Bathroom clean tips please

tandraig

i get your point hun - no need to shout. just glad i not married to you - dont want YOUR toilet sprayings on my toothbrush! actually hun, you dont KNOW that no one come to any harm do you? what about all those bad tummies you blame on dodgy chinese? hmmm?
joe - not having a go at you - Im lucky - when we knocked toilet and bathroom into one i got left with a sort of divider between the toilet and rest of room. it sticks out about a foot and I put the toothbrush holder on that! so its out of direct 'line of fire'!!!
if you saw a previous thread of mine 'are we too hygenic' i am not OCD about cleanliness - but i do draw the line at not putting lid down when flushing toilet. its there for a reason and that reason is to trap the airborne bacteria.

Penelope_Penguin

geordie_joe wrote: »

You'll have to point me to these test as I can't find them.

Here you go

geordie_joe

tandraig wrote: »

i get your point hun - no need to shout. just glad i not married to you - dont want YOUR toilet sprayings on my toothbrush!

You wouldn't know, I'd flush the loo with the lid up and put it down after I'd adjusted my clothes and washed my hands. You'd get it on your toothbrush but would never know about it and I doubt it would harm you.

tandraig wrote: »

actually hun, you dont KNOW that no one come to any harm do you? what about all those bad tummies you blame on dodgy chinese? hmmm?

I rarely get bad tummies, as do the rest of my family. But as I pointed out in your previous thread, the number of times people get bad tummies bares no relation to the number of times they come into contact with "stuff" from the toilet.
Why don't we get bad tummies every day if half the people in the country don't wash their hands after going to the toilet and the toilet chucks out bacteria every time we flush it?

tandraig wrote: »

joe - not having a go at you - Im lucky - when we knocked toilet and bathroom into one i got left with a sort of divider between the toilet and rest of room. it sticks out about a foot and I put the toothbrush holder on that! so its out of direct 'line of fire'!!!

Be truthful, where did you keep the toothbrush before you had the bathroom done? Or before you heard the loo chucks out nasty stuff when you flush it?

tandraig wrote: »

if you saw a previous thread of mine 'are we too hygenic' i am not OCD about cleanliness -

I know, but my point is it is not doing us any harm. The only difference these days is we have been programmed by certain companies to fear bacteria and germs, and the only way to be safe from them is to by their stuff to kill them.

tandraig wrote: »

but i do draw the line at not putting lid down when flushing toilet. its there for a reason and that reason is to trap the airborne bacteria.

I doubt that, toilet seats were around long before someone said toilets chuck out bacteria when they are flushed. They must have been invented for a different reason. To stop things falling into the bowl perhaps?

And, if you think about it, the toilet seat has little "feet" on the bottom to stop it breaking the toilet if it falls. This means there is a gap between the toilet and the seat where the bacteria will shoot through anyway.

misskool

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Here you go

First thought is IgNobel!

geordie_joe

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Here you go

But it doesn't say bacteria can be sent up to 6 feet

In fact, although it says they measured micro-organisms that had been disseminated into the air, the distance that air was from the water in the bowl is the only measurement they don't mention.

For all I know they could have measured just the air that is 1 inch above the water in the bowl. Or it may have been the air that was 6 feet away from the toilet I just don't know.

But I do know that whatever that distance was they didn't want me to know. Could it be that including the distance would completely change things?

tandraig

geordiejoe - we are hijacking this thread so i am going to start another one. we can continue this on there
gonna call it 'seat up or down' ok
my last tip for bathroom cleaning is - use a bubble bath which doesnt leave residue! shampoo is good usually

geordie_joe

tandraig wrote: »

geordiejoe - we are hijacking this thread so i am going to start another one. we can continue this on there
gonna call it 'seat up or down' ok

I've just posted in it. You have a good point and I apologise for hijacking this thread.

tandraig wrote: »

my last tip for bathroom cleaning is - use a bubble bath which doesnt leave residue! shampoo is good usually

OK, my tip is to use baby sterilising fluid for getting rid of mould in grout.

missbargain

I have, by accident, discovered a fantastic way to clean ceramic tiles, tile grout and also stainless steel sinks (works a treat in the kitchen).

I ran out of my usual Ecover cleaner, all I had to hand was an ordinary washing powder (I think biological one).

I wet the sponge, dipped it in washing powder and rubbed the sink with it. I than rinsed the sink and I swear, it was gleaming and spotless as if it just came out of the showroom. All traces of grease, stains, water marks etc. etc. were gone in seconds.

Than I though I'd try it on my tiles above the bath tub. The grout had some stains from hair color (reddish brown) and the tiles were quite foggy and covered with hard water marks.
Well, the same trick, washing powder on the sponge, rub all over the tiles and grout (can use toothbrush on the grout as well), rinse the tiles with a shower hose, and they were gleaming, too.
It basically cleaned my sink, tiles and grout better and quicker than any other cleaner I have used. It might work on other materials, but I haven't tried yet.
Washing powder works the best on areas where there is access to running water so that it can be rinsed well (eg: sinks, above the bath, etc.).
Perhaps one needs to be cautious if the tiles are porous (mine are highly glazed ceramic tiles), otherwise, it really works. I will probably not use it all the time, but once every couple of weeks for that deep clean I think it's perfect.