What’s wrong with a loo brush?

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Inspired by the MN sins thread. So many people are saying their loo brush is their greatest MN sin. As a fellow sinner, I need to know what’s wrong with a loo brush?

after used i pour more bleach on it and press flush and let the clean water run over it. I needs to know

Can you link to yours? I can't decide which one to buy

because it doesn’t reliably get the shit streaks off? And I don’t want my friend/ the cafe owner/ the cleaner to have to clean my shit streaks off.

I'm beginning to hate mine, I want something reusable that can be instantly discarded with the cleaning cloths to be put on a hot wash. However I cannot find any product that does this. I don't want it sitting there after use, but I do want it available for kids, visitors etc.

I keep looking at dusters with microfibre heads but none are the right shape.

I dont use bleach personally but what would be the difference between doing that or not doing that but pouring bleach on the brush once its used to clean that after you've used it to scrape away bits?

A small amount of bleach on the loo brush or in the loo brush holder thing is a world away from putting copious amounts down the toilet which is what seems to be what the non loo brush posters recommend as a means of cleaning the toilet, as I say 'tis only what I've gleaned from the many threads on here about the great loo brush debacle.

I agree they are vile but there is no alternative unless you don’t have guests.

I have this one, which I got for a lot less at TK Maxx.

Joseph Joseph Flex Smart Hygienic Silicone Toilet Brush with Holder- Grey/White amzn.eu/d/3jTTHjY

I have one but it doesn't directly touch shit. I use it for scrubbing the toilet when it's already free of waste. So basically a cleaning utensil. I couldn't have one sat in the corner of the bathroom covered in nuggets thank you.

In the event of skids I just Chuck bleach down and flush.

Cannot imagine life without a loo brush…just clean the container and put loo cleaner in it regularly….it really is not that difficult to understand!

Have none of you heard of the Duck Fresh Brush? 🤔

Good question. I was baffled. If you have hard water and don't scrub occasionally, you get a build up of limescale under the waterline.

I beg to differ.. it is very reliable lol. All i ever use and never seen a shit streak in my home

@whoruntheworldgirls this one from Amazon. You get two in the pack. I’ve stuck mine on the toilet cistern, so I don’t have to grovel on the floor to reach it - and Dh uses it too.
@Namingchangeschangingnames Silicone ones don’t get that orange ‘glow’ of bacteria (even using bleach), srip
dry very quickly and tissue etc doesn’t get stuck to the bristle. Also fab as they are flexible and flat, at getting under the rim and round the bend etc.

Okay say your teen boy uses the loo, flushes, and disappears off to work. You come in a couple hours later to find streaks above and below the water line. How do you remove without a brush? Even using rubber gloves, I don't want to submerge my forearm down the pan.
And bleach and repeated flushing won't get rid.

It's one of the Mumsnet Shibboleths.

There's nothing wrong with a (covered) loo brush. They self-clean when you scrub the loo too - though I'm curious about these silicone ones. I was trying to fix my loose toilet seat the other day, unscrewed the tiny hex nut that held it in place and it fell right into the basin. I had to reach in and extract it - nice!

I cant believe people would rather stick their hand down the loo and scrub off someone else’s shit stains than have a bleached, washed toilet brush in the bathroom!
We’ve always had loo brushes, seems the best of the two options to me!

I agree that silicone brushes are tons better - the Joseph Joseph one is great
www.josephjoseph.com/products/flex-lite-toilet-brush-white

Right?!?!?!

Toilet brushes are the spawn of the devil!! To clean my toilet I have a pack of disposable gloves and a pack of cloths.. give it a good clean above and below water level and dispose of cloth and gloves afterwards. Bleach now and then. Works a dream.

Same here. They're brilliant. And I say this as a Crohn's patient 😳😆

I totally understand how you can clean a toilet without a brush. But how do you expect your guests to remove their skid marks without one? It’s mortifying leaving a loo messy and not being able to clean it and repeated flushing doesn’t always do the job. I’d rather not stick my hand down someone else’s toilet, but what alternative are you giving me if I also don’t want to leave a mess?

If the loo brush is considered manky, what do people do with the rubber gloves they have reached down into the loo with to scratch the shit off?
For the record I have a loo brush but I always clean round the seat etc with loo roll with cleaner in it a flush because I don’t want toilet cloths around

Hazarding a guess most people disgusted don’t live in a v hard water area with lime stone build up. It’s not a skid mark issue, it’s limestone build up. Pouring limestone remover down and waiting 20 mins does not work alone.

some v odd and unenvironmental views on here.

I have this is what I use is this a bad idea?

Domestos all the way for me, works every time.