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How do you wash the cloth you clean the loo with?

167 replies

GiantCheeseMonster · 29/08/2021 22:57

I clean the seat and rim with a cloth. But then what do you do with that? It feels wrong to chuck it in with tea towels but then washing it on its own also feels wasteful. I don’t really want to use disposables as I’m trying to cut down on single use items. What’s the answer?

OP posts:
FiveShelties · 30/08/2021 07:36

Nothing like a bit of competitive loo cleaning to get the day going well.Grin

Queenoftheashes · 30/08/2021 07:44

@WeAreTheHeroes

Only on MN do people 1. not use a toilet brush; 2. throw the cloth they cleaned the toilet with away; 3. think the cloth used to clean the toilet can't be washed with other things; 4. remove the toilet seat and put it in the bath. This wins the MN weirdness award. Surely you need to burn the bath afterwards?
Oh god I do all these things
HairyMaryMyCanary · 30/08/2021 07:44

Cloths used to clean the loo and bathroom floor are thrown away.

tootingbeclido · 30/08/2021 07:53

I have a load of old cloths that I use for cleaning the bog. .They all go in the washing machine together when all dirty. I use citric acidto get rid of limescale every few week and a loo brush.

Seesawmummadaw · 30/08/2021 08:05

I wash it the same way that I wash my knickknacks. In the machine with everything else.

Seesawmummadaw · 30/08/2021 08:06

Stupid autocorrect! Knicker not knickknacks! What?!

Tulips15 · 30/08/2021 08:08

@NigellaSeed

I wash my toilet with spray and toilet paper so I flush it away after.

I use cloths for sink and bath/shower (they go in my bathroom bucket to be washed separate)

I do this
Disneyblue · 30/08/2021 08:08

Use a toilet brush below the rim.
Cloths I chuck in with tea towels.

The whole point of a washing machine is to clean.

Mrsjayy · 30/08/2021 08:09

Why are you not just washing it ? Do you not think your washing machine works or something. Into the machine 60 degrees and there you go

Lweji · 30/08/2021 08:11

@MountainAshley

Hang it out on the line because the sun will bleach it enough, then pop it back in the drawer with the other dishcloths.
I hope you wash it before hanging because the sun isn't that good at bleaching. I'm sure it's fine to do it most days, but the minute a bug enters your home, with such hygiene practices, it's likely to spread to everyone.
Mrsjayy · 30/08/2021 08:12

Cloths used to clean the loo and bathroom floor are thrown away.

Really why? How many cloths are you throwing away a week/month.

TiddleTaddleTat · 30/08/2021 08:15

I use toilet paper and throw it away. It's just a handful or two so hardly that wasteful. I usually wash clothes towels etc at 30 or 40 degrees which I don't think is hot enough for cloths that have cleaned the toilet, personally.

grapewine · 30/08/2021 08:15

I put them in with towels and dishcloths on a 60' wash. Doesn't seem that complicated. I certainly wouldn't throw them away.

Mrsjayy · 30/08/2021 08:17

Ah are cloth binners low temp washers ?

CampaignToo · 30/08/2021 08:18

Jesus wept. I think I have fairly high hygiene standards and then I read MN for a while.

I give the seat and rim and quick wipe with loo roll and spray every morning. Once a week I clean the bathroom "properly". Use one cloth, start with the sink, then bath, then the loo and the floor and the cloth goes into a 60 degree wash with the bathroom towels.

Getting rid of germs is literally what the washing machine and detergent is for.

DC's pants are way dirtier than my bathroom cloth ever is, would you throw them away too?

drspouse · 30/08/2021 08:21

DD is still in washable nappies at night so they go in with them at 60°.

Fruityb · 30/08/2021 08:29

I don’t own a toilet brush, I don’t put my hands in the toilet, I Chuck bleach down it regularly and at no point have I ever cleaned under the rim of my toilet. Whatever is going on under there can stay there. It doesn’t touch me, it won’t bite my arse and I fail to see what benefit will come of using my hands to clean below the waterline when there are plenty of cleaning products that will sort it. My toilet isn’t pebble dashed daily thankfully.

I Chuck all cloths in the machine because I don’t care what gets washed with what because surely it’s all being cleaned so won’t be any less clean.

Good. Lord. There aren’t enough hours in the day. A bathroom bucket??

dementedma · 30/08/2021 08:33

Wipes are not disposable! Unless for you, disposable equals landfill.
Ffs. Use loo paper and flush, or a cloth that goes in the washing machine with everything else. I genuinely didnt realise how much people were obsessed with cleaning until I joined MN. ( Maybe I'm just skanky)

nicecheesegromit · 30/08/2021 08:37

I put all the dusters, cloths and top of the vileda mop in the washing machine on quick wash the dry in the line. Job done!

Northernsoullover · 30/08/2021 08:38

@Fruityb

I don’t own a toilet brush, I don’t put my hands in the toilet, I Chuck bleach down it regularly and at no point have I ever cleaned under the rim of my toilet. Whatever is going on under there can stay there. It doesn’t touch me, it won’t bite my arse and I fail to see what benefit will come of using my hands to clean below the waterline when there are plenty of cleaning products that will sort it. My toilet isn’t pebble dashed daily thankfully.

I Chuck all cloths in the machine because I don’t care what gets washed with what because surely it’s all being cleaned so won’t be any less clean.

Good. Lord. There aren’t enough hours in the day. A bathroom bucket??

Yep. Same here. I don't really care what happens under the water line. I'm not drinking it.
User56439876 · 30/08/2021 08:49

@dementedma

Wipes are not disposable! Unless for you, disposable equals landfill. Ffs. Use loo paper and flush, or a cloth that goes in the washing machine with everything else. I genuinely didnt realise how much people were obsessed with cleaning until I joined MN. ( Maybe I'm just skanky)
and using the washing machine equals detergent, heat, in many cases 60C of it and water.
CampaignToo · 30/08/2021 08:58

and using the washing machine equals detergent, heat, in many cases 60C of it and water.

You're surely not going to try and argue that adding one cloth to a washing machine you run regularly is more environmentally harmful than binning every cloth (and a wipe is a plastic cloth) you use? GrinGrinGrin

User56439876 · 30/08/2021 09:02

Some on here have a special wash just for cloths and every cloth in the machine take up room for something else and most that bang on about landfill have got fucking kids that greatly add to landfill with the stuff they consume

Ragwort · 30/08/2021 09:07

Women are own own worst enemies, can you honestly imagine a thread written by men discussing how to clean the toilet? I think there is a huge amount of martyrdom going on about who has the freshest loo. Hmm.

EvilPea · 30/08/2021 09:08

I put mine in with white towels and do tea towels separately.
I’ve found a really hot cloth cleans the seat so much better than loo roll or anything you Chuck away