Let's have a lovely conversation about cleaning toilets, why don't we

[Cappuccino]

so I get rid of my toilet brush because it is hideous and germ ridden as we all know

and I don't want to buy one of those papery scrubby things for £45.00 per clean or whatever

and I don't want to pour bleach endlessly down it either

so what do I do now then, eh?

SE yep, 2 boys although only ds1 pottytrained, and a dh who seems to always sit down [lazy]. I am dreading the teenage years. Tbh it's worst when either grandpa come over, they really seem to pebbledash both loo and floor

will use wipes attached to a long pole

toilet duck

and - even though i think they're vile - loo brushes

Oh FGS. This aversion to toilet brushes which now seems to be all the rage on here. You don't have to touch the dirty bits, you don't have to look at them, the alternative is shoving your hands or a ton of chemicals down the loo. Since no-one else in this household is prepared to put their hands in the loo, I'm darned if I'm going to demean myself by doing it for them. I'd rather have a loo brush tbh. DH will use the brush but I don't think he'd go along with cleaning the skiddies off by hand (and nor should he).

Lots of ecover or a green cleaner in the bog, leave a few hours or overnight, scrub it around. Flush the loo a couple of times holding the brush under all those litres of cleaning fast running water.

For the seat and lid, spray with bathroom cleaner, wipe off with kitchen roll (keep one in the bathroom cupboard) and throw the paper away. I even do it with a bathroom sponge quite often (shudder), when I feel guilty about throwing paper away, and lots of very hot water.

How did our poor mothers manage? Tut.

oh okay will keep toilet brush

problem solved see

someone should invent an loo cleaner robot type thing

bog duck is ace

also bicarb of soda

I use a toilet brush but I clean it afterwards in the hope that it doesn't remain germ ridden post clean [deludes self]

apparently a bottle of coke down the loo left overnight does the business too but I am yet to try that one

for the seat and lid I use a cloth which then gets washed with the laundry

Right sorry. But if you don't have a toilet brush what happens if someone does a smudgy poo. eughhh.

Surely you just clean the loo brush no?

parazone wipes and the thingie with the disposable toilet 'brush'.

then flush it all down.

what is this disposable toilet brush thingie?

it's made by Toilet Duck and you buy refills for it.

it's brill!

I second the parazone wipes! Hurrah!

I third the duck thingy and parazone wipes!

Trips to the woods?

I just don't get why everyone goes 'bleurgh - toilet brushes, disgusting!' and then some of you go on to advocate using marigolds for the job and then re-using the same marigolds. How is that not equally disgusting? (genuine question!)

How do you all clean your loo brushes then?

They always come out of the toilet with bits of errr 'solids' on don't they, no matter how much you rinse them? And then you store them next to the toilet in reach of your toddler?

I too buy the cheapest loo brush I can...last one was 49p from Tesco. Chuck it when it looks minging and buy a new one. Those toilet duck brush things are so expensive. I believe my way works out cheaper....if not very enviromentally friendly

No mine is stored in a small cupboard next to the loo (and nothing else is kept in the cupboard). If the solid problem arises I leave it in the loo whilst I steep it in bleach, then go back and flush 30 mins later. I don't have toddlers - youngest is 4

toilet flushable brush thing here

and wipes for the seat/under seat/ rim etc

Disposable toilet brush. WHen inserts finished wad up loo paper into the right shape use then flush.