Cleaner wants to me to put a toilet brush in every bathroom

[toiletbrushtrauma]

We have three toilets and just started with a new cleaner.

I've been asked by the agency to put a toilet brush in every toilet. I don't want to, I hate toilet brushes I don't want three of them.

I've looked at the disposable ones but they are expensive and don't look great for the environment.

Never had a cleaner make this request before, is it usual?

To everyone saying "I just pop a bit of bleach down there" do you realise how damaging bleach is to the environment? God forbid you roll up your sleeves and actually scrub the bowl with a toilet brush (or pay the cleaner to do it) when you can chuck poison down there instead and feel smug about how 'hygenic' you are

I put on rubber gloves and use a washing up sponge. I don’t like toilet brushes either. And before anyone asks, I keep an old washing up sponge specifically for that purpose.

@Macramacious I’m not a being smug, I just prefer bleach to a bacteria laden toilet brush. Personal choice. For every article you read about the harmful effects of bleach on the environment you'll find another that contradicts it. Water is filtered, cleaned and chlorinated before we drink it?

I don’t have any toilet brushes. We used to but then my toddler started carting it around the house so it had to go. I get rid of fresh skids with bleach and then limescale it once a week.

In your position I’d just tell the agency you’ll clean the bowl yourself.

Sounds unhygienic and I'm not surprised the agency have requested you purchase toilet brushes.

[quote Kalula]**@moanyhole* Toilets also dont need to be scrubbed*

It is a receptacle that continually has water in it - not to mention other things - which means bacteria creates slime/algae. Toilets NEED to be scrubbed, anyone who thinks otherwise is, well deluding themselves. Anything that has water in it as well as human waste and chemicals, needs to be scrubbed. It's really scary reading the lack of hygiene due to ignorance.

Do you believe teeth don't need to be brushed either?[/quote]
Ah come on Kalula. If there was a build up of slime or algae do you not think id see it. My toilets are pure white. Toilet cleaner does what it says on the bottle, it cleans.
And of course you need to brush your teeth as you cant bleach them.

Do you expect your cleaner to put her hand u dear the water and clean off the shit marks?

I don't believe people actually leave poo marks in the toilet for the cleaner.

Kim and Aggie refuse to use toilet brushes...recommend rubber gloves and a good old scrub instead.

Reminds me to go rewatch some of the episodes of their show on YouTube.

@Redolent oh yes... I love that show! Never gets old

I have 5 toilets, none of which has ever been shat in. I ask my guests to oil and bleach their perfectly round bumholes before arrival. They are all capable of firing their excrement cleanly out a window.

[quote TitsOutForHarambe]@Redolent oh yes... I love that show! Never gets old[/quote]
There’s always that same bit where Aggie finds the streptococcus bacteria everywhere

The worst was the woman who kept all her cutlery inside the bathroom toothbrush holder 🤢

They are all capable of firing their excrement cleanly out a window

🤣🤣🤣

I used to be a cleaner many years ago and I would have simply refused if someone asked me to clean a toilet with no brush.
Brushes can be left in bleach overnight and are cheap enough to be replaced monthly.
For the people worried about marks: line the back of the bowl with tp before going, and simply flush it away after. No mess at all.

I don’t have a toilet brush. My toilet is clean and white. Cleaning spray and toilet paper.
It’s horrible to leave poo in there for a cleaner to clean up- no matter what tools you give them.

You THROW OUT gloves after using them once?! What a bloody waste, the environmental impact of that is huge. Just use a brush, you then hold the brush in the toilet and flush and it rinsed it, there is no shit stuck to it. What a very very odd thing to do.
And you seem shocked that a guest might want to use one, it's hugely embarrassing if not everything is flushed away, which happens, no one is talking about huge amounts like you seem to think, but small marks can be left which are quickly dealt with with a brush.

I have had a cleaner on and off for 20 years and nobody in my home would leave a dirty toilet for somebody else to clean .
I’m sorry but I don’t care who you are , you DO NOT leave poo or marks in the toilet for another person to see never mind Clean.

So you flush a faeces covered brush in the toilet and this miraculously makes both brush and toilet bowl clean?

With a silicone brush yes. It’s plastic so it comes right off. The holder it sits in, has a sort of gap at the bottom to let it air dry rather than sit in the bottom with left over shit a germs. Can even put a bit of liquid soap before flushing the toilet brush. I suggest you try one first before you knock it. I sent a link to a meeket one from amazon but you can find many others. Just make sure the bottom has the drying bit.

I used to be a cleaner many years ago and I would have simply refused if someone asked me to clean a toilet with no brush
Brushes can be left in bleach overnight and are cheap enough to be replaced monthly

I hope none of you need your bums wiped in years to come as obviously it's beneath the dignity of a nurse, carer or family member to indulge in such disgusting work.
And WTF anyone using a cleaner buys a new toilet brush every month. Ridiculous - I spose none of you wipe your own arses in a daily basis, or expect teachers etc to wipe your children's

Hey OP, don't you or yours ever have explosive diarrhea? Or throw up?

remainin that made me laugh.

Only on mumsnet would that question seem -
A - a perfectly reasonable q to ask of a complete stranger you’ve never spoken to before, and
B - an essential q that needed to be asked !

Wait till you have to clean these, the explosive poo can splash back - so you have to clean underneath and the sides, we have to don rubber clothes and have separate cleaning scourers, as it’s not like the toilet bowl and the shit sticks 🙈 but it has to be cleaned or it smells

I'm laughing at all the people who are claiming I suggested my cleaner should put her hands in my toilet. Never once did I suggest that.

I just don't expect to be told what do do by a cleaning agency. A simple; if you want the bowl cleaned please by the following equipment would be fine.

But ordering me to purchase three toilet brushes to fester forevermore next to every toilet is grim and I didn't appreciate it being phrased as an order rather than a conversation.

The environmental argument also isn't stocking up for a lot of you. Toilet paper is a waste but people are buying and replacing three plastic toilet brushes every month?

That's absolutely crackers and nobody on this thread has sold the idea of a poo stick to me, not even a silicon one.

I spose none of you wipe your own arses in a daily basis, or expect teachers etc to wipe your children's

Of course they do - there’s no alternative.

That doesn’t mean they should have to stick their hands down the bowl of a strangers loo, because stranger won’t supply a cheap, simple tool that saves them from having to do this.

If people are so against having loo brushes in their bathrooms I suggest they clean their own loos.

@toiletbrushtrauma

I'm laughing at all the people who are claiming I suggested my cleaner should put her hands in my toilet. Never once did I suggest that.

I just don't expect to be told what do do by a cleaning agency. A simple; if you want the bowl cleaned please by the following equipment would be fine.

But ordering me to purchase three toilet brushes to fester forevermore next to every toilet is grim and I didn't appreciate it being phrased as an order rather than a conversation.

The environmental argument also isn't stocking up for a lot of you. Toilet paper is a waste but people are buying and replacing three plastic toilet brushes every month?

That's absolutely crackers and nobody on this thread has sold the idea of a poo stick to me, not even a silicon one.

So your toilet just didn't factor in to cleaning at all?

Tbh that whole post just sums your attitude to cleaners. Hopefully the company will just give you a swerve.

Tbh that whole post just sums your attitude to cleaners. Hopefully the company will just give you a swerve.

Totally agree