How much space does toilet paper really take up?

[Rick Axon]

2 ply or 3ply

3 ply every time, fingers tend to go through 2 ply.

 

[Minxy]

We put all the paper down the pan. So far it has not been a problem. But I can imagine it might be problematic if on a long journey without finding a disposal point, so am thinking about buying a second cassette just in case. We are absolutely not filling a waste paper basket with dirty toilet paper.

Use pee bottles, we've got a couple which hubby uses and although we've got a second cassette if the toilet is getting full but we've got somewhere later to empty it I'll also use the pee bottle (with home made 'collector'!).

 

[MikeS]

I remember in the late fifties, my grandparents used yesterdays evening paper in the outside loo. When they eventually got an inside one, it was Izal.

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

It really depends on how much you use, some people are more full of s**t than others

 

[Barriesimpson]

Use pee bottles, we've got a couple which hubby uses and although we've got a second cassette if the toilet is getting full but we've got somewhere later to empty it I'll also use the pee bottle (with home made 'collector'!).

No, sorry, I do not pee in bottles when I have a toilet.

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[busbuddy]

Ok....so as a former long distance trucker and over 3 decades as a motorhome...

Some countries do the 'bag the paper thing' which feels a bit weird to an english person but I used to drive a truck into north africa on a regular basis and toilets were......shall we say interesting

A lot of people just do number 1 in the cassette with a lot of paper resulting in sites suffering blockages from not enough liquid or decomposition, it also happens at sites where there is no flush on the toilet empty point.....so paper build up is an issue

I empty the cassette before it's full, when I can, I have a spare cassette just to keep the boss happy, if I worry about the volume of the cassette then I've obviously not drunk enough

 

[Northernraider]

I am surprised it has taken to post #13 to get to the obvious right answer.

But who uses a whole roll of toilet paper in 4 days? One roll of paper does me about 2 weeks ...often more

 

[Northernraider]

No, sorry, I do not pee in bottles when I have a toilet.

Then you'll empty your cassette more often.

 

[Barriesimpson]

Then you'll empty your cassette more often.

Yes, obviously, I don't have a problem with that to be honest.

 

[Widge]

Bag loo roll.... gads disgusting... we don't bag it at home so why in van....

I quite agree with a van, but over the years I have hiked places where you have to carry your loo paper out, including the grand canyon, luckily I hiked some of the more popular routes, so always manage to last until a long drop toilet.

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[Widge]

Because the initial volume contained air trapped between the sheets of paper which has now dissipated.

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[cyberyacht]

It really depends on how much you use, some people are more full of s**t than others

"One up, one down and one to polish. Mind how you go." Norman Stanley Fletcher

 

[cyberyacht]

EUREKA!

If you store it in bags, then probably.

 

[Tony50]

G-RMPS As you know I trained at your home airfield Scone/'Balbeggie International'.

The Engineering students, mostly Middle Easter, shared a toilet block near the canteen. If we had to use it, rarely, it was always awash, because of the habit you describe.

Not a nice memory.

They were lucky they could reach the toilet, my brother in law was x-raying gearboxes on Chinooks in Egypt he said he used the outside behind the hanger, toilets were only for Officers!! He said anyhow eating their food he wouldn't have made to a toilet.

 

[L' Hobo]

They were lucky they could reach the toilet, my brother in law was x-raying gearboxes on Chinooks in Egypt he said he used the outside behind the hanger, toilets were only for Officers!! He said anyhow eating their food he wouldn't have made to a toilet.

Probably explains why some people wear robes instead of trousers, just like the native shore contingent that came aboard the ships travelling through the Suez Canal conveys incase one of the line broke down and it had to be pulled against the bank, back in the 60's.

They just used to lift their robes, squat on the deck and leave the crew little presents.

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[Tony50]

The British Water companies have also wasted half a century not upgrading sewers and sewerage plant capacity to avoid outflows into the sea!

And we are now going to pay more to upgrade them, that's why government privatised them, so they can get out of the responsibility.