How do you clean a toilet?

BuddyBonthenet

Justamum wrote: »

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



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



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

There have been a whole series of 'How often do you...?' threads in the last few weeks from changing sheets to clean pjs to having a bath/shower and they were hilarious and heated! Can't beat this board for a good laugh especially when nobody knows one another and they tell the truth! :rotfl:

mrcow

Justamum wrote: »

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

Don't think that it didn't seriously become a consideration.

The trouble is that the rest of the house was just as bad as the toilets. On the day we moved in, we had to get every carpet ripped out. And someone came in to scrape the mould off the windows (we had them all replaced within two weeks anyway).

The 3' x 16' patch of carpet at the bottom of the stairs filled my empty Dyson within about a minute. I am not kidding you.

And I had to scrape and scrub the kitchen cupboards before I could lay paper down to put anything in them. Dirt and grease were just layered inside them. I've never seen anything like it.

And i haven't even started on the walls (which made my hands black when I touched them) or shower / plugs etc. (don't even go there!)

The trouble was that we'd just spent everything on moving (as the house itself is nice) and so didn't have the money to do everything at once.

By the time I'd got round to a point where I could choose whether to keep the toilets, they were pretty normal.

Happy days lol! The real shame of it is that the woman then moved onto another property to spread her filth. The mould in her eldest daughter's bedroom was so bad that you couldn't even use the window ledge.

southernscouser

This is gonna make me sound really weird but it must have been really satisying after it was all clean? :undecided

mrcow

southernscouser wrote: »

This is gonna make me sound really weird but it must have been really satisying after it was all clean? :undecided

lol it took months to clean it. So it was more of a gradual grind than a quick spring-clean.

And lots and lots of tears. I hated this house for months. We couldn't afford to get the living room carpet ripped out initially as the room is so large and so I had to put blankets and rugs down just so my eight month old baby could play in his own house.

After about a year we finally ripped it up and replaced it with wood flooring and yes, it was like a dream. I used to go round sniffing the air just to check that the stink had finally gone (we'd had the carpet professionally cleaned by a truck mounted machine twice and I'd used about 12 cans of Shake n Vac and it still stank).

The house is unrecognisable now. (Thankfully lol)

southernscouser

mrcow wrote: »

I used to go round sniffing the air

I don't think that was very sensible with an 8 month old!

Happy_Girl_2

I am moving in with my BF soon. He has been living alone for several years, and it is fair to say he has not been cleaning his toilet regularly! It is coverend with dried urine! *puke*

What is the best way to get this off?

southernscouser

Happy_Girl wrote: »

I am moving in with my BF soon. He has been living alone for several years, and it is fair to say he has not been cleaning his toilet regularly! It is coverend with dried urine! *puke*

What is the best way to get this off?

:rotfl:

Ahh the life of a bachelor. It's in our genes.

Comes of with a bit of bog cleaner and a brush easily.

paintpot

Middlers wrote: »

To clean a grubby bowl just empty the water out and refill with a 2ltr bottle of cheap Cola. Leave overnight and it will be as new in the morning.

I had a property with a really bad limescale problem down the loo. I put a whole 2l bottle of coke down and it was left for days. All it did was turn the limescale brown again.

In the end, as I'd lost patience, I bailed the water out of the pan and resorted to a chisel and a wallpaper scraper as it was that bad and sandpaper hadn't worked either :eek: . Probably not to be recommended but the toilet is perfect now. I did use limescale remover under the rim which was quite effective and piled that down the pan whilst scraping away. I didn't have time for trying vinegar and bleach hadn't worked.

jackieb

mrcow wrote: »

lol it took months to clean it. So it was more of a gradual grind than a quick spring-clean.

And lots and lots of tears. I hated this house for months. We couldn't afford to get the living room carpet ripped out initially as the room is so large and so I had to put blankets and rugs down just so my eight month old baby could play in his own house.

After about a year we finally ripped it up and replaced it with wood flooring and yes, it was like a dream. I used to go round sniffing the air just to check that the stink had finally gone (we'd had the carpet professionally cleaned by a truck mounted machine twice and I'd used about 12 cans of Shake n Vac and it still stank).

The house is unrecognisable now. (Thankfully lol)

The day we moved in our garage door fell off, and it took me 3 hours to steam clean the oven. I scraped the ceramic hob with a glass scraper and it looked like I was curling chocolate. The kitchen cupboards were spongy and the windows were either painted or screwed shut. I felt dirty until we ripped out the kitchen and got new windows. I actually preferred the week we had no kitchen or walls, to the couple of months where we had to put up with the original kitchen.

mrcow

jackieb wrote: »

The day we moved in our garage door fell off, and it took me 3 hours to steam clean the oven. I scraped the ceramic hob with a glass scraper and it looked like I was curling chocolate. The kitchen cupboards were spongy and the windows were either painted or screwed shut. I felt dirty until we ripped out the kitchen and got new windows. I actually preferred the week we had no kitchen or walls, to the couple of months where we had to put up with the original kitchen.

Now you tell me!

I could have done with some of that elbow grease a few years back!