Smelly Subject

I am actually pondering returning to ‘blue’ , whichever product name, given that we may be two or three days before we can empty. We are Mo HOMERS, so the flush is fresh water but the wash tabs just are not cutting it for longer periods. 

I've tried H2O too once but got burnt

Alternate between Aldi/Lidl bio-pods and Blue Diamond Fluid, again from Aldi when available, in the cassette plus Blue Diamond pink in the flush tank. Double up with the bio-pods for journey home with drained off hot water to give cassette a good clean out with the shaking of the van on the move.

These days, I use the sachet/teabag type usually (used them for years now).  Find them much more convenient than the liquid.  They do work out a little more expensive, but for us, it's worth the extra.

David 

Well this is turning out to be a one horse race! It seem's Bio Tab's just another word for washing powder in my book I guess is becoming the out right winner!

It seems just about everybody is using them due to this mainly being the cost element? Thanks EasyT for comment on limescale but if your are rinsing your cassette loo out then surly this can't build up (If your still using Pink & Blue products of course?) or are we just being silly here! or do you own a motor home with a different loo system (not sure about this as never been in one?)

Thanks Hitchglitch! Yep your right why indeed change if we like "Fenwicks Products" but we would still like to hear from someone who has used the "Top & Tail" as this would really reduce cost from buying 2 to buying 1 just makes sense!

We are wondering does Aldi/Lidi know that there are many caravanners and motor-homers using their products for cleaning the loo's rather than cleaning their washing although there are some of you doing both..lol

So we presume then you just throw one of these tabs into your cassette and hey presto it starts to breakdown what it needs too? But isn't their a bit of a build up of suds? like when their in the washing machine turning around and around then don't the tabs turn into liquid powder and then create suds? so shall we say we are adding 2 types of water then this must create suds and bubbles at the bottom of the cassette? Having never used these we can only have this image of suds coming out the loo and creeping over the top..lol which we are sure isn't the case but it must of happened to someone?

Lidl pods don't create suds but you do end up with the cleanest cassette you have ever seen - so clean you could eat your dinner off it 

Never had you as a peroxide blonde, Corners.

They do not create suds or bubbles. The biological liquid is in the plastic-like pouches which dissolve as soon as they get wet. 

I have a caravan and don't use a flush additive. We probably stay a hundred nights on facility sites and then mainly use the loo for urine as other needs are normally taken care of when we go to the washroom. We also stay around 20 nights on non facility sites.

When on facility sites I empty usually just once every 4 or 5 days. Obviously more often on non-facility sites.

I usually give two rinses after emptying on most sites - on occasion maybe one..

I suspect that we have more limescale build up because the Alde heating pipes also keep the waste tank warm. At the end of the season we would have had significant build up and I would use a few quids worth of white vinegar to descale. With lidl's bio sachets there is none.

I traded the last caravan in before our Christmas break. The cassette still had some urine in from our departure morning and last thing the prior night. The caravan change was last minute and so emptied and cleaned the caravan inside. The cassette just needed an empty and a rinse. As Grant says cassette near enough as new looking. 

Saving money does not concern me in the least. Clean cassette and ease of use does. I suppose storage is easier than the liquid as well. I keep a small plastic box with the caravan cleaning stuff such as carpet wipes, spare sponges, small re-purposed bottles of clothes wash and dish wash liquids, spare sponge, duster etc. In the box are some Lidl bio pouches, and a few other ones with conditioner if we use a site washing machine. 

One thing this means is no need to open front locker. Empty, rinse, replace cassette and then OH drops a sachet inside through the trap.

Last season was the first time of usage as a trial. Very pleased with the result of no more descaling.

agree with Easy, one of the great side effects of Lidl pods is the total absence of limescale which we did get with all other "top brands".

however, you wont get rid of limescale with just one pod, it takes five or so uses to clean the cassette and i do mean clean.....

dont notice any 'bad smell' with pods but was aware of a strong 'chemical' smell with the blue products.....seems mainly to mask colour to blue which might be what some people want
the pods dont change the colour of the tank contents which might be an issue for some delicate souls?