Use a jey cloth to clean loo and then throw it away - is there a better way???

Mics_chick

Was in 2 minds whether to post this at all but it's been bugging me for a while and this was the only way I could think of putting it to rest... :rolleyes:

Anyone got any advice on what they do and with what will be gratefully received

belfastgirl23

I've been wondering about this too. I use loo roll to do a quick wipe around every day but use a j cloth once a week or so. I always use it with bleach so tend to wash off (BEFORE cleaning out bath!) and use again. I also store it seperately. Not sure if this is good or not? Replace once every month or thereabouts. Will be interested in what others do...

do_it_today!

A toilet brush?
or maybe using industrial /catering kitchen roll

love_lifer

i got the perfect solution- use ur old scouring pads, or old socks/knickers, cut up into bits. then u feel fine chucking them
sad but true. i have v clean bog

kethry

you could just use cloths that you wash after using once. if you put vinegar in the machine and do on a hot wash, then there'd be no problems with cleanliness or sterility (lets face it, if it'll do nappies, it'll do cloths).

I'm actually taking part in an environmental challenge posted by someone somewhere else, to *stop* using disposables - and things like cleaning cloths is a big part of it. We've even had discussions about stopping using loo roll, but OH refused to do that, so that's one disposable we're stuck with!

but certainly all others have gone. including the kitchen sponge - i'm now trialling something in the hope that it can be washed and reused.

keth
xx

CFC

I buy a pack of 25 antibacterial wipes and use one of those to clean the loo and chuck it away afterwards. It's cheap and I don't have to touch anything nasty.

Sorry Kethry I'd rather stick biros in my eyes than put my toilet cleaning cloths in the washing machine. And I sure hope that people who put nappies in their washing machines bleach them first.

Apart from that, if you're only doing cloths, it's a terrible waste to put your washing machine on at 90degrees just for a few cloths. Think of the electricity you're wasting and the smoke being output at the generating plant, it seems to me to be just as green to use stuff you're going to chuck out anyway like love lifer or disposables like me!

mossstar

I don't bleach my nappies before washing them - think of the environment!!! I soak the more disagreeable ones...

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When my girls were small there wasn't a choice it was a bucket under the sink with a solution of Napisan for nappies .Every other day I had a small BabyBurco boiler that did a boil wash for nappies .I had two dozen Harringtons Terry towels and that did for both of my two babies .As one grew out of them the next baby grew into them. (There was two years between my two) I still to this day have about six old nappies left that I use for dusters .They are very thin now as my babies are 38 & 40 . I never used bleach on the nappies though. The most wonderful invention in 1967 was the throw-away nappy liner ,fantasic when used in terry nappies .I lived then in a flat that only had a tiny gas geyser on the wall in the kitchen so the Burco and my spin dryer was all that I had to do the washing with .Mind you I had a lovely long washing line in the garden with a big prop on it so they all got a good blow in the wind.

MATH

Use a cloth! I'm amazed that people feel they are more hygenic if they use disposable cloths and cleaning manufacturers just play on our fear of germs to make us buy these needless products.

People get a bit @anal (pun intended) about toilet cleaning but lets face it. You are putting nothing onto your toilet cloth that you do not already have on your body, bath towels and in the weave of your underwear:eek: and these items arew washed and re-used without a care.

Clean down the bathroom with a cloth leaving the toilet until last so that you do ont cross contaminate. Once finished soak the cloth in water with a splosh of bleach for a couple of hours to kill the germs and bacteria. Bleach is bio-degradable and to help the enviroment use the smallest amount possible and soak for longer, I kill two birds with one stone and combine it with bleaching my sink. Rinse out the bleach and the cloth is perfectly safe to wash in a mixed [EMAIL="wash.@nal"]wash.[/EMAIL]

MATH

CFC wrote:

Sorry Kethry I'd rather stick biros in my eyes than put my toilet cleaning cloths in the washing machine.

Do you use disposable underwear, towels, bedlinen and pj's? All these items will contain YOUR fecal matter and if you wash at lower than 60 c you mix up a luuurvly fecal soup for all your clothes to slop around in. Toilet cloths if disinfected properly are less of a risk than other intimate items you wash everyday.

twink

i agree with you math, when i started nursing years ago we were told a cloth was the best way to clean a toilet, yes student nurses did that sort of thing then occassionaly, and that is how i do it today and cant say its done us any harm