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

[GiantCheeseMonster]

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?

But nobody will answer me - those using disposable wipes - how do you wash your knickers? Because they’re in contact with your bum just as much as anything you’re cleaning off your toilet.

Maybe I shouldn’t push it, it won’t be long before someone decides knickers should be single use only because it’s unhygienic to wash them & wear again.

I just put mine in the wash with some laundry disinfectant. Then it doesn't matter what it goes in with. Or leave it to soak in a bleach solution and then dry.

I just wash them with some dettol/fabulosa laundry liquid

I put the cloth in the bin after I have used it.

@LawnFever

But nobody will answer me - those using disposable wipes - how do you wash your knickers? Because they’re in contact with your bum just as much as anything you’re cleaning off your toilet.

Maybe I shouldn’t push it, it won’t be long before someone decides knickers should be single use only because it’s unhygienic to wash them & wear again.

My bum is pretty clean at all times. I wash it with water, after a poo.

But nobody will answer me - those using disposable wipes - how do you wash your knickers? Because they’re in contact with your bum just as much as anything you’re cleaning off your toilet.

I only use toilet roll and antibacterial because it's easier than a dedicated cloth for different things, not because I wouldn't want to wash a toilet cloth in with my clothes. I wash dog towels in with my own towels, and knickers in with my tea towels 🤷🏻‍♀️

@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??

Finally someone with common sense!

@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)

Same here

I wash it on a 90 with the towels.

Yes it's had toilet on but it's also had bleach. So I figure it kind of evens out.

Wouldn't want it in with face masks though......

@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)

You’re not skanky. Sending a cloth or wipe to landfill because you’re too precious to wash a loincloth is skanky.

*loo cloth.

I spray with disinfectant and use loo roll to wipe, then chuck bleach in, or that powder stuff that makes foam whoosh up to the rim. I don't use a cloth at all, or a bog brush.

What on earth is a bathroom bucket?

I clean with a cloth then wash it in the machine with whatever is going in next.
Been doing this for many many years and we are all fine.

I soak all cloths in disinfectant and then stick them in a 60 degrees hot wash in the washing machine and then hang to dry in the sun

@DustyMaiden

I remove the seat put it in the bath and spray it with bathroom cleaner. Rinse with hot water. Clean the toilet with paper. I use one of the duck things but only put a pad of toilet tissue in it, don’t buy refills.

Remove the seat? Every time?

No I don't own a toilet brush, I'm sure you all have lovely clean ones but ones I've seen in other people's houses always look dirty. If I didn't wipe below the water line (wearing rubber gloves of course), then I'd have to use loads of bleach - though maybe we are unusual in this household because of medication that stains urine and inevitably stains the toilet too if not wiped directly. And whilst I'm not proud of chucking out a j-cloth every week (after it's cleaned four toilets), I'm not convinced it's worse than using lots of bleach in each toilet more regularly - unless there's been some major pebbledashing that a DC hasn't cleaned off themselves, I only squirt enough to go round rim and then slowly drips down sides once I've wiped the toilet down each week. Also would be concerned about putting a cloth with bleach on it into washing basket whilst waiting for suitable wash - doesn't it sometimes bleach the clothes in there?

@Petrarkanian

What on earth is a bathroom bucket?

I’m one of the posters who soaks bathroom cloths in a bucket with hot water and disinfectant before they go in the washing machine.

Just a bucket. Not a ‘bathroom bucket’. A mop bucket.

Not sure why anyone would just spray then rub with loo roll, which disintegrates. I clean the bowl under the rim with a Duck fresh brush, but for cleaning the rest of the porcelain, plus the seat and lid, I’m using a proper cloth and hot water. I stopped using disposable sponge scourers for environmental reasons. I don’t want to rinse cloths I’ve been using on urine and faeces in the bathroom sink, so I use a bucket of hot water. Then I empty that down the loo and soak the cloths in more hot water and some disinfectant.

Not so hard to understand, eh? Astonishingly, I spend little enough time cleaning to enable me to have a life and a grown up job.

Toilet roll doesn’t disintegrate - I’ve used it to clean my loos for years (in between living my life and having a full time, grown up job too)

I use loo roll for general day to day cleaner so it gets flushed away. Then I clean the bathroom with a sponge, the loo is the last thing, it then gets binned. I just buy a giant pack in the poundshop. The thought of washing it, particularly with other things make me feel ill.

@legalseagull

Only on MN do people actually worry about this. I've read about people not washing their knickers with tea towels lest bum germs get on their spoons

Oh that's given me a right giggle

I use loo roll, my eldest went through a phase of using the bog brush instead of the flush to basically smash her poo to smithereens while trying to push it down.

A turd encrusted bog brush is the stuff of nightmares to me.

@legalseagull

Only on MN do people actually worry about this. I've read about people not washing their knickers with tea towels lest bum germs get on their spoons

😂😂😂

@AfterSchoolWorry

I use disposable wipes now. But I used to bin the cloth before that.

😮😮

Insane.

@Ragwort

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. .

Bingo.