How often do you clean your toilet?

pinkparrott

Before marriage and kids probably once a week, now i've a husband , a 8 year old boy who can't aim and a 5 year old girl who for some reason sits sideways on the loo :huh: I have to wipe rim and seat and outside and tiles on floor everyday and bleach / scrub with brush every couple of days :mad:

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Depends how many flushes it akes to carry the download safely away!

nearlyrich

We have three but only really use two one downstairs one en-suite I do the fly lady swish and swipe in bathrooms bleach as required and we have no issues with limescale here so easy to keep on top of them..I keep all the right stuff near it's point of use bleach loo cleaner etc makes it easier to just sort it rather than go hunting for the bleach etc..

Own_My_Own

Whole thing twice a week
Bleach down pan every night
Sterilising tablet down pan once a week

( you should try the sterilising tablet, it cleans all the hard to get to bits with no effort )

tizerbelle

Tiglath wrote: »

Bleach down a couple of times a week, Harpic tabs every couple of weeks for the limescale, and a good scrub once a week. One of our cats has taught herself to piddle in it as well, which is fine but she won't flush.

Consider yourself lucky, my cats treat it as their 3rd water bowl (they have their water, the dogs water and the toilet water) so I can't use any chemicals that linger / rim blocks and definitely no bleach.

Yes, I have tried keeping the door shut - they can open it and keeping the seat down - they lift it up and then I come home to a very angry cat struggling to clamber out of the loo

ganderson1804

Ok maybe I'm being a bit hard on myself. I clean the seat / rim as required and bleach and scrub weekly. I know people who have the bleach out 2-3 times a day... I'd never get anything done!

MrsE_2

dogmom wrote: »

I'm laissez faire but the toilet never smells. I wipe the seat and rim about weekly and put Harpic round the bowl about every month to clean off limescale and germs. 2 clean adults in our household.

Once a month for a proper clean:eek:

I do a full clean once a week - 1 adult.

I keep bleach wipes in the cupboard beside the loo for midweek wiping.

I use bleach tabs or blue loos in the cistern.

dogmom_3

Ha ha! Lots of OCD going on on this thread! I'm like Tizerbelle - I have dogs who much prefer to drink out of the toilet so I'm minimalist about my use of chemicals. It makes me wonder what's in my tap water that they think the toilet water is so much nicer!

jackieblack

tizerbelle wrote: »

Consider yourself lucky, my cats treat it as their 3rd water bowl (they have their water, the dogs water and the toilet water) so I can't use any chemicals that linger / rim blocks and definitely no bleach.

Yes, I have tried keeping the door shut - they can open it and keeping the seat down - they lift it up and then I come home to a very angry cat struggling to clamber out of the loo

Have you tried a child-proof lid-lock?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mommys-Helper-Toilet-Seat-Lid-Lok/dp/B000GE1MEI/ref=pd_cp_kh_0

Parsimonia

We use those Toilet Duck discs that stick to the side of toilet, and I give it a squirt of toilet duck/bleach/limescale remover (whichever comes to hand first) under the rim about twice a week.

Once a week I roll up my sleeves and give it a thorough scrubbing (under-the-rim-followed-by-hand-down-the-bowl-and-up-the-U-bend as far as I can reach) with a mixture of bleach and cream cleaner, then one final squirt of limescale remover for good luck.

I do the toilet seat, cistern, handle and floor properly once a week too, with maybe a mid-week wipe over with an anti-bacterial wipe or a piece of toilet paper squirted with Dettox.