Help me with my smelly loo!!

DUKE

if they can't aim straight then make them sit down on the toilet

razra

ailuro2 wrote: »

Use a loo brush to send most of the water round the U bend- Dry the area normally cover with water.

Clean area below usual water line with nail varnish remover to get rid of any residue.

Using an indelible marker or black nail varnish draw a fly about an inch below where the water usually sits.

Apparently having something for the boys in your life to aim at cuts down on the spillages.

My Mom did this when my brothers were younger and it did work, so much so in fact that my youngest brother (5 at the time) wanted to know if he could wee on flys in the garden too:rotfl:

Another thing I use is a cheapy airfresher tucked inside the cardboard tube of the loo roll as generally its close to the loo so it masks the smell when your sat on the loo if that makes sense

frenchconnection200

He's been made to clean the toilet floor many a time!! My 4 yr old DD likes to get off the loo midstream so is now adding to the problem.
A male friend and his flatmates missed the loo so often after drunken nights out that one day someone sat on the toilet and it collapsed through the floorboards as they'd rotted them away! I'm paranoid it is going to happen to us as I suspect the floorboards are too sodden by now to ever smell fragrant again.

wendym

I have a friend who told her teenage boys that she'd read about a gadget that aimed a small electric shock through the stream of wee to its source, and would buy one if their aim didn't improve.

My brother (as an adult, I'm afraid) had to get rid of a wardrobe (and you'd hope the clothes in it) after using it once too often in the middle of a drunken night's sleep.

allIcouldwishfor

An open container (flour shaker for instance) of bicarb with a spoonful of essential oil (lemon, tea tree or whatever else takes your fancy) shaken up in it will neutralise smells and act as an air freshener.

Washing the floor with diluted vinegar (again, you can add some essential oil) is good for getting rid of the smell of urine.

I guess it depends whether the smells are coming from the floor or underneath. In our house the outside of the loo is generally much more smelly than the inside, courtesy of DS aged 5!

I'm just off to draw a fly inside my loo!

CaramelKoala

Apologies if anyone has mentioned this before.

Our household also suffers from this problem, and I have found that as well as on the floor, stray liquid can also collect under and around the seat fitting. Taking the seat and lid off the pan and giving it all a good rinse and wipe down can be quite effective in reducing the smells (though it usually needs doing again within hours :rotfl:).

I agree with the previous poster that those wet socks are the worst thing.

Hoping they will grow out of it.

saving-grace

CaramelKoala wrote: »

Hoping they will grow out of it.

When we moved into our current house the carpet around the loo was badly stained.:eek: This was in the en-suite, not the family bathroom, so presumably due to the man of the house, not his small son!

(btw the yucky carpet is long gone and we now have nice clean tile effect laminate. OH did what others have mentioned and its not cut away around the toilet pan it is laid underneath it )

jellynose

Another suggestion to help boys aim correctly, is to put a ping pong ball in the toliet. It won't flush away and it should help with their aim

Idiophreak

A friend and I were discussing something like a target for use in urinals in pubs, so that you could go to the toilet without trampling through peoples wee...We thought you could hook something up where if you hit the target enough, it spits out some nuts or pork scratchings...I'll make my millions yet...

thriftlady_2

My OH reckons you can't get any aim on it till you're at least 18 :rotfl: Sounds like a pretty lame excuse to me:rolleyes: . I have this problem too with 2 lads 10 and nearly 12. I can empathise with the wet socks, it drives me mad. I get them to wipe the floor and seat but then we get an argument about who's wee it is. I love the electric shock idea