Advice please - emptying the toilet holding tank

How does it take 5 pages on emptying a toilet?

Who would read 5 pages on empting a toilet? 

Oop's 6 pages on empting a toilet!!! 

How does it take 5 pages on emptying a toilet?

Who would read 5 pages on empting a toilet? 

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I didn't 

Its a fact that if you put 2 caravanners in a room together they will eventually end up talking about toilets.

Getting bogged down on this now

To follow on the wet wipes theme - I have always lived with septic tanks and children born 40 something years ago - THEN we used baby lotion on toilet paper and its what I do now - kind to all things - Thetford and septic tans.  There really is no need for wet wipes blocking the systems!  I was recently helping out at my son's new home and it was discovered the septic tank hadn't been emptied for 15 years or so - guess what - without giving Too Much Information - the tank emptiers had left a STACK of stuff that hadn't gone down the system!  Guess who had to clear up the mess???? NEVER will I use wet wipes and flush them!  Unless I am certain its a mains drainage situation that is! 

I won't linger on the maggots that were in the bins either!  Some people have a lot to learn about rural living!

 

Write your comments here...Wet wipes shouldn't  go down a  connected to mains sewer either.I recently had to clear our own home pipes, prior to the main sewer in the road. By using cleaning rods and a powerful hose. Not nice, ALL wet wipes go in the bin in this house. 

6 pages now.....and all good stuff.

Over  24  hours  now,  and  you're  Still  Clogging  up  the  CCEP  ??!!

Thank you for all the suggestions about using biological pods. I bought a small pack to try yesterday and I'm out in the caravan again in 2 weeks so I'll give it a try.

I already found the advice elsewhere about using olive oil on the flap seal and now include this as part of my 'shutting down' procedure.

I found it interesting to see the various notes about sceptic systems as most utilise anearobic & aerobic digestion to "liquidate" the solids. With a keen interest in environmental issues I also compost, both dry mix & with worms.

I recall reading in one publication that if one has a compost heap a man 'peeing' on it does it good, but if a woman 'pees' on it it inhibits &/or even kills the process !!

Make your own mind up on what this means   

One of the CC sites in the South West can't  remember which one ? Has dry composting toilets.......my misses hated it and refuses to go back there,  so no danger of her stopping the composting process.  Shame because I quite liked the site otherwise, apart from it being next door to a working quarry !

Crossway in Dorset, just remembered it. Shame we won't  be going back.

My wife also refuses to return to Crossways because of the toilets.