Toilet brushes - what am I missing

[YourFairCyanReader]

What is supposed to happen with toilet brushes ? If you use them to clean off skidmarks, surely they just get clogged up immediately with poo? Then sit in their little holder with poo on?

Just to add I don’t believe that it seems hygienic to be using tissue paper to wipe poo from a toilet that is what toilet brushes were invented for to clean your toilet using the handlewith brush attached so your hands are not touching inside of the toilet!

You need to place brush right inside the pan when flushing and swirl it , I know it’s is a grim subject to talk about but it is natural everyone poos 💩obvs some have accidents that can’t be prevented from dirtying toilet more. I think that by using toilet paper you are just making more work for yourself

Isn't it part of the weekly clean to clean the brush and holder after you use them?

I don’t understand why people even use a toilet brush? In the 20 years’ I’ve owned and run a household with 3 boys - I’ve owned one toilet brush for about a week and it was gross. Toilet water sitting there in a little pot? A brush with wet toilet paper stuck to it?? 🤮

I bleach under the rim, bleach round the bowl, then a squirt in the water. Shut the toilet lid. Hey presto - a clean toilet without swishing grime around with a brush. ✨

Silicone toilet brushes are the way to go

Surprised and rather disappointed to see so many people say they use disposable wipes, and flush them

You need harpic white and shine, I leave to soak for 30-60 minutes and all limescale is gone

As a professional cleaner, if the household has these silicone brushes, I do ask that there be one bristle brush as well as trying to remove dried poo after a fortnight, even with bleach, is about impossible with these rubber ones. Fine if you clean daily. Also, you can pop bleach in the toilet brush holder to keep it clean. And obviously rinse the brush under water when you flush.

Doesn’t work everywhere. It helps yes.

How often?

Clean the toilet with the brush then flush and twizzle the brush around in the water. I always leave a bit of bleach in the holder itself too.

Is this in homes that are not occupied, or are some of your clients leaving their toilets for two weeks between cleaning?
I fear it's the latter.

Sounds anti-toiletbrush marketing campaing was even more successful than the one for diamonds in engagement things.

Flushing not-really-flushable pads, enormous amounts of toilet paper, sticking hands there to get the toilet paper there, bleaching daily... That's terrible.

(Rinse in the flush, put in it's holder, forgot about it)

I pour boiling water on the skidmarks and they just melt away. I do the same with the toilet brush after a soak in bleach although I barely need to use it

We don't have them at all, we have the duck with the disposable pads, no horrible poo clogged bristles

I was chuckling about this thread today as I cleaned my toilet. I use a bristly toilet brush with harpic in the black bottle but I noticed there was horror upon horrors, limescale under the rim and in the holey bits where water enters the bowl. Out came the spin scrubber with a pointy attachment that can get into those areas. Lo and behold, the limescale went, quite satisfying tbh. I'm sure I read somewhere that toilets often have less germs than kitchen sinks!!? Certainly on Mumsnet. 😋

Why would there be wet toilet paper on the brush? Surely your boys understand that they are supposed to flush before using the toilet brush?!

I use a normal toilet brush. Rinse it under the flush after using and stick bleach in the pot. Haven’t died yet.

All these people who are using bleach every time they clean the toilet, and worse still using disposable cleaning pads. It's all so bad for the environment.

I cannot believe people leave dried poo for you to clean!

With your kettle? Or do you have a separate loo one?

regularly find one still in the pan. People are disgusting. Oh and I had a used condom in a bin last week! That stayed there and I politely texted the lady of the house that perhaps not to do it in future. They weren’t the first. Menstruation pads too. This is why we charge a decent rate. 🙂

The people who have died can't post on this thread warning us of the dangers of toilet brushes.....

Your children are old enough to be leaving a toilet skid mark free after they have used it. Are your sons going to expect their future wives to clean their skid marks after them?
I am another one that will clean away any poo remains with a bit of toilet paper and water. If you do it straight away it works. I use sufficient toilet paper so that I don’t touch poo, but as with wiping my bum, I wash my hand afterwards.

I agree. It's getting them to remember to double check that's the problem. But its the best method.
If there's skid marks a few flushes will usually get rid of them without a brush... or wrap the flat silicone brush in a few sheets of loo roll if scrubbing needed and then flush off,.
Its when people walk off and leave it in that state that drives me mad as once its dry its much harder to remove...If that happens... Leave some CIF on. Use loo roll covered silicone brush to scrub.. and then flush it all off.
Limescale remover too, rather than bleach.
If you are cleaning an end of tenancy for a DC's shared house, toilet bombs are good.

They have additional needs affecting their co-ordination and working memory. The one with autism in the mix too has no current plans for forming relationships. I'm not daydreaming about Mother of the Groom outfits.

Training is therefore taking longer than average compared to neurotypical children.
I don't clean toilets for the fun of it!

Until then toilet brushes are the most effective tool for the job for when they've flushed, dashed and forgotten to check the efficacy of the toilet with a weak flush that takes forever to refill the cistern, so it's 3 minutes before flush two can be attempted.

And no one in this house is going to shove their hand under the waterline with a wadge of disintegrating toilet roll when there's a perfectly efficient tool designed to do that job instead. If toilet brushes are too disgusting, gloves would have to be disposed of having been wrapped up then put in the landfill bin after every single clean which is incredibly wasteful.