how easy is it to clean a toilet and what supplies will you need?
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pine sol and a toilet brush. for bad toilet rings use comet.
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Just stick your head in there and flush. Use your hair to scrub with. Be careful, it makes you dizzy!
Just stick your head in there and flush. Use your hair to scrub with. Be careful, it makes you dizzy!
its really easy, just run to your local convience store and buy clorox toilet brushes!!
it depends how soiled it is
bleach can handle the problem..! an oh, dont forget to spray your toilet with a christian dior perfume..
It's pretty easy to clean the bowl - but bathrooms are one of the shortest, easiest rooms to clean, so how about I walk you through the 10 min sparkly bathroom routine? Very handy when the in-laws are rushing over.
I keep a cleaning caddy on hand from things I learned at work, my mum saw it and now keeps one herself. In my caddy, I always have:
-standard phenol disinfectant, pre-mixed (mine says "limpiador multiusos" because I'm cheap, just check the label when you go to the store, no sense spending extra money on a name or a slick marketing routine.)
-bleach (again, store brand or whatever's cheapest) but a small bottle, because honestly I use this much less than anything else in the caddy.
-a good supply of clean t-shirt rags (white is best) One trick I learned is that if you come back and dry anything you've wet-wiped (for example, faucets) with another rag, you get a much cleaner appearance since you don't get waterspots. Also, always change rags between cleaners to avoid nasty chemical interactions, and changing rags between jobs keeps you from just spreading dirt around. So I use a lot of rags.
-a microfiber mitt. It cost me less than two dollars at Wal-Mart, but it's very handy for dry dusting, and if you wet it slightly there are a lot of things you can clean with no chemicals involved.
-lemon oil. I put mine in a spray bottle, it gives me better control over how much goes on the surface.
-ammonia & vinegar based glass cleaner in a spray bottle. Cheap works as well as Windex.
-A coarse scrubby and an old toothbrush for things you simply can't get off any other way.
-Broom & dustpan.
-A "swiffer" & wet pads. I literally would not convert from hauling my bucket around, scoffing at the notion of disposable mops, until the hospital unit nearby went to them. Then I decided to give them a try - and guess what? Much better, unless you've got some gigantic spill or atrocious substance on the floor, which doesn't happen that often at home.
-small trashbags for kitchen/bath cans (if you're really cheap, you know plastic grocery bags work great for the little bathroom cans.)
Now, for the bathroom, I will also grab a bottle of toilet bowl cleaner - and this is one thing that I'm not super-cheap on. I like the brands which have some teflon in them, it does seem to keep the bowl cleaner longer.
I keep the toilet brush right next to the toilet anyway, so do most people, there are a lot of very discreet ones available now in sort of their own cases if you're worried about seeing the brush.
Right, so now - to the bathroom! The general rule is clean from top to bottom or clean to dirty. This keeps you from spreading dirt back around the room.
First thing I do - pull the trashcan to the doorway, check the lightbulbs, toilet paper, towels. Then, I clean mirrors & glass doors. Mirrors, you use a clean rag & the glass cleaner. Although the bottles on most cleaners tell you to use a circular motion, you are much faster with a zig-zag of lines. It takes a little while to retrain yourself, but unless you are needing to polish metal or are cleaning a very scratchable surface a circular motion is not necessary. Remember the lemon oil? If you have a glass shower door, this is going to sound crazy - but squirt some lemon oil on a rag, and go for the glass portion of the shower door with it. It gets rid of the soap scum like nothing else I've ever seen. The next thing is usually to put a little disinfectant in the bottom of the tub (plug the hole first) and while it's sitting, get a disinfectant rag and wipe off faucets there and on the sink. Remember to dry the faucets with another clean rag. Then let the disinfectant out of the tub, run over it with your coarse scrubby, and rinse. Now, to attack the toilet. Put the toilet bowl cleaner in (just follow directions on the bottle if you haven't done it before) and let it sit. Take a new disinfectant rag, and wipe down the exterior of the toilet, remembering to work from clean to dirty. Pay especial attention to the little crannies right there by the lid - use the old toothbrush if you need to poke the rag there. Now, grab the brush, scrub the bowl, and flush. Almost done! Throw your tools back in the caddy & move it to just outside the door, grab the broom & dustpan. Sweep the floor, empty the dustpan in the trashcan by the door. Swiffer. Throw the pad in the trashcan. Then grab the old trashbag, replace it with a new one, grab your tools, and you're done - clean bathroom. The whole thing took much longer to write than it takes to do.
If I'm deep-cleaning, there's more I do, like washing the showercurtain and such, but I only do that once a month.
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