To ask my wife to stop using blue cistern blocks?

[Breadandwine]

Which are absolutely unnecessary and environmentally unsound.

But apart from this, I've been following the 'If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down' dictum for some years now. (The lid of the toilet is always kept down.) If my wife doesn't use cistern blocks (these things appear intermittently), everything is fine. However, when she puts the blocks in, there is a reaction between the urine in the bowl and the chemicals in the blocks resulting in a crust forming around the sides of the bowl.

This can't just be wiped or brushed away. The best way I've found to get rid of it is to use a (dedicated) pan scrubber. But it's a pain in the arse, to coin a phrase.

LondonDove, I wipe off public loo seats with a good deal of TP and don't touch anything within the stall unless with TP - door handle, etc. Most of the public loos I use are explosive auto flushers and I suspect a huge amount of vapour ends up all over everything in the ladies' room. I use either a paper towel or some purloined TP to touch the door handle to leave the ladies' too.

At home I touch it all. We only open the lid for actually using the loo here. It is closed for flushing, and while not in use because we're a little afraid the cat will fall in or knock stuff off the shelf behind the loo into it on her travels.

math That sounds exhausting and unnecessary unless you are going to lick your hands between leaving the cubicle and washing your hands on the way out.

It's not exhausting at all. A folded piece of TP held in my hand goes over the latch and the door opens when I twist it. Then I drop the TP in the ladies' room bin.

I do similar math. I try to avoid public loos wherever possible but if I use them I try not to touch anything.

I hate going in a blue toilet. I'm always concerned about it splashing on my skin. I don't think it's any cleaner either. I suspect you may have to flush each time for fairness though.

If your wife uses the blue cistern block and you pee and don't flush, you should end up with green water in the bowl. Just sayin'

What a pity you've had to stop 'Letting it Mellow' OP. I think it's a perfectly fine philosophy, but I guess only if all parties agree.

If only more members of the population would take this attitude the world might stand a chance. I really do despair of the future when you hear some of the attitudes on here - MNers are presumably better educated/ more intelligent than an average selection of the population but still fail to see the problems.

London and Math - what do you think is going to happen if you touch something in a public loo? The bogeyman? Just wash your hands...

I suspect your DW uses a blue block because you don't flush. If you flush, she'll stop using the block. Problem solved.

What does letting it mellow even mean?

Sparkling Usually, it's something that happens with age - people are said to have mellowed if they become less aggressive with age, food mellows and gets better flavours, etc.

In this case, I think it just means leaving it in the bowl, but it doesn't make much sense.

I guess if you've got a man doing this, you'll be less likely to get lions, foxes or badgers in your house (if the rumours are true that they don't like male urine!).

I just opted for a toilet with a lesser flush for pee, and my waste system is economical. I'd feel a bit gross having unflushed pee in the toilet, though.

"If it's yellow, let it mellow/if it's brown, flush it down"

I am guessing whoever came up with that ridiculous phrase only used mellow because it rhymes with yellow. Really it's just leaving the wee in the bowl for the next person to come across.

'If it's yellow or brown flush it down FGS' would be better.

If it's yellow - flush like a good fellow!
If it's brown - also flush it down!

If you leave your piss in the throne
I'll kick your balls until you moan
So if you dare forget this rhyme
That'll teach you to flush next time!

I'll get me cross stitch out for that one, toad ;)

:)

In my case, I'm allergic to penicillin and aspirin/all NSAIDs and also very susceptible to strep. If I manage to pick up strep I am stuck with erythromycin and Tylenol, which do my stomach in while curing me.

I always wash my hands after coming in from anywhere (with plain - not anti-bac - soap). I would prefer not to pick up anything. I figure that handling surfaces as little as possible while out minimises my chances of suffering ten days of erythromycin-induced misery after three days of waiting for a doctor's appointment and another day or two to get lab results back (I never get a positive to the throat swab). I am the woman who wears gloves to the supermarket when there's an R in the month.

This gadget looks like it might keep both the OP and wife happy. Not seen one of these myself so don't know exactly how it works , I was just looking at the water company website and it was in a list of water saving gadgets.

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MarwoodsTrenchcoat that looks excellent - thanks for linking. I'm going to try it out.

My teen is crap (pardon the pun) at flushing, husband and I do, but to negate his grotty habit, I stick two steradent tablets down the toilet once a week and leave them unitl the next person flushes. Works a treat.