What Goes In Yours?

[Kannon Fodda]

Aargh, I hear many of you cry. It's a toilet thread

So apart from what comes naturally, what do you put in that bowl and cassette if you want to be friendly to the more eco based disposal systems?

Blue chemicals are an obvious no no. But are the green versions OK? I see many are now using clothes washing detergents - bio or non bio, powder, sachet or liquid. Do you need to start these off with a little liquid in the cassette? Is anything other than blue efficient and after a couple of nights are you going to dread going near your loo, especially if it's been cooking on a sunny day?

My backside appreciates a nice quality soft quilted loo roll . I suspect that unless the continental system of a bin by the side of the loo is employed, that would be too much for the cassette and it's smaller orifices. No doubt there is a reason why Thetford make their own paper, but do I need specialist paper or will any reasonable softer type supermarket roll do? I really hope I don't have to revert to that shiny hard paper that prevailed in the 1980s schools

And then we have the subject of keeping things clean. I read that the bowl plastics and valve seals are almost as sensitive as our derrieres. Are the pink chemicals eco friendly? If they shouldn't be used, what are the alternatives as sooner or later that natty bog brush will need a bit of assistance.

 

[Kannon Fodda]

I can't find what SOG actually stands for. But it is a system where you connect the cassette / or tank to a small extractor hose that runs a fan discharging the foul air from your cassette to outside your MH drawing air in though the open flap. Theory is you won't get smells inside your van, and the venting air over the cassette's contents encourages the initial breakdown of materials biologically without need for chemicals like the water authorities sewer treatment. To prevent your neighbours complaining about displaced odour the fan hose should have a charcoal based filter which if not changed regularly will result in a loss of goodwill of those around you.

 

[Nixdorfer]

Thanks, sound like a good idea.
Looks like we have all that to look forward to once we start getting away the MH more and find the pros and cons of having an onboard loo

 

[klaatu]

I can't find what SOG actually stands for.

Smelly Odour Generator

 

[Campervan_man]

Thetford Blue doesn't contain formaldehyde { According to a Thetford Engineer via a training course }. Unfortunately most people think that it does. Impossible to tell by colour alone.

Thetford also made a fully automatic toilet cassette cleaning 'vending type machine', very popular in Europe apparently but not so popular in the UK { { £5 or £6 to use }, empties, cleans and puts toilet fluid in the cassette.

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This foam is really good for cleaning M'home bathrooms, sprayed and left in the toilet bowl your loo comes up like new.

Don't put bleach in the loo as it will degrade the rubber cassette blade seal, seal will be lost and you will have sewage escaping.

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[GPW]

Thetford Blue doesn't contain formaldehyde { According to a Thetford Engineer via a training course }. Unfortunately most people think that it does. Impossible to tell by colour alone.

Well I'm glad Thetford are working hard to avoid confusion LOL, a mastery of product management to disguise ordinary fluid as highly toxic !
I gave my small introductory bottle of Thetford Blue back to the dealer...

 

[MyrtleGuru]

Well I'm glad Thetford are working hard to avoid confusion LOL, a mastery of product management to disguise ordinary fluid as highly toxic !
I gave my small introductory bottle of Thetford Blue back to the dealer...

Yes, it's damn confusing now: some of the manufacturers have removed formaldehyde from the blue products -- but not all! Why they don't just stop making the blue stuff, I don't know. Here is a previous discussion on the same subject:

Elsan and "Septic" Tanks....

Just pulled this of Elsan Website... Green is go.... (y) Well Elsan Green Is.... (y) http://www.elsan.co.uk/organic-toilet-fluid.aspx

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[Kannon Fodda]

All I can say is now I'm totally confused. Am I going colour blind? Is blue the new green?

Should doing what comes naturally in a MotorHome really need to be so challenging?

 

[GPW]

I initially bought a bottle of green from Just Kampers, works very well, but bio washing liquid is cheaper, easier and more versatile. Anything green is fine I think, but why bother when you can get bio from anywhere and it works the best?
Also a dab of it in the grey tank helps keep that clean too, if you drive along with a partial tank like I did at the weekend you turn your grey tank into a washing machine, just empty as soon as you stop!

 

[Campervan_man]

Aldi sell loo chemicals cheaply

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[Pops 1]

I'm utterly confused now, so for my simple mind, and using the bio washing liquid option, what goes in the bowl initially, and what goes in the cassette?

 

[Pops 1]

Ah, I've just realised what I've done there . Ignore my post above, obviously what goes in the bowl ends up in the cassette

 

[peterc10]

The bio washing liquid goes directly into the cassette. Everything else goes in the cassette via the bowl.

 

[GPW]

I'm utterly confused now, so for my simple mind, and using the bio washing liquid option, what goes in the bowl initially, and what goes in the cassette?

I just bung in a sachet and give it a flush: job done.

When not using the van and the cassette has been rinsed out I leave the flap open but the toilet lid down to allow a bit of oxygen into the system. This will stop any dodgy smells as air feeds the bacteria that stop smells and converts anything stuff to harmless things (i.e. nature happens).

Not sure when happens if you do with with a formaldehyde mix, probably contaminates your van and increases your cancer risk so I'd only only air a bio cassette like this.