How do you clean a toilet?

mardatha

Oohhhh youz are not being OS at all in here ! I'm telling ...em... Kittie ?! I use stardrops for the shiney bits and bleach on an old cloth for the germy bits. I have bits of old towel cut into nice squares just for it I have a toilet brush to make people think I'm clean but I dont use it LOL !

Caterina

If you had teenagers like my DS and his friends you all would NEED a toilet brush as they all leave nasty streaks in the loo! Sorry if too much info, but I have heard before this No-Brush theory (Kim and Aggie apparently think that a loo brush is the PITS!) and I am curious to know, if you do not use the brush, how do you remove the leftover sticky bits? Thanks and sorry again for graphic details!

tomterm8

Caterina wrote: »

If you had teenagers like my DS and his friends you all would NEED a toilet brush as they all leave nasty streaks in the loo! Sorry if too much info, but I have heard before this No-Brush theory (Kim and Aggie apparently think that a loo brush is the PITS!) and I am curious to know, if you do not use the brush, how do you remove the leftover sticky bits? Thanks and sorry again for graphic details!

With gloves and toilet paper. It's better than a brush covered in poo laying around your house.

jackieb

MadMonkey wrote: »

I use blue microfibre cloths purely for toilet cleaning - blue rhymes with loo:jwhich makes me remember:rotfl:
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And pink for the sink!

larmy16

I never understood Kim and Aggie's therory of it being more hygenic to use rubber gloves than a toilet brush - surely either way you would have germs on the gloves or brush.

Maybe I am not paranoid enough about germs? I use a loo brush resting in bleach or disenfectant. I follow Fly ladys swish and swipe each morning. Sometimes I leave bleach down all day if I can be sure no-one will flush. Harpic is brill for limescale but I use that periodically.

On the swish and swipe I use a wad of loo paper and then flush it down.

I found the thicker Andrex loo paper was not flushing away and was worried about getting the toilet blocked, so went back to the cheapie loo rolls. currently using Co-op 9 for £1.49. I think they may be recycled.

For truly disgusting limescaled toilets - Spirit of Salts cannot be beaten, but it is very toxic and must be handled with kid gloves and not inhaled.

geordie_joe

larmy16 wrote: »

I never understood Kim and Aggie's therory of it being more hygenic to use rubber gloves than a toilet brush - surely either way you would have germs on the gloves or brush.

Yes but the germs get washed of the gloves when you do the dishes

princesstippytoes

tomterm8 wrote: »

With gloves and toilet paper. It's better than a brush covered in poo laying around your house.

:rolleyes:

a. I clean the brush after each use so it's not actually covered in poo.

and b. leave it soaking in bleach in it's holder so I can't imagine leaving it "round the house". :rolleyes:


I use bleach and a loo brush every other day. To clean the seat, rim and pipes I use a cloth which is washed in hot water and disinfected after every use and only ever used for toilet cleaning.

mrcow

morganlefay wrote: »

We live in hideous hard water area and get an irritating little limescale rim round where the water level goes. I use (very expensive) harpic type products on it and scrub like anything with a loo brush, and that works. But I was always told that putting bleach down the loo just whitened the nasty lime deposits but didn't get rid of them - is that true ? Using bleach would be much cheaper but I've never done it as I was told it was ineffective against limescale.

When I moved into this house (7 years ago) the two toilets were black. Literally. Black.

"!!!!!!" was what I thought (you don't ask to look down the loos when viewing properties and it was a shock (the woman who lived here previously was a stinking, filthy, minging woofer though so it wasn't a complete surprise I guess).

I actually thought that the enamel had been scraped away from the toilets - it was literally black. Anyways, the first day, I put bleach down the toilet as normal and within hours, the whole toilet had turned white - except there was about a 6-7mm thickness of limescale all around the toilet under the waterline. The blackness had just been limescale that had turned black with all the faecal material it had been in contact with over the six year period that the woman had lived there (are you guffing yet?).

I tried loads of products to try and shift this - from the fizzy tablet things to harpic etc. and nothing cleared it like the bleach did. Bleach has HCL in it which will neutralise any limescale. Over a period of about a month or so, the scale just went.

After 7 years, all I use is bleach and I now have no scale in either of my toilets.

tomterm8

princesstippytoes wrote: »

:rolleyes:

a. I clean the brush after each use so it's not actually covered in poo.

and b. leave it soaking in bleach in it's holder so I can't imagine leaving it "round the house". :rolleyes:


I use bleach and a loo brush every other day. To clean the seat, rim and pipes I use a cloth which is washed in hot water and disinfected after every use and only ever used for toilet cleaning.

Well, you're not a dirty minger Professional cleaners come into contact with dirty mingers all the time.

I think the loo brush aversion comes from the fact that professional cleaners often come into homes where (a) the loo brush is not washed after use and (b) even if it is washed, no bleach or disinfectant is used. You've never seen anything like some of the toilet brushes I saw when I was working in cleaning.

There's nothing wrong with a toilet brush as such, but people often don't use them properly.

As an aside, I've got to say, if you leave the loo brush anywhere near neat bleach, it is essential to make sure it is unaccessable to young hoodlums and pets.

Caterina

Thanks for all the loo brush replies - I wash the loo brush in the toilet flush water but hadn't thought about soaking it in bleach, good idea, will do it tonight!