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

For those asking how to get rid of the brown-stained limescale under the waterline - pumice stone on a stick is the only way.

If it's just you at home during the day I think you can do whatever you feel is right.

No one else knows or sees it.

It isn't unhygienic although you might get a bit more staining in the loo if it's there for a long time.

Wow you really just never know what's going on in peoples homes

Yes this! It might be great at saving water but becomes a nightmare trying to remove uric acid in the loo!

But won't that take the glaze off the ceramic?

I think it will and you will be down to the brown, unglazed pan.

I've scrubbed our brown line with everything known to man (except harsh pumice) and nothing removes it.

Where on earth does one buy a pumice on a stick?

My small button doesn’t get rid of anything!

We always flush except during the night. It’s usually only me that goes in the night. I’ll always be first in morning so I flush then.

I think the toilet gets stinky if its not flushed every time. If you want to save water put something into the tank so it fills up with less water. My mum used to put an old plastic milk carton full of water in, or a plastic bag full of water will do the job.

That is absolutely rank. Your house must smell of piss. Can always smell when the kids haven't flushed.

Sorry but I think not flushing is dirty, we are 100% flush and spray/wipe down bowl if needed after every use.

What, after a wee?

Honestly, there seems to be so much fear or stigma attached to a simple pee!

It's not that long ago that bedrooms had chamber pots under the bed and outside toilets, and no one came to any harm.

You put the lid down and close the door.

Any smell comes from splashes on the floor - as in men's loos.

Like, me? I got bigger fish to fry. Not gonna get upset at yellow toilet water.

I want a clean bowl. Not someone else's piss

You don't want Neptune's kiss from a dirty toilet

If it is just the two of us I will miss flushes especially at night. Any visitors and we will flush. Have the duel size cistern.

Unflushed urine stinks 😷

We used to do the no flush thing when the kids were small. But now they’re teenagers and the girls have periods and the boys wee really stinks of grown up man piss, so I’m now enforcing mandatory flushing.

I’ve made a rod for my own back though because they’re all trying to break a habit of a lifetime of no flushing. So I wish we’d just trained them to flush from the beginning!

It sounds a bit 1973 not flushing the loo.

Hear stories of parents moaning and being woken up by kids flushing in the night. That’s not me, I’m clear to my DC that they flush and if I wake up then I just go back to sleep. No problem.

We flush every time. Who wants to smell urine? And it does smell.

Perhaps those who don’t smell it are nose blind like those who can’t smell their own dog.

I feel sick 🤢

We flush every time but we’re not on a water meter. We pay a fixed amount per year though we are aware of being careful for the environment. The reason this payment system was rolled out across the country after WW2 was to make sure everyone could keep clean to minimise germs and disease and for people to have unlimited safe drinking water. It was argued that charging on a meter would penalise larger families and those with extra water needs such as disabled and elderly people with incontinence.

We have dual flush toilets, yes every time but the mini flush uses 1/3 of the water

I don’t flush for wees at home, it’s a waste. I would also then have to clean the toilet seat because it spits toilet water back up when it’s flushed.

I do flush if there’s visitors over, and in public loos and other people’s houses.

You save exponentially more water eating a plant based diet anyway, so I don’t worry too much about it but do my bit.

Given what you've said since about largely wfh alone and obviously flushing pre guests. Then fine
I dont flushing at night, I do in the day every time but thats habit
But the main point is to get a water hippo thing to cut water usage. Which is much more practical 🤔

You use a tumble dryer but have a bowl of stinking piss in your house to ‘save the planet’

Occasionally I used to leave it if went during the night (so that I don’t wake up DC) but omg the smell first thing in the morning was making me so nauseous! So I always flush.

Always flush. I don’t understand the concept of wasting water. Surely it just goes into the sewage system, purified, and then reused?