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

No do not have one as turns my stomach to be honest as always a gloopy wet mess. I put on a rubber glove and use bleach and scrub bottom of toilet.

I can't do them, the idea of them is so vile. The bleach/poo/toilet water soup in the bottom of the container as well, eeeeek!

I was seriously thinking about the silicone ones, but then we stayed in a holiday cottage which had them, and I used one and a bit of shit got properly stuck between the little rubber nodules and would not wash off with the flush and I couldn't face just putting it back in the holder so had to use bog roll to clean it, making the entire excercise pointless!

I'm sticking to bleach for now. The limescale is a bit of a problem, but I find those tablet things work quite well below the waterline.

I recently changed from a bristle bog brush to a silicone one. I'm not sure I'm convinced it's better (see post above re possible shortcomings!) but my personal jury is out for now...

What happens to the gloves afterwards?
What about a visitor?
Teenagers just before school?
The bleach and the gloves kind of implies it's just you doing the cleaning.

Hate brushes but at least everyone can clean up after themselves.

God can't someone invent something?

I have a toilet duck thing (might be the same as the duck fresh pp mentioned). It's a plastic stick with a clamp at one end for paper pads predosed with cleaner. Scrub the loo, pad goes in the bin, there's usually something in there to wrap it in. I'm curious about these silicone brushes now though.

I don't want a loo brush in my house that other people use. They are disgusting to be in the toilet water , brought out toilet and put in the holder - think of all the bacteria going everywhere! Yuck. I keep the duck fresh stick and put the disposable brush part into a bag, holding bag over loo to stop toilet water particles going anywhere (usually my bedroom waste bin bag which is full and going to outside bin) and then Dettol spray the plastic bit. It's the cleanest way I can think to do it...

Gross.

Nothing, absolutely nothing is wrong with a toilet brush. No, I don't want to stick my hand, gloved or otherwise down the toilet.

I paid £20 for my last one from JohnLewis and had to wait a week for delivery as it was sold out online .

Either the brush cleans the inside of our toilet or we put gloves on and get a sponge and do it ourselves..

£20 seems a bargain 🤣

All the alternatives to a toilet brush are fine - if you are a reclusive, anti-social hermit who doesn’t let anyone over your threshold.

And let’s be honest, there’s a disproportionate number of such people on MN.

For people who do have friends and family, and who welcome them into their homes, loo brushes are a necessary evil.

They just are. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I could not imagine I would ever remove poo scraps by hand 🤮
That is disgusting and far worse that a simple brush that can be bleached and cleaned! What do you do with the gloves afterwards? Do you have to throw them away?

You are not giving your guests a chance to clean after themselves so they have to do it gloveless or face the embarrassment of leaving their leftovers for you. It’s beyond grim!!

I did not realize anybody did not use a brush. Anyways, I am off to check out those silicon ones on Amazon, I didn't know of their existence until reading this thread.

Flush, bleach, brush, flush again to rinse the brush in the clean bleachy water. Brushes are only gross if you go at a massive turdy lump of loo roll with them. I would argue the bristle ones are essential in a hard water area. Not having one is really gross and embarrassing for guests.

A lot of people here on MN think a loo brush is used for pushing reluctant poop down the lav. A poo stick, if you will, only with lots of bristles for the poop to stick to.

The rest of know that a loo brush is used to clean the loo after you've squirted bleach into it, and you use a plunger if you block the loo.

I have a feral toddler so can't use one at the moment. But once he's grown up a bit I'll be back to my silicon one.

I used mine today.
My toilet's now looking a lot cleaner and shinier than it did earlier when it looked minging before a lot of Toilet Duck and a bog brush clean.
So MN randomers I don't care what you think lol

@Alphabet1spaghetti2 thank you

Nothing wrong. Mumsnet isn't the only truth in the world. Do whatever suits you. You don't lick it, FGS.

I am just glad this debate is getting the attention it deserves.

Viva La Loo Brush 😆

Whatever about your own preferences and tolerance for sticking your hand down the bog, I think it is unfair to visitors not to have one.

But perhaps, in true mumsnet style, these people don't let visitors use the bog 😵

There's nothing wrong with a loo brush. I personally found that er, debris, tends to stick to the silicon ones - the plastic bristles are much easier to keep really clean specially in the dishwasher.

I suppose sticking your hand down your own toilet is OKish if you are into that sort of thing, but I prefer not to put my hand down someone else's if they have the sort of bowl that attracts skid marks. I'd rather my guests didn't feel they should put their hands down my toilet, either; I tend to like my guests.

I certainly think they are better than using great wads of toilet paper, or those dreadful 'disposible' ones like Toilet Duck, which end up either blocking the sewer or in landfill (lucky binmen, eh?)

surely no one actually puts their loo brush in the dishwasher? I mean surely not! That’s worse then the penis beaker

No, they’re just terminally unsociable, and don’t even let visitors into the house.

hate the idea of a poo covered brush

Thats why people generally clean them