Toilet Brush
Not the most savoury of subjects for a Monday morning but just wondering what people do for cleaining the toilet after use. Obviously at home we have a brush but I was wondering for the van how poeple store it for when on the move sorry travelling
to stop it tipping over etc.?
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Don't have a brush in the van for the very reasons of the difficulty of storing and cleaning it. Instead, we clean the bowl with disposable paper.
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I'm surprised CC hasn't removed brushes from the site facilities on H&S grounds.
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Wrap it up in the towel
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Use biodegradable paper preferably, wet wipes used at home or when out are a menace in the sewage systems. They might say flushable, but they aren't really further down most sewage systems.
The tried and tested X marks the spot in most tourer loos is the best method. Cross of paper on the shut trap, perform the dastardly deed, open trap, the deed falls through the hole wrapped in paper, quick flush, jobs a good one. You can buy posh versions
to put over trap, I think some on here have used them.
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The method I have found most effect to avoid the need to use a brush (or wipes) is an open blade and good aim by all involved.
[Don't put wet wipes down the caravan or motor home toilets as the places they are emptied all go straight to sewer and the wipes contribute to blockages.]
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Yes Nav, a good aim is the potty pinnacle, but there may be occasions when things, ahem, malfunction! Youth, old age, too much wine or other beverages, curry night, visitors, etc.....
In extreme circumstances, I understand a hot kettle, not boiling mind, can assist! Never tried it though.
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I think I have participated in every item on your list bar one - can you guess which?
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antisectic or it is anti bacterial (whatever) wet wipes, which we throw away and then dried with paper towels, also thrown away in the rubbish bins in a sealed pastic bag. When we had them nappy sacks were good.
Mrs C usually does it on the last day while I'm empting the cassette. And before anyone chips in, I have offered to clean and she empties but this has been refused.
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It will be old age Nav, you won't be there yet, still out touring so how could you?
And the kettle of course. Only saw it done once, child, swoosh, sorted. Wasn't these new fangled built in jobbies though, the good old fashioned long drop Portapotty. New ones would probably melt!
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Dread to think what you do with the hot kettle!
Hot water softens and rinses things Ian, if you get my drift!
This will be an alien world to you possibly, I don't think you use
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It's quite true that non-soluble items jam sewage pumps and block filter beds so only water soluble paper (toilet paper) should be flushed into any sewage disposal system.
If wet wipes were water soluble they would dissolve in the packet!
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I like the thought of the three P's.
Pinnacle of Potty Politeness. A give away guide with every newly purchased Tourer! Saves all that having to ask for the shy and uninitiated! Cartoon version of course for the little ones!
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It will be old age Nav, you won't be there yet, still out touring so how could you?
Nice though. But I was thinking "visitor" as I've never crapped in someone else's caravan toilet!!
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We used to stop a couple of nights with friends, who had a little girl, then they would come and stay with us! Good friends, the sort you don't get embarrassed with, but just got on with things! We shared a love of horses, so cleaning up was a daily thing!
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When i said wet wipes ,i ment toilet wipes, which are flushable
many make avalible
They are flushable, in that they disappear down the toilet, but they then cause havoc in the sewage system further on, and even reappear on beaches. Thames Water has a particular problem.
(Ps, please don't take this as criticism, it wasn't intended that way
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Thank you everyone for information on this dodgy subject . We do have a brush from a caravan accesory shop screwed to the wall ,its only been used once in 12 months since its been fitted . I shall have a think about all these suggestions .
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It's not dodgy, just a daily bit of life, people manage it in the way it suits them! Happy touring!
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