Do you own a toilet brush?

www.gransnet.com/forums/house_and_home/1312871-Toilet-Brushes?pg=3

Why the fascination?

We use the silicone brushes, I flush them which cleans them completely unlike a brush, then spray with Flash bleach spray. They stay clean.

Sarnia

Germanshepherdsmum

Sarnia

I haven't had a toilet brush in years. They give me the creeps with all sorts of grot sticking to the stained bristles. I use a single use, disposable cleaning pad which attaches to a long handle. The best way is to snap on the rubber gloves and with a non-abrasive cleaning pad get into all the nooks and crannies.

What about your guests? Or any visitor using the cloakroom?

All the more reason to clean the loo after they have gone home with a disposable pad and not a brush.

What do they have to endure whilst staying for a few days or if, whilst making a quick visit, they use the cloakroom? Are you happy for them to be embarrassed? I would not want to stay in someone’s house and be unable to clean the loo as necessary.

lets look at it from the other end, so to speak. You use the loo, you leave brown marks in it. If you have diarrhea or similar and the staining is extensive. What do you do to hygenically clean the loo if there is no brush?

Why is having a brush in a wc, whose only purpose or use is to clean the loo 'unhygenic'. I am not aware that people might regularly scrub their hands with it, clean the floor, or use if for some other purpose because they do not realise that it is a loo brush.

Like others, mine is dunked in bleach.

A hammer and chisel would be more appropriate in this flat.

It was for sale by the way, I wasn't inspecting one in their loo!

Germanshepherdsmum

Sarnia

I haven't had a toilet brush in years. They give me the creeps with all sorts of grot sticking to the stained bristles. I use a single use, disposable cleaning pad which attaches to a long handle. The best way is to snap on the rubber gloves and with a non-abrasive cleaning pad get into all the nooks and crannies.

What about your guests? Or any visitor using the cloakroom?

All the more reason to clean the loo after they have gone home with a disposable pad and not a brush.

I know there are silicone ones now...
I know this because I inspected one in TKMaxx this morning!

Patsy70

Grannynannywanny

Mine is gleaming when it comes out of the dishwasher ✨ ✨

Oh, surely not! Mine goes with the whites in the washing machine on 90 degrees! 🤣🤣🤣

And the microwave kills the germs! 🥴

I find it doubles up as a good back scrubber before I use it for the loo before popping into the dishwasher.

I think they are disgusting....would never have one

Never owned one - disgusting things! The thought of it lurking in its holder makes me cringe, as for putting it in the dishwasher - surely not 😛 that must be a joke!??? For me it's on with the rubber gloves before I give the loo a good clean .

No as my mum used thick bleach and hot water its what I use.

Doodledog

I also have those 'pad on a stick' ones. They are probably not particularly great ecologically, but they are so much more hygienic. You just clip the pad onto the stick (without touching), clean, then unclip it into the bin (again, without touching) and the job's done. The pads are infused with cleaning product, so there's no over-use of that, and they smell pleasant, so they deodorise as well as clean.

I have those as well. They were provided for use in the gîte last year and I liked them so much I ordered one for each toilet (and a pack of refills.)

merlotgran

^Mine is gleaming when it comes out of the dishwasher^

If you have a loo seat that lifts off for cleaning you can do them both together.

Saves on energy costs! 😂

Thanks for the tip! 😆

Mine is gleaming when it comes out of the dishwasher

If you have a loo seat that lifts off for cleaning you can do them both together.

Saves on energy costs! 😂

I also have those 'pad on a stick' ones. They are probably not particularly great ecologically, but they are so much more hygienic. You just clip the pad onto the stick (without touching), clean, then unclip it into the bin (again, without touching) and the job's done. The pads are infused with cleaning product, so there's no over-use of that, and they smell pleasant, so they deodorise as well as clean.

No I never use ones they give me the creeps

Grannynannywanny

Mine is gleaming when it comes out of the dishwasher ✨ ✨

Oh, surely not! Mine goes with the whites in the washing machine on 90 degrees! 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, always have used one. It sits in the enamel pottie at the back of the bathroom cupboard. Same as Desdemona, I let it sit in the bleachy water for a few minutes before a very hot rinse.

Churchview

I have one. I use it to clean the toilet and only to clean the toilet. I can understand how it might be unhygienic if I also used it to do the washing up - or my teeth.

🤣🤣🤣

No! Revolting things that have no place in the home nowadays.

From what I was told a ban was put on
hotels,guest houses, B and B etc having toilet brush's.
Check it out if you stay at Travelodge or Premier inn in the future.

Just have to say that what we all do in our own homes is our concern.

Grannynannywanny

Mine is gleaming when it comes out of the dishwasher ✨ ✨

😂😂

I was waiting for somebody to post that!

Mine is gleaming when it comes out of the dishwasher ✨ ✨