Free Hippo Water saver

yell25

You can get a Hippo water saver for free when you order from https://www.!!!!!!

I know lots of water authorities give these out down south but I know this isn't common practise in the North.

mum2kathryn

If you're in the United Utilities area you can get one free from them.
http://www.unitedutilities.com/?OBH=1755

You can also get a free 'fat trap'
http://www.unitedutilities.com/?OBH=4267

Niki

Poppycat

Some water companies provide thse free like Yorkshire water.

I just moved house and got a new one for new house but took it out soon afterwards as the toliet doesnt flush very well, uses little water and take 10 minutes to fill up, what a pain.

HugoSP

They only really come into play when you've got a large old fashioned cistern. They simply reduce the working capacity of the cistern and dump the remaining water from as greater height as possible. However if your cistern is designed to flush on a teaspoon full of water, as most of the modern ones are, such a device is likely to cause more grief than comfort.

Poppycat

Yes they were great in old house but my toliet in new house has issues like flushing and filling up, had BIL have a look whose a plumber he said these type of toliets date very quickly its an unusally shape too like half a hexagon shape

I would have a flush thingy if he didnt have issues. I now have a water metere in new house despite not wanting one but as it was pout in a couple of years back, there see FA I can do about it.

moonunit_2

HugoSP wrote:

They only really come into play when you've got a large old fashioned cistern. They simply reduce the working capacity of the cistern and dump the remaining water from as greater height as possible. However if your cistern is designed to flush on a teaspoon full of water, as most of the modern ones are, such a device is likely to cause more grief than comfort.

Might get some for the toilets at work, then, as they look like they are donkeys years old

Maybe you guys could do the same.. or suggest it to whoever's responsible for looking after the toilets at your workplace. The toilets there probably get used ten times more often than those in your home xx

longforgotten

If you are with Welsh Water get your hippo here ..........

http://www.dwrcymru.com/English/Forms/hippo/index.asp

neetugopal

Warning below from United utillities website may explain why Hippo is not working for some

"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.

All toilets fitted in houses/flats before 2000 are normally flushed using nine or seven and a half litres of water and in these cases fitting a Save-a-flush is an effective way of saving water. "

rach

i ordered one (free) recently from wessex water and it seems to be working fine. my cistern is pre-2000 though. i have to say that cos i live on my own, i also don't flush the loo everytime either, as its just water (i drink gallons and am always on the loo!)

skyepark

i fitted one in my toilet cistern as it said it used 9l to fluch so i used the hippo witht eh smaller one i used save a flush both work fine, that hippo thing is a v simple device

moonrakerz

The bottom half of a 4 litre milk container is just as effective !