The most unpleasant piece of home equipment

SIR – I know no piece of household equipment more unpleasant than a lavatory brush (Letters, October 25).

Many years ago I owned one, which sat in its own pool of fetid water in a little container on the floor. I now prefer to clean the loo properly, more than once a day if necessary.

I am reluctant to admit that, on this one matter, an EU decree banning the sale of lavatory brushes could be right. Celia Tooth

Halesowen

SIR – The brush can be sterilised by pouring a dollop of bleach into the lavatory and standing it there for five minutes. Remember the brush is there before sitting on the lavatory again. Graham Masterton

Tadworth, Surrey

SIR – One contributor to the lavatory brush correspondence concluded with the obligatory: “Is this a Brussels directive?” The sport of making up ludicrous ideas and ascribing them to “Brussels” has kept readers amused for years. What will we do after 2019? Stephen Coles

Wavendon, Buckinghamshire

SIR – Lack of a lavatory brush in a hotel room is not down to Brussels. During a recent stay in Germany, there was a brush by every lavatory in my hotel. James Bibby

Prenton, Wirral

SIR – The “delightful young person” in Edinburgh (Letters, October 25) who said that, if his hotel provided lavatory brushes, it would have to supply one for each new guest gives me an idea.

An enterprising British firm could patent a disposable lavatory brush. J Lindsay Walls

Edinburgh