What's so bad about emptying your chemical toilet down the loo / drain ?

herbenny said:
I get the fit of giggles when hubby makes the dreaded climb up the stairs to empty ours :lol-053: ...I have the toilet sense of humour of a five year old :lol-061:
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the day i don't at least smile when someone farts,do me a favour and shoot me
 
lotty said:
I already use non Bio washing powder, so I will have to check my cleaning products too to make sure.
Generally on the loo roll side are most ok?
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I am erring on the side of caution these days and stick with Nouvelle. Stay clear of the thick quilted varieties as they must take a lot of breaking down. One easy way to tell if loo paper is ok is put a few pieces in a jar with some water and shake it, if it quickly dissolves then its fine. I tried doing that with the Lidl one (too late) and after two weeks it still looked the same!.
 
We have a SOG therefore no chemicals, but can be fragrant when emptying. To overcome this I sawed a chunk out of the outside soil pipe and put in a rodding eye at waist height. This causes an outbreak of smugness every time I empty...
 
Chemical Toilets

Hi everyone - I have just joined the forum and arrived in the UK from Australia a few weeks ago. My husband and I have bought a motor home and plan on travelling for a couple of years around the UK and Europe. We had an off-road caravan back home and used a couple of tablespoons of Napisan dissolved in about 2 litres of water in the loo and this worked a treat. Kept the loo clean and smells to a minimum. We are doing the same here and have also used public toilets where necessary to empty the cassette. I cannot see that this would cause any problems.
 
It's my fault. I shouldn't be reading this while eating, but I have to say the subject stinks.:tongue:
 
toilet

Guys n Girls
Is there a law you cannot poor the loo waste down the sewer drain in the garden? not the land drain i know!!

Col
 
no not really . but lifting a cover thats not in your property could be termed theft . .at least that was what i was told by our local water board . but as a water rates payer in one area it kind of should allow you in others .
but there are health and safety issues
plus there are issues with duty of care and controlled waste transfer issues . there are licensing issues for tipping this controlled waste . all very technical .waste management licensing regulations 1994 .
its accepted you use toilets but bulk tipping could come into the licence scheme . think large onboard tanks some up to 300litres are the problem .
but you could have a job explaining if caught lifting manholes .
 
I wouldn't appreciate someone emptying their toilet waste down a grid near me.
 
never tip down a storm grid . even worse in hot climates like spain can stay there for months . lots do dirty monkeys .
 
Speaking as a plumber, I would say to check before lifting a manhole and emptying down there.

With some properties all the sewage and rainwater is mixed together, so it does not matter which manhole/drain you use.

On some properties you will have separate systems for foul and rainwater. You will see usually two sets of manholes close together, possibly at different depths. The rainwater side may discharge into a stream for example, while the foul goes to the sewage works.

To check try flushing toilets with the manhole lid off and see if you see anything.
 
trouble is when they tip in the road flood drains . that should be seperate as the oil on the roads mess,s the works up as well.
all interesting stuff though waste management . what with wet waste and dry waste (skips etc )i found it all interesting . if you have kids encourage them to think about it . theres a future in it for them . a good one as well.
 
Do you work with it VWAlan (not literally!!) ? Or is it something you are interested in? When you go to remoter places you realise how protected we are from lifes waste producs, with toilets, rubbish bins, bin collection etc . When you have to deal with it all youself it gives you more of an appreciation and a need to think about its disposal
 
If you're interested in waste disposal this museum Abbey Pumping Station Museum, Leicester worth a visit if you are in the area.

There is also a unique inter-active toilet with a see-through bowel and cistern, where the journey of an object can be followed from flush to drain.
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My kids (and me and the Mrs) were fascinated with this.
 
Toilet rules

Only 2 rules are hard and fast with MH WC,

1. Always open flap fully before number 2's
2. Always close flap after

Getting myself some lunch now, yum....
 
hi lotusanne.
yes i did work in it , did 7 years well mostly in summer . i worked for the biggest enviromental waste disposal company down here . most of the work was directly for south west water. i worked on the sewage and the fresh water side.
i found it really interesting . specially as i usually get off to north africa in the winters . clean water etc better ask loads of questions .
i had a great time . because of my interest i got to go to alot of very modern sites in sewage and waste disposal.
have also visited several incinerator plants here and abroad . also desalination plants in morocco. even got a chance to go to a world health conferance in gambia about sewage and waste . i often think i hada chance to work for the water board as a teenager . thought it was a crap job . looking back might have been a mistake . but then life is strange . at one time i worked building one of the works i eventually worked at . was handy as i could remember the lay outs and helped me get further into the workings .
i find the waste industry very interesting . when you pull the flush a whole new world starts to happen .
had several jobs all interesting ,butcher slaughterman.garage . truck driving .tyre fitting .building .
liked them all. just changed because i needed a new adventure .
 
yes no regrets . but i can recommend it to youngsters ,even more if they have good science grades . even just waste as in rubbish is a job that is underrated there is a future in waste management .
but yes i probably would have got bored . changed jobs often . very often found the knowledge from one job got me into the next . always was impatient . but never mind . had a good life . no regrets and happy . cant ask for more .
 
Well looking at the replies I guess I had the wrong end of the stick, for some reason I thought it was not really that good an idea to put the contents of your cassett down the drain.

I understand totally that if you did that in a rain water drain then that's asking for trouble ( the man hole in my garden goes to the sewer ie the rain water goes somewhare else ) so I guess that's ok then.

Vw Alan you sound like me , it's nice to have tried lots of things in life, I wish I could say I had no regrets though , Yep I have a few, not many but a few, anyway that's another story.
 
have you regrets or just a memory that says i should have tried something else . making mistakes dont cause regrets . so long as you dont make it again . my first job as a butcher was for one of the uk biggest importers exporters at the time . helped me in loads of jobs since then . few telephone calls here and there . even years later i found it useful .we imported meat from brazil ,later i imported vw parts from brazil . guess what . same chap handled it in brazil .
i would look at your regrets and i bet they were only mistakes . dont regret it festers . smile move on dont do it agaion.
 
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