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who cleans the toilet in your house?

17 replies

lucytails · 02/07/2011 17:52

its always me who ends up cleaning the loo in my house and i wonder does your OH ever help clean the toilet, or is it the womans job in your house? And how often does your loo get a squirt of bleach/toilet cleaner? Sometimes i think i'm being OCD and other days i think i'm being slattenly by cleaning my loo twice a week.

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Hassled · 02/07/2011 17:55

Always, always me (DH does have a reasonable defence, in that he works far far away during the week) and yes, I do mine twice a week too. The odd extra squirt of bleach if it looks like it needs it.

walesblackbird · 02/07/2011 17:56

I clean them all. But I'm a sahm and my dh works long hours. And I have two boys who are incapable of aiming straight or of lifting up the seat. No matter how many times they're told.

I squirt cleaner around when I remember to!

ChasingSquirrels · 02/07/2011 17:58

the cleaner.
before the cleaner it was always me (both before ex-H left and, obviously, after).

Jojay · 02/07/2011 17:59

Me.

Good clean once a week, quick wipe around in between.

Shinyshoes1 · 02/07/2011 18:02

me, I do it after my morning wee and last thing at night. I wash the floor with bleach daily

Notinmykitchen · 02/07/2011 18:03

Yep, always me, despite the fact DH and I do the same job, although he works 3 hours a week more than me. It gets a wipe round if it looks grubby, and a squirt of bleach when I think of it, but in the last 8 years don't think it has occurred to DH that toilets actually need cleaning! I don't know how bad it would have to get before he would do it, I am scared to find out!

lucytails · 02/07/2011 18:10

so its not just my OH then. I could have swung for him in tesco earlier when walking down the cleaning aisle he asked if i'd run out of my toilet bleach because he noticed it was looking a bit grubby of late. He only said it because there was a girl right next to us and he likes embarrassing me. Cheek of it though when i doubt he has ever picked up the bottle of bleach behind our loo whilst i've known him lol

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Jdore · 02/07/2011 19:04

I do a " proper" clean, under the seat, round the seat, bleach etc, but everyone who can use a loo unaided in this house is expected to check for and remove skidders from the bowl, wipe up drips etc.

TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 02/07/2011 19:07

Either of us. Same as everything else.

Well, not everything else. Big joke in our house about how I don't know how to work the hoover or know where the washing up liquid is Grin

Both could possibly be true Blush

BluddyMoFo · 02/07/2011 19:09

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whomovedmychocolate · 02/07/2011 19:19

Cleaner and me. So that's four times a week.

DH would do a shit job (crap gag sorry) so I don't give him the opportunity. Some things need doing right.

Paschaelina · 02/07/2011 19:21

He thinks its ok just to squirt and flush, I'm the one who scrubs it. But then I am like Bathylkopian and don't do hoovering really.

superjobeespecs · 02/07/2011 19:27

whoever dirties it!! unless its DD then usually me just because we seem to have a routine of her going toilet and me going in after her i think it started when she was toilet training and i used to make sure she had wiped then flushed :)

stofstg · 03/07/2011 19:10

pfft my OH or girls wouldn't know what the toilet brush or the bottle of domestos is even for!! i'm the loo cleaner here!

stofstg · 03/07/2011 19:25

na i swaer my OH thinks its a game whenever i squirt cleaner down the loo to piss off the liquid from the bowl!!!!

tallulah · 03/07/2011 19:45

Before we moved it had always been DH's job. Now it's suddenly joined the ever-growing list of my chores, and I'm not happy about it. (Both work FT)

Hulababy · 03/07/2011 19:47

Me

Gets a spray of cleaner or bleach most days.
gets cleaned 2-3 times a week.

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