Flushing the toilet after every wee.

[Squirrelchops1]

10 litres per flush is a huge amount of water per wee (that's what I believe our cistern holds).
I don't think it's necessary to flush after every wee. My friend thinks I'm tight and unhygienic.
What's your view...
Are you a 'if it's yellow let it mellow'...I am reasonable
Or...'eww you filthy sod'..I am unreasonable

Flush on the half button every time.. house with 2 sons 1 grandaughter.. I spray and wipe the loo seat before I sit down and after .
Since my perimeno 🤣

We used to use a jug of cold bath water to manually flush and then (still do) for wees wipe using a washable wipe which only gets put through machine when you’re running a load anyway. No worse than washable nappies, was very handy during pandemic when everyone was freaking out about loo roll

As a foreigner I find it kind of amusing how far Brits go to save water but how careless I have seen them waste electricity, food, etc. Not to mention the excessive clothes and laundry washing.

This. Nothing to do with water saving, everything to do with a quiet night.

I didn't even know not flushing was a thing. I am honestly a little shocked at this thread.

But then I live in a country where there are never water shortages and we don't pay for water so maybe that's why.

Please?! What gets rid of this?! Anyone?!

We've ended up with this after not flushing every time when emptying potties down during toilet training. Loos have never recovered.

I have a chronic bowel condition and often have to flush up to five times in one go, so yes I flush my piss away too, because in for a penny in for a pound. But also because piss stinks, funnily enough, like piss and it’s not an aroma I can say that I enjoy particularly. BTW if you’re a multipissing household your bathroom does reek of piss, you’re just used to it and all your guests are too polite to say anything.

Maybe I'm used to not flushing or being aware as we have a motorhome and tank would be full in no time if we did a full flush each time

Its not 2 flushes per visit overall, is it, when there is one or more people without flushing before that.

If it’s just me at home I might not bother everytime - I drink loads of water so it’s not even very yellow. Maybe alternate as it’s a bit of a waste. But if we’re all at home then I would. Kids forget sometimes. We have the flush button with two options as well so I think that helps.

Do you mean you just leave the bath full and gradually empty it to flush the loo?

Vinegar will.

Yes. Except at night when we let it mellow to avoid waking the kids

10 litres per flush? That sounds a lot when you say it like that. I can’t imagine that the equivalent of five big bottles of pop are being poured down with every flush…it certainly doesn’t look like that much.
We don’t flush at night but we do flush every otherwise due to limescale. I don’t think it’s gross not to flush every time in your own home though!

If I'm in the house alone I try to leave it a few times before flushing. Also overnight because of the noise. It's not unhygenic, but it's also not very nice coming across someone else's wee.

You do know that doing so makes the sum difference of fuck all to the country’s water supply, right? People leave their sprinklers on all fucking day and you’re over here pouring jugs down the bog. Life is too short.

My husband came from a family that had to preserve water and it took years for him to remember to flush every time. I don’t think it’s disgusting or unreasonable but I prefer the toilets to be flushed after every use and that is the house rule.

There is not a chance I would be leaving the bath water to flush the loo.

If we have people over then yes of course we will flush.
But otherwise no, our toilet seems to use excessive water per flush too and it seems so wasteful on sometimes a little dribble.

Ugh no.

I have a toilet that flushes itself as you get off it and thats not a function I can switch off.

But in any case, 'let it mellow' in our water and you get a nasty build up of grossness very quickly, and then have to spend more time cleaning the bastard and putting all sorts of chemicals down it.

I wasnt aware of any shortage of water. It has rained every day since xmas.

meh. I made my kids clean up any splashes from an early age - leave the toilet as you would expect to find it.

Yeah, we have a special jug. Probably sounds a bit weird but I work on waste/resource efficiency stuff so can't unsee how mental it is to use pristine water to flush.

Flush every time and wash hands too. Are there still a load of people on here who don't wash their hands after a wee at home? That's utterly revolting too.

And among us also walk women with such a terror of public toilet seats that they prefer to "hover". I wondered for years how a ladies' toilet could get so disgusting and sprayed with piss, as I sometimes saw, until I came here and discovered the phenomenon of women waving themselves over toilets because they can't bear the backs of their thighs touching a surface that's touched other thighs. Jfc.

You do you, makes me feel better.