Black Waste at Home (1 Viewer)

[Phil89a]

I suppose this is a silly question with an obvious answer, but I thought I would ask anyway

When you get home and there is still waste in the toilet cassette, is it simply a case of emptying down your toilet in the house?

Maybe there is some reason that I don’t know of not to; hence the question.

Phil

 

[AndyPK]

Alternatively, where else could you put it…….?

 

[68c]

For a long time I did just that. Now, as the rain gutter from our conservatory runs into the sewer, I have added a tee, elbow and hopper to the down pipe and dump it there. The down pipe has its its own u-bend so once flushed with a hose is clean. I have another tap and hose at the front of the house that I use to top up the drinking water.

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[Captain Yoghurtpot]

I open the manhole to the sewer outlet from our domestic toilet, as it is located in our drive area and secluded and easy to do, but I have occasionally used the “ de-lux” method and emptied the half full cassette in the downstairs loo ( we live in a bungalow), but emptied it very carefully!
Still all goes to the same processing plant.

 

[tonyidle]

Goes down my loo. Carefully .

 

[phillipsheila]

Yippee toilet thread

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[grasscutter]

For a long time I did just that. Now, as the rain gutter from our conservatory runs into the sewer, I have added a tee, elbow and hopper to the down pipe and dump it there. The down pipe has its its own u-bend so once flushed with a hose is clean. I have another tap and hose at the front of the house that I use to top up the drinking water.

Having Worked in drainage for many years you may illegally be putting foul water into a storm system.
Rain Water should go into a storm system and foul into a foul system.
You may by chance have a very old combined system.
If it’s the first all your lovely waste may end up in a local watercourse.

 

[Offagain]

We have a sewerage manhole round the back of the house which is lifted and used to empty the cassette into. Close by there is a tap with a garden hose connected which is used to rinse it.

 

[GJH]

I use our downstairs toilet.

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[MisterB]

For a long time I did just that. Now, as the rain gutter from our conservatory runs into the sewer, I have added a tee, elbow and hopper to the down pipe and dump it there. The down pipe has its its own u-bend so once flushed with a hose is clean. I have another tap and hose at the front of the house that I use to top up the drinking water.

Are you sure it runs into the right sewer system? Some rainwater is diverted into a rain water sewer in a two pipe system (1 rain and 1 waste drain)

Sounds like a great idea if it's all as you say. We are on a septic tank so we are 'lucky' to be able to empty quite easily, though I do intend putting a proper waste point in at some stage, similar to what you have.

 

[Two on Tour]

I lift the sewer manhole cover and pour away.

Grey, I empty into the hedgerow, as if I pour the grey down the manhole, the smell makes it's way back and stinks out the house for hours, doesn't it Nick.

 

[Gaston aires]

I use our downstairs toilet carefully, but we have a SOG so no chemicals anyway.
Phil

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[Shrimp]

When we had the house it was 1930‘s and had an outside loo-that’s where the cassette got emptied!

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

Another downstairs toilet abuser here.

 

[Manic]

I lift the sewer manhole cover and pour away.

Grey, I empty into the hedgerow, as if I pour the grey down the manhole, the smell makes it's way back and stinks out the house for hours, doesn't it Nick.

Not a clue what your on about
But yes definitely better in the hedgerow

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[Kannon Fodda]

No issue to either use the toilet at home or to lift a manhole cover, if you are on mains sewer drainage, making sure you are using a foul drain if you have a separate foul and surface water drainage system.

If you are not on mains drainage be careful. Sceptic Tanks and packaged treatment plants may not be able to cope with even the smallest amounts of the "blue" type chemicals as those try to sterilise your waste rather than aid the bacterial treatment of the small off grid drainage. In those instances really make sure you are using green chemicals, perhaps the bio laundry liquid trick or better still nothing (if you have a SOG)

 

[RobbyMClark]

Big empty on site (when available) Bio tab into cassette bit of water in. Drive home swills any leftovers around.
That's then launched down the downstairs throne.
Have one emptied a half load down the loo

 

[icantremember]

Yes, you can use a toilet but my solution which can be used by any visiting motorhomers stopping over with us is ...

Now coloured to match (nearly) the original ...

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[TheBig1]

It varies for me, either downstairs loo or if I can access it, the manhole on the drive. I intend at some point to add a spur off the main drain with an upstand and screw on cap. Helpful as a rodding point or for emptying the loo.

I used to use another rodding point but the that side of the drive got altered and raised as a ramp, so access is now at 90 degrees and no longer suitable

edit, same as Brian posted above

 

[Bailey58]

I too have a 45° rodding eye on the stack pipe outside the bathroom which we use. On the subject of sewers and storm drains/soakaways half our rainwater goes in the sewer which we have no way of altering while the rest from the extension we built goes to a soakaway.

 

[68c]

Having Worked in drainage for many years you may illegally be putting foul water into a storm system.
Rain Water should go into a storm system and foul into a foul system.
You may by chance have a very old combined system.
If it’s the first all your lovely waste may end up in a local watercourse.

The rainwater downpipe from the house definitely goes into the collector manhole for the sewage. It is a 1930s house, the rain water from the extension we had built twenty years ago goes into an underground gravel soakaway.

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[JockandRita]

Yes, you can use a toilet but my solution which can be used by any visiting motorhomers stopping over with us is ...
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Strangely enough, I have used that very one.

Our sewer drain cover in the back garden, is our access to empty our cassette.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[gpat]

I use our downstairs toilet.

me too. Just the occasional splash back

 

[pjay]

We live on the coast, I just nip down the beach and dump it into the sea.

Pete

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[hja]

The loo. (We only have one! And we are a bungalow). Usually gets a better clean out as well than it does on a site. This van has a Dometic loo, and OH says it’s more difficult to clean on site than Thetford loo on previous van. So I get job at home!!

 

[Jim]

In Wales I would empty our chemical free black waste in one corner of a field in a hedge. 60 gallons at a time 5 or 6 times a year. My mother in law did not know this, and was always telling me that she'd found the biggest, juiciest blackberries ever in that corner and was always surpised that we let her have all of them.

 

[Janine]

For years I lifted the manhole cover in the yard ( after checking that this is where the toilet waste went when flushed)

One day, someone was using the kitchen sink and I realised that the drain under the kitchen window went into the same sewer system.

Now I only have to lift the cover off the drain instead of the manhole. All flushed down using the garden hose

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[dunnah01]

Our septic tank has a very handy Elsan sized vent pipe sticking out of the top with a removable vent cap - no chemicals so a real feast for the bacteria. We even have a dedicated water tap next to the (underground) tank.

 

[marchie]

Alternatively, where else could you put it…….?

Outside the neighbours' gate as a quid pro quo for their failure to clean up after their dog?

Steve

 

[Just smiffy]

Just to be different…. I use the upstairs loo…