Admittedly I am a complete germaphobe and know that I live up to my name but this is bothering me quite a bit. We have been in the house we are in for about 18 months now. The bathroom is poorly ventilated and the bathroom suite must be about 15 years old and dated but serves it's purpose for now but yesterday one of the hollow casing covering the hinges on the toilet seat snapped so it needed replacing. Got dh to pick up a new seat on his way home from work. When we removed the old seat I can't believe what was underneath these hollow fittings and around the rubber supports. They were not accessable for cleaning but obviously years worth of grime had worked it's way inside and there was clumps of brown moist gunky stuff that was also around the srews/bolts that were removed.
To top it all off dh dropped one of the fittings on the floor which broke, hence brown gunky stuff over the floor. Armed with the bleach and hot water I cleaned the loo before fitting the new seat and then mopped the floor. Do you think I've done enough to kill any harmful bacteria that's been lurking and multiplying for years?
Feel quite anxious at the moment so I think my paranoia about germs is getting the better of me quite a lot. Usually am more in control, have had CBT in the past but then something like this happens and I have a bad spell.