Do you have a toilet brush?

[GermanHouseCat]

My cleaner insists that I have a toilet brush - a proper old fashioned one that always seem to get filthy.

I bought what I thought was a compromise in one of those toilet duck ones that have disposable heads, but she refuses to use it.

What does everyone else do? I was never brought up wirh one, and previous cleaners have put rubber gloves on and got stuck in.

I use Dettol wipes (but don't flush them) and jif.

How do you manage things for guests, if they need to clean the toilet?

Lavatory brush sits in a mixture of cheap bleach and disinfectant.
Brush rinsed in flush after use.
Once a month the horrid mixture is poured down the pan.
Brush sits in hot water and bleach in an outside bucket for an hour.
Air dried.
Back in the mixture of bleach and disinfectant.

Completely don't get how anyone can not have the means for guests to clean their skid marks.

Oh, naice spray to cover smells.

bleach all the way, like the smell and the bowl is germ free and sparkles!

I believe it has been demonstrated earlier that bleach disinfects but doesn't clean. What you possibly have is a dirty, sparkly bowl.

I normally pour a cleaning liquid with bleach around the bowl and then scrub it all with the brush. It then flushes with the clean water and let it air dry. It's clean and it doesn't smell.

Not sure why would anyone love the smell of bleach. Nasty stuff.

I agree that you must need your nose looked at if you like the smell of bleach. It's disgusting.

Ok I don't get this 'bleach doesn't clean' nonsense. I mean, dirt is visible (unlike germs), right? So when I squirt bleach round the loo, then scrub it all around with my loo brush, the scrubbing is getting rid of the dirt, and the bleach is getting rid of the remaining germs, no? I can see that maybe if you squirt a bit of bleach on a thick layer of dirt and do nothing else but let the water rinse it away, it won't successfully remove all the dirt. But nobody would actually just do that if the toilet were properly dirty, would they?

I haven't read all 6 pages of this post but I can't understand how you clean a loo without a loo brush?

Apparently they would, holmess.

Bleach kills germs and whitens stuff. Unless we scrub it the dirt will still be there.

Yes, a loo brush is still needed even if you use bleach.

You could use things other than a brush, but you do need to scrub with something.

There's no such thing as a flushable wipe. Put it in the bin.

gamerchick - yes there is Sainsbury's sell them, they break down.....

Supposedly...

Unless they break down as you flush like loo roll does there is a risk of blockage, I wouldn't use them.

Sayerville - it's a risky little game to play with your pipes. Unless they break down immediately like toilet paper (and if they do, they're not fit for purpose), you're eventually looking at a very hefty plumbers bill. I speak from experience...

Of course! We always had a toilet brush! It takes seconds to clean after yourself! And if you're concerned for the brush's cleanliness - you can let it sit in bleach.

Please, don't run it in the dishwasher.

Have just joined mumsnet specifically to find out how to clean revolting looking dark yellow lumpy limescale from under the loo rim. So many ideas!

Going to try the foot pumice stone (for under the rim, not my foot) + bleech tablets in the cistern first. Nothing else seems to work.

Also, don't understand about using the toilet brush to get rid of the water in the bowl when that's a mess too. What ,- by plunging the bristles in and waggling them furiously around you mean? Be there all night.

"Do you have a toilet brush?"

I used to, but I didn't like it, so I've gone back to using paper.

Hahahahahahaha!

Wow is this still going?

PigletJohn

Did anyone put the loo brush in the dishwasher yet?

I was in fact the person who admitted to putting the loo brush in the dishwasher (unless there is more than one of us on MN).

Right. This is what you need to do.

Whenever necessary use toilet brush in normal way. Then flush toilet holding brush under the flow to rinse it with clean water. Place back in bowl.

Once per week thoroughly clean loo with normal cleaner, flush and place a small amount of bleach in clean toilet water and leave brush in the toilet soaking in bleachy water. Then take the toilet brush holder and wash out in bathroom basin and then clean basin. Come back 30 minutes later and put brush in clean holder all sparkly and sanitised with bleach.

Once a month put brush and holder in dishwasher on hottest setting.

Sorted.

Apologies for late reply I was away on holiday.

My loo brushes were all clean before we went though.