Alf Stonehouse Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 What chemicals do i need for the WC? I decided to buy a motorcamper to be free of the need to find a clean loo.Travelling anywhere and paying to much for a room dosnt garentee a clean loo. My chosen campingcar came with a loo it also came with chemicals that have to be added to water;But no instructions & i dont know what i should do?Since i came to France ive only found one place that sells campingcars/caravans and bits.I thought i would have found more but seem to be in the wrong region?(though a very nice region) When i first had my camper i couldn't ask anyone about the loo,not even the woman that showed me around my new mobilehome.She said they bought swimming pool products as they were less costly “and just the same” What i do once the loo strorage element is empty,i add about one liter of water and “dash” of chlorine” then fill the flush water to which i add a “dash”of parfume again intended for swiming pools.When i went in to the only campingcar shop ive seen they had “loo chemical”which cost 20€ the larger bottle of swimming pool chemical cost £4.20(the price lable says) How should i service my motorhome loo?? The shop i saw also sold “special”caravan/camper loo paper At a price! My mobilehome came with loo paper, when i have to buy more the normal soft loo paper sold in France look as if it would be “campingvan”compatible?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Most Hypermarkets in France sell Thetfords Aqua kem the most commonly used loo chemical, forget the special loo papers ordinary cheap loo paper works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Being cheap skates we use dishwasher tablets in the cassette, and washing up liquid in the flush tank, it works fine :D Another option is to use cheap biological washing liquid in the cassette :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe63xnotuse Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Yep!..similar here..we've been using supermarket own brand Bio'washing liquid(the stuff for clothes)in the cassette for the last few months now. Very cheap(we've bought some at about a quid a litre),it smells better and we haven't found that we use anymore,quantity wise,than the "proper" stuff either.. As for the paper..well I didn't know there was such a thing as caravan/MH loo paper!? :D ..one thing though,I don't know what others do but we use a small bin with scented bags in our bathroom and put most of the tissue in that..as a cassette will soon get "filled up" if you're stuffing it with loo roll.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 pepe63 - 2011-02-07 8:15 AM ..one thing though,I don't know what others do but we use a small bin with scented bags in our bathroom and put most of the tissue in that..as a cassette will soon get "filled up" if you're stuffing it with loo roll.. My own experience is that toilet-paper rapidly disintegrates in the cassette and (within a couple of hours) the paper will have disappeared into the liquid-waste solution. I don't use toilet chemicals nor specialised toilet-paper, so if this happens for me it should happen for everyone. Admittedly, I empty the cassette frequently - daily if I can and within 3 days absolute maximum - but that's certainly not because it has filled up with toilet-paper. I can appreciate the thinking behind what you do and (based on previous motorhome-toilet-related forum comments) it wouldn't surprise me greatly if other people did this too. But I doubt that it's common practice. You might want to look at this thread: http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=12050&start=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJay Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I buy my loo paper in France for the MH. As a lot of French homes have septic tanks, so a lot of thier paper is designed for this purpose, it disolves easier. (Look for paper for "Fosse Septice") Hope he spelling is right. PJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 We use cheap loo paper :D As Sue wont let me tear up old newspaper (lol) Is it my imagination :-S but are the new style cassettes smaller than the old bench type (?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alf Stonehouse Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 Thanks B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinhood Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 pelmetman - 2011-02-07 10:12 AM Is it my imagination :-S but are the new style cassettes smaller than the old bench type (?) No - it's just your imagination. As you get older you have to "go" more, and therefore the cassette just seems smaller :-D(Joking apart, the cassette for the current "revolving" type is smaller than the current bench type, which in itself is smaller than the old C2/3/4 bench type.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGD Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Used to do all the lunatic-priced Thetford chemicals, but now we just use a glug of clothes washing-machine liquid in the flush tank, and nothing in the waste tank. Works just fine for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t5tripper Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 We have been using the Thetford ones for our loo but will take on board you handy hints on cheaper options, thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t5tripper Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 We have been using the Thetford ones for our loo but will take on board you handy hints on cheaper options, thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leake Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Does any one else have painful memories of BRONCO tiolet paper. So thin and hard you could slice veg with it and so lacking in any absorbent properties it was useless for its intended purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekka Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 And Izal I think it was called, mind you I do remember as we were rather posh the we had Daily Sketch that my old man cut into squares hung on a meat hook, see these modern folks don't know the meaning of recycling. We just put in Oxyclean or similar from the likes of Lidl, but empty almost daily to save getting a hernia lifting a full cassette. And just normal loo paper, never had a problem, and I go way back to the wonderful Elsan bucket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverback Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 IZAL....jesus..that was proper loo paper (lol) jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 silverback - 2011-02-18 8:12 PM IZAL....jesus..that was proper loo paper (lol) jon Can't spell again Silverback - that was loo SCRAPER :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverback Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (lol) (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinhood Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 silverback - 2011-02-18 8:12 PM IZAL....jesus..that was proper loo paper (lol) jon Back in the day....I used to regularly go to a Scout Centre which was near to the IZAL factory (Newton Chambers, north of Sheffield). You could smell it for miles. :-( This post got me reminiscing as to exactly where it was, and Googling brought up an amusing article from The Times, which made me chuckle - it might you as well. (lol) As it's part of a wider article, I've cut it rather than referenced it. Last Saturday radio documentary literally scraped the barrel of the bottom, with Sally Goldsmith’s Now Wash Your Hands (Radio 4). It was a tribute to the medicated Izal toilet roll — now sufficiently a part of history for us to get nostalgic about it rather than hating it as much as we did at the time. For those too young and fortunate not to have experienced it, the Izal loo roll was a sort of shiny white thing with the consistency of lino (it was best to scrunch it up before use, make it a bit more malleable) and smelling of coal tar. It didn’t do its job properly, tending to — how to put this delicately — spread the work rather than clean it up. Put another way, it … OK, maybe better not put it another way. Ask an older person if you’re that interested. But by God it made for a jolly half-hour documentary on a weekend morning. From the middle of the 19th century, where the British Empire went it had a rifle in one hand and a weapons-grade bogroll in the other. Johnny Foreigner was invited to share in the Izal disinfectant experience, a miracle cure for tuberculosis, cholera, diptheria, typhus — everything short of baldness, really. Back home, the growth of the inside lavatory meant many more people went for the Izal and its cheaper, non-medicated competing brands than the more traditional forms of tending to your bitt-bott, such as torn up newspapers and string sacks that had formerly contained oranges. A cunning marketing campaign whereby municipal buildings were given free roll rolls in exchange for placing bulk orders of the disinfectant made going to a public lavatory an ordeal by fire for decades. By the Sixties, though, a more sophisticated clientele demanded a toilet roll that wouldn’t do untold damage to the perineum, and by the Eighties the Izal roll was no more. The surprising thing was that it took that long to die off. But that was not the meat of Goldsmith’s programme. Rather it was the people who spent their lives in the Izal factory in Chapeltown, a suburb of Sheffield, making the things. A woman named Maggie Holmes, who ran one of the huge roll-making machines, handed over a cherished cutting from a local newspaper that honoured her and her colleague and best friend, Patricia for having produced 268 boxes of rolls — 72 rolls in a box — in a single eight-hour shift during “the busy time before Christmas”. Why Christmas should lead to an increase in toilet roll demand was not explained. “It was a record that broke all other records,” Holmes said, proudly. And, yes, she and Patricia had set out to set the record. “If I could have my time over again,” she reflected, “I’d do it all over again. I loved it.” As did the woman who once had the job of taking rejected rolls and making them fit for human consumption, as it were. If the tops of the roll weren’t flat she would sandpaper them flat. And the quality control supervisor who would select rolls at random and count the number of squares to make sure that the public wasn’t being shortchanged. That’s consumer care of an order you just don’t get these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekka Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Priceless................... I much prefer this modern stuff that your finger goes straight through sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverback Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 interesting article robin 8-) http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/?_nkw=Izal+Medicated+Strong+Toilet+Paper&_sacat=&_ex_kw=&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_sop=&_fpos=&_fspt=1&_sadis=&LH_CAds=&satitle=Izal+Medicated+Strong+Toilet+Paper try this link...so they still must make it (lol) might buy some... just for nostalgic reasons (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 WOW ! That Sellers' confident - offering money back if not satified :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 WOW ! That Sellers' confident - offering money back if not satisfied :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinhood Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 flicka - 2011-02-19 2:51 PM WOW ! That Sellers' confident - offering money back if not satisfied :D :D It's rather better than offering Part-Exchange though! 8-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Tayside Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Regarding IZAL - Much to my surprise I spotted some rolls in our local Tesco a few months ago. I wish I'd bought some some as the modern stuff turns soggy and you just can't get a tune out of it like IZAL when you play the paper and comb. It also made quite reasonable tracing paper. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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