To have two toilet brushes?

[WhatTiggersDoBest]

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.

@LaurieMarlow

Ha! You have led a sheltered life. No poo touching required, same as wiping your bum really

But you are very, very U keeping someone else's old toilet brush.

@KatharinaRosalie

You dont get sht on your hands but you do get it all over brush bristles- then what to do with the brush? A twenty minute hand wash wont cut it

If so, what's the "proper" MN-approved way of cleaning a loo the day after my DH has had a curry? Hand him a toilet brush.

I put bleach down after anyone has been, leave for 5 mins then flush! You're not particularly fussed by the environment, then?

If you don't have a toilet brush how do you dislodge turds from the ubend. Use a dedicated sink plunger.

No poo touching required, same as wiping your bum really

Oh I’ve touched plenty of poo, don’t worry.

I have just no idea why you’d chose to do it like that, when you can use a handy loo brush.

Which are remarkably easy to clean, btw.

Actually, it’s the sloshing around of excessive bleach that gets me the most. I hate everything about bleach.

You rinse the brush clean when you flush the toilet. Sure, I have not inspected it under a microscope, but as it looks clean, sits in bleach and I'm not planning to use it for anything else, I can live with it.

Unless you are super careful and stop before the water line, you will get shit water on your hands. Or will leave marks.

then what to do with the brush?

You CLEAN IT.

A good method has already been explained up thread.

It’s a piece of piss, though listening to people on here, you’d think it’s like splitting the atom.

I don't have one I find the thought gross. I use a flash toilet duck cleaner. Just put a new cleaning head on clean the loo then flush the cleaning head away. Any skids get cleaned straightaway with a bit of loo roll

Can’t believe people put chemicals down the toilet after every little tinkle. No wonder the environment is fucked.

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!

Bahaha I'd better LTB pronto.

We have silicone brushes too - very effective and easy to clean with a clean flush. Haven't had to replace them yet as no rust etc

YABU to have not binned an inherited bog brush, and YABU to think having two for the same toilet makes any kind of sense.

For those people that can't understand the need for toilet brushes, the type of toilet you have makes a BIG difference. We had Ideal Standard short projection wall hung toilets installed. Awesome for space saving and easy mopping right underneath, but need a toilet brush almost every movement! Even for the kids and my OH who has Rolls Royce bowel movements!

@CouscousEvaporator yeah my MIL does this when she comes round my house. Uses half a flippin' bottle every time. I tried hiding the bleach and she started putting my £20 fancy shampoo down there instead!! It's like this crazy passive aggressive game of what liquids can she find in my house to throw away. I should put a money box on top of the cistern and a note asking her to pony up for Harpic. I usually only use it every couple of weeks to keep the limescale from building up.

Perhaps greater focus on environmental will bring the loo brush back to acceptability on MN

@WhatTiggersDoBest how toxic is her wee?! Haha

Definitely put a harpic fund jar in the bathroom welcoming donations 😆

I would rather do away with a loo brush but then I only use it for brushing after de scaling. If I've ever accidentally get much poo on it I have to get a new one. Why do they always go brown though? Also, when I've thrown any away I ponder which bin to put them in and choose non recycling, because I think how yuk it would be if they ended up as a food utensil! Or would they not do that or use for re cycling at all?

@Kellylabrant87 please read the health data on bleach. It sends fumes into the air and it is so bad for your lungs.

If I've ever accidentally get much poo on it I have to get a new one

That’s really wasteful. It’s very easily cleaned.

I have a toilet brush for each toilet. Once a week I put bleach in the toilet and let the brush sit in it for an hour.

Whatever side of the toilet brush debate you are on I cannot imagine keeping a toilet brush from previous house owners.

All the brush users who replace them "regularly" because they cost buttons, if you're cleaning them as well as you say you are, could you please have a think about replacing them a bit less regularly for the sake of the environment.

I also live in a hard water area and need them for limescale, the struggle is real and I'm losing the battle in one loo.

I have no idea about the quality of DH’s bowel movements or his use of a toilet brush (we don’t discuss) but our brush certainly looks like it has never been used to break up a poo! As far as I’m aware, it’s only used for cleaning under the rim on cleaning days.

Only about three times in my life, have I had a toilet episode that has left more than a tiny skid mark and I was so traumatised each of those times, I did just bleach the life out of the toilet.

I do the wipe toilet paper above the waterline thing if I ever need to, rarely use a cleaner, just give it a quick wipe away. I wouldn’t do that in any toilet other than mine. DH and I are the only people to ever use the loo that I poo in. I wouldn’t put my hand in the guest loo! I know this is weird. I’ve never discussed it with anyone, glad to find out I’m not the only one.

@NoMorePoliticsPlease ah yes the Bristol Stool Chart, there was a framed one in downstairs loo of a rented house, quite a weird thing to leave as furnishings.

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

I'm really missing the 'tradesman left a mess in my toilet' and 'tales of competitive toilet avoidance for hours, days or weeks to avoid the use of any toilet outside one's house' threads.

@Laurie, oh it's actually a rare thing for that to happen to me. Usually a loo brush lasts me years. I generally do things with the environment in mind, even take old clothes etc for rag bags at charity shops rather than landfill. Also I only use bleach minimally.