Pink and Blue

Merve, the liquid bottle has a measure inside the upturned lid and the  label on the bottle says 25 washes. I cann't remember how many pods there were in the green box.

Regarding the outer skin of the pods, I dropped a pod into my wastemaster as it helps get rid of smells, The outer skin disolved and left a very sticky gunge. If I put a pod into my toilet header tank and the gunge got into the pump I would not be a happy bunny. So for me it's the liquid rather than the pods that I prefer.

  You don't put pods in the header tank. It goes in the cassette.

Sorry for the delay, Bakers2, I've been away from this quite a bit recently.

http://bluebio.co.uk/new/new-website/

(I preferred their less whizzy previous site but hey!)

It's not the cheapest to buy, but they reckon it gives 50 doses, and the way ours is going I'd not be surprised at that. Compared to the other expenses of caravanning, 30 odd pence a day inc p&p isn't too heavy for a cleaner result.

No issues with fats  ending up in "Fatbergs" further down the system either!

I have a fairly sensitive schnozzle, and find it smells OK too, both in use in the van (yes, both varieties!!) and emptying out at the sluice.

Hi nuggy. Cyber says what I would say- pods go in the toilet waste tank not the flush tank. I agree with you about the gunge getting in the impeller- no, it wouldn't do it any good. 

I think we have tried this, may even still have some in the van. If I'm right it was difficult for use by a left handed person. (Handover the measure? it's a few years since we bought it so not 100% certain). We didn't continue for this reason. 

The inner wall of my header tank was pretty mucky and I was getting black flecks through with the flush, Because of this I did put some bio liquid in the header tank, but I poured it from the bottle, not a pod. After a journey and a good slosh round the bio liquid cleaned up the inside of the tank nicely. Method in my madness, but it worked.

There was a long thread about Bio pods with everybody raving about them so this year we tried them in the holding tank (not the flush where we use a small amount of pink). They seemed to work for a while, even though I didn't like the smell, but after using them for a couple  of weeks and emptying every other day we found the toilet started to smell unpleasant - and that's using the toilet at night time only.  So, it's back to ecologically unfriendly Thetford blue. 

I also wonder how hygienic laundry pods are. The blue is a powerful odour suppressant and probably helps keep germs at bay. Expensive stuff but it's popular for a reason. 

if (for some reason) your clothes ended up covered in crap (sh*t really does happen sometimes) .....and you put them in the washing machine to clean them, what would you use?

a Lidl washing pod or a glug of Thetford 'Blue'?

We had a similar experience when we tried some of the alternatives to blue. They worked for a while but seemed to become less effective over time. We are now using Elsan double strength. Cheaper as you need very little of it each charge and the pink seems to leave no black residue which we have experienced with other makes.

That's a daft comment BB. The two products are designed for totally different purposes. If bio pods work for some people then that's fine.  They are convenient and cheap but they are not designed to break down solid waste or to remain effective for up to four days. I can only describe our experience over several weeks and it seems I am not alone in finding that the laundry pods are disappointing. 

This post is about advising newcomers and it is only right to offer different views.