Starting with this simple hack when cleaning the toilet makes it easier and the product work better

Cleaning the toilet isn't the easiest or most pleasant chore, but disinfecting and removing stains from the bowl is made even harder by all the water in it.

This means if you've got stubborn stains right at the bottom of the bowl it can be hard to get cleaning product in the right spot to actually tackle the discolouration.

Now, one woman has revealed a hack for cleaning the toilet that's so surprisingly simple we're wondering why we hadn't thought of it earlier.

Watch the video above.

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She posted the tip in a video on her TikTok channel @tipsandtrickswithq with the voiceover, "Show me the life hack that is now unconscious, standard practice in your life".

"Did you know if you dump water down the toilet it will force the toilet to flush, and not fill back up with water so that your toilet cleaner does not get all watered down, making it a lot easier to clean," she said in the video.

The footage shows the woman taking a container filled with water and pouring that into the toilet bowl before cleaning it with a disposable toilet wand.

If you use standard toilet cleaners that go under the rim and squirt around the bowl, this hack is good to do before that as those cleaners typically need time to sit before scrubbing.

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The hack has proved popular with more than one million views so far.

However, some in the comments mentioned another option is to turn the water off at the wall, which will do the same thing.

Others meanwhile were more interested in the toilet cleaner the woman was using in the video.

It is a Clorox toilet wand which comes with disposable heads pre-filled with cleaning product.