Avoiding toilet waste cassette splashback!

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Wild Hippies

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Hi all,

We've owned our motorhome for a couple of years now and found that emptying the toilet while dodging the occasional splashback can be a bit of a challenge, but something you can live with on a week or two away.

We're now full time touring though (with our grumpy, ginger cat!) and have recently purchased a caravan which we tow with our motorhome (its a long story!). I have to admit my least favourite aspect, of this otherwise thoroughly enjoyable life so far, is emptying the toilet waste cassette.

As you can read on our Wild Hippies blog article on the Hazards of Living Full Time in a Caravan & Motorhome, emptying the cassette and avoiding splashback seems to be an art form. Does anyone have any suggestions for preventing splashback?

Many thanks,

Bob
 
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don't do as so many I have seen pour from a height, get the cassette low down and pour directly into the hole whilst holding in the pressure relief valve. the cassette the empties in seconds

besides that, it's only a bit of poo and wee, so just chewed up food
 
Hehe those waders look ideal, especially for someone with mild OCD such as me. Not sure the other half would approve though!

And yes, thanks to another helpful caravanner I am now pressing the vent button which helps immensely. However I still seem to get a little splashback from time to time, which I must admit does seem to be helping desensitise my aversion to germs somewhat!

Thanks for the replies (y)

Bob
 
Holding the cassette low with the spout fully in the funnel or whatever in goes onto is the secret, as TheBig1 says (y)
I'd have thought that as wild hippies, such things wouldn't really have bothered you anyway.
 
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Wild Hippies said:
Hi all,

We've owned our motorhome for a couple of years now and found that emptying the toilet while dodging the occasional splashback can be a bit of a challenge, but something you can live with on a week or two away.

We're now full time touring though (with our grumpy, ginger cat!) and have recently purchased a caravan which we tow with our motorhome (its a long story!). I have to admit my least favourite aspect, of this otherwise thoroughly enjoyable life so far, is emptying the toilet waste cassette.

As you can read on our Wild Hippies blog article on the Hazards of Living Full Time in a Caravan & Motorhome, emptying the cassette and avoiding splashback seems to be an art form. Does anyone have any suggestions for preventing splashback?

Many thanks,

Bob
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You made me spill my coffee... :) you tow a caravan with a motor home:eek:, is that legal weight wise... apart from that it depends how many lumps are in your cassette as to the force of the splash back ? ?
 
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Just don’t bother to empty ??? Yes I know no help at all.

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Thanks everyone for the advice; helpful, funny or otherwise. I'll have to work on my technique a little and get the cassette spout as low as possible. Failing that, it's the waders!

Oh yes, and our motorhome towing the caravan is legal but only just. It's about 10% below the gross combination weight, so all of us, including the cat are on a diet!
 
It is yours, comes out of your body so won’t hurt you if it gets on you......

Or do as the bears do....?
 
I have been behind people emptying who haven't a clue. Not only don't many know about the vent button but I have seen several idgits emptying through the big hole in the top and making a right mess.
Also what are those metal grids for that some emptying points have on them, some berks dont open them and again a disgusting mess.

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Splash back is usually avoidable if you’re careful.

I’m amazed by the number of people who don’t wear gloves though. Everything they touch around the sanitation point and the cassette is then transferred to everything they touch in the van for the next hour... steering wheel, taps, cutlery, co-pilot, kitchen surfaces, fresh-water hose, etc.

We keep a box of latex gloves in the cassette compartment. You then take them off, turn them inside out, and only touch the insides and bin them. Simples.
 
Having worked as a plumber's mate replacing vandalised utterly foul public loos, emptying my cassette becomes almost a pleasure by comparison with those memories. :whistle2:

The real hazards of MH travels are dodgy takeaways. Sometimes it can be like Russian Roulette.
 
Glas Robin said:
Splash back is usually avoidable if you’re careful.

I’m amazed by the number of people who don’t wear gloves though. Everything they touch around the sanitation point and the cassette is then transferred to everything they touch in the van for the next hour... steering wheel, taps, cutlery, co-pilot, kitchen surfaces, fresh-water hose, etc.

We keep a box of latex gloves in the cassette compartment. You then take them off, turn them inside out, and only touch the insides and bin them. Simples.
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Or they wash their hands back at the van?!
 
Frankiej said:
Or they wash their hands back at the van?!
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Possibly... but you have to get to the sink without contaminating anything first. Anyone that follows you after you’ve touched the door handle may as well have emptied the cassette with you.

I’m a pretty robust and germ-relaxed chap... but for some reason the toilet cassette emptying after it has been brewing for a day or two gets to me. It’s a gloves on job.

Back in the early 2000s the hospital I worked at did a voluntary spot-check of hands of staff going into the canteen. A significant number of them (I want to say 50% but can’t remember) were positive for coliform bacteria.... the type you get from not washing your hands properly after going to loo. Things will be different these days with ubiquitous use of hand gel, but it just goes to show that hand hygiene is important and not easy to do right.

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Glas Robin said:
Splash back is usually avoidable if you’re careful.

I’m amazed by the number of people who don’t wear gloves though. Everything they touch around the sanitation point and the cassette is then transferred to everything they touch in the van for the next hour... steering wheel, taps, cutlery, co-pilot, kitchen surfaces, fresh-water hose, etc.

We keep a box of latex gloves in the cassette compartment. You then take them off, turn them inside out, and only touch the insides and bin them. Simples.
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Don't you wash your hands when you get back to the van after emptying the cassette? You won't then be transferring anything around the van.
 
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Paddywack said:
If you were proper hippies you'd be vegetarians and there wouldn't be any solids in the tank to cause a splash!

And before you ask, yes I'm speaking from experience.;)
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I’m vegetarian and I can assure you, I can create some stunning solids.....
 
We have no problem just put the tube down into the receiver and push the button I always put the spout to the bottom.. However you must always put the drinking water tap, RIGHT into the spout and work it around to clean the bits out.. I learnt that from a Frenchman demonstrating how to do it properly :unsure:

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