Right. I've thought long and hard about this, I've conducted rigorous scientific experiment, and I'm sorry all you non-loo brush using MNers, but you're wrong.

[Lawks]

Following the earth shattering news last week that some mumsnetters don't own loo brushes, and what's more this isn't some oversight on the housekeeping front but a deliberate stance against "germy loo brushes dripping in the corner of the bathroom" (I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote paraphrasing), I have been keeping a watchful eye on the state of the Lawks household lavatories.

I removed the loo brush from the downstairs loo and left one in the upstairs loo (cf aforementioned rigorous scientific experiment). After a week the downstairs loo needed a jolly good scrub below the waterline. It also went through various mildly unpleasant phases which we won't go into but which would not have been necessary had a loo brush been available.

We have perfectly happy and healthy bowels, so no casting aspersions in that direction please.

I conclude that I don't understand how you can have sparkling clean loos without a regular scrub below the waterline.

I don't pretend to love my loo brush, and I change it often. But it's a necessary evil.

Crossed posts

Scale is in the pan

WWhat do you do with your scrubby pad?

wtwtw, i would obviously not when used lol!

How can you not have a loo brush, really? I can not and really will not stick my hand down the loo with a bit of loo roll and scrub at the marks (!) that arrive every now and then!!! I have done this before and i would say it is the crappiest (lol) job ever!

Those who scrub with scrubby pad or similar, how do you stop the scrubby pad dripping all over the floor once you take it out of the toilet? Are we allowed to use a carrier bag in these circumstances? Hopefully you're not then expected to re-use it for shopping
Not aimed at you in particular btw TR!

I'm totally with you on this.

Gloves. Regular replacements. Done!

I have two loo brushes which I do use although to my shame, OH commented on the limescale in one of the toilets the other day .

just squeee it out and chuck it in the bathroom bin (lined with carrier) which you are then emptying anyway

I wonder if the same people who don't have a loo brush are in the "wash every towel after one use and change pjs every day" brigade?

Also I wonder whether this is new for this generation or whether this is what it was like at home when they (or should that be yoU?) were children?

crumpet
no chance
tisn't to do with getting ill for me
they just smell, drip shitty water around, look manky and aren't neccessary

I certainly do not wash towels after each use - thats ridiculous

flame, where i used to live had THE worst limescale ever. cilit bang daily did the trick

Is that wipe definitely flushable? Just wanted to check as we got DynoRod out after our drains became blocked by my "flushable" wipes

How do you deal with skid marks under the water in the pan?

well the bits on the brush - you hold under the flush to clean, no? never had any problems miself.

i agree with the op, its bollocks.

Towels are washed once a week or as often as needed but they are coloured coded for different people .

Please don't miss my question about skid marks under the water!

I'm not rubyruby!

This no-brush thing is all very well for the limescale and general dirt.
But what about the sinners who leave skid marks after use? Surely you don't expect them to don dispoable gloves and use a wipe? I certainly don't want to be cleaning up after them (at least not the initial clean!) as well as myself!
Necessarily and horrible evil here!

Am I odd in that this sort of thing never does?! Or just a greedy guts!

I don't find it that bad!

I scrub toilet out with scrubby pad and bleach and gloves - actually quite enjoy the getting it clean part. And let's be really basic here - proivded skid mark is not new any scrubbing is not icky because mark and its bits have dried harrd by then and just come off on scrubby or fall into loo hole and go down with bleach that follows.

I can't stand toilet brushes myself - no fear of germs at all in our house - just the thought of little bits of softer poo on them and general browness and dirtiness of them makes me feel slightly sick. Oh and the water that they sit in too..... yuck.