I don't disinfect [blush]

[Alinta]

Am I the only one?

I am a bit of a clean freak but I just realised I haven't had disinfectant in the house for years. Is this unusual?

Not unusual at all as I think most of the cleaning sprays and wipes most people use have similar things in them anyway.

Mmm I don't use a cleaning spray.

I try to use as few products as possible so mircrofibre cloths and water or soap and hot water. We've got sodding granite and other such stuff in our kitchen and bathroom so I can't use my old faithful vinegar solution.

I use vinegar for most things include wiping out the nappy bucket as disinfectant spray makes me cough. I do use toilet cleaner and flash in the bathroom when I remember to clean it

Oh I do the toilet cleaner stuff in the bathroom.

i dont own it either

I have owned my house for 6 years so have not touched the stuff for 6 years.

I use cloth nappies and i dont disinfect the buckets either.... i just rinse with hot water after use, then put in a few drops of tea tree oil.

I have dettol spray that my cleaner uses once a week, and occasionaly i use it too, but normally i just use water and an e-cloth. (i have a fresh e cloth each day)

Oh well no-one has come on and told us we are all living in germ ridden homes, so I suppose it must be fine.

me neither.

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Nannyl - a fresh ecloth every day ? Do you have loads that you wash each day?!

I use bleach every week for loos and sinks, also a fresh E cloth (£1.50 for a pack of 5 in Tescos and I have 2 packs)

I only use antibac spray on chopping boards when I have been preparing raw chicken. I had campylobacter 4 years ago and don't want to go through that again. I use bleach in the loos and just use hot soapy water and a microfibre cloth for the work surfaces in the kitchen.

I just scrub the chopping board with soapy water and a sponge.

yes i have a few.... i wash nearly every day so every morning i just stick it in, and about once a month when i dont have a load i just put it in the machine ready for the next load.

occasionaly i put them all in on a 60C wash with napisan to give them a deep clean, but as they have only been used for 1 day, i feel they really arnt that that dirty, hence i dont mind just sticking them in with whatever...

I use disinfectant down drains once a year and down overflows and plugholes periodically.
Sometimes I put a little diluted zoflora in the fabric conditioner compartment of the washing machine.
I have a zoflora spray for around the base of the loo.
I use disinfectant for the bin.

But,tbh,I think you/I can easily do without and be perfectly clean - also I am cautious about its use and always let it dry completely before I allow access to my cat as I believe its poisonous to cats.

I have a bottle of anti bacterial stuff. Only used it when I had norovirus (emetophobic) so I scrubbed the whole bathroom with bleach and anti bacterial
Usually I am very much about hot soapy water but the overwhelming urge not to vomit took over

brighthair I have a special bottle of Dettol reserved only for vomitty occasions

The smell of it completely reminds me of sick bowls.

I can't drink vimto now as drinking it just warm off a spoon was the only thing I could keep down. I had 3 days of it, followed immediately by full on flu

Toilet cleaner, Dettol spray (for cat splodges) and bleach for the bloody mould in the bathroom. I'm no domestic goddess, admittedly - but using loads of disinfectant is a Very Bad Thing for two reasons: a sterile environment inhibits the evolution of your immune system; frequent use of disinfectants promotes resistant strains of bacteria. As an added disinfectant disincentive, chemical germ-killers bugger up the ecology; bleach doesn't because it degrades to salt & water.

So you are RIGHT, Kim & Aggie are WRONG! :)

I have strong-thick-Domestos-kills-all-known-germs-dead and use this whenever anything requires disinfecting. A bottle lasts a fair while...
I don't bother with Dettol any more since someone at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist snorted derisively about its disinfecting abilities (this was over 20y ago, haven't used it since).

I don't use anti-bacterial anything - I have Theories about it and won't allow it in the house and certainly not on anything that involves food - I don't want my gut bacteria being knocked off by bloody anti-bacterial residues!

We don't have dogs or cats though - might be more inclined to use disinfectants more if we did - but not much.

I did use Napisan for DS's nappies though.

I agree with what someone wrote on here earlier, being too clean can be bad as it allows children not to build a good inmune system so they are vulnerable to being ill easily. Saying that though i do have a bottle of domestos bleach to make sure kitchen work surfaces and the loo are proper clean because thats where the proper bad germs are generally lurking, but apart from that i just wipe down everything else with a mix of warm water and washing up liquid.