Aggie and Kim and Minging Toilet brushes!!!

tawnyowls

Bargain_Rzl wrote:

Ideal solution IMHO would be a loo brush designed to be replaced frequently, using some kind of biodegradeable material (though not too rapidly biodegradable or it would disintegrate during use!)

Well, there is, sort of - there's those Toilet Duck Fresh Brush ones (and cheaper alternatives I've seen in pound shops), which have a long handle with a sort of pincer on the end that holds a disposable paper scrubby thing.

Becles wrote:

I've got bathroom cleaning rubber gloves. I normally take a bucket of soapy water in and clean the wash basin and the bath first. Then I clean the cistern, seat, the then loo itself. When I'm finished, I wash my gloves in the bucket of water before tipping it away.

I do pretty much this too, with disinfectant in the bucket, then leave the gloves to dry (dry things don't grow bugs). The important thing is to clean from the cleanest to the dirtiest areas. I use a scrubby sponge, as that whips through limescale.

I do keep loo brushes, for the same reason as mentioned above - visitors need them (and the OH wouldn't clean a loo if his life depended on it, so it's either brush or skidmarks). However, I disinfect and replace them regularly, and I don't use them for the actual cleaning. Why? If you'd seen the same video I'd seen, and saw just how much of a bacterial-laden spray rises from them (and most people will lean right over the loo when they're using them, so their face is directly above it), you wouldn't use them either!

lil_me

seraphina wrote:

lil_me: You can get nitrile (ie latex free) Marigold type gloves if you would like a reusable set of gloves. We have to use latex free gloves at work because of potential allergies; larger supermarkets should stock latex-free type marigolds.

I will have a look for those, I tend to shop online at the minute but would have missed them out as I tend not to go down the cleaning aisle now even when I do shop in a store, last disposables I got were from a girl who worked at a nursing home that were closing and throwing them out, still have some left but will look when I need to replace them.

I must say the reason why I prefer to clean the loo myself if using the brush, is because of the germ spray they cause. I won't let my children clean it after using it. I always do it, wouldn't dream of putting my face near it as you can see how much it sprays. I find brushing down over reduces that. I always clean mine with boiling water then allow to dry, at least weekly, don't like it sitting in water/chemicals. Given how clean it's kept and that I use much less chemicals now, I probably don't need to change it as often as I have been.

I did try those disposable brushes, as did a few friends, you still get germs on the handle part as it's so close to the pad they use, it sprays/splashes onto it, I don't think they are as hygenic as they are stated to be, people think you don't need to clean them like a traditional brush but you do.

There was a huge amount of chemicals in them, and as you are wiping around the bowl you're just spreading what gets on it as if you rinse them too much they just fall to bits, and without that the muck just sticks and spreads.

You also need gloves on when taking the pads on and off most of the time, it doesn't always go on/come of properly, those duck ones I tried the pads fell out numerous times.