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It happens to the best of us. Especially if you live with boys your toilet is the dirtiest place in the whole bathroom. Here are some tips for dealing with urine splash to help.
Tips For Dealing With Urine Splash
Did you know how easy it is to clean that crack between the bowl and the top if you wrap a disinfectant wipe over the flathead screwdriver?
If you want to avoid splashing in the first place, laying some toilet paper in the bowl before you go can minimize splashing as well as noise. Who would have thought?
If your boys are anything like the ones I know, the majority of the mess happens at night when they can’t see where they’re supposed to be aiming. Enter the glow in the dark toilet seat! You could probably DIY this with some glow in the dark paint.
Popsugar has an amazing recipe for toilet fizzies to keep that funky bathroom smell away. Baking soda, citric acid, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and essential oil are the secret ingredients for these. Then you just drop them in the bowl and they act as a bowl fragrance.
Pretty smart, right?
The Happier Home Maker had an amazing idea to just close the lid before you flush! The flush of the toilet can spray micro particles up to 10 feet away from the toilet and you don’t want those germs anywhere near your toothbrush or hairbrush. So just close it and you’ll be so much cleaner already!
If you need a deeper clean, it’s easy to remove the toilet seat and scrub clean any areas you were not able to remove before. Then you know you didn’t miss any spots and can feel assured your toilet is clean. I know that makes me happy.
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Awesome tips
Just have the little boys sit to eliminate splash.
Bad idea!!!
Yes! My sons were taught to sit down from the start, and my husband started when we were married. They don’t mind, and there are no ‘seat up or down’ arguments either, besides the cleanliness factor.
What? You actually got your husband to sit to pee??? Your amazing!
That doesn’t work. When they sit they wee forward and under the toilet seat. It will all go onto the floor.
It’s a man’s God given right to stand when he pees.
Then it should be his job to clean it up too.
I understand what means about the particle up to 10 feet…so ..the common sense said to me …don’t put nothing over the toilet…like toilet paper
I pee into a plastic cup and pour it about 2” over the slope part of the toilet. Then I rinse the cup in the faucet and empty into the toilet again, maybe twice. I keep it under the sink cabinet.
No splash at all. No need to pull down pants and sit down. No need to touch the toilet seat.
I started this practice when I saw clearly the urine splashing as far as 12″ out of the bowl when the sun was shining in from the window.
I did the sitting trick too (no stupid cup needed), but I prefer this much more. I wonder why.
I am sure many do this too….they just don’t tell you.
Eew…now urine is in the sink. Yuk….that just grossed me out to no end. Just go out and pee on a tree! Just kidding. I’m such a germaphobe I have my cleaning lady do this but only as long as she wears double gloves. I worry about her too. Oh my….I think I need help.
OK, #7.. does it REALLY work?!? Can you float a piece of Magic Eraser in the toilet to clean the sides?! OMG! And.. you’ll still have to put your hand in the bowl to get it out.
Good tips, thanks. How do you get the piece magic eraser out? ? Flush it or use tongs or something? ?
I need to know how to clean the tank not the toilet bowl. My tank has rust in it.
I saw a youtube video for this … A man used CLR its short for calcium lime rust
This is a pet peeve of mine. Men and boys who are taught to stand up and urinate think it is a male prerogative and included within that prerogative are women to clean up the splashes. Splashes form droplets and droplets can hang in the air for a long time, up to 72 hours in an enclosed space. That means if the toilet is in the same room as the sink where you brush your teeth and where you hang a towel then it is going to be contaminated with droplets. So teaching your sons to sit when urinating and teaching everyone to close the toilet lid before flushing is a measure of practice towards proper hygiene. This practice decreases the spread of bacteria and viruses just as does covering the mouth and nose with a tissue when one sneezes or coughs.
As a final word, children can be taught all things by simple observation. When they are 6 weeks old they observe. Every attentive mother knows this. When my children were 6 weeks old, when they were awake, I took my children into the bathroom with me whenever I used the facility. It was a habit. They saw me practice good hygiene from the point of sitting on the toilet, cleaning myself, redressing myself, closing the lid, flushing, to the sink for washing my hands, drying them on the towel which I hung up, and finally using a paper towel to wipe any spills and the faucet and toilet lid where I had touched it to close it. Guess what. My children we all potty trained at 14 months without any stressing. I attribute that to their observations and desire to emulate. I am not saying that there were accidents after 14 months but they were common.
It’s not unknown for women -especially those with Brazilian waxes – to leave spray on the underside of the toilet seat. Men have to see and smell this spray when they use that toilet.
Wow. I LOVE THIS way of teaching. I cleaned houses 24 yrs. All kinds of grodd bathroom habits out there. I agree with you. Also, if you use it, if you mess it, you shd clean it before you leave it. Good hygiene AND manners!
OMG I HAVE TRY ALMOST EVERY THING I HAVE TO BIG MAN AT MY HOUSE AND ITS A NIGHTMARE EVERY DAY I HAVE TO CLEAN THE TOILET AND IM THE LAST ONE TO TAKE A SHOWER SO THAT I CAN CLEAN THE BATH ROON AGAIN IM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR REMEDIES ON CLEANING THE TOILET IF YOU FIND ONE PLEASE PLEASE LET US KNOW THANKS