Thetford loo smell

Never being one to stay more than 2 nights on a site or aire.I have now found myself having to stay on a site at Titchfield Hampshire until the first of Sept.Its a long story daughter very ill in hosp.We have been here since May 19th and our loo is very smelly.
We use loo blue and never had a problem before.Is it the fact that we are not moving therefore the chemicals are not working properly.
Or just the heat (no problem when in Spain).
I have checked all the seals and they appear all ok.
Any of you full timers got any tips?
I read on this site somewhere that people use washing powder ?

Hogan
holding his nose in wildest Hampshire

hi i do hope your daughter gets better soon & everything gets back to normal.
tony
 
Sorry to hear about your daughter, hope things are improving ...

I thought I would just let you and other members know about an amazing ecological Dry Waste system you can use as an alternative to Thetford and other chemical waste systems with the portapotti etc. its a waste acceleration system using a gel which is similar to that used in disposable nappies. They are landfill-approved and in the 5 years I've been using them while camping have never had a problem with them smelling whatsoever...

they're called Wagbags (nothing to do with footballers' wives though perhaps they should be!) and WAG stands for Waste Activated Gel. they are part of a system called the PETT. The Pett Toilet System

I buy my WAG bags from a company called EPS goggles: EPS Goggles UK
- don't ask, it's complicated! - based in the UK. They really are worth a try and particularly suited to wild campers who may want to even take one or two out and about for when and if they get caught short out on a wallk/hike etc.!

hope this is useful/helpful and really do hope your daughter gets better pronto
Chrissie
 
To activate home septic tanks we use Eparcyl in France. It is a powder to pour down the loo every week. Quite expensive though.
A cheap sollution is plain yoghurt.

Kris
 
There has been a bit of a niff from our Thetford lately, especially when driving on A roads.

I emptied and cleaned out the cassette yesterday and decided to do something about the visible limescale deposits. When I stripped out the lip seal, I cleaned up the area and the rubber seal. It came up like new and there is no need to change it.

I believe that this is where the smell was getting out of the cassette as it would not have been airtight. Hopefully it will be fine now.
 

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