What do you put in your loo?

[Davo_Willow]

Some boater friends of mine told me to use any cheap bio-washing powder in my cassette loo, breaks down bio waste and kills nasty smells. I hate the blue stuff so think this is a good alternative, even if used between blue rinses ... not seen this on here so ...

 

What does the team think?

 

Thanks - Davo

[Lady Muck]

I use Fenwicks top n tail, £9.99 from Halfords. Cheap and lasts ages.

 

Clicky

 

Edited July 26, 2011 by Lady Muck

[Naughty Cal]

We dont use anything in our holding tank and it doesnt smell but then again it is vented in a proper fashion.

 

The toilet bowl gets cleaned with a dot of disinfectant in fresh water but other than that no chemicals go in the tank.

[Lord Elsan]

I use Fenwicks top n tail, £9.99 from Halfords. Cheap and lasts ages.

 

Clicky

 

Just don't ever be tempted to put it in the top (despite the name) - It encourages grey sludge to grow in the flush-level indicator tube.

[Picard]

We dont use anything in our holding tank and it doesnt smell but then again it is vented in a proper fashion.

 

The toilet bowl gets cleaned with a dot of disinfectant in fresh water but other than that no chemicals go in the tank.

Have not tried it, but saw on a Liveaboard section somewhere, that Brewer's yeast did the trick, not for holding tanks though, start with a clean cassette and add four tablets, (cost about £5 per 1000), let it do it's stuff for about two days, little or no smell.

[Machpoint005]

We don't use anything in our holding tank and it doesnt smell but then again it is vented in a proper fashion. The toilet bowl gets cleaned with a dot of disinfectant in fresh water but other than that no chemicals go in the tank.

 

Same here - except that I use a tiny drop of Elsan Green to clean the bog since I have some left over from before the macerator and holding tank conversion last year. The installer recommended no additives to the tank - and that seems to work just fine!

[churchward]

We use BIO Magic in both the cassette and the flush water tank.

[Robin2]

To answer the thread title - big brown things ...

Edited July 26, 2011 by Robin2

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Elsan Blue

[Davo_Willow]

Thanks for all the responses!

 

Has anyone else tried the bio washing powder and do you think this is a good idea and will do the job?

[Guest]

Thanks for all the responses!

 

Has anyone else tried the bio washing powder and do you think this is a good idea and will do the job?

 

Not sure what it would do to the seals TBH.

[Theo]

Bio magic.

 

Very good. The big brown things get broken down and are easy to empty out.

 

N

[Rod a mod from Tod]

To answer the thread title - big brown things ...

 

Obviously not a real ale drinker.

[Chertsey]

We've (well, PB has; I haven't inspected it closely) have been impressed with Thetford Organic.

 

Where did you hear about washing powder? It has a ring of plausibility to it.

[Robin2]

Obviously not a real ale drinker.

 

What colour are real ale drinkers' ?

[Tim]

To answer the thread title - big brown things ...

 

We add a fair bit of yellow liquid, sometimes clear after a few hours in the pub!!

[BlueStringPudding]

I use nowt in the pootank and clean tin loo itself with white vinegar, occasionally lemon juice if I've run out of vinegar. No smells but I do have a remote tank and macerator rather than a drop through

[Davo_Willow]

We've (well, PB has; I haven't inspected it closely) have been impressed with Thetford Organic.

 

Where did you hear about washing powder? It has a ring of plausibility to it.

 

From some long time live aboard friends - the bio powder from Aldi is very low cost and loo smells like ... well laundry most of the time. It only needs a couple of egg cups per load cycle, so a large box goes a long way.

 

I know there is a lot of talk about toilets on this forum but have never seen this mentioned, so thought I'd share and ask for the collective wisdom of this forum.

[luctor et emergo]

Only what has gone through me. (who said "that'll be mainly Ale then"......)

[Nose Miner]

I watched a TV program once about conducting the perfect murder. They showed how bio washing powder would dissolve a dead body (they used a pigs trotter) by immersion at the right temperature for a few days. The trotter, including bones, turned into gloop! Imagine this would work with richard the thirds too.

[PeterG]

Have not tried it, but saw on a Liveaboard section somewhere, that Brewer's yeast did the trick, not for holding tanks though, start with a clean cassette and add four tablets, (cost about £5 per 1000), let it do it's stuff for about two days, little or no smell.

 

Why not for holding tanks?

[Mac of Cygnet]

Just don't ever be tempted to put it in the top (despite the name) - It encourages grey sludge to grow in the flush-level indicator tube.

 

I'm using the same stuff as Lady M at the moment - Fenwicks (thanks, I'd forgotten the name), because I found it in a discount store in Newark at about a third of the price of any of the chandleries' offerings. I do put it in top and bottom. I don't have a flush-level indicator tube, so that'll be alright then?

[Tiny]

As it says on the signs on our (septic tank) toilets at home 'only put down stuff you have eaten. Though on the boat we add - bum bum bum bum elsan blue.

[Doug Scullery]

We've (well, PB has; I haven't inspected it closely) have been impressed with Thetford Organic.

 

Me too. Much less stinky than the green chemicals that both Elsan and Thetford do.

 

Never heard of the washing powder thing, but my two concerns about trying it would be a) What it might do to the seals? and Could it cause expansion and make the tank puff up? This has happened a few times to us when using Thetford chemicals, usually on very hot days.

 

edit: I'm gonna leave the accidental smiley in

Edited July 30, 2011 by Doug Scullery

[saltysplash]

Me too. Much less stinky than the green chemicals that both Elsan and Thetford do.

 

Never heard of the washing powder thing, but my two concerns about trying it would be a) What it might do to the seals? and Could it cause expansion and make the tank puff up? This has happened a few times to us when using Thetford chemicals, usually on very hot days.

 

edit: I'm gonna leave the accidental smiley in

 

Ill let you know as ive just primed my spare cassette with washing powder as a tester.

I wouldnt think it would cause any more damage to the seals than other chemicals.