if you don't have a toilet brush, and hate bleach, what do you use on skid marks?

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Sorry for the title, and no, I'm not the poo troll.
So I get the idea about no toilet brushes; they are grim
But I also get the impression bleach is much maligned on MN.
So, when DH leaves skid marks down the toilet, how do you get rid of them?
Currently he squirts bleach on them, but he gets through gallons of the stuff. What is a better option?

Those dettol wipes are really not flushable and you will rue the day!

Everyone has to clean their own.

Wipe above the water line with loo paper

Put a bit of loo paper in the loo then flush for below the water line marks. No bleach.

No loo brushes as they are grim and I thought that before Mumsnet influence.

Get a fresh brush toilet brush with flushable paper brushes.

Toilet brushes are foul. I cringe when I see one in a bathroom.

Bleach does the job in our house. Thankfully nobody here is particularly 'skiddy' (high fibre diet?) but when they do occasionally appear I swizz bleach round the bowl and leave it for as long as possible. Always works.

What the hell is wrong with brushes? And with people who think that cleaning a below-the-waterline skid mark WITH THEIR HANDS is somehow worse than a loo brush which can be bleached/replaced regularly (yes, not all that eco, but certainly better than squeezing it on any mark, and way better than those flushable wipes, which are doing a much worse number on our sewers and waterways than bleach is).

Me and my BF do not have toilet brushes and have done so for a long time - way before I ever found MN. They are disgusting.

Tissue does the job for skidders and if tough then use bleach and left. Obviously wash your hands with disinfectant soap as you would normally. The whole putting your hands in the water thing I don't get - you will wash your hands after won't you?!

Bog brushes are cheap (wilkos) and they are not that difficult to keep clean until you replace it.
Can't imagine why anyone would not use a bog brush and bleach! I really am not going to stick my hand down the toilet to scrub poo from below the waterline. Flushing toilet roll just won't do the job.
DH cleans his own shit.

Dear god please don't tell me that you put your hand IN the water without so much as rubber gloves on???? I honestly cannot believe anyone would do that??

I have a loo brush, I flush at least a couple of times rinsing the brush thoroughly in the fresh water, stick a bit of bleach down a couple of times a week and wash the brush in said water, I replace the head frequently.

Place a piece off loo roll on said skid & leave. It will go wet & soggy, next time u use loo flush it & said piece of loo roll will flush away with offending skid
Life changing tip

Fascinating. My oh asks I have never had to discuss this. It's a given that we will reach clean up after ourselves. I doesn't realise I was taking this for granted!

How it goes down (pun intended) in chez Jub:

Step 1) Poo
Step 2) flush (dont forget this before continuing the following steps as you risk making poo soup)
Step 3) use bleach/eco friendly organic gluten free cleaning solution blessed by monks and squirt round the bowl aiming under the rim
Step 4) scrub a dub dub everywhere (including under the rim) with the brush
Step 5) flush, holding the brush under the 'clean' flowing water to rinse it
Step 6) wait for the toilet to refil
Step 7) repeat step 5
Step 8) put brush back (gently tapatap it first so you don't drip)

Tadaaaa. One clean toilet. No shitty hands.

We do use gloves - but my point is people still get their knickers in a twist about put their hands down the toilet. It's not like you're doing it after you've done your business, for the most part, it is fresh water.

Disposable gloves every time is definitely bad for the environment though. Unless you recycle your shitty glove after I suppose? Fancy seeing that poking out of your recycling bin!

lightgreen what do you do with your gloves after?

if the pan has limescale on it, it will be more attractive to grime than if it is clean, shiny and slippery.

Cistern Bleach Blocks (not bloo, not yellow, not green) slowly dissolve limescale from the cistern, the pan, and the waterways round the rim. You won't believe me, so photograph the inside of the cistern the day you put the first block in, and then again, a month or so later, when you put in the next.

Thank you jubjub! Very sensible.

disposable gloves every time and bleach is . Surely this is one of those only-on-mn moments...

I think a brush is necessary if you need to scrub. However, putting your hand in water post flush to wipe away remaining fresh skid marks with loo paper is just efficient. It's no more yuck than dealing with an exploding nappy.

I agree merrymouse

Thank-you ladies.
btw, this is to supply equipment for DH - he bleachs atm. I do not clean his skid marks!
We're not having a toliet brush.
The hole disposable gloves / flushable toilet brushes must be as bad for the environment as bleach. So we will continue on the current routine.

at Poo Soup

Each to their own sugar

But whatever you do don't flush normal bathroom or baby wipes. They clog the sewers terribly and then the street drains flood in heavy rains and you end up with a river of other people's poo flowing past your house. ^^

I drape a piece of toilet paper over it so that the end is in the water.

This keeps it wet and it will then VVVV likely go at the next flush, and you don't have to look at it because it's covered.

No brush. Rarely needed but if so we use hand. I can't see the problem unless your toilet is disgusting to start with. Before being used ours is very clean. It's used and all wee/ 99% of poo is flushed. Then you just wipe and flush again.

Many people probably have more poo germs in hand from wiping and not washing hands after ( which many do!)

I have red rubber gloves and a collection of old rags from old clothes etc. The gloves and the ecover toilet cleaner are kept in a little red bucket.
The rags are kept next to it.
Anyone wishing to clean the loo takes a rag and the bucket to the loo and follows this procedure:

Flush loo
Squirts toilet cleaner under rim, all the way round
Put on gloves
Takes rag and scrubs the toilet bowl thoroughly above and below water line.
Rag is rung out (into the toilet) and put straight in the bin.
Red gloves put back in little red bucket and returned to 'under the sink'.
If toilet was streak free to start with, it's left like that. If not, it might be flushed again.

No bleach, no brushes, no fuss.