Time for another toilet thread

G-RMPS said:
Lots of clues here. I may wait until I get home to remove the mechanism, but I can attend to all of the other tips here. Thanks.
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Removing the mechanism doesn’t require tools it’s a simple but firm grip and turn to remove it and make no mistake there will be Poo in it, nothing that hot soapy water won’t remove. 10 minute job.
 
It could be that the seal is not sealing. Symptoms are smells coming from WC area (especially on the move) and the presence of liquid outside the cassette in the recess (especially after being on the move. It can easily be caused by hard water and is easy to confirm.

Simply remove and fill the cassette to the brim of the discharge pipe then hold it vertical so that water weight (and a little pressure as a result) is bearing on the blade and seal. There should be no leaks.

If there is a leak, 1st thing to do is remove the silicone seal and give it a thorough clean with vinegar or any specialist anti-limescale product. Then replace the seal and try the water test again. This fixed the problem for us.
 
Jolak said:
a spray container from shower cleaning spray and filled it with the pink bowl cleaning fluid. Before and after using the toilet, we sprayed the toilet bowl with the fluid
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+1. Helps keep the bowl & blade clean and fresh. Once a month I also squirt a bit of cleaning vinegar (the 8% stuff) around the bowl and let it sit on the blade for half an hour to dissolve any cal build up.
 
Lenny HB said:
That's a good way I buggering it, some of the parts are nylon WD40 makes nylon swell.

The problem will be a build up of calcium from the urine.
A mixture of white vinegar and ctrid acid mixed with hot water makes a super descaler.
I always give mine a good clean at least once a year, after everything has been soaking for a while I take the mechanism out and give it a good clean with a toothbrush (hers not mine).
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I do as Lenny HB says but I also turn it over so it’s blade down and let it soak for a day or two in the solution.

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Lenny HB said:
That's a good way I buggering it, some of the parts are nylon WD40 makes nylon swell.

The problem will be a build up of calcium from the urine.
A mixture of white vinegar and ctrid acid mixed with hot water makes a super descaler.
I always give mine a good clean at least once a year, after everything has been soaking for a while I take the mechanism out and give it a good clean with a toothbrush (hers not mine).
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So thoughtful, but seriously WD40 and plastic are not good for one another and a silicon spray is the right answer. Someone also said that small amounts of wee can get into the retaining box and wiping out and sanitising this area on a regular basis helps.
 
+1 for white vinegar or lemon juice overnight. The latter smells better.

We live in a very hard water area and try to not fill water at home, but it's sometimes unavoidable. So if going to our family in Cornwall, I carry a minimum of water for the journey, then fill up on arrival. We then generally forget when washing up and end up with a bowl full of suds. 😕
 
We never travel with the cassette full or for that matter with anything in it .
I bought a spare cassette and deep cleaned the old one , that was an a eye opener , i always thought that our cassette was pristine as I took such care cleaning and rinsing it ………….WRONG ! The gunk hiding from my eyes was horrible .
 
meanders said:
We then generally forget when washing up and end up with a bowl full of suds. 😕
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We had friends stopping from darn sarf and the wimmins went for a shower and there was this almighty scream and when her hubby went in she had disappeared in a cloud of suds filling the shower cubical.
She had used the same amount of shampoo she uses in the hard water area they live in and it had gone bonkers. Took ages to get rid of it :giggler:

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Badknee said:
We had friends stopping from darn sarf and the wimmins went for a shower and there was this almighty scream and when her hubby went in she had disappeared in a cloud of suds filling the shower cubical.
She had used the same amount of shampoo she uses in the hard water area they live in and it had gone bonkers. Took ages to get rid of it :giggler:
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If you get anything like it again, use a bar of soap in a bit of warm and it will disappear. Shampoo is a detergent, soap is not. It also works well if you put to much powder (or fabric hand wash) in a washing machine. Stop the machine, throw in a bar of soap, restart and it will go away. Those of is with looooooong memories will remember the early Hoover Keymatic front loader washing machine. If you put in standard Persil, Fairy, Tide etc rather than the 'Automatic' version you had suds everywhere coming out of the soap dispenser, the vents at the rear etc..... The solution was to throw in a couple of bars of soap and restart the machine. No I wasn't a victim, but had to go out to several customers of Curry's in the early 70's to sort them out!
 
Having had boats for years, in order to avoid retch-inducing, seasick-making odours, we had a strict sit down rule in the heads (toilet). That way, no wee was spilled and left to fester in hard-to-reach places.

We operate the same system in the MH. Sit down wees mean that there’s no splashback and the loo compartment smells clean and fresh always.
 
Oooh,I didn’t spot this toilet thread until today. What a joy to find it!

Put a peg on your snout. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Since hubby has been using a piddle bottle the toilet has been much 'sweeter' smelling ith a lot less cleaning.

No matter how good the aim there will always be some spray/splash back. For those who don't believe this put some tomato juice in a bottle and slowly pour it in from the same height as when weeing, there'll be spots of juice all over and that's not under pressure as urine would be.
 
I gave my cassette a thorough workover today. Scraped off the worst of the limescale, a good going over with the pressure washer followed by a full top up with some descaler. Left for a few hours and it's now looking pristine.

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Minxy said:
Since hubby has been using a piddle bottle the toilet has been much 'sweeter' smelling ith a lot less cleaning.

No matter how good the aim there will always be some spray/splash back. For those who don't believe this put some tomato juice in a bottle and slowly pour it in from the same height as when weeing, there'll be spots of juice all over and that's not under pressure as urine would be.
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Minxy you really should get out more :giggle: :giggle: :giggle:

Geoff
 
donkey said:
Minxy you really should get out more :giggle: :giggle: :giggle:

Geoff
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Probably ... :giggle:

I've been doing some washes of laundry from our holiday which hadn't been done due to sorting stuff for Mum ... we use washing liquid and as I was putting it in the little tub I noticed the bottle has a wide neck so would make a back-up piddle one for hubby! :LOL:
 
ManTheVan said:
Having had boats for years, in order to avoid retch-inducing, seasick-making odours, we had a strict sit down rule in the heads (toilet). That way, no wee was spilled and left to fester in hard-to-reach places.

We operate the same system in the MH. Sit down wees mean that there’s no splashback and the loo compartment smells clean and fresh always.
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Do you have CCTV to police your policy :unsure:

Geoff
 
Yup. I was expecting aches and pains as I got older, but not 3 pathetic wees overnight. And what’s it about when you get two concurrent streams, one at the side of the toilet (and you have to guess which side) and one on the floor?
 
I have added this to my vans toolkit. Being 9% lemon acid it works a treat without causing harm. Currently available at most supermarkets in Portugal for less than 1 euro per litre.

Tried to post a photo but can't. What has happened?

Success 😸

Don't use bleach in any form as it softens and eventually destroys the blade rubber.

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Minxy said:
Probably ... :giggle:

I've been doing some washes of laundry from our holiday which hadn't been done due to sorting stuff for Mum ... we use washing liquid and as I was putting it in the little tub I noticed the bottle has a wide neck so would make a back-up piddle one for hubby! :LOL:
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Try a 2pint plastic milk bottle, perfect. Remember to not put it back in the fridge :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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