Separate antibacterial sprays for different areaS..

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Just hoping the wise ones can shed some light. Person A believes that any tools and sprays used in a bathroom area, should only be used in those areas. Otherwise there’s a risk of cross contamination.

Person B believes sprays can be taken out of the bathroom, and used all over this house, even in food prep areas like the kitchen. Person B will argue the liquid in the spray bottle is a disinfectant and won’t be affected by having primarily already been used in the bathroom.

I’m with person A, it’s easier, cleaner and safer to just have specific sprays for designated areas. Person A is also the one that does the majority of the cleaning anyway.

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I dont have separate sprays for contamination reasons but for convenience. I dont want to be carrying equipment from room to room when I can store sprays in each room

The spray doesn't need to touch the loo to be contaminated, @lancsgirl85 . Germs on the surface of the loo can be aerosolised by the spray.

Are you saying that the process of spraying the spray can cause germs to transmit to the spray nozzle, and then these germs can be subsequently sprayed onto your kitchen counter from the nozzle? And these germs would not be killed by the antibacterial action of the spray within the nozzle? It all seems a bit unlikely to me......

@chesirecat99

Person A sounds en route to OCD to me.

I don't think anyone should use (marked as) disinfectant or anti-bacterial sprays hardly ever anywhere, much less routinely, so wouldn't matter to me, it's all bad stuff.

I have cleaning sprays for the bathroom and separate for the kitchen.

So it would stand to reason that you also believe YOU are contaminated every time you go in the bathroom and then have to get washed and changed before you enter the kitchen? If you're not, then neither is the bottle. I'm with person B.

I haven't been brain washed by marketing people into using antibacterial sprays everywhere or antibacterial hand gels. Just soap and water or detergent and perhaps a drop of bleach in toilets and drains.
And funnily enough have stayed well and so have the children.

@ItsNotNormalLove no because I put down the toilet lid, so how would I get contaminated?
Person b doesn’t put down the lid, and moves the bottle out of the cupboard to sit next to the toilet routinely.

I feel very sorry for person A.
Sounds like they have some form of OCD.

I might grab a spray bottle but don't specifically look for anti-bacterial stuff for the toilet. It's probably all bleach based anyway.

I did say it is a bit of a technicality, @lancsgirl85 ...

It would be more likely that contamination would occur from aerosolised germs from the loo getting on the outside of the bottle then being transferred on to a surface that the bottle was placed on (or a person's hands).

But, my post was in answer to the point you made that germs "can't jump from the toilet bowl to the spray". They can't jump but they can be propelled 😂

You should avoid aerosolising procedures (eg spraying) when cleaning biohazardous materials. But, as I said, it's a bit of a technicality, OP is cleaning her own loo, not infected blood. She is correct that there is a risk of contamination though, albeit a miniscule one.

But what about the aerosols from when you actually pee or poo? It's all over your bottom then goes onto your clothes and you touch that.
Man stand peing so they whole front is covered?

Ok didn't know this before posting. Have since read your other posts and to be fair, you did sound hugely neurotic in your OP but your drip feeds about it being stood by the toilet I'm in complete agreement with. I wouldnt stand that on my kitchen worktops either.

@BuggerationFlavouredCrisps if only the nhs knew about your amazing abilities of diagnosing from the comfort of your armchair! They’d save billions and cut down appointment times!

I’ve said I find the bottle thing a bit icky, no need to make comments about the state of my mental health. OCD and anxiety are real and can be horrible to live with. No need to feel sorry for me, maybe just learn to not make light of real mental health issues.

I keep cleaning products in both the kitchen and the bathroom purely for convenience.
I really could not be arsed having to traipse upstairs to bring down a spray to the kitchen or vice versa.

@ItsNotNormalLove thank you - yup sorry should have been clearer 🌟

With your updates about the toilet seat YANBU, and the fact that the spray lives on the floor.

I have lived in house shares etc where the bathroom was often grim and too many people flushed with the toilet seat up so in that situation I would not take that bathroom spray and put it down just anywhere in the house or on kitchen surfaces.

In normal clean circs though it’s separate bottles for convenience and a general antibacterial cleaner is decanted into bottles for kitchen and bathroom.

I suspect person B’s motivation is laziness and disrespect rather than anything reasonable and genuine, and if it’s like with an ex of mine, his contempt and downright arseholeness is exacerbating your OCD.

Who cares as long as you're not the person doing all the cleaning?

I learned a long time ago to ignore DP using kitchen spray in the bathroom and vice versa because it meant that even if it didn't smell quite as I envisaged, it wasn't me scrubbing the underside of the toilet seat.