To have two toilet brushes?

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Our house came with a loo brush but I didn't want to use it so I bought another one. DH suggested we keep the first one for just in case we ever get stomach flu or similar.
But I keep seeing on MN that people don't use toilet brushes. How else do you clean your loo? Do we just have bad quality poo or something for why our loo needs scrubbing? Do Mumsnetters have special toilet fish that eat the yuck away?
AIBU to have two toilet brushes?
If so, what's the "proper" MN-approved way of cleaning a loo the day after my DH has had a curry?
Am fully prepared to hear I'm being unreasonable.

I can't believe some people bleach after every bowel movement
I can't believe why anyone would need to. Surely it lands in the water and washes away. Otherwise place some tissue now so it has a base to land on.
If the amount you poo is covering the water line you need to see a gp or look at your diet.

We have one in each bathroom and replace it on a regular basis. They are used whenever needed and obviously when the whole bathroom is cleaned.

I only use bleach when we are ill, otherwise it is absolutely not necessary. We are ill once in a blue moon, no idea how old the bottle is.

I wouldn’t use a second hand one, that would be straight in the outdoor bin.

But I have a cheap plastic one in each toilet and buy a new one regularly. I can’t believe people are putting their hands in the toilet to clean up.

We have a brush for each loo (not quite sure why everyone is shitting all over the bowl every time though..?), only used for routine cleans of the loo or the absolute massacre that occurs when my toddler poos.

They're like 20p in supermarkets though OP, there is absolutely no need to be keeping someone else's shitty toilet brush.

How would you clean the brush after a 'bad quality poo'?

I dry my toilet when i've cleaned it - only the outside and the seat etc. usually spray it with anti-bac and wipe it round then dry off. I don't use a toilet brush, the thought of them makes me heave. I always do the toilet last so bleach round the bowl and scrub with the cloth i've used to clean the bathroom then it goes in the bin.
I can't buy into these disc things and flushing chemicals down the toilet every time you use it.

@Northernlass99 yeah if the solution involves putting my hand in the toilet I'd rather just have a toilet brush haha.
@DrManhattan I've always cleaned my toilet brush the same way I get the bits off reusable nappies before they go in the nappy bucket. I put them down the loo and flush. The water rinses the bits off usually.

I honestly don't want to touch that old toilet brush though because god knows how it's been used in the past.

Why the fuck is the second hand one still festering in your house?

@LolaDarkdestroyer
Haaa haa

If you don't have a toilet brush how do you dislodge turds from the ubend

Bucket or washing-up bowl of water chucked down at the same time as another flush usually does it. There's sometimes a scarey moment when the water level nears the top of the pan if you use a full bucket though! We've never needed to repurpose a knife as a "poo knife", unlike some on here.

We have very hard water, so limescale builds up in the lav really quickly. A quick scrub round and below the waterline with the brush, followed by a daily splash limescale-blasting bog cleaner, left for a couple of hours is necessary to keep it at bay.

I forgot to squirt the bog before going away for 2 weeks once, and I had to resort to One Shot drain cleaner to get rid of the scale. Nothing else would touch it, and I was beginning to think we'd have to get a new lav!

How do you clean a toilet brush? The shit sticks in the brissles

Unless some dickhead has used it as a macerator on a u-bend blocking turd, any little specks rinse away easily if you hold it in the clean lav and flush again. Then, when cleaning the bathroom, first I fill the holder with bleach and water and leave the brush in it to soak while I clean.

By the time I've finished, squeaky-clean bog brush.

People who don’t need a big brush must live in a soft water area so don’t have to deal with lime scale.
I use a brush but it is to clean the loo not break up massive poos to push around the u bend.

Of course, OP, if you need to clean the lav when your DH has had a curry, you don't have a lav problem, you have a DH problem!

yeah if the solution involves putting my hand in the toilet I'd rather just have a toilet brush haha.

This. 100%

I also hate the idea of sloshing excessive bleach around.

And what if someone uses your loo and, um, needs to clean?

Having one is just practical and considerate imo.

Great to see this thread though. Just like old times

Just need thread on washing towels and changing bed as it will just like 2019 again

Someone who suggested putting their hand in the toilet and wiping any poo with toilet roll and their bare hand just made me feel sick

Great to see this thread though. Just like old times grin

Totally.

OP I use the ikea ones that get changed regularly. They sit in a bit of bleach water and get rinsed by a bleach flush after use.

I would not use someone else’s loo brush left behind in a house. That is making me ill to think of it.

I do use a brush in the loo but it’s different design to what you have in the U.K., closer to a multipurpose scrubber type. I clean the loo and then clean the loo brush. So my brush is never dirty. I do not keep it in the bathroom but in the utility room.

If someone has an episode, they know to go and get the cleaner and brush the clean up after themselves, even wipe under the seat if needed.

I am the same as many others on here and would not dream of having a toilet brush in the house, I find them disgusting.
No one in my house has ever left marks in the toilet when they go. If I ever leave a mark all that is required is a wipe over with toilet roll then bleach.

Ugh. I never use the brush to dislodge poo. Blergh
It’s easier self monitor how big a turd you have had and to flush after poo and flush again after wiping. If that isn’t enough, then other methods upthread are used. If the toilet gets blocked, then it’s time to use a plunger and bucket of hot water.

Someone who suggested putting their hand in the toilet and wiping any poo with toilet roll and their bare hand just made me feel sick

That’s ALWAYS being touted on here as the better option.

I. Will. Never. Understand. It.

I'm much more upset by people bleaching all the time than by using an old loo brush. You only need one though, OP!

If you live in a hard water area, you have no choice to have a brush. Bleach won’t remive the hard water deposits/scale that will build up and stain. I moved into a house where the prior owner had no brush and just bleached and used those toilet cleaner discs you put in the tank. It too two years to get through all the scale and have a shiny toilet...it was coming off in chunks.

@Baaaahhhhh
Good grief we are a family of 6 and we have never had a turd stuck in the u bend. What on earth are you eating? A few more vegetables needed methinks. There is a stool chart hospitals use for healthy turds,
I think ones that get lodged in the U bend are not good

That’s ALWAYS being touted on here as the better option.
I. Will. Never. Understand. It.

Me neither. Sticking hand into toilet - no problem, but using a tool specifically designed so you don't need to scrub shit with your bare hands - somehow yuck?