Toilet brush

I once horrified a group of friends by confiding that I soak my toilet brushes in bleach and water for a while and then put them in the dishwasher, together with all the plant pots from around the house. Following this the dishwasher gets an empty wash with dishwasher cleaning liquid. They were quite disconcerted but it seemed perfectly logical to me. It works, too.

I buy really cheap toilet brushes from the supermarket and replace them every 4/6 weeks.

Oh my a toilet brush in the dishwasher , sorry but that horrifies me too.. I haven't had a toilet brush for years I can't abide seeing them standing there in the corner, I use a toilet duck which I bleach after using and the cleaning bit flushes down the loo after using... much neater .

We haven't died yet! It does get a bath in bleach first. And it doesn't go in with the dishes. It started when I realised that I had bought extremely expenisive loo cleaning sets with brushes that couldn't be replaced.

janerowena you do it too? Its too horrible to contemplate sorry!!

Same here, tanith - glad I'm not the only one!
I use a lot of bleach, too...

Good heavens. Am gobsmacked as to why the need to do all this toilet brush cleaning. Is there some form of EU inspection regime with spot checks and heavy financial penalties imposed that someone has not warned me about?
What on earth do you do with your chopping boards? Boil them for an hour in bleach and then blast with a flame thrower and rinse with neat alcohol?

I swapped over to a toilet duck a couple of years ago.

Much better than having a germy loo brush lurking in the corner of the bathroom.

Oooh janerowena do your friends still accept your dinner invitations?

Jess!

I hereby invite you all to afternoon tea! Two loos available, both with gleaming stainless steel loo brush holders and spotless loo brushes for your perusal. At your convenience.

overthehill; that is a really good idea. I use old toothbrushes for all sorts of little cleaning jobs but never thought of that [I mean, it's like a giant toothbrush as well].

Good heavens a GN thread about toilet brushes! Or am I dreaming?

Be afraid Nellie be very afraid!

Toilet duck is ok but without a brush how do you remove the 'bits' which adhere to the pan?? I lift the cistern lid,then squirt bleach in, flush, shut the lid, grab the brush and give the pan a vigorous going over as the water cascades into it, then dry off the edges and loo seat with loo paper! I then put the loo brush and it's container into a bucket of bleach solution just to finish off the 'job'. Is this TMI?

Besides being a bleach freak, I've been known to sprinkle a good amount of Ajax/Vim round the toilet pan and scrub it! Thank goodness for rubber gloves (I love 'em)

You will ruin your toilet bowl doing that! Take the surface off.

Gally no, that is a very useful post. Good way of doing it. Except I wouldn't bother putting the brush into a bucket of bleach. It's a lavvie brush for goodness sake!

Ewww! I can't even cope with people who wash the dog and cat food bowls in the kitchen sink. It's the thought that counts.

Yes I would be far more worried about putting the toilet germs in the dishwasher than having a surgically clean toilet brush. [queasy emoticon]
I know someone with an immaculate looking house that washed her dog in the kitchen sink. Yuk. And I've never been able to find a bottle of bleach in her house. Funny thing disgust isn't it.

Jess I have a mental picture of you furtively opening all the cupboards in her house in search of a bottle of bleach

Can you tell me what you are 'scrubbing'? As some of you might know from my posts I'm a clean freak, but bleach ( my best friend) and descaler remove all stains. As for brushes, HATE the things.

We have a fosse so no bleach in the toilets - I have to use special toilet cleaner - works OK though- and each week need to put a packet of what is a bacterial activator down the pan - this looks a bit like fuller's earth - my mother used to buy that but no idea now what she used it for!!

Googled 'fosse' but none the wiser.

Bez, Fuller' s Earth was popular in the 1970s for preventing nappy rash. Well in my group anyway.