How do you clean a toilet?

jackieb

geordie_joe wrote: »

I agree. If you keep trying to kill germs your body's immune system gets weak and can't fight any germs that do slip through.

Also, you can't kill all, the toughest ones always survive. And when they do they only have tough germs to bread with.

Maybe that's why the place that tries the hardest to kill germs always has the toughest germs!

My mum's undergoing chemotherapy at the moment, and I go round there everyday and clean all her door and cupboard handles, light switches, phones, remote controls, taps, shower, toilet handles and toilet with Zoflora.

She has anti-bacterial soap, gels and washing up liquid, but trying to get my dad to frequently wash his hands is like fighting a losing battle. :rolleyes: He doesn't seem to understand she can easily pick up infections just now. He went into the fridge and dropped a fruit salad she'd made, onto the floor. He said it would be okay, he'd just run it under the tap. :eek: I don't think the 5-second rule applies in these circumstances.

geordie_joe

mrcow wrote: »

I understand where you are coming from, but a dirty toilet is not socially acceptable in any house.

You can clean your toilet without sterilising it.

mrcow wrote: »

If you are going to live with germs, then all well and good, but at least get rid of the ones in your bog.

Why? I have lived with them for 49 years and they have never done me any harm.

I do clean my toilet, but any germs the soap and water doesn't kill are left for my immune system to deal with.

geordie_joe

jackieb wrote: »

My mum's undergoing chemotherapy at the moment,

I was talking about normal healthy people (not saying your mum is not normal, but she will obviously be weaker and more vulnerable that she would normally be). People who are ill, or weakened for other reasons should be more careful about germs/bacteria etc. but fit and healthy people don't need to kill germs as much as they think they do.

mrcow

geordie_joe wrote: »

You can clean your toilet without sterilising it.

No thanks It's not the way i was brought up.

"Soap and water" is not going to clean a toilet to standards that are comfortable for me.

geordie_joe

mrcow wrote: »

No thanks It's not the way i was brought up.

"Soap and water" is not going to clean a toilet to standards that are comfortable for me.

I probably shouldn't ask this, but what are you putting in your toilet that soap and water won't clean?

hamstercheeks_2

get a portable steamer!!

Gets

hamstercheeks_2

get a portable steamer!!

Gets the sheet flying!!:money:

mrcow

geordie_joe wrote: »

I probably shouldn't ask this, but what are you putting in your toilet that soap and water won't clean?

Well I've got a husband and three children. There's not much that my toilets don't see

southernscouser

moneypanicker wrote: »

PHow do you clean a toilet?

With my tongue.

Justamum

mrcow wrote: »

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.

I think I would have been tempted to buy new loos! That sounds really, really horrendous :eek::eek:

tomterm8 wrote: »

edit: I forgot, it's important to boil the kettle outside, otherwise your house will smell like a chippy.

That could be difficult - most houses don't have sockets outside

AMG2B wrote: »

I can't believe how often people clean their loos! Admittedly there's just me and OH and no kids, but ours only needs doing every 1-2 weeks - although now I'm a fly lady it gets done once a week. Never once been ill, people are far far far too scared of germs.

It's not the germs I'm scared of, it's just that I don't want a smelly loo! Sorry, it's just a bit of an obsession of mine.

Steve Wright on Radio 2 read out a statistic about changing sheets the other day. I'm in the minority in that I change ours every week. Apparently most people only change them once a month :eek:, and there are even people who only change them when they look really grubby :eek::eek:. Some people might think I'm being too obsessive by changing mine weekly, others obviously think it's perfectly ok to change theirs every few weeks or, god forbid, every few months. Some people think it's too much cleaning your loo every day, some might think only doing it every week or two is a bit, well, minging really