To think about not having a toilet brush?

[JoelyJoe]

So, during a particularly scintillating conversation at work today, about the state of the staff toilets, a colleague mentioned that she would never have a toilet brush in her house, because they are disgusting! Another colleague agreed.
I was surprised. While I hate the toilet brush, and its revolting little pot, I don't know of another alternative, other than putting my hand down there. Do they just use bleach? I don't really like using super strong chemicals any more than necessary.
I'd love to not have one. What do people do??

Havnt had one for years. Rubber gloves and a good scrub once a week does the job. I do have toilet with high waterlevel so poop tend to go straight into water rather than newer toilets that have low water level

I have a Joseph Joseph silicone one with a holder for the bleach bottle

I don't like them and think they're 'dirty traps' - I wouldn't have one in my toilets.

Bleach literally dissolves it.

I use the disposable toilet duck thingys. Much better than a brush.

Bleach after any poo and bleach toilet overnight. My loo is 15 years old and looks brand new.

I have a silicone one, when cleaning the toilet I bleach, let sit, clean with brush, flush and rinse off the brush with the clean water from the flush.

Every now and again I will sit the toilet brushes in bleach so they are also properly clean. It's fine, I don't use the brush for anything else, I doubt it's much dirtier than the toilet and it doesn't leap at me so all is well.

I have never had one in my house.
Utterly vile, unhygienic filth spreaders 🤮.
There are 4 toilets in my house and they get cleaned every single day and the wipes binned.

I've always had toilet brushes, I'll always have toilet brushes.
Only on here is such an innocuous object met with such hand wringing horror.

Same here. So much easier. So much more hygienic than having a toilet brush, and safer around toddlers as long as you keep the pads out of reach.

Don't be silly. There's no "faux politeness" here. Far from it, in fact. "Toilet" is on a par with "lounge", "settee" (or, worse, "couch"), "bubbly", and "dessert". There are plenty more where those came from. People who are being "faux polite" tend to use euphemisms - "passed away" (or "passed", which is beyond awful) instead of "died".

I don't know a single person who says "toilet", other than my builders.

Call a spade a spade and a loo brush a loo brush.

Sorry, you don't know a single person who says toilet? I must move in very different circles to you, or be from a different part of the UK. Pretty much everyone I know would ask "where are the toilets?" in a restaurant /pub /cafe. Nobody would ever ask where the bathroom is. My family all have settees in their lounges. We do tend to have pudding at home, but may well have dessert in a restaurant.

Maybe it's regional? I live in Yorkshire where people call a spade a spade, and a toilet a toilet . I also say loo, and when I am being tongue in cheek I say facilities (a standing family joke).

I really don't know anyone who says lavatory. The only person I knew who called the toilet a lavatory was my dad (working class Londoner), who would now be 114 years old if he were still alive.

If I used the term lavatory in my local I would have the piss taken out of me.

I think cleaning companies have a lot to answer for. All these disposable products, massive s of chemicals being poured into our waterways, over marketing of “KILLS ALL GERMS” has made people terrified of doing a bit of basic cleaning.

I say toilet, most people do, I think PP was just being a bit snobby, she mentioned her builders saying it

I love this thread.

After my Mum died I helped Dad with practical stuff and realised they didn't have a toilet brush! I bought one but have ever since wondered what in earth Mum used. Her bathroom was always clean!

We have two. One in each loo. I'm pushing 70 and have had one in every home I have lived in since I was a child (to say nothing of the loos in the workplace). The number of people I have heard of who were infected by any sort of disease caused by having a loo brush in their house and/or workplace is exactly ZERO.

I'm keeping them.

Remember there's nothing in a lavatory bowl that you didn't put in your mouth at some time earlier.

I suspect you might be right about the real world @User2856948, but I have seen too many threads on mumsnet where posters are too snobby delicate to say toilet

Same here. The limescale builds up really quickly.

I get HG Limescale remover from a plumbing suppliers and give it a blast every 3-4 weeks.

I prefer lavatory to toilet, but find "loo" beyond twee.

I'm dead rough though, and usually call it the bog.

Maybe all us bog brush owners should have a sign made for the door.
BEWARE OF BOG BRUSH.

Same, we rinse it in the flush and then bleach it so it doesn't get too grotty. As soon as it starts to look gross we replace it.

I also think it's necessary for guests to have the option, I'd be mortified to leave a mark in someone's toilet but equally I'm not going to go hunting for bleach and gloves in their cupboards either.

Where do people call them lavatories? No-one says lavatory here (South Yorkshire).

Public toilets always have a sign that says "toilets", so why are people so odd about calling it a toilet?

It's no different from Americans calling them restrooms or bathrooms.

I have a brush. It's never used on skids, though.

Toilets get flushed until clean. A little bleach poured in after poo.

Every night I pour a little more bleach around the rim of the flushed downstairs toilet and leave it sit for twenty-thirty minutes while I do before-bed stuff. Then I do a quick scrub with the brush and flush while the brush is in the water.

The handle gets wedged under the seat to drip dry overnight, put in the pot dry the next morning.

I do the opposite with the upstairs toilets in the morning.

I'm disabled so upstairs/downstairs only get used either in the day or the night so plenty of time for the brushes to dry.

Although my toilets have always looked sparkling clean after the flushing and I don't live in a hard water area, I like to give a scrub just to make sure I don't get a build-up of mineral deposits or staining from our water supply (we've had what I'm told were red-staining iron leaks in the supply a few times). This staining doesn't get noticed until it dries onto the porcelain and is a bugger to get off later.

Bleach is terrible in septic tanks but when used carefully in small amounts in a mains system is better than other cleaners. It breaks down into salt and water and, importantly for me, doesn't kick off my asthma like toilet cleaners do.

I don't believe my brush is as germy as many people believe their brushes are. Especially if they dive straight into shit. It's bleached, dried and replaced in its pot. I don't use it to wash my back or scrub tea stains from my mugs!

This is our home bloody bane of our lives! DH hates them. I'm a bit of a diva with grubby toilets ... HATE them!
I bleached and bleached the toilets on our house and it's still it clean --- bloody hate it - so I bought toilet brushes ... u til our then 1 year old came out of our toilet holding aloft said toilet brush like a bloody Excalibur sword 🙀 and DH said .., 'nope!' 😷 ... 🤯🤯🤯
We now have bleach again and I loathe my toilets with ick in them ... 🤬🤬🤬