For those of you who flush nappies, wet wipes and SAN pro down the toilet...

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Aibu to gently remind people that the only things that should go down the toilet (and sink) are bodily fluids and tissue paper?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-41238272
It seems to come up quite frequently that people don't understand you shouldn't flush other things down there.

This is my job! Everyday dealing with people who do not understand that their private sewage treatment system is not working because of all the things they are sticking down the loo and drains. We had one horrendous site that was so bad the last time we were called out we made a point of making sure the residents committee were there to see what they were doing to the system boak

TheBeast I don't think the paper liners were flushable, aren't they washable? I used fleece liners.

I do still flush flushable wipes. I buy toddler ones which do disingegrate quickly in the bowl. I have a toilet that blocks very easily but haven't had a problem with them over the last 5 years.

That's not good though, if they claim to be flushable and aren't.

I can't imagine not using something moist after going to the toilet. I once read a thread that if you smeared poo on your dining table, would you clean it using just toilet roll and be satisfied? It put me off using just toilet roll.

I don't want a bidet. My bathroom is tiny.

We pour our used cooking oil into old glass jars and put them in the bin.

ProfessorCat you shouldn't flush "flushable" wipes. Plumbers sometimes recommend only using really thin toilet paper too.

Do you eat off your anus Cat ?

Slightly off topic, but apparently when I was a kid I flushed the lid of a formula tin (I think that's what it was) down the loo. This being almost the exact size of the pipe, it didn't work very well.

I think they had to take apart the toilet/pipes to get it out.

Apparently both me and my younger brother were obsessed with the toilet. Luckily my two haven't gone through this phase. Yet . . .

Very topical as me and my 2 neighbours had to have our drains sorted yesterday. The lovely drain boy ( about 16,) got his rods out, gave it a good blast and out came....... Tampons and wipes. Me and my neighbours are 50+ and no other households share the drain. Must have been there a long time. Lovely drain man said please tell all your friends not to flush them down the toilet.
Apparently the waste water company has been trying to get companies on board to display warnings on packaging and only telco is proactive so far.
To complicate it further, tree roots are partially blocking the drain so "everything" gets caught. Drain boy is enthusiastically telling us he is bringing special tools to cut through the roots. Never knew roots got into drains. You live and learn as my old dad used to say.

There was a very sad photo in the paper this morning of a sea horse clutching a cotton bud.

Anything that solidifies goes in the bin but what about used veg oil if youve more than a couple of teaspoons?

If it's a large amount then poured bck into an empty bottle to be binned, but normal amounts get soaked onto kitchen roll or straight into the brown bin.

I soak up any oil left in my pan with kitchen paper before putting pan in the washing up. Paper goes in the bin.

I tip oil onto a piece of folded kitchen roll and put it in the bin - I don't do deep fat frying though so not disposing of large amounts.

I was talking to a drain unblocker recently and he felt that most of his callouts over the past few years were because of quilted toilet paper - kept him in overtime.

implants I had a plumber recommend only ever using recycled loo roll - not because he gave a shit about the environment, but because recycled paper has shorter paper fibres, so breaks up much more easily in water, and so much less likely to block your loo.

As a quiet eco warrior, I have used cheeky wipes on the kids and touted my Californian ways to DH who INSISTS on using Huggies to wipe his own backside. Anyway, the drains clogged recently... clogged with our wet wipes and the previous owners from 5 years ago! The plumber said it was one of the hardest jobs he's ever had.

It was an expensive way to discover that DH had been chucking his wipes into the loo. I don't even flush toilet roll down the loo.

i cant believe im asking this but...... wtf is a sanpro?

Today 14:44 ProfessorCat

I do still flush flushable wipes. I buy toddler ones which do disingegrate quickly in the bowl. I have a toilet that blocks very easily but haven't had a problem with them over the last 5 years.

Doesn't mean the person a bit along the line doesn't have a problem.

Even if it says it's flushable don't flush it. There's nothing stopping you using your moist last and popping it in the bin rather than down the bog.

I remember tampons being specifically marketed as flushable. Like many others, I used to flush them. I did stop years ago though as I read that actually they did cause problems.

Who the fuck tries to flush nappies and wet wipes??!! They are so clearly NOT flushable. Just wrap them and bin them.

With regard to fat, I line my grill pan with foil and after use I just leave it out for half an hour or so until the fat has set. Then I fold and roll up the foil to parcel up the fat. Said foil and fat parcel then goes in the bin. There is usually virtually nothing left on the grill pan after that, so I just wash it well and little or nothing goes down the sink. It is not rocket science.

pour your cooking oil into your food waste bin... not into glass jars that then go in the regular bin.
If your council offers food waste bins, they're brilliant. Buy the biodegradbale liners off Amazon so the food waste bin stay tidy/less smelly. But it's such a great way of reducing waste, like excess cooking oil.

The thing is, something isn't flushed if it disappears down the S bend of your loo. It has a couple of miles probably of nearly horizontal pipeline to hopefully float down to the sewage pumping station or treatment works. Often old Victorian clay pipe with steps and bumps in it, anything catching on those will soon start a blockage.

Your water company will send you a fat trap for free.

Never knew roots got into drains.

Happened to me some years ago. My neighbour's bastard trees grew their roots into my sewer pipe. (Would like to take a flamethrower to those trees, for a whole lot of reasons.) Drain man put a little camera down the pipe and took a video to see what was happening down there, and I could see the roots.

Plumbers sometimes recommend only using really thin toilet paper too

We found out the hard way why toilet paper sold in Spanish supermarkets is generally the really crappy thin stuff. For a few years we rented new build self catering apartments on the Costa del Sol for holidays and because we buy our toilet paper in bulk from Costco, used to chuck a couple of our nice thick toilet rolls into the suitcase to save buying a pack while we were there.

After a couple of incidences of blocked toilets, we realised that it was our toilet paper that was blocking it, so we had to stop taking our nice toilet paper with us and just use the thin supermarket stuff sold there.

And of course Greece (or the Greek Islands) as well as some toilets in the Canary Islands famously can't cope with any toilet paper at all being flushed.

Vanguard

We don't have a food waste bin. Our food waste goes in our regular bin, which is incinerated.

No food waste bin here either. Choice of oil in main waste bin for incineration or in compost. Am guessing the former is better?

Fair enough, I'll stick them in a bin next to the loo from now on! Perhaps there needs to be some sort of campaign to stop them putting flushable on things that aren't.

I don't eat off my anus, but I do like it to be clean and poo free. I can't see how dry toilet roll can remove all residue.

Barbara Spanish pulumbing uses narrower pipes so they block easily with toilet paper. All bars have signs up asking you to flush nothing and a bin to put used paper in. I really hate the idea of that in my house so we flush toilet paper, but NEVER anything more than paper and only Spanish bought paper (cos we live here, so only buy it here). We have had blocked drains even so twice and tend to have someone come out and rinse them through every couple of years.