How To Clean A Toilet Bowl
So, you’ve decided the old toilet bowl has gotten dirty enough to merit a good cleaning but you’re on your own for the first time and not sure quite how to go about it. So you scour the internet in search of instructions and come across this short article. Well here you go. Now let’s get started by making sure you have all your supplies. You’ll need a toilet brush, toilet bowl cleaner,latex gloves or some other type and a rag or paper towels.
Ok, first, it’s a good idea to open a window and get some ventilation going on. (It’s usually not a good idea to breathe toilet bowl cleaners.) Put on some latex, neoprene or vinyl gloves to protect your hands from the toilet bowl cleaner and the ickiness that resides within the bowl. Get out your toilet bowl cleaner. Make sure you follow all the instructions on the package because it can be a major health hazard if you don’t. For instance, NEVER USE AMMONIA AND BLEACH AT THE SAME TIME. They can react to form poisonous gases like chlorine and chloramine. Exposure to these can cause irreversible lung damage or kill you! Safety check. Ok, now that you’ve read all the precautions get to cleaning. Flush the toilet to wet the bowl. Apply your powder or liquid toilet bowl cleaner in generous amount. Let it set with the toilet bowl cleaner soaking in for a bit, say 5 minutes. Get out your toilet brush and scrub it all around the inside. Make sure you get that nasty brown ring off. Flush the toilet and rinse the brush while the new water is coming in. Spray the rim and both sides of the seat and seat cover and the whole outside with disinfectant. Allow the disinfectant to set for a minute and kill all the germs. Wipe it down with a lint free rag or paper towels. Put up you toilet bowl cleaner and toilet brush. Wait a few minutes for the excess disinfectant to dry. Then use it to your butt’s content. And that’s how to clean a toilet.
Toilet Brush Preferences
You have a toilet that gets dirty so you have the essential toilet bowl brush. The toilet brush can be just a cheap brush for $2.50 that you keep in the closet or set on an old plate or bowl leaning against the wall. It doesn’t matter that it looks cheap. It is just something you use to get the job done every day and then don’t think about the necessary thing again until you have to pick it up the next day or the day after.
Then again you may be the type of person who wants a cheap toilet brush that you just replace with another one when you need to, but you want a pretty toilet brush holder setting out. You may want the color of the toilet brush holder to match your bathroom colors. You can put the brush in a pretty pot plant holder that sets close by the toilet. It could be just a clay pot that you buy for $1.00 and paint or it could be one that you get at a garage sale. You can pick up this type of toilet brush holder at the garden center of any discount store that will match your bathroom.
Of course, you can pay more and get a cute toilet brush and holder that matches in any color from most discount stores or large department store. Be sure the holder has good ventilation so the toilet brush will dry out. This will keep the toilet brush bristles from harboring more germs.
You can expect a six month life expectancy from most any toilet brush. That means if you have a matching toilet brush holder you will have to throw the whole thing away or you can just get a white replacement brush or you can choose from a variety of handle colors. It’s really still cute if you want to have mismatched colors. You could choose two of the colors from your bathroom. Mix and match is popular for decoration and can work for most people.
Calendar Help to Teach Your Children to Keep the Bathroom Clean
The children should clean with you for the first week, giving special attention to cleaning the toilet bowl and using toilet bowl cleanser.
Then pick out a calendar from the Microsoft website or any other calendar you want to use. A calendar that has room for instructions on the side is good. You can choose the one that suits your situation best.
Let the children know that they will be responsible for their particular week on the calendar. Let them pick out their color. Color the dates on the calendar and the child’s name with the same color so each child knows which week to be responsible for. Of course, remind them especially for the first month.
The following .pdf download is an example of what you may want to do. This works really well! Enjoy!
Why We Must Have Toilet Bowl Cleaner
If we use toilet bowl cleaner regularly, the toilet can at times be called the best seat in the house. There could even be a line of people waiting to use it.
Everyone sits on one, yet most don’t speak about it regularly – it’s not usually that interesting. It’s not something talked about in most group settings. It’s certainly not a lunch conversation. It’s definitely not a Girls’ Night Out subject. And it’s not something we write home about.
However, using toilet bowl cleaner is really important to every one of us, in fact, a downright necessity for most of us, so that’s why we need to discuss it and brushes too! The brushes could actually be a subject of interest by using them to help decorate the bathroom. Most people use the container which conveniently comes with the brush. But have you ever thought of using a pretty pot normally used for pot plants or a wonderfully designed vase which would match one or more colors in your bathroom to put your toilet brush in? I have had compliments galore just from locating my toilet brush in just such a thing. It’s unusual and fun for something normally ordinary and mundane. Whoever thought your toilet bowl brush would become a conversation piece!
Perhaps your home toilet bowl is the cleanest in town because you regularly use Lysol Gel or 2000 Flushes or Scrubbing Bubbles and you never even have to touch the bowl or my favorite – EcoSense Tub and Tile. It makes the toilet look brand new, it’s very safe, plus you can just spray the tub and tile with the same product.
On the other hand, maybe the toilet at work is filthy. Or you’ve had to use the toilet at the gas station and you have to hold your purse on your lap or hang it around your neck because there is no hook. You look around and there is no toilet paper and the seat is nasty besides. What to do? Do you look in your purse for a tissue and hover (or hopefully you’re prepared with Lysol disinfecting wipes) over the toilet while hoping no one will come in the door since the lock is broken? Here’s an idea: keep some Cottonelle Fresh Flushable Moist Wipes or Charmin: Fresh Mates To Go Flushable Wipes which come in a pack of ten that you can easily keep in your purse and within reach for just such an occasion. As for the broken lock, the only thing I can think of is duct tape which actually comes in small packs also.
We need a How To sheet we can tape on the wall explaining how to get the toilet bowl cleaner and the entire room cleaner while we’re at it, written especially for the people in charge of gas stations, convenience stores and the like just in case someone who really cares needs a nudge and will help us. Hey, maybe after awhile, it will catch on. We could even get a cheap hook and brush as a gift and ask that they put it in the girl’s room. Then maybe the next time we need to stop by we’ll find a nice clean toilet bowl.
Cleaner toilets and bathrooms mean more happiness for us ladies (and gents too, I’m sure) and we need to make the people in charge realize that if we are happy with their clean and well-stocked bathrooms, we will patronize their place of business more often.
Finding the Right Cleaner to Use For Toilets and Grout Cleaning
Having the right cleaner for toilet and grout cleaning can save you a lot of time. Having worked as a commercial janitor for a few year has taught me many tricks that I hope will prove useful in your efforts to clean your toilets, tile and grout.
The grout cleaners I recommend are Soft Scrub, Tilex, and oxygenated bleach. If your gout isn’t very dirty, a milder grout cleaner like Tilex would be the but one to use. If you grout is severely discolored, you should start with Soft scrub or diluted bleach. For best results, apply the cleaner to the surface of the tile and grout. Then wait for a few minutes for the cleaner to work its way into the porous surface of the grout. After that, scrub the tile and grout with a hard bristled brush in a direction even with the grout. After the grout is clean and restored back to its original color, rinse with water (or a damp rag) and dry with a towel.
When grout cleaning is done a regular basis, it can help tile and grout look their best and last longer. When you are experiencing problems with mold and mildew, which love to grow in dark and damp areas of your bathroom, try to increase the ventilation in your bathroom or else increase the lighting. You can increase the ventilation by living the fan on or opening a window. You can improve the lighting by increasing the wattage of your bathroom lights, or by keeping the curtains open. Both of this things, combined with regular monthly cleaning will help to keep your bathroom free of mold and mildew.
One of the most important steps in cleaning and restoring your toilet bowl is by using an effective toilet cleaner. There are many available toilet bowl cleaners on the market so how do you know which on is the best?
If you like chemical cleaners, some I recommend are scrubbing bubbles, Lysol bathroom cleaner, Clorox toilet cleaner. A great toilet cleaner will come in a bottle with a curved neck. This will allow you to get under the rim of the toilet and keep stains and hard water from building up under the there. You should also use a scrub brush and for really bad hard water stains, you should use a pumas stone. This will get of hard wart stains without scratching the porcelain.
What do I do if I have stubborn toilet bowl stains?
Another way to deal with toilet bowl stains below the water line is to add about 1 cup of bleach or ½ cup of CLR cleaner to the toilet. Let is sit their for an hour and then scrub it with a hard bristled toilet brush. Eventually, all hard water toilet bowl stains should come out.