 note than you'd find on a loo brush (and who touches the brush anyway?).

LovelyPuddings · 09/01/2020 16:43

Hot bowl of water and disinfectant. Cloth. I spray the loo all over with bathroom spray then use the cloth to wipe it all down, including in the bowl, rinsing in the disinfectant water inbetween.

Cannot see that any germs can survive the spray and disinfectant so don't fuss about the cloth being in the bowl and then, later, on the handle etc.

yorkshirebloke1 · 09/01/2020 17:20

Clean the loo, they don't need cleaning do they?

CuriousaboutSamphire · 09/01/2020 17:42

It's not that they are any more or less disgusting than many other things I come into contact with.

It's that they are an unecessary disgusting thing ..

SisterAgatha · 09/01/2020 17:44

You aren’t flicking £10 note germs around your bathroom with ever stroke 😂

bloodywhitecat · 09/01/2020 17:51

I clean it with warm soapy water and a cloth (blue for the loo, pink for the sink), no bleach, no antibac, no drama and no one had died yet

Abkbjbjb · 09/01/2020 17:52

Am I the only one who uses disposable anti bac toilet wipes?! Like Dettol wipes, then bleach round rim and down toilet

stripeypillowcase · 09/01/2020 18:05

Am I the only one who uses disposable anti bac toilet wipes? hopefully yes. wipes are unecessary - just use a cloth and soapy water.

adaline · 09/01/2020 18:09

Am I the only one who uses disposable anti bac toilet wipes?!

What a waste Confused why not just spray and a cloth, or a spray and toilet paper?

gamerchick · 09/01/2020 18:48

Am I the only one who uses disposable anti bac toilet wipes?

Hopefully you are the only one. As long as you don't flush them as well of course.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.

Swipe left for the next trending thread