Do you have two loos? Save massive amounts of water

Cardew

Years ago foam fire extinguishers consisted of two chemicals in liquid form. To operate you pushed down a plunger which broke the glass separating the chemicals and foam was instantly produced – lots of foam!

Some friends sabotaged a toilet by putting one chemical in the bowl and filling the cistern with the other chemical. A targeted individual was ‘guided’ to that toilet(the others were occupied) and as luck would have it, he sat down. As he flushed the toilet the chemicals mixed!!!!!

He said afterwards it was like a ******* explosion!

geordie_joe

Cardew wrote: »

Years ago foam fire extinguishers consisted of two chemicals in liquid form.

He said afterwards it was like a ******* explosion!

B*gger *ff, you just made me p*ss myself!

Right, now I'm in a good mood I'm off to put red food coloring in my toilet bowl.



Knowing me I'll forget it was me that put it there and when I see it in the morning I'll spend all day worrying!

500yearvision

So, we've been using our Rock Bog for the last 3 months & it's working really well.
Anyone else tried it yet?

paddy's_mum

Keen gardeners may prefer to set up a straw bale toilet in the garden. Stand a bale of straw on it's side so that the cut edges are in contact with the ground. Place a screen of some sort round the potty-plot. Pee onto the straw, which wicks the liquid into the heart of the bale. Once saturated, chuck in the compost heap where it will very quickly rot down due to all the nitrogen in urine.

Saves water and nourishes your soil - can't get much greener than that, can you?!

ecoelle

I understand the point of reducing the amount of times we flusha nd the amount of water we flush with my putting a brick or crystal bag (being given away free by severn trent) in the cistern but what's the point of the rocks in the pan? Am i being thick or is that just aesthetically pleasing?

DKLS

Your not selling me on the advantages of a rock bog, I live in Yorkshire, and we have an abundance of rain, the reservoirs are full and the water rates are cheap so wheres the advantages?

moonrakerz

I missed this thread when it first appeared. Looking at the title I am a little worried.

I have just moved from a 3 loo house to a 1 loo house (got rid of 2 kids at the same time !!!). However I still appear to be using the single loo here exactly the same number of times as I was using the 3 in the last house.Should my usage rate have dropped to one third of its previous rate ?

I am going to put in a downstairs loo in this house - will this double the number of "visits" I have to make ?

rjm2k1

ecoelle wrote: »

I understand the point of reducing the amount of times we flusha nd the amount of water we flush with my putting a brick or crystal bag (being given away free by severn trent) in the cistern but what's the point of the rocks in the pan? Am i being thick or is that just aesthetically pleasing?

I think the idea is you reduce the cistern capacity too (beyond what is normally required to clean the normal pan), but at the same time reduce amount required to clean pan? This is assuming that the OP has done this to the cistern too?? otherwise they are using the SAME amount of water as before they put rocks in the bog.

moonrakerz wrote: »

I have just moved from a 3 loo house to a 1 loo house (got rid of 2 kids at the same time !!!). However I still appear to be using the single loo here exactly the same number of times as I was using the 3 in the last house.Should my usage rate have dropped to one third of its previous rate ? I am going to put in a downstairs loo in this house - will this double the number of "visits" I have to make ?

Did the kids not use the loo then? Your personal usage wont have dropped no matter how many loos you do or don't have, but overall it should have gone down with the kids leaving!

DKLS wrote: »

Your not selling me on the advantages of a rock bog, I live in Yorkshire, and we have an abundance of rain, the reservoirs are full and the water rates are cheap so wheres the advantages?

The advantage is that southerners can pipe our northern water down there to wash their porsches and Ferraris! Well, actually there isn't really an advantage to this idea as far as I can see.

moonrakerz

rjm2k1 wrote: »

The advantage is that southerners can pipe our northern water down there to wash their porsches and Ferraris! Well, actually there isn't really an advantage to this idea as far as I can see.

You folk up North really are out of touch ! Use TAP water to wash the Ferrari ! dear oh dear !

I hear in parts of Surrey (and Cheshire - Man U territory) they have Perrier and Evian piped in for car washing - and of course they have a "man" to actually do it.

Primrose

I chuckled about comments that the downstairs loo is for No 1's only, because we do tend to follow this unwritten rule too, but only because No 2's tend not to fall so far, don't get broken up in the process and often seem to lurk around in the upper drainage regions for a while. No doubt that's why the builders installed an extractor fan !