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.

I see whatt you mean about the 'mellow yellow' thing but it's really not going to change the world is it?

For the sake of marital harmony , just flush your piss away.

Flush the loo each time you use it. I find it revolting if I go to use the loo and there is wee in it. I too use blue blocks, sometimes green and sometimes pink. Flush

Agree with Archery - and if was on a water meter I would probably flush less than I do now. Surely everyone is so hydrated nowadays that their urine is virtually all water anyway?

Lostin3dspace my toilet pan is 83 years old (I haven't been there 83 years, it's just the original pan!) and there's no problem with it. You must have very tiny pipes.

Crusty loo blue tide mark? And surely everyone knows that if you go to the loo when there's a poo resting there you risk it crawling up your bum? Couldn't you just have a two litre wee bottle discretely hidden behind the loo brush?

We flush in the night but not early morning because that will wake DS, who already thinks 5am is a perfectly reasonable time to start the day.

If you just let it mellow until you do a poo, doesn't that mean you're pooing into a bowlful of piss which then might splash back if it's a particularly big poo? Because that would bother me. I don't want several hours of accumulated piss to splash my bum.

'Smell of male urine'?!

What on earth is the difference between male and female urine? Talk about confirmation bias..

Personally prefer loo flushed every time, though.

My male bf follows the"if it's yellow..." dictate. When we're together the toilet gets flushed just as often if not more as I flush before opening as a precaution. If your wife does too then your activity is counter productive.

Imagine your nose at least a foot closer to the pan most of the time you are using it. In fact, often two foot closer as we sit down. Actually, don't imagine, sit - sit over your festering pee one day. Carefully angle your pee so as not to agitate the smell of the festering pee and try not to get splashed by it. Now image how you do that with a urethra that doesn't have such an angle-able hose?

Imagine trying to not agitate the scent of festering pee with your bowels open, again don't get splashed. When dealing with menstrual flow. Imagine...

If you are still disinclined to flush, you could try his n hers toilets in the house?

I think you lot must all have way more sensitive noses than I do if a normal quantity of urine diluted within a toilet bowl left for up to two hours with the lid down is really such a terrible smell. But then with more people in the house including an IBS sufferer we'll probably be flushing more often despite the mellow yellow policy.

Archery - my toilet is roughly 35 years old but I live in an area where scale is a problem, still though, whilst it would develop a little scale that could be knocked off easily or treated with a cleaner after a while, the toilet never blocked before when I lived in the same house before the previous tenants, and now it does, and it's them who had the frankly revolting toilet habits.
On another note, I work in a field where we have miles of industrial size pipes, and I've seen scaling so bad when we've chopped chunks out of the lines, that pipes which are 64mm across have scaled up completely and blocked.

So when you do a "brown" does other people's combined "yellow" not splash your bum?

Flush the toilet fgs, we don't have a shortage of water do we?

I'm with you OP - we follow the the mellow yellow approach & it is fine for me. We also don't have blocks in the cistern, which are dreadful for the environmental & utterly pointless.

However, in the the whacky MN world I am apparently a minger of the highest order - the obsessive hygiene of some posters on here is unfuckingbelieveable to me.

So there you go. You can try and encourage your wife to follow the path of the laid back minger, but if she has a MN mindset you are on a hiding to nowhere.

If you're worried about wasting water, how about saving up the water you use to wash your hands / washing up etc to flush the loo - though that isn't as easy as you'd think: our flush broke and I though oh 'just chuck a bucket of water down until it's fixed' - isn't as easy as it sounds to flush the loo effectively with a bucket of water - but would be better than leaving undiluted pee in the loo.

I get a bit miffed with people talking about a 'Mumsnet mindset.' My opinion may be different from others but I certainly don't check Mumsnet before I form it?!

There is no need to leave a toilet full of wee. It smells and why on Earth would your wife want to splash her undercarriage with your wee when she goes herself; I think perhaps when you do the mellow yellow thing you forget that ladies cannot widdle standing up! I bet all my money that she flushes it before she goes anyway so it saves no water whatsoever unless you wee more often than she does. You're a grotbag!

Exactly what whatthe said above. But we are in Australia and whilst our general environmental credentials are crap here, we are usually pretty conscious of how precious water is.

ooh teafor- wee bottle - I wish my husband would agree to do that so I could put it around the garden to keep away the foxes who have gone completely mad- the latest gift was a used nappy and they have torn the cover from our garden table.

he won't

end of

am contemplating putting a foxes head on his pillow

My DH doesn't flush. Nothing to do with saving the environment though. He's just a lazy, dirty man. :(

thebakerwithboobs I am not a 'lady' so that probably explains why I can't get uptight about a toilet with wee in it, I'm obviously a grotbag. I think my DH would rather be married to a grotbag than a lady anyway

Well it might turn our cat's habit of drinking out of the loo, I suppose

We don't flush overnight either. And it is RANK in the morning. Perhaps you could compromise with no flushing at night.

My husband asked me not to use blue in the cistern. Whether it's an environmental thing or just that cheap ones stain the loo I'm not sure.
But we have found they are useful for detecting leaks in the pipework from the cistern. Pop one in and if the drips are blue there's a leak (something our toilet is prone too no matter how many times we have it fixed) if the drips are clear, it's just a bit of condensation around the pipework.

Blimey, we don't flush at night & it isn't rank in the morning. Mind you, we are all vegetarian & early risers, so maybe that combo helps?

We leave pee in the toilet, it's not a big deal. Before we sit down to do a poo, we flush. If it starts to smell bad, we just flush. Having a few wees in the toilet doesn't stink, to us, and it doesn't matter if it's a male or a female, the wee smells the same. The wee that normally stinks is the first wee of the day. Maybe you all aren't drinking enough water and that's why your wee smells so strong?

Ok I'm rubbish with loads of environmentally friendly stuff but I have massive respect for those who make the effort to respect and maintain our planet as best they can. The contempt on this thread is so weird. Global warming and the potential for drought etc is one of our biggest challenges and we tell someone trying to do a tiny positive thing he's disgusting...

We leave it over night due to noise more than environment, it never smells too bad. I think leaving it to mellow is fine so long as it's flushed at the end/beginning of each day (not every poops everyday - ie, me who goes about twice a week).

As for the blue loo YANBU they are horrid things.