To use a potty (kitchen bowl)

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Our toilet has broken, can't afford to fix it.

Is it really awful to use a kitchen washing up bowl?

I hate doing it but I can't think of any alternatives. Any ideas?

Happens to us quite a bit, new estate lower than normal water pressure. I second using toilet brush as a plunger, bail out as required and use hot water from the tap not boiling, keep using the brush to clear, I find hot tap water and I also would use soda crystals not baking soda, to be more effective

Op, sorry you've had a tough time on the thread, sounds like the last thing you needed at the moment. I was going to suggest the soda but see many many others have beaten me to it!

Also just to point out that human waste can absolutely be put in a general waste wheelie bin. Most councils refuse to collect san pro/incontinence waste separately now. It's not only due to being completely unnecessary but the expense and processing involved.

I've had huge success with a string mop. Just chucked it afterwards in a bin liner.

OP, I am sending you my best 'plunge success' vibes. Best of luck

Wtf are people on ffs?

Op I hope the suggestions work and you get it sorted asap. Ignore the idiotic haters.

I hope some of the rest of you are ashamed of yourselves for attacking someone who just asked for advice in a temporary shit (sorry) situation.

Fingers crossed OP for tomorrow.
Been there, done it etc, lost count of number of times loo blocked when DCs were young. We were on septic tank too so even had that overflow where dear little souls had 'posted' miscellaneous objects from complete loo rolls to a shoe, bars of soap and socks
I seriously can't believe the attitudes on here, very sad IMO if a genuine query gets such a response.

Seriously the specific toilet plunger is a godsend.

The mop idea is good if you don't have one, although the carrier bags have holes in and so the mop head becomes contaminated with germs. The toilet plunger is a tapered design that goes slightly down into the bend and I think that's so much more effective.

I wish I didn't know all this.

Well if I was at the point where my toilet was blocked and

a) I couldn't fix it myself or

b) I refused to ask my employers for a small advance on my salary to pay for a repair or

c) I couldn't ring round my local tradesmen and find out if any of them invoiced after completing the work (I actually work for a tradesman sending out his invoices so I know that many trades work like this) or

d) I had not one friend of family member or neighbour who could help me out or

e) I couldn't find a way of raising the cash by selling or pawning something valuable at the pawn shop or

g) buy a really cheap portaloo on ebay or

f) try my darndest to time my bowel movements to coincide with work or a trip to the local shopping centre or leisure centre

then I still don't think I would poo onto kitchen roll and put it in my wheelie bin. I would poo on to newspaper and take it to a public loo in a park and flush it away or dig a very deep hole in my garden and bury it there.

I have my standards and I guess that's what makes me a hater.

of course The Daleks were a race of plummers weren't they?

Driven mad by blocked toilets.

Ffs will some people get of the op 's back? ! Really what the fuck..some one is in a desperate situation lots have people have put forward very lovely and helpful advice. Some others haven't.
Ignore these people op. You sound like your doing the best from a shit situation

Tbh Mintyy my standards relate more not to being spiteful, rude and obnoxious.

I doubt my company do advances but in any case I'm not asking. Also, and probably pointing out the obvious - a tradesman visit would require time off - not great in a new job.

I do try to organise my bowels so I don't have to do disgusting things but to be honest, some poo, wrapped in kitchen roll, bagged in a nappy bag then bagged in another bag just doesn't strike me as that horrific in the grand scheme of things but then I've experienced some real shit and manage to have a sense of humour and perception.

Like most people I'm managing as best I can with what I've got.

And I dare say if I HAD taken up someone on their offer to loan me cash youd have a go - as I think you just want to.

And you think I'm disgusting?

There's different types of disgusting behaviour. Some can be washed away with soap and water.

I'm fairly sure any local authority would come and sort out a house that has no working toilet but a couple of children (even if in nappies) living there.

You just strike me as someone who is revelling in their own shit situation op.

Yesterday morning at 7 something you said "have tried the plunger" but last night you were ordering one on Amazon (like that's the first shop anyone would go to to buy a toilet plunger).

You aren't asking for advice on what to do. You just want Mumsnet to hear about you pooing onto kitchen roll.

Whatever floats your boat.

Mintyy, I tried to end this thread hours ago. You upped it after a six hour period where no one posted on it.

I have had some useful advice.

However - and I am slowly being put in a position where I have to give more information than I wish - when things were difficult last year I obtained a position working weekends. Since things have still been right I have continued to do so for the first couple months of my employment. I have therefore been at work most of today so actually, Amazon was the first place I thought of as at present I don't have the luxury of strolling round DIY shops at weekends.

I get most stuff from Amazon, actually.

That is by the by. I don't think anyone wanted to hear about my pooing - I have had (how many times now? ) useful, helpful advice, humour and a chance to chat - what else is Mumsnet for ?

I've had two hideous blocked toilet incidents in my time; one was caused by a visiting American who had overestimated the capacity of a UK toilet - apparently everything really is bigger in America - dealt with by arm round u-bend to dislodge blockage.

One was caused by over-enthusiastic small child with Charmin loo roll. Bloody 'wet strength'. That one, the blockage managed to go most of the way down the soil pipe, and was only dealt with by a professional drain unblocker chap with a high-pressure hose kit, AND to make matters worse, the soil pipe was cast iron rather than plastic, and he had to cut it open to get access, and I really don't want to talk about how much that cost

Afterwards, he said, 'Wow, that was just toilet roll you know, I can't believe you managed to cause a blockage that bad with just loo roll!'
Yeah, we're always exceeding expectations in our house

Good luck with the bog. Hope yours is one of the former and not the latter.

Don't know if it's been mentioned but some bank accounts offer emergency repairs, we've had plumber out early hours Sunday morning for a leak. Have you checked yours?

Thanks Boulevard. One thing I've discovered is that things are always OK in the end :)

mintyy I am following your argument and all, and have no wish to discuss poo more than is necessary, but seriously, 'I would poo on to newspaper and take it to a public loo in a park'?

What, you'd just pop it into your handbag?
And you meet a mum from school on the way, and you have to stop for a friendly chat, but you can see her kind of sniffing the air, and looking at her toddler suspiciously?

And I mean, I may be prone to catastrophic thinking, but what if you got run over on the way? 'The forensic team were unable to determine why the deceased was carrying 728g of her own faeces concealed about her person'? I vote for chucking it in the bin and never speaking of it again. Sorry if that makes me a skank.

No, I would put it in the dog poo bag or whatever op is planning to use and take it somewhere where it could be flushed away, rather than putting it in my own wheelie bin where it will fester for up to 14 days. I don't think that is unlikely or outlandish at all!

Our bins are emptied weekly.

Poo wrapped in kitchen towel. Kitchen towel in nappy bag. Nappy bag in ordinary supermarket carrier bag. Tied up and binned.

Also, since it's an apartment the bins are a fair distance from the building - it isn't as if I notice it every time I step outside.

But, we all do things differently: nothing wrong with that.

Mintyy I think you are generally pretty spot on with most of the things you post.

But stuff about poo not going in a wheelie bin and general revulsion about poo in bags is a bit ott. My dp had a stoma for a while. Our local council wouldn't collect the waste separately so it went.in.our wheeliebin. Also you would be surprised how many disabled toilets don't have separate bins for this.sort of waste.

So although I 100% get where you are coming from poo in a bag is no big deal really.

I'm as skint as the next person, just contact a handyman to invoice her at the end of the month. Like most people would.

Yeah, good luck with that. IME handymen want and expect to be paid immediately

As for this stuff about already having a plunger - are people really unaware that there are different types of plunger, and some are more effective than others?