Do you wash the toilet with the same cloth as the rest of the bathroom ?

[xmastreezz]

I was always taught to have a special sponge / cloth which only gets used to wash / wipe the toilet.

The sink and shower etc are wiped down with a different cloth.

MIL uses the same cloth for the entire bathroom.

I find that strange. How do you do it ?

I use the same cloth for the outside of the loo after I’ve cleaned everything else in the bathroom. Inside of the loo I use loo paper to clean. Then the cloth goes in it’s own dedicated mini laundry basket ready for a special hot cloth wash.

Jesus Christ competitive bathroom/toilet cleaning. People need to get a grip and this sort of shit boils my piss as someone who went through years of therapy and suffering from dehabilitating OCD.

I use one cloth. Clean the skin, bath, skirting boards window sills then the toilet, all of the toilet, top of cistern, seat, behind the toilet where the pipe is. Then wash the cloth on a hot wash. This is done every day.

*sink not skin that has its own cloth

No

@Malacath

What I'd like to know is, where do people store rinsed out cleaning cloths when they're still wet? I'd hate to put them in with the dry dirty things in the wash basket but I also hate having a bucket in my kitchen to store cleaning cloths until I have enough for a hot towel/wipes wash. I clean a bit every day so I've always got wet cloths and wipes around. Don't want to store them in the machine as I'll be washing other things and it would make the machine smelly!

Why not just hang them on the bath or a bathroom radiator if you're not happy putting them in the washing basket, or get a small separate basket for wet dirtys?

Different cloth for me and always done at the end. I used a method anti bac spray on the lid and seat, that has to stay on for 5 minutes to work, then use bleach on a sponge for the underside of the seat, the rim and the bowl.

Toilet last surely?
I do sink- shower/bath, toilet and then wash it in a hot wash.

Blue for loo, pink for sink and bath/shower etc. All cloths put into a plastic lidded tub until it gets washed. They all get washed together as a full load with dettol laundry cleaner and then tumble dried which according to the washing detergent expert who was on here a while ago in the Ask Me Anything section tells me this kills all germs dead.

I have 3 toilets to clean. I use one cloth per toilet.

I am as far from a germaphobe as you can get, but even I use different cloths!!!

@namechange30455

Yes, but do the toilet last

Surely there's no need for a special cloth if you do that

I'm the same. Same cloth. Just use it last.

I have a big old wash basket in my utility and any wet dirty cloths I hang over the edge until dry then add them into the mix with dirty tea towels.
Bathroom cloths I just bung into the wash basket with the towels as they get washed together anyway.

@whattodo2019

Blues for loos Pinks for sinks

Ha ha, that's exactly what I have.

I don't understand how anyone can clean a loo with loo paper. My good quality loo paper disintegrates as soon as it gets very wet.

And as for using the same cloth? No.

I'm sure I read somewhere that the correct system for cleaning the bathroom is to clean the loo first, then the bath, then the basin.

A degradable disposable wipe probably no worse, environmentally, than lots of 60 degree washes really (under 60 degrees won't kill germs). Lots of toilet rags sitting around or being washed with tea towels etc, yuck! My MIL doesn't believe in germs and uses same cloths for everything, handles raw meat and cooked food without washing hands etc and frequently has 'stomach bugs'.

Yesterday it was competitive bum wiping, today competitive bathroom cleaning - what is going on!?
I’m a bit disappointed no one’s chipped in with the “my toilet’s so clean you could eat your dinner off it” yet 🤮

Flushable wipes are the solution here

I draw the line with flushable wipes, they block drains (our outside drain is prone to blocking v easily) or make their way to join one of those giant fatbergs 🤢

Yes but I do it last. So I clean the sink first.

I have an old nappy laundry bag that the cloths go in to

No, clean the inside with brush, then wipe seat, lid etc with wet wipes and bin them, dry with toilet paper and bin that. Would do the same even if I didn't have a septic tank (not supposed to use bleach or just a teeny bit now and then).

@CuriousMariette

Yesterday it was competitive bum wiping, today competitive bathroom cleaning - what is going on!? I’m a bit disappointed no one’s chipped in with the “my toilet’s so clean you could eat your dinner off it” yet 🤮

There’s an exhibit in my local science centre where they’ve put a drinking fountain in a toilet bowl. It’s never been used as a toilet. But still the point is that we are very much conditioned not to want to drink from a toilet, even if we know that it’s totally clean and fine.

Blue cloth for loo, pink for taps, sinks, bath, shower, etc.

Different cloths, different colours so they can't be confused.
Blue for loo. Green for - not blue, couldn't find pink for sink

Same cloth but always toilet last, I normally do inside the toilet with the toilet brush and bleach, and the outside and seat with the cloth.
Obviously straight into a hot wash afterwards.

God no!

Spray the loo with cleaner, wipe with loo roll and flush.

Bleach or limescale overnight and use a Duck toilet brush with flushable ends for scrubbing.

Old but gold... this absolutely belongs right here on this thread.