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

We flush every time even when the children were small. I can think of nothing worse than leaving dirty bath water to flush the toilet either, our bath is washed after it’s been used.

I wee quite a lot and it’s often clear so I don’t bother for a few hours. Once there is colour to it, I flush.

God we couldn't afford to. Not on a meter

I wouldn't mind if it was just my wee (providing I'd rank enough water). But I couldn't cope with anyone else's wee being left to 'mellow'.

If your toilet doesn't have a half flush function, you can get things to put inside the cistern to use less water.

I live in a very hard water area. I found that thick bleack first leave 24 hours, then flush thoroughly, 2 or 3 times, then a LOT of thick limescale remover like two whole bottles and leave for another 24 hours. Might need doing more than once then keep up with the cleaning. I learned this after renting the house out while we were abroad for 2 years. I also use old fashioned cistern blocks, they are sort of soapy and coat the bowl and under the water to stop the limescale sticking so much. Since having a water softener fitted the problem is only now in the downstairs loo and I keep up with it.
True story. I am a London girl. My dear late mum needed more and more help with her housework as she got older and the taps, and loo got really thickly covered. I used a tack hammer and hit with a kind of bouncing stroke to get lumps of limescale off the taps AND the loo bowl. it worked very well but don't try this at home!!

I posted a link upthread.

It does sound a bit weird to me, but I am pleased you have a special jug😂

When I was a pre schooler my friend from next door used to save up his uneaten pieces of cheese sandwich to ‘send to Bob Geldof for the starving children in Africa’. In terms of its futility it’s possibly on par with many of the efforts of some of the people on this thread. He was four so we won’t hold his ignorance against him.

It should be second nature to flush every time. Not doing so is disgusting. It definitely does smell.

Depends if it’s a smelly wee. A light one after two pints of water can stay, any that have hints of ammonia must be flushed immediately

It's probably the weirdest thing I do. We present as very normal to the untrained eye ;)

I don't flush every single time. I live alone and drink a lot so my urine is diluted and doesn't smell. Even if it did it wouldn't bother anyone else as it's just me. I like to save water where I can.

I couldn’t do it. I do have a cistern bag, which saves water with every flush. Perhaps that’s something you could implement?

We had ours free from the water company along with a shower timer and a shower head, which uses up less water.

I like to indulge myself.

You are tight and unhygienic 🤢 anyone who doesn’t flush… that stinks! What’s next, sharing bath water between entire family?

I might not flush every single time if I am home alone and the only person using the loo. However, i really don't want to pee on top of someone elses pee so I do flush every time if someone else is at the house.

Never on a night, not during the day if nobody else around, if visitors present then always.

Lol. Conserving finite resources and keeping bills down is exactly the same.

😂😂

we pay quite a bit for water so we don't flush during the night mainly due to the noise.
during the day not after every wee.
we have a guest bathroom so no issues with visitors seeing wee already in the bowl.
and yes brown flush it down.

I think it depends if you've ever lived somewhere with severe water shortage. If you have, you wouldn't flush every wee.

Ewww just ewww 😭😭😭

We work by the rule:

If it's brown: leave it, don't frown
If it's yellow, wibble it like Jello

So basically we only flush the toilet twice a day, but after passing urine will agitate the soup to allow any solid material sitting there to naturally break up.
Much nicer for the environment 😊

My pee could be crystal clear and sparkling like morning dew and I’d still flush it away because it could potentially contain E Coli, Klebsiella, Proteus, Enterococcus,and Staphylococcus species. Also Chlamydia/Mycoplasma.

Pale shit is still shit. Ditto urine.

Ive already said me and OH use same bath water 🤣
I will precis this by saying we both shower every morning and he literally has a quick dip in bath.