Toilet brushes - I just keep replacing

[babasaclover]

Right so they are gross - I’ve tried soaking in bleach after use I’ve tried it all and at the moment just keep buying a new one every month.

what do you do if you don’t use them?

if you’re going to come on and give me shit don’t bother, I’ve got OCD so cannot just do as you say but am looking for help

bleach it, then flush. does the job without the brush

I’ve been mulling over some metal tongs. Pick up an old rag (eg a cut up t shirt), clean loo, throw rag, clean tongs in toilet flush.

but actually the toilet brush works ok.

i just put in bleach if there are skids and they dissolve. Never needed a toilet brush.

Rinse in a 2nd clean flush after use. We rarely have ' bits' in it. If we do I can't stand it and I do bin them.

A bleach a day, keeps the skiddies away!

Silicon here but I don’t have OCD. In fact I am fairly lax.

Toilets are usually amongst the cleanest places in your home. Plug holes are where the good stuff is. And toothbrushes.

We did swabs once of various household things for comparison and it wasn’t the expected things that were the germiest.

Also I bet if you wipe under the rim of non brush using households you’d be amazed what comes off. It’s quite fascinating (if you are me).

Don't use them, they're disgusting. Buy a bottle of bleach and ask people to run a bit round the rim. If there's strains under the water, it'll soon go. Sorry, but them nasty poo-stained unsanitary eyesores hanging around the loo 🤢🤮😆

I haven’t rft and haven’t much to suggest apart from the fact I have never recovered from the disclosure by a Mumsnetter many years ago that they put theirs in the dishwasher to clean! 😬

I have OCD OP and absolutely cannot stand bog brushes. I just use bleach in the toilet. It removes skids just fine. Just the cheap stuff.

You need a silicone toilet brush. Quick rinse as the toilet is flushing then soak it in bleach. Nothing sticks to it either.

Where are you based? The UK is no where near one of the wettest countries in the world! And however much you do for the environment it doesn't change the fact that we all need to use less water and toilet flushing uses a huge amount. I don't really understand your argument about children - they are people so of course every person on the planet has an environmental impact including children, unless you are suggesting that people shouldn't keep the planet populated which is a perspective I guess but quite a far out one.

I saw them for sale in B&M for £2.50 so you can afford to replace them every month. Whether if it is ecologically ethical do so that is another matter!

Yes they are super cheap less than a coffee! But tbh I had to deal with my own anguish day in day out so no more brain space for whether it is ethical.

I recycle an do all the good things I’m supposed to

I use the duck disposable ones. And I regularly soak under the rim of the loo with kitchen roll drenched in vinegar to remove the limescale as I live in a hard water area. I did buy a couple of silicone ones not long ago and they were good for scrubbing the bleach around but my husband and son treated them like the ones you see in public toilets so they went straight in the bin. I refuse to clean shit and tissue off a toilet brush!

If you go to ikea you can get them for £1.

I just clean the toilet with a cloth and stick some toilet duck down. Cloth goes in the wash.

POO Should NOT be sticking to the brush. You clean the toilet with the brush, and then flush it with the brush still in the toilet - this cleans everything off it. You then bash off the excess water in the toilet bowl and put it in the holder which should include something antibacterial like toilet cleaner.
Replace once a year.

I like mine, but I have a pumice stone long handled thing to get rid of limescale. I never really expected any type of brush to get rid of the limescale.

My mum used to empty the loo with a cup, then scrub it by hand with a scourer. I'm doing that!

The long handheld pumice stones are great, really satisfying.

Put a bag of ice down the toilet and flush it clears blockages

Silicone ones clean easy

Another vote for thick bleach. I have never owned a toilet brush, they're absolutely vile things 🤮🤮🤮 my toilets are spotless ✨

Gone down a rabbit hole on this. Well, chatgpt says toilet brushes are a essential component of the toilet clean as they provide the mechanical action to break up the germs. Apparently after three or four days the germs group together under the toilet rim in a colony and create a biofilm chemical shield that bleach alone can't penetrate. The toilet brush scrub rips open the biofilm exposing the germs so they get bleached.

Feel kinda sorry for those germ blighters now knowing they go to such effort to cling on for dear life against the bleach.