Selenium C# Check if IWebElement exists using PageObject

Objective: Check if an element/IWebElement exists on the current page using PageObjects.

I am aware of the fact that you can use something like:

IWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Id("foo")));

But as i use PageObjects i dont want to use the id/xpath etc again. I am currently using the method beneath to check whether an element exists. But to do this fast i first set the Implicit wait and after i reset it to the default value. It works quite well, but it feels dirty.

I found some other older post . But this didn't provide any solution to me yet. Hope you can help!

PageObject:

        [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "errorMessage")]
    public IWebElement btnSubmit { get; set; }

Calling the method:

CheckElementExists(errorMessage))

The method;

public bool CheckElementExists(IWebElement pageObject)
    {
        Browser.getDriver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100);
        try
        {
            return pageObject.Equals(pageObject);
        }
        catch (NoSuchElementException)
        {
            return false;
        }
        finally
        {
            Browser.getDriver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
        }
    }