toilet cleaning - is mil bonkers?

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I've just found out from my sil how my mil cleans the toilets and I'm gobsmacked! Apparently she scoops out all the water then scrubs ever square inch of the bowl with bleach and a scourer. She thinks a brush is nowhere near efficient enough (which I can understand) - but as for scooping all the water out - isn't that a tad OTT????

I've never done that but I am just an "average" cleaner. I could imagine my MIL doing it though - she is obsessive about cleaning too.(Unfortunately I think DH expects the same standards from me - yeah right- ).

Insane if you ask me, sounds like she has far too much time on her hands. Bleach and bogbrush for me, I'm not eating my soup out of it, it's for peeing and crapping FGS.

I did that a few weeks back in an effort to clear the constant limescale (had spent a lot of close personal time facing said toilet bowl, and it was annoying me).

Won't be a regular thing though!

saltire really??

I've done it once or twice to get the limescale off, however tis not fun...you'd put it in a bucket and then take it out and pour down the drain I suppose (I'm told unused toilet water isn't too germy )

I don't normally bother though perhaps I should.

Why do we get limescale build up under the water, while my mother doesn't> that's what I'd like to know.

Poured it down the sink - it was clean toilet water that touched the bathroom sink for seconds Much worse has gone down there.

For me it was about the scale rather than germs though

I've done it once or twice to attack the limescale as we live in a hard water area.

Certainly don't make a habit of it though -eurgh.

I say I say

one thing that works is getting the brush, or a plunger if you have one, and plunging it repeatedly until most of the water has gorn. It means you can access the limescale much better than with a full amount.

Try it! Tips for a boring bank hol weekend

Now I am an infamous lifelong untidy person but I do like a pristine loos and sinks. I am totally amazed at the comments here and that no one seems to know what their toilet brush is for so here goes.

LESSON - CLEANING LOO.
Lift seat & lid
Insert loo brush and with a plunging motion (pun intended) push water downwards. Takes about six strong pushes, water goes up and over bend and bowl/pan is left nearly empty.
Scoosh bleach, harpic, whatever around bowl and brush vigourously.
Clean rim, front, seat, lid and handle with disinfectant wipe or cloth.
Clean sink
Finally flush toilet.

I thank you for your attention.

Oh! See I thought i was dead clever to use it for that.

Surely the brush gets nasty though, what do you do with th brush? I hate having one in the house.

I had a large build up of limescale and a really gunky loo after we had been away for 3 months and "lent" our house to a relative of dh, who never flushed after having a wee.

Must be a "man thing"

I bought something that foamed up, then came down with a scary surging noise. loo clean as my proverbial cereal bowl.

On a different note, I was once out for dinner with my friends when I advocated my theory that the cleanliness of a restaurants kitchen could be gauged by the cleanliness of their restrooms. I have seen a few gunky toilets and on that account decided not to eat at the establishment, as I reckon a good hygiene is found overall, and if their toilets are filthy, so is their kitchen.

SO, on returning from the loo my friends asked me how clean it was, and I said pristine, which it was. Fantastic Lebanese local restaurant in a Kensington back street. My friend then decided to pay the chef a compliment stating:

"Your food is just as great as your toilet".

I never ate there again.

You can't just say "something that foamed up" - we need brands woman!

oh. ok.

I shall dig at the bottom of my poor sieve brain...

kaboom! I used the method without brush.

Fabulous!

at those using a loo brush.
I hate teh blasted things.
I have special rubber gloves and use strong kitchen roll which can then be chucked along with some CIf tyoe stuff. We have no limescale as it is soft water here, so no need ot remove water. QUick squirt of bleash when I'm done.

ANd yes, I know, the gloves have to be reused, but they are smoth surface so no nooks to breed germs in and they live in the shed. Needless to say, they go nowhere near anything else.

I don't have a loo brush any more, it got ridiculous with ds2 grabbing it so it went.

I have got a small dish brush now that lives in a beaker up on the shelf.