How long does it take for grout to go orange and the toilet bowl to go green?

[JenniferYellowHat1980]

We let our house to a friend for about 18 months. When they left it was grim. The bathroom grouting had gone orange (mosaic tiles so a right pita) and I used Harpic and scrubbed the toilet several times to get it clean.

It's made me a bit judgey about bathroom hygiene tbh. I work full time and don't get round to cleaning every week, but it never gets like that. I notice it quite often at other people's houses. How long does it take for that orange bacteria to form? And for a toilet to go dark green?

Depends on the water and stuff used. One shower gel I used meant I had to clean the shower almost daily. Never bought that stuff again.

We lived there ourselves for years without a problem. The water must have been quite hard but I wasn't a cleaning fanatic by any means.

Then it sounds like they're slovenly!

I know (from when my gallbladder perforated and DH was preoccupied with looking after baby DS and me) that our grout in the guest bathroom (not our ensuite) went a pinky colour after about two weeks.

I'm honestly not that slobby - we'd had guests who left and then my gallbladder went the next day - but a quick spray with cleaner and a scrub (when I was fit enough to notice he hadn't cleaned it) got rid of it quickly enough.

I've never seem this apart from on shower curtain, which I then wash or chuck.

Green loo you say? How can that happen? I don't see this in other peoples houses!

I've never had green in the toilet but we get pink round the taps at two weeks. It's what makes me clean

no idea on green loo, but certainly if I can't be arsed to forget to clean the bathroom for over a week then the pink starts creeping into nooks and crannies

Ive never seen a green loo (thankfully) and i'm a cleaner. But the pinky orange can take only a few weeks. Bleach usually sorts it though.

Well the tiles were from the pink body fat from humans when they shower. Boxers showers where they train are grim quite quickly.

A green toilet is a new one on me

OP were you a bagger in a past life •nosey• (you don't have to say I'm just nebby)

Body fat? really?

Yeah I know I was a bit grossed out in a past cleaning job when I was handed the chemical to remove it. It really is called that

Yeuck!!

The orange pink thing on grout etc is actually a bacteria that feeds on the soap scum and deposits.. You can get rid of it for a time with bleach or steam cleaning but it will always come back eventually.
Never heard of a green toilet though unless it's algae grew on line scale deposits maybe?
So orange stuff takes a few weeks but is easy to clean. Green toilets must take serious neglect though.
Yuck anyway.

I know what you mean by green toilet, it's the limescale stained I've seen it before! In fact I've seen dark brown limescale eurgh

Some people are just tramps, it's not hard to swish a bit of harpic round your toilet every few days and wipe the seat down. My toilet stays spotless and it must take me 1 minute a week to keep on top of, unfortunately some people just don't care!

Yuck yuck yuck yuck. Just think of how many germs you must have killed when you harpicked that loo!!