Toilet Woes Again, Sorry .......... (1 Viewer)

[Brockley]

Oh come on! happy bowl? total vanity waste of money

Wax the plastic and the shit doesn't stick. Very simple concept rather than dropping a wrapped up turd like a burrito in the cassette and potentially blocking it up

Do you line the bog at home before you take a dump? or just ensure the bowl is clean and shiny to keep it hygienic

Simply clean the cassette toilet and then seal the surface of the bowl with a nice coat of shiny car wax. Repeat every few months to prevent crap from clinging to any rough surface

Happy Bowl, what an invention. Make something nobody needs then persuade people it is the best thing ever and what was missing from their lifeP. Not sure if your comments are based on experience of using them, but we like them a lot because you don't have to sit with the blade open which is an altogether different experience to pooing into a liner on the shelf then dropping it with quick flick and short flush (well beats the cross toilet paper method imo!). So much less smell.........then again some people revel in subjecting others to poo that apparently smells of chocolate........ There is no risk of "blocking it up" because the material is so thin, degrades completely and has no apparent mass. We don't "line the bog" at home because our toilets flush considerably more effectively there.

Not the "best thing ever" or "what was missing" in our lives, but in terms of comfort and less exposure to smells caused by the dreaded blade being open for too long, we're more than happy to buy (or make) happy bowl liners. I thank you..

Oh come on! happy bowl? total vanity waste of money

Wax the plastic and the shit doesn't stick. Very simple concept rather than dropping a wrapped up turd like a burrito in the cassette and potentially blocking it up

Do you line the bog at home before you take a dump? or just ensure the bowl is clean and shiny to keep it hygienic

Simply clean the cassette toilet and then seal the surface of the bowl with a nice coat of shiny car wax. Repeat every few months to prevent crap from clinging to any rough surface

Happy Bowl, what an invention. Make something nobody needs then persuade people it is the best thing ever and what was missing from their life

Oh come on! happy bowl? total vanity waste of money

Wax the plastic and the shit doesn't stick. Very simple concept rather than dropping a wrapped up turd like a burrito in the cassette and potentially blocking it up

Do you line the bog at home before you take a dump? or just ensure the bowl is clean and shiny to keep it hygienic

Simply clean the cassette toilet and then seal the surface of the bowl with a nice coat of shiny car wax. Repeat every few months to prevent crap from clinging to any rough surface

Happy Bowl, what an invention. Make something nobody needs then persuade people it is the best thing ever and what was missing from their life

Not sure if your comments are based on experience of using them, but we like them a lot because you don't have to sit with the blade open which is an altogether different experience to pooing into a liner on the shelf then dropping it with quick flick and short flush (well beats the cross toilet paper method imo!). So much less smell.........then again some people revel in subjecting others to poo that apparently smells of chocolate........ There is no risk of "blocking it up" because the material is so thin, degrades completely and has no apparent mass. We don't "line the bog" at home because our toilets flush considerably more effectively there.

Not the "best thing ever" or "what was missing" in our lives, but in terms of comfort and less exposure to smells caused by the dreaded blade being open for too long, we're more than happy to buy (or make) happy bowl liners. I thank you..

 

[RobbyMClark]

My thought for the day'

You can't polish a turd, but you can sprinkle it with glitter!

I'll get my coat

The Japanese have developed turd polishing into an art form.

 

[Tony50]

I do agree with you that it was a bit of a rant. But not a very welcoming one. We were all newbies once you know. Thank goodness nobody posted answers like yours when I was a newbie asking naive questions that you do not approve of. If they had I would not have been a member here for the last 7 years.

And, if you think that motorhoming has to be "rufty tufty", you are probably not doing it right. We rarely use camp sites but we can still live well in our fully equipped motorhome.

"Here Here "

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[Hymerbell]

When I was a young backpacker going around India may moons ago the toilets often had a little copper pipe in the bowl pointing upwards with a little wheel at the side which when turned started a jet of water. In my naivety I thought it was for washing hands...I only realised a few months later what it was really for. It would be quite useful in a Thetford.

 

[Tony50]

When I was a young backpacker going around India may moons ago the toilets often had a little copper pipe in the bowl pointing upwards with a little wheel at the side which when turned started a jet of water. In my naivety I thought it was for washing hands...I only realised a few months later what it was really for. It would be quite useful in a Thetford.

We agree

 

[NPlusM]

Another vote for happy bowl.
One of the joys is coiling out a massive bowl cracker and filling the happy bowl cone in the morning, with out spoiling the pan.
Quite an art to it and a lot of practice to get it right.

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[Brockley]

Another vote for happy bowl.
One of the joys is coiling out a massive bowl cracker and filling the happy bowl cone in the morning, with out spoiling the pan.
Quite an art to it and a lot of practice to get it right.

 

[Cliffdale]

Opps. How do you delete

 

[Mick Kennedy]

Reading these threads about happy bowl liners and crossed squares of toilet paper I often find myself asking myself "are these people real" and are they really cut out for the "Rufty Tufty" motorhome way of life? Then I will see another thread like "How do I use the shower" I mean REALLY!! Surely if they are intelligent to post questions on a forum why they cannot find the answers to what they seek knowledge of by reading the manual???

Sorry bit of a rant there!

Come on, mate - don’t be mean. To write such a dismissive reply to someone new who’s summoned up the courage to post an innocent question.......not good. Thankfully, the majority of people have responded well and hopefully made the OP feel welcome. Indeed, I am grateful the question was posted because I have actually learnt some stuff from some of the replies the query has instigated, and I’ve had motorhomes on and off since 1980.

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[trophychap]

Come on, mate - don’t be mean. To write such a dismissive reply to someone new who’s summoned up the courage to post an innocent question.......not good. Thankfully, the majority of people have responded well and hopefully made the OP feel welcome. Indeed, I am grateful the question was posted because I have actually learnt some stuff from some of the replies the query has instigated, and I’ve had motorhomes on and off since 1980.

I thank you for your reply to my post, but let me say this before you criticise me. You should perhaps read my post again.
My post was a generalisation nowhere did I criticise the OP. Who in actual fact has been a member here longer than I have.

If you feel that my post was abusive to the OP in any way please feel free to report it to Jim our leader.

 

[Tony50]

We have just tried the Bio Tabs as suggested , well we feel we have injested a smell that's worse than our own !! we have also tried the Green stuff sold at the Nec. by Towsure , that, the same ,I can't that our droppings are that much different than anybody else's, so it's back to the usual well known brand for us. tried Green ,looked in the mirror and the only thing looked Green was my face (like sick green)

 

[Mick Kennedy]

I just re-read your post, Trophychap, and didn’t find it any kinder the second time round. Also, I never called you abusive, fella - just thought the tone was a bit mean. But never mind, a misunderstanding, surely. I think we’ve both made our points, so we’ll let it drop, eh? Don’t want to descend into an undignified online spat....

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[Lenny HB]

Not the "best thing ever" or "what was missing" in our lives, but in terms of comfort and less exposure to smells caused by the dreaded blade being open for too long, we're more than happy to buy (or make) happy bowl liners. I thank you..

Fit a SOG, no smell with the blade open.

 

[Brockley]

No thanks Lenny, not for us, bio + liners works just fine

 

[Landy Andy]

We have just tried the Bio Tabs as suggested , well we feel we have injested a smell that's worse than our own !! we have also tried the Green stuff sold at the Nec. by Towsure , that, the same ,I can't that our droppings are that much different than anybody else's, so it's back to the usual well known brand for us. tried Green ,looked in the mirror and the only thing looked Green was my face (like sick green)

The green stuff will only work if ALL the previous blue is removed. If not the blue chemicals kill the green natural chemicals. It takes a lot of washing and a few times of use.

I really like the smell of the blue, but went across to green for environmental benefits. But am now on liquid smelly stuff, and will see how it goes.

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[Burstnerite]

As the OP, I'd just like to point out we have been motorhomers on and off for neatly 20 years. please see my membership number. So I don't see myself as a 'newbie', it was a genuine question as we have never used a cassettet toilet for that function ? before. By the way, in this context which is the appropriate 'manual' ?

 

[MitchandJenny]

Get a FIAAMA toilet brush.
Small, own container and efficient.
Mitch.

 

[MitchandJenny]

PS.
Liquid laundry fluid BIO. !!
Mitch.

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[Tony50]

PS.
Liquid laundry fluid BIO. !!
Mitch.

Tried that

 

[MR. FUSION]

I connect a shower to the sink mixer tap because I am to lazy to rotate she shower assembly on mine, it also cleans the toilet bowl very effectively.

 

[TheBig1]

SO, I am posing this delicate question to the obvious fans of the crappy bowl liner.

Picture this, you are away in the van and the change in the water, weather, food or whatever has left you a bit "bunged up" for a day or so. You visit the bathroom and prepare your throne for the hoped for and much anticipated appearance of your bowel movement. You take your seat and strain, and what ventures forth is a solid log a good few inches long. You clean yourself, flush and open the trap. But there it is, your much hoped for prize wedged across the hole in the cassette. Now what do you do? poke it with your finger hoping to ease it through the hole? or maybe find something to cut it up into disposable chunks?

I bet you were really pleased to line the toilet bowl with a piece of paper like a coffee filter to prevent marking the plastic.

Honestly it really puzzles me how some people get so worried about a bodily movement. Open the trap, wet the bowl to lubricate and bombs away, straight down the chute and gone

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[Kannon Fodda]

Picture this, ....

Too vivid a description.

I'm not sure that a poop knife is compatible with a motorhome toilet.

A man was surprised to learn that his family's 'poop knife' was not normal

'I thought it was standard kit. You have your plunger, your toilet brush, and your poop knife.'

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[Wellington]

So, to save another toilet thread (I’m unfazed about cleaning the bowl, as I have children and am merely grateful if it IS the bowl that needs cleaning). How does one clean the cassette. Do people clean cassettes? I’ve never bothered before with no noticeable results, but now I have a Carthago and There Are Standards (I may or may not bother with them, but feel obliged to know what they are!)

 

[Wellington]

Too vivid a description.

I'm not sure that a poop knife is compatible with a motorhome toilet.

A man was surprised to learn that his family's 'poop knife' was not normal

'I thought it was standard kit. You have your plunger, your toilet brush, and your poop knife.'

metro.co.uk

standard kit in some families using disposable nappies. I used disposable liners, and never needed one. Thank goodness for modern washing machines!

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[sedge]

Yup Terry nappies with soft feel liners and a disposable liner, enfold contents of nappy in nappy, walk asap to to loo and hang onto top edge of it whilst flushing. Flush at least twice. Then plunge into lidded nappy bucket and either pore a kettle of boiling water over it or use Napisan until you have as many as you want to make it worthwhile to turn the washing machine on.

Wellington - this is one of the reasons I highly recommend Lidl own brand Bio laundry liquid - by eck it also gets any detritus off the inside of the cassette. Our previous Moho had been in use for a couple of years by the time we caught onto it from recommendations by others on this very forum, about couple of weeks before starting to use it, Pete had cleaned the cassette using Thetford cassette cleaner and inverting the cassette in all 4 directions to get all of the inside anointed and soaked in the substance overnight and done it again a few times - shedloads of black bits came out of it each time, aagh.

Followed by the same resulting loads of black bits when actually emptying the used cassette for a few months after buying the Lidl. Cassette was pristine by the time we P/Xd that van for the Pilote we still have in which we have never used anything except the Bio - and the cassette has never ever had build up of black stuff. Yet - but it's only 5 years old - so who knows?

 

[sedge]

Sorry if Pete upset some of you, we've both been camping where it was necessary to set to and dig both the latrine and a grease pit and were pleased when the porta potti arrived on the market, let alone a FLUSHING toilet! Can't believe so many people seem to have never been either Cubs or Brownies or members of similar organisations or simply been tent camping in farmer's fields when young and skint, so unable to afford B&B even when they were 30 bob a night.

 

[Lenny HB]

How does one clean the cassette.

White wine vinigar or citric acid.

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[rick brind]

I wondered what the No. 2 attachment on my Swiss army knife was for . Now I know

 

[Tony50]

As I said earlier tried Lidl bio tabs even tried 2 a time, I rather smell me own than that, tried other green stuff now using just 60 ml of Elsan Blue ,whiffs gone, I reckon it will work out cheaper than Lidl Tabs overall, unless of course you use nothing as you have no sense of smell

 

[Lenny HB]

I wondered what the No. 2 attachment on my Swiss army knife was for . Now I know

Images of you folding the crude encrusted blade away after use.

As I said earlier tried Lidl bio tabs even tried 2 a time, I rather smell me own than that, tried other green stuff now using just 60 ml of Elsan Blue ,whiffs gone, I reckon it will work out cheaper than Lidl Tabs overall, unless of course you use nothing as you have no sense of smell

Pure natural aroma for me I hate all those smelly things they set me off sneezing for half an hour.

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