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I use the Dow Scrubbing Bubbles. I just spray it all over, let it sit for a couple minutes, take some toilet tissue, wipe it all up, toss it into the toilet, flush, and all is well.
This is the easiest way I've ever found to clean around the toilet.
No dirty cleaning rags hanging around anywhere.
This works for me on the area behind the lid, the rim, the area where the screws are on the base, and the floor around and behind the toilet. I might use a 1/4 roll of tissue getting it done, but it's all flushed away and over with ...in short order. And you really don't have to touch too much with your hands.
Then when I do the deep cleaning, it gets a good swabbing on the inside with the ole toitie brush and a good wash and rinse with a rag on the outside. I also like the Lysol Foam cleaner for bathrooms, as it is also a disinfectant and works the same as the Dow Scrubbing bubbles.
Thank you, I was beginning to think nobody had any little secrets. My biggest problem is the peel and stick old tiles are lifting, and there's just bad paint over drywall back there. I have an awful time keeping it clean, especially in the summer. I really hate my bathroom. The people who had it before me just wallpapered over the dry wall, and I never could get it all off. Someday, I will have nice ceramic tiles all in there...and I wonder if they still make that bathroom wall covering that goes on like paneling?
Sweaty tanks are just sweaty tanks...they aren't 'gunky.' It's just water, not anything disgusting.
That having been said, towel dry it when you need to clean the base of the toilet...I sweep back there regularly to keep the REAL 'gunk' down, and use a cheapo mop with pine-sol (or its equivalent) to swab it.
Course, if you don't wanna actually TOUCH it (ie: ring out the mop after), there are various disposable options out there these days. Consider the "wand" type cleaners...that cleaning stuff has got to be good for cleaning something other than the inside of the toilet...just like shampoo is a cheaper alternative to expensive squirty hand-soaps.
threegardeners,
the guy who owned this house before we did painted over two "entire" bathrooms, marble vanities, tile and grout (on walls and floors), ceramic toilets, tubs, sink everything with white enamel. The cleaners won't clean most of it and where it does clean the chemicals are causing the paint to chip off in chunks. You can't scrub the floors effectively because the paint caught in the grout grabs everything. That's my big eyesore and embarrassment. I always cringe when someone goes in my bathrooms because to me it looks like they never get cleaned. You've got to wonder sometimes what in the world were they thinking...
I think they were thinking they weren't going to be there long enough to have to worry about it...
Somebody, at one time put a lot of money into this place and I think they ran out when it came to the bathrooms...lol
I rented it for 12 years before I bought it...the landlord put 2 new furnaces, new roof, new water pump...it was fine until I decided it needed a change after I bought it, really, wallpaper does not belong in a bathroom...discovered the wallpaper was directly on the drywall...tried to paint it and HD sold me the wrong paint and it all soaked in...I have redone every room in this house,but that one bathroom baffles me to this day.
I'm ashamed to say I really have more complaints about previous owner than I do the house. His way of making "repairs" would make your hair stand on end. *L* We have a few problems but all in all a good house.
I can sympathize with you about the peel and stick floors - I made the mistake of putting them down in the bath of my previous house. It was a mobile home which made them pop up even worse from the flexing of the floors when walked on - they're not made for the bathroom either. That's one of my "I don't know what I was thinking" moments.
Yes, the beadboard comes in paneling sheets at HD and Lowe's.
Very good option for covering up bad walls... and quite fashionable and tasteful too. You can stain and seal it, or paint it with a washable enamel. Good choice.
I have it in my sunroom. My husband put it up and it wasn't that difficult or expensive and it really looks good. It would be perfect for an old house.
