Today, we are going to talk about something that all boy moms across the universe understand – little boy’s bathrooms. Even after you are finished with the potty training years, boy’s bathrooms need a certain kind of attention.
Warning: It’s about to get real around here. So, if you don’t want to read real talk, you might want to just scroll down to the giveaway.
You know that part of the toilet? Yeah, I didn’t really even know it existed until I had a son. Now, it’s one of the most cleaned parts of my bathroom. Somehow, that’s where it all goes when boys “miss.” Over the past few months, I’ve had three other boys at my house on a weekly basis, and I realized that it wasn’t just a Zack problem. It’s gross, but there’s not much that we can do about it except clean it, right?
I have started using my HomeRight SteamMachine Plus to tackle that area. The steam breaks up the “dirt” so that it can be more easily wiped up.
I generally steam the area around the base of a toilet with the handheld portion of the unit, and then I wipe it up with a paper towel. Then, I steam and wipe again. It’s enough to clean and disinfect the area so that I don’t have to use a chemical spray in the bathroom (which usually makes me feel like I’m choking).
The SteamMachine Plus is one of the tools that we use the most on house cleaning days. We use it for tile floors, counter tops, the shower door, and for bathrooms. I don’t know how I lived without it! And now, HomeRight is giving one away to a lucky Makely reader!
To enter, tell me in the comments how you would use the SteamMachine Plus if you won! This sweepstakes is open through March 31st and a winner will be randomly selected. Open to US Residents, ages 18 and up. Good luck!
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I would use this everyday!! With two boys my bathroom would be spotless and fresh smelling…..again!!!
my son and my husband both have aiming issues – I also would love to steam my tile!
I would use this to disinfect our kitchen floors -with 2 dogs, they get pretty grimy, and with a new baby, it’s important to keep them clean!
I would CLEAN ALL THE BATHROOMS! I have girls, and girls are gross too.
I would love this for cleaning bathrooms! I’m pregnant right now, and it would make my life so much easier!
I would use this on my hardwoods and my tile 🙂
Thank you for the opportunity and God Bless You 🙂
I would use this to clean my bathroom and kitchen floors. I will be having ACL and MCL reconstruction surgery on 3/26/15 and this will be of much help and will ensure that my husband does a good job of helping to keep our home clean while I am unable to!
I would use this to keep my white tile floors white. My husband is a machinist and attracts dirt and grease like crazy.
I would love to use this to clean our kitchen floor!
Howdy!
The man and I have four cats plus two foster fails. Needless to say, we have messy floors often due to spilling cat food, splashed water, naughty kitty accidents, and scared kitty accidents (one of our cats runs when she’s scared, and sometimes even gets scared shitless, marking her path with little nuggets. Needless to day, I use a lot of hot water and disinfectant, and a proper steamer would help with the trail of lil steamers!!
I would also use it for regular stuff, too… Like showers and whatnot 😀
Pick me!!!
I would totally use this on our floors! We have a wood laminate that is next to impossible to get and keep clean. The steam would help get through the grains!
Also, granite counters! They’re always streaky!!
I’d use it on my floors…tile, stone tile, wood…all of them! I can never seem to get them clean…
I have hardwood floors,and this would be awesome for them!
I have a son and two dogs. I would use it everywhere!!!
I love this! I’d use it in my bathroom and the kitchen to give the floors a thorough cleaning!
my hubby is verysick and at home, his immune system is total wack. so everything ha to be kept very clean.this would be so helpful to keep this up
I would use it for my shower!! No cleaning products seem to work! Thanks for the chance!
I would definitely use it on my floors! With teenagers in and out they always need cleaning! It would definitely be put to use!
I have an All Tile house. I would definitely clean all my floors with it….especially the kitchen. My mop always makes such a mess.
As a mom of three boys it will get quite a workout in our bathrooms.
I would use it to clean my floors. I have tile throughout my home!! This would be great.
I would use this to clean my bathrooms – 3 guys with nasty spatters. Gross!
My floors!!!!!
I would use this in the bathroom and also around the baseboards in the kitchen!
I would use a steam machine all over my house! Especially for the toilet areas and the floors! It would be a great addition to my natural cleaning toolbelt!
I would love to use the steammachineplus on the bathroom, and all around the house , to clean , thank you!
ahhhhh!!! I had No idea there was something out there to help me clean that part of my toilet! It’s the GROSSEST part of a toilet EVER! I so need this! I’d use it for my toilet, around the sink, bathtub, in the kitchen. I could use this for everything!!
I have 2 men in the house with me. Nuff said.
Well, having a boy myself using it in the toilet sounds great, but my hardwood floors and tile floors would love the steam machine too!!
This is a game changer!! I hate using chemicals. I could use it on all my floors and in the bathrooms too! I could get excited about cleaning using this!!
I would give it to my husband as a gift. He has been waiting one of these for some time,searching the web endlessly,traveling from store to store pricing out this steam cleaner. You see, he installed new wood floors in four rooms of our home. He wants to use this to care and clean them, so they’ll last for the rest of our lives. He’s so good to me. I hope we win
kitchen floors with all its nooks and crannies.
If I win this you can bet there will be no part of my house, including the inside of my dogs crate, that won’t be steam cleaned! I might just carry it on over to my neighbors and get a start on their spring cleaning while I’m at it!!! Honey, hide the motorcycle!
i would use this product to spruce up kitchen floor. also would use around the toilets and our Rv. thanks
I would use it for the exact same spot in my son’s bathroom as well as every other spot in my son’s bathroom. Oh the places that could be cleaned with this steam machine! Be still my heart!
I would love to use this to clean our bathrooms
I would love to use this to steam my tile floors
I would use this steam machine for SO many different things but first it would clean my oven.
I have three sons, a husband and two grandsons!! I know it would be put to great use!! Thanks for the information!!
Oh my gosh, I realize that I have only two boys, and their dad, but we could totally use this! One of my kids (and I’m not even sure which one to be honest) doesn’t put the lid UP when he goes and I’m pretty sure there is also no aiming involved when using the loo. It’s gross and I always steer people away from this particular bathroom because you never know what state it will be found in!! This would be awesome to win!
OH this is the grossest part of the bathroom! My boys “miss” also. They always try to pin the blame on me. To which I said that is physically impossible! haha
I would definitely use it in our bathrooms. Our tile could use a good cleaning and my two youngest boys (teenagers) share a bathroom so I don’t need to say anymore about that , LOL!
I have to be honest. We have an older steamer that is on wheels and I have to lug around AND storage is a pain! I too use mine in the bathroom more than anywhere else, but the best part is on my wood floors. Love, love, love how easy and safe it is. Unfortunately, I need to switch out the attachment and then put on a cloth on the attachment, before I can actually start to clean my floors. The worst part is removing that nasty cloth. Yuck, yuck, YUCK! So, a new, mobile friendly, and easy to use steamer would be greatly appreciated. Fingers crossed!
I would love to have one of these! I have an immune compromised teen son- a cancer survivor, and anything I can do to keep the house sparkling clean makes us feel safe! I have tile and hardwood everywhere- and I also recently saw a tutorial about how it can be used to clean the inside of the fridge and oven doors!
From the toilet to the tiles and every little crevice in between, I would steam away the dirt and germs without having to use chemicals.
Since my husband had a spinal cord injury 3 months ago, I would use this to keep everything germ free!! This would be one less thing for me to worry about!! I am replacing carpet with hard floors and need a steam cleaner, what a blessing winning would be.
With two young boys it would be used for the bathroom daily plus so many other spots in the house to clean up after them and a new puppy!
I would use it on my floors! We just got a new puppy so with two dogs now I feel like my floors always need cleaning!
I have two little girls BUT a HUSBAND!!!! Trust me when I tell you…it’s not any easier when the boys become MEN!!! Not only would I use it in the bathroom but around other areas in the home. We have two little girls with potty training going on now for the youngest, this machine would cut my cleaning time down drastically.
I would love to use this for cleaning my tile floors, in the bathroom and everywhere else!
I would LOVE this for our tile bathroom floors!
We have a ton of tile in our house and this would be great for keeping it clean. And the bathroom goes without saying…..
I would love to start in one corner (at the ceiling) and cover every square inch of my house with this thing.
I’ll be honest… my husband does most of the cleaning at our house. (I know, he’s awesome!) So he would be the one to end up using this probably!
This mop would help me keep up with two boys toilet (and another one soon to be in potty training…
I have a baby boy, four animals, and all tile floors. We need this!
I wish I could say that the bathroom mess gets better as boys get older, but unfortunately, once you train them to be neater in there, they find other hard-to-clean places to get yucky (mostly in the kitchen around the refrigerator!) This would be such a help in keeping the house neat and clean!
With two little boys and one big boy, the bathrooms are always a mess! I’d love to tackle my bathroom!
I have 5 kids, so I would use it everywhere. The bathrooms are where I would use it most.
I’ve got pups, and with pups I’ve got lots of dirty paws…with an occasional accident!
With 2 Dobermans, 2 sons, & a husband, I would use it every day
I would love to use this to clean my kitchen floors and the floors by my front door.
I’d use this to clean my 3 bathrooms, and steam my floors.
I would use this on my kitchen floors. Apparently I’m a very messy cook!
I have a new kitchen floor and a 45 pound dog that comes in after all of the rain and snow with muddy feet. Although I try to clean and dry them when she enters, it is impossible to get it all. This would be a wonderful addition to my arsenal to keep the kitchen clean!
I would clean my nasty grout.
I have both hardwood and tile. Just the thought of getting all that steam cleaned makes me smile!
I just had someone suggest to me that you can use a steam cleaner on the grout in your shower. Love it!
I would use it to clean the floors all over the house and our stove!
I would be on a steam cleaning roll…..all over the floors in my path. !!!!! TY
Do I need this, Yes and would use often
I don’t have kids (I love this site though, because I work with kids). BUT I have 2 lovely but very messy parrots! I would use this magical thingie to clean the area around the cage!!
Also.. I have a boyfriend. And they miss too, right? No potty training is ever enought for our boys! hahah
Where would I not use this SUPER NIFTY INCREDIBLE MACHINE!!!! Oh!!! I think my life would be complete!!!
Danna
My boys do the same horror to my bathroom and that is exactly where I would steam first. Then I would steam clean probably every square inch of my home lol! I can’t stop fantasizing all the places I would steam clean..I LOVE this machine and need it in my life! Thank you for the chance!
I would use this everywhere! My shower for starters to keep my white tile and grout white.
I live with 4 boys and a dog so this would get used not only in the bathroom but everywhere they leave a trail behind them,.
I find myself tackling the grossest and mostly unidentifyiable messes from my husband and three dogs. I could use this on the floors, walls, bathroom, kitchen…and all the little crevices that i can’t seem to get clean without an army of q-tips
Would so totally use it in the bathrooms!
I would love to have a SteamMachine Plus to deep clean my kitchen and bathrooms. It would also be great for sanitizing dog toys and the litterbox.
i would use it on my hardwood floors and on the tile in the bathroom.
Oh, I’d going cleaning crazy! I’d love to use it to clean the gutter of my sliding glass door for starters. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Thank you Lindsay for this wonderful tip!! We have some aiming issues around my house as well, but more importantly than that…we had a local flooring store replace all of our carpet with a beautiful wood laminate that we thought to be better environmentally. Unfortunately, it is so hard to keep clean looking and I think a steam cleaner would help to clean better. Thanks for putting my name in the hat!!
to clean up after family and dogs everyday
60yo brother who doesn’t lift the toilet seat. ’nuff said.
I would love this for the bathroom floors. Our new house has 4 bathrooms and my little boy also doesn’t have perfect accuracy. Yuck.
I have tile floors throughout our house and it would be used in EVERY room!!
I would use it for my floors!! We have no carpet in our house. I love that because we have 3 dogs…but the floors always seem to be dirty. No matter how much I clean. So I would love to use this and feel like my floors are really clean!
My fiancé and I just bought a home that we’re preparing to move into with our brood (2 kids, a bird, a dog, a cat and a hamster). I’ll be polite to the previous owners and just say that the house is in need of some serious deep cleaning before we can move in. I converted to green cleaning mostly because of my lovebird companion of 13 years. I now have to convert my fiancé and new step-brood. I would use this just about everywhere to help restore our new home to its former glory and bring a breath of fresh air and cleanliness between those walls. Oh, and a little birdie tells me this would be especially awesome for cleaning her cage and the little surprises she leaves behind when she chases the doggie around the living room.
By the way Lindsey, the big boys seem to have the same issue although their aim may improve a bit with age 😉
I would use it on my hardwoodfloors its hard to use a regular mop on all are floors that are hardwood.
I would use this steam machine in all of my bathrooms and kitchen. I am disabled and cannot get down on my knees to scrub the floors so this machine would certainly help me to start my spring cleaning.
I would use it in our house, but I would clean my mom’s too. She’s going thru chemo right now, and trust me, nobody wants to be putting their face near a dirty toilet when they’re on their knees hugging the bowl!
I have boys too, ugh! I’d steam the toilet and the tile surrounding the toilet.
I’d use this primarily on my kitchen floor. Between my spilling while cooking and my cats messy eating, I never feel like it’s clean enough. This would help solve that problem.
Even though there are mainly girls in the household, I finally brought my son into the world two weeks ago! I can only imagine the messes he is going to make in the future whether it be the toilet or just on the tile floor.
I would use it to clean the soap scum off the glass shower door. That should make the job much easier!
We just bought a new house and with three dogs I need something to help keep it nice and clean. This would also be a big help in the bathrooms!
Not sure where I’d start but I’d really like to try it on my slate patio! Yes, I’m looking forward to spring!
Well, I live with a boy… so yeah. The toilet 🙂