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S2SAP
S2SAP Forum Participant Posts: 75
edited December 2016 in New to Caravanning & Touring #1

I thought it better to start this discussion with that title rather than spark the old ...."should I use pink rinse fluid or not"!!

I never did use toilet rinse fluid in our old caravan which had a seperate flush reservoir that was filled outside and you could put rinse in it if you wanted to.

However our new super dooper all bells and whistles caravan has a flush system that is obviously connected to the main water feed as it never needs filled.

This is great as I rarely remembered to fill the reservoir in our old caravan and never remembered to empty it when I did remember to fill it ...you following this?

So.....if I dont have a manual fill reservoir what if I decided that now I want to add pink rinse to my flush.....I don't ....but what if I'm just being pedantic and want to do something I can't....or am I missing something.

Thetford are a very wise company and in manufacturing a system that prevents me from buying their toilet rinse ( which I wouldnt anyway ) and adding it to my sytem seems to make poor business sense.

I think just to be awkward I now want to add rinse to my systemWink

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  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,644 ✭✭✭
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    edited December 2016 #2

    You could of course fill a small spray bottle with a dilute solution of pink and spray the toilet after use and before you flush. There are those on CT who use this method in place of a flush at all.

  • Wildwood
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    edited December 2016 #3

    Just regard it as a potential saving. I found the pink stuff gave me black stuff in the toilet so never use it.

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,644 ✭✭✭
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    edited December 2016 #4

    We use pink all the time and have had no black stuff, perhaps because we're out in the van for more than 250 nights each year, so the flush tank is regularly in use, and the black stuff doesn't have chance to build up.

  • EmilysDad
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    edited December 2016 #5

    .... I now want to add rinse to my systemWink

    You can't Wink

  • KjellNN
    KjellNN Club Member Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭
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    edited December 2016 #6

    Our previous van had no separate flush tank, we had no problems with that.

    Now we do have  a flush tank, even after 8 years we are still surprised when it runs empty!

    We hardly ever use anything other than plain water in the flush.

    We did buy some Elsan pink about 4 years back, but keep forgetting to use it, once it is finished we will not be buying more.

    (We are away about 4 months per year)

  • Metheven
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    edited December 2016 #7

    You could put it in your aquaroll, it will reach the toilet eventually Innocent

  • Chris102
    Chris102 Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited December 2016 #8

     

    Thetford are a very wise company and in manufacturing a system that prevents me from buying their toilet rinse ( which I wouldnt anyway ) and adding it to my sytem seems to make poor business sense.



    Thetford have thought of that, they sell a spray to deodorise the bowl.

  • Aspenshaw
    Aspenshaw Forum Participant Posts: 611
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    edited December 2016 #9

    Separate flush tanks in motorhomes seem to have disappeared about the same time contnental motorhomes started appearing in numbers on our shores. Last time we had a separate flush tank was on our Swift in the 90s. We mix our own pink rinse in a spray which
    we use occasionally as a freshener after a normal flush. The Thetford spray is very expensive for what it is.

  • Ken and Lorn
    Ken and Lorn Forum Participant Posts: 59
    edited December 2016 #10

    We used the pink stuff, and found the bowl was slowly becoming stainerd yellow.  So, after reading on here that someone recommended a bottle of 'Comfort' from Aldi's, we use that in the flush to keep it fresh and I made a diluted citrus liquid in a spray
    bottle and use after each flush on the bowl to clear the yellow stain (which I'm assuming was limescale build up but could be wrong.)  Seems to work

  • Watendlath
    Watendlath Forum Participant Posts: 232
    edited December 2016 #11

    Just a thought! Would you put "pink stuff" into your toilet cistern at homeUndecided?

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