AIBU not to flush the loo when I go for a wee in the middle of the night?

[MrsCarriePooter]

As it says really. I don't - because it's just a wee, and I don't watch the noise of the flush to wake everyone up.

However, we've recently had a new bathroom suite. DH says that leaving it will damage the loo since urine is corrosive and will lead to brown staining. I said I thought the staining (which we don't have, for the avoidance of doubt!) was limescale etc not wee damage and I think surely he's talking rubbish - it's a bit of wee hitting the water in there anyway for at most what, about six hours? (I don't pee neat ammonia FTAOD.)

I grew up with flushing, and so I do. So does dh. We have found that neither of us, nor dd, wake. I think it's what we're used to.

I don't have a problem if I'm staying with people whose rule is don't flush. I think if that were our rule, I would splosh a bit of bleach in, for good measure though.

We don't flush at night, and only after 3rd wee during the day. Poos get flushed immediately. Water poverty will be thing of the future as lambzig says - to flush after every wee is irresponsible and unnecessary.

One word about not flushing EVERY BLOODY TIME (at least twice after a no 2) wwhatever time of day or night:

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

and I am a bit of a slut normally. 'Tis my one obsession

I hope you're not on a meter then. Your bill must be astronomical!
(and not environmentally friendly)

I'll grant you that Dorrit...I didn't say I didn't feel guilty about it, but I have a total horror of all things lavatorial. Don't ask me to colklect a stool sample , just don't!

I make up for it by being a recycling queen in other areas (I hope!)

Our flush is very loud, and has my DC's rooms on either side, I don not flush, we live in a hard water area, so we do get limescale if not cleaned regularly, which I do, only found this out after i had been hospitalized for 3 weeks and i dont think DH ceaned the loo once[barf emoticom]

Have just realised I must sound like the poo troll. I'm not, honest!

My DP used to work in Africa. They had a flush toilet, but water was expensive and had to be trucked in. They used to keep waste grey water in cans in the bathroom to flush the loo. He cant understand why anyone feels the need to flush the toilet after every wee. He thinks it is a waste of precious resources

if you put a Parazone bleach tablet in the cistern, it will slowly disssolve limescale from the cistern and pan.

If the flush or the refill is noisy, you can get modern flushers and valves which are extremely quiet now.

Unless have been on the asparagus then we mellow at night

My DParents drink gallons of tea and when they stay chez moi their wee does stain the loo. God knows what it does to their insides!
We have ridiculously short flush feature on the loos (these new slimline cisterns).
Just pour a bit of loo cleaner down.

I had someone stay over at my house last week who didn't flush, found it disgusting and offensive to find piss in the toilet when I went to use it in the morning. Pure laziness not flushing.

Sorry but I HATE to find an un-flushed toilet when I go. We always flush in the night (although sleepy kids don't always). I have a thing about unclean toilets and to me an un-flushed one is unclean.

Disgusting but true story - in my student house we had 2 bathrooms. We were promised a new loo in one because it was disgustingly stained. Landlord put a new seat on, and left the old, stained loo in place. I lived with 4 boys. I got through 3 packets of those Harpic "below the water level" cleaning thingies that are horrifically corrosive, and still the poo stains were there - it was like an extra layer crusted on. Probably limescale and poo, but it would not shift for all the scrubbing/bleaching/dissolving in the world. I refused to use that bathroom and claimed the other (nicer, bigger, with a bath instead of just shower) for myself but continued to clean the other loo because I am a pushover until one of the boys broke the flush. I was sad because I had to share my nice big girlie bathroom and stopped trying to clean the other loo because couldn't flush the chemicals away. There was a constant useless dribble of water (like the flush hadn't quite released) but we could not fix it and the landlord took ages to sort it.

About a month later the flush was fixed and I returned to clean it. The stains were all gone. I was amazed.

Turns out the boys had all been weeing in the loo anyway on the basis that "eventually the dribble of water will flush it away". It appears that the wee had somehow de-stained the loo.

So the short version of that is YANBU - the boys I lived with managed to save a fortune on loo cleaner by having some sort of toxic wee.

Baby uses my bladder as a pillow overnight, several trips for a wee every night for me. If I was to flush every time my water bill would be huge!

Genuinely shocked at how many people don't flush!

Ewwwww

I had an older family member stay with us whilst their house was repaired by flood damage, they never flushed wee, and sometimes forgot the no2's aswell!
I was sick once, i lifted the seat up and it was everywhere their piss stunk out the bathroom as well, they got all offended when i told them it wasn't on!

To summarise, we flush, and DS doesn't wake up to it.

Well I think there's a difference between a guest's laziness (as Fabby had) and guests' revoltingness (as OTTMummA had), and just being considerate of others and/or being environmentally aware.

If I don't flush a wee at night I flush it first thing in the morning as I'm always up first anyway. No-one 'finds' it. And even if they did, I doubt they'd notice. My wee is the colour of champagne and is odourless, I'll have you know.

I flush at night it's just a habit so even if I try not too I can't help it. Although I hate an unflushed loo, ESP as when you wipe the toilet paper would also be sat there!!

Dp believes if it's yellow let it mellow so if I go for a number 2 sometimes I have to flush before and after as I'm not doing it on someone elses wee!!

I really want to know the science behind Pastgrace's story - any chemical engineering mnetters out there?

random me too. I was both shocked, amazed and sickened at it. Mostly I was just glad to get my bathroom back. It did take a good few weeks though, I wouldn't advise trying it!

Although whilst sharing one of them managed to pull the blinds down, so I spent half the year with binbags taped over the windows...

Absolutely not, my DD is a terrible sleeper and toilet flushes wake her up. Since I have to pee up to five times a night, I rarely flush the toilet until first thing in the morning, when I want everyone else to get up. I clean it immediately and have no issue with any staining.

( OP, you probably don't want to hear that a plumber I know once told me that leaving pee in the toilet for long periods does in fact stain the bowl eventually. )

Just saying.

As it happens, we do leave pee overnight because of noise, a rubbish flush which takes multiple attempts, and probably trauma after having lived somewhere where water would just go for weeks on end.

YANBU. I just put the seat down quietly during the night, without flushing.

Isn't urine slightly acidic? Uric acid. Very weak, I think.

They say that if you empty a big bottle of coke into the loo and leave it overnight, then you'll have a lovely sparkly loo in the morning. Makes you wonder what it does to your stomach, though. (I loathe sweet drinks so never touch the stuff. My insides are probably completely clagged up!)