save water usage for 30% in your house

signal29

Small advice: put 2 or even 3 bricks in toilet water reservoir, you will be amazed after first month. I sow this on TV that they were doing in Australia 20 years ago, and tried. My savings was 30% on watter bill.Hope this will help somone

Mojisola

If you have an old toilet, bricks or cistern displacement devices can help reduce the amount of water you use but 30% of your total bill is quite high.

Modern toilets use a lot less water to flush. If you fit devices in those you may find the flush isn't enough to clear the toilet bowl.

Also, you need to get to know your drains. Our drains don't have much of a slope on them and need a reasonable amount of water with each flush to push solids through. Reduce the amount of water and the drains block!

Another way to reduce flushing is to ask the men of the household to pee into a container. The contents can then be used on your compost heap. You can pee direct onto the heap but that can upset the neighbours.

Aquatronixjenny

Great idea, and then when your drain blocks up because you haven't got enough water flushing down your toilet you can spend £150 having them unblocked!

27col

Why muck about with bricks in the cistern. Why not just reduce the water level in the cistern by adjusting the level at which the ball valve cuts off. In any event, OP it's hardly a new idea, it's been around for donkey's years.

anotherbaldrick

From the 1st Jan 2001 the capacity of WC cisterns was reduced from 7.5 to 6 litres. So as posted, only brick it if it is more than 10 years old.

caleyles

6 litres- old news - we have been fitting cisterns with 4.5 litres since last year and it is thought that that is going to be the industry standard on new installations fairly soon. Loads of complaints about solids being left in the pan and having to flush several times to clear it. I think the logic is that people do more 1's than 2's and a couple of flushes wasted on solids is more than gained with all the savings on weeing.
So far its been all hidden cisterns we have fitted with this capacity but standard cc suites will be like this soon apparently

http://www.thebluebook.co.uk/static/5_6_3C.asp?Specifying=&digits=5:6:3C

ormus

i just pi ss in next doors grid.

saves a fortune.

moonrakerz

Mojisola wrote: »

If you fit devices in those you may find the flush isn't enough to clear the toilet bowl.

...................so you have to flush it twice.............!!

Mojisola

moonrakerz wrote: »

...................so you have to flush it twice.............!!

So everyone in the house has to check the toilet after each flush, just in case - if they remember.

And you have to warn all your visitors so that you aren't left with their deposits after they go home!

I'd rather have a toilet that cleared the bowl with the first flush!

savemoney

Or get a toilet that has dual flush one for wee and another for no2's

Newbie2saving

....or use 'save a flush' like this one offered by our utility company http://www.unitedutilities.com/SaveaFlush-orderform.aspx . I did work it out once for the amount of flushes we did in our house (yes sad I know) and it saved hardly anything so not worth it in my opinion for any hassle it may cause, but may be of use to some people???

PS. "Please note that if you live in a house or flat built after 2000, we advise you not to fit the save-a-flush in your toilet cistern. Toilets fitted after 2000 tend to have a low-level flush, using only six litres of water, which is already water efficient. The toilet may not flush properly if a save-a-flush is fitted in these toilets. Also, the save-a-flush does not fit in a dual flush toilet (with two buttons) as these are also water efficient." UU webiste, bear in mind bricks may have a negative effect!