toilet fluid

I tend to agree with AndyC. I usually have that problem occassionally, especially when it gets really hot. I use drain plugs in the sink and shower room to stem the smell, until I find a spot to really rinse out the waste tank with cleansing material and then with fresh water.
 
get a bottle of cheap orange squash, chuck that in the waste tank with a few gallon of water drive around then tip it out .that should cure it .
 
Sorry for bringing this little treat up again ...but I went to the van to get my glasses and have noticed a disgusting smell coming from the toilet/shower. Now I dont know anything about the thetford toilets so I am sorry for asking what seems like a stupid question, but am I supposed to leave a salution of something in the cassette at all times even when its parked up at home ????....It stinks to high heaven :rolleyes2::rolleyes2: I tried reading through all the threads so sorry if I have missed something

I leave my cassette in the back garden with washing powder in it when not in use. This also gives you a chance to clean ( I use dettol spray) underneath where the tray goes, as there may be a few "drips" on it.

When parked up for a few weeks I also put plenty of biological washing powder down all drains and leave it in.

My waste water tank used to really stink. I connected a cold water hose to the outlet and rinsed it out, loads of junk came out.

Failing the above, are you sure that you haven`t left something in the fridge ?

For the record I happily use the blue bubblegum flavored stuff. I did try washing powder once which was fine in use, but made me throw up when emptying the cassette the following morning. Having said that I had drunk far too much the night before so hardly a scientific experiment.
 
Be carefull using the stuff they use in the building site loos! I had some it was called Racasan or something like that & it rotted all the seals in the loo in about 3 weeks. :cry:

Ah... racasan! Memories of that during my RAF training, if I close my eyes I can recall the smell, YUK. We used to joke that the Directing Staff drank racasan and tonic in their mess.

We ran out of liquid for our portapotty half way through our big trip this year, in Germany. As our German is limited, we used washing up liquid from then on, which seemed just as effective as these patent liquids. Wonder if they're all basically a scam?
 
It's not a septic tank

Hi all we are specialists in all things "Blue" the chemical is that colour because it's made primarily for the portaloos industry were we use recirculating pumps that when you pump the handle your flushing with "blue pee" there are no chemicals as such, it's just perfume and dye, the industry outlawed formaldehyde years ago, although you can still buy it if you contact specialist chemical manufacturers ( safechem) it's a myth that by putting toilet blue into a septic tank it will kill the performance, what it will do is turn the outfall/soak away blue if you stick enough down the loo, your toilet tank is not and never will be any use as a "mini septic tank" in order for a septic tank to operate properly it needs to be vented in order to allow hazardous gases to escape,and oxegen to be introduced into the system,you really don't want these gases inside your motor home !!!!! I could bang on about the airborne infections that can be present in a septic tank but I don't want to freak out any misguided "septic engineers" before they end up in hospital.
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P.S. before you all start shouting at me, these are all my own opinions..........
 
Sorry for bringing this little treat up again ...but I went to the van to get my glasses and have noticed a disgusting smell coming from the toilet/shower. Now I dont know anything about the thetford toilets so I am sorry for asking what seems like a stupid question, but am I supposed to leave a salution of something in the cassette at all times even when its parked up at home ????....It stinks to high heaven :rolleyes2::rolleyes2: I tried reading through all the threads so sorry if I have missed something

If you go to Rosefacchini - Home you can download a free pdf for disassembling and thoroughly cleansing a Thetford Cassette Toilet, as well as user manuals for Carver Water Heaters.
 
CORNERS BOYS, end of round 2

Why is it that for some people everything has to be a 'con job' or a 'rip off'? Toilet fluid is like aftershave, if you like the smell and you like using it, you buy it it. If you don't like using it you don't have to buy it, no one is forcing you, it's as simple as that.

How can anyone be trying to con you? Personally, I've tried all these quack treatments and none of them work for me as well as toilet fluid and I much prefer the perfumed smell of it to the horrible smell of using nothing. And if you use nothing, when you come to empty it the smell is revolting.

I buy five litres of my local dealer's own-brand for about a tenner and just put 100mm in, as we empty it whenever we get the chance, so it lasts me for months. It's the old story I'm afraid and is nothing to do with the environment or the scent of toilet fluid, it's all about the cost. If you don't want to buy toilet fluid, that's fine, it's a free country and I respect your choice, whatever reason you have, but please don't suggest that those of us who do prefer it are some kind of idiots who don't know when we're falling for a 'confidence trick'! We use it because we like it and we find it the best solution, and some of us have also caravanned and motorhomed for decades.


Just because its poor value because its price is inflated because its the "correct" thing for the job doesn't make it a rip off. It is all about personal choice. I prefer to smell Body Shop vanilla essence on a woman at £2.99 (the scent not the woman) than the latest top price stink from Channel at £50 per 50ml.

I find after emptying rinsing four or five times does help, and less rather than more with "proper" toilet chemicals. And, seeing as you asked, when freeing hostages lay some toilet paper across the hatch before you open it prevents most of the updraught from hades (and also has an anti-skidpan function and insures against the "s@it i forgot to open the flap first" disaster).
 
Just bought 3 litres of Lidl's bio washing liquid for £3.59. Not used it before till reading on here so will let you know. How much do you put in - about a lidful, 2,3,4,5?
 
hi casper .i advise lots of washing out first . then use a bit of clean water and two cap fulls . i find avoid alot of peeing in the toilet . use a lided bucket and hedge water that. it will or may take awhile to work . but carry on .it works . that proper stuff is definately a rip off .dont care what views others have it still doesnt make it cheaper. hee hee .
 
Just bought 3 litres of Lidl's bio washing liquid for £3.59. Not used it before till reading on here so will let you know. How much do you put in - about a lidful, 2,3,4,5?

If you are planing on letting the cassette fill up then about double what ever it says for a load of washing for heavy soiled clothes.

if you empty on a daily basis, no more than a capful. Seems to work better if you are moving on a regular basis to stir things up a bit.

Richard
 

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