What do you flush down your loo?

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Lately, a few threads about saniflo, macerators, etc. have sprouted out on here, and I've been surprised seeing people commenting along the lines "make sure you don't put down wipes, sanitary products, cotton pads, etc. if you have THIS type of system".

I mean, is it really still considered ok to flush all those products down the "normal" drain???

@Butteryflakycrust83

I am terrible for tampons in the middle of the night!

You should be ashamed of yourself. Tampons are NOT flushable and do block drains and sewers. Other people do have to actually retrieve them out of the sewage systems filters and send them to landfill.

Stop doing this! Have you not heard of a bathroom bin?

Excuse many typos.... Fatbergs ....has etc

Like MrsMostyToasty The 4 Ps viz pee, poo, puke and paper. I have a bin by the loo for pads and any other waste.

@noblegreenk

Wee, poo, used tampons (not applicators) and toilet paper. Occasionally my toddler flushes a baby wipe down there but she's getting better with not doing that.

Tampons are NOT flushable. I know that years ago they used to be marketed as such, but they really aren't, and the text on the boxes changed to reflect this. Not recently either.

Take a look at the instructions on the box and stop flushing them. Wrap them in toilet paper and bin them.

Pee poo paper and sick only.
We were very glad that our driveway has a bump at the end of it when the main sewer pipe through our village got completely blocked and backed up so it's contents flowed down our road 🤢 next door weren't as lucky.
It's been blocked a few times but that was the time it resulted in major sewage replacement works when some genius a bit further up from us poured excess concrete/mortar down the drain 🤯 the road outside my house was dug up for about a month and access to our house was only by a metal plate across an extremely deep hole. It was a complete farce because one of the workmen drove his digger into an electricity pole so we didn't have electricity for a day too.
It did get the whole village denying they ever flushed anything - clearly not true because the concrete had all sorts of rubbish stuck in it including a bra!

@Hohofortherobbers

Runny food waste gas fat in it which will solidify and contribute to datbergs. Human waste does not have fat in it.... Unless you have cystic fibrosis or are on the diet pill which flushes fat out of you

Not if you have a sickness bug or the shits.

Just toilet paper.. I have never ever bought any wipes of any description, but know people who have blocked their toilets with them, and also with those cotton pads for removing makeup etc.. Years ago I knew a woman who seriously blocked the toilet and drains, with disposable nappies, and that kind of shiny waxed wrapping on bars of soap.She also used to put torn up pieces of the boxes that toothpaste come in.

I totally agree with PPs about tampons and other sanitary products.

But as an aside note as someone's mentioned having worked in a hotel and dealing with blockages due nappies being flushed. I often struggled with disposal of sanitary products while staying in hotels - you usually get a piddly bin-cup in the bathroom, which is only good for cotton buds, and an open top paper basket in the bedroom - great for displaying wrapped up tampons or pads in their full glory Imaging trying to deal with a nappy full of sh*t. But flushing down is still a no-no, of course.

@Wnkingawalrus

Never underestimate the ability of a child to flush something they shouldn’t.

Hehe, so true! We once rented our old house to a family with a young child for a couple of years while working abroad. After we returned, we spent next few months fishing pencils out of all imaginable cavities in the house, including the bath and kitchen sink drains

Repeat offenders should be made to clear blockages until they understand exactly why you don't flush shit!

Well. You flush shit. Obviously. 😂. You know what I mean.

Once moved into a rental where somebody had tried to flush a loaf of bread down the toilet, still in the plastic bag.

Anything that comes out of my body
Loo roll
Occasionally a flushable wet wipe - but not often

I flush fish skins.