How To Use A Porta Potty

Few days agone I was impressed past the story of a friend: she would like to rent a camper for a holiday this year, but is concerned about the misadventures happened to some friends of her a year ago. This grouping had rented a camper, just they could non use the bathroom and I'm telling yous why: nobody of them had never been in a camper before and they had no thought about how the bathroom works. At the time of delivery of the camper, they were told indeed that they should use an additive and that they could detect it inside the camper. These unaware guys started to utilise the bathroom. They institute the problem flushing the toilet: they were so disgusted that they decided to never use it again!

I suspect that the condiment had been provided to them just they didn't know that they should add together information technology "by hand"! That'south why, despite we have already talked nigh this in a previous article about water direction, I would similar to deepen again how to use a chemical toilet in leisure vehicles like campers, caravans and motor-caravans.

At that place are 3 unlike types of toilet, with three different means of loading and unloading.

1 – Porta Potti, the real portable toilet

For the older vehicles, typically the caravans like Martha, there is Porta Potti, the ultimate portable toilet. We apply this one:

2 – The cassette toilet

On the newer model vehicles, the WC is usually arranged in the bathroom and is non portable, and then y'all tin't "dismantle" it. Hither y'all can find an example of integrated WC with a discharge that is extracted from the side of the caravan:

3 – The integrated floor drain WC (or marine WC)

The WC without an extractable cassette is typical of the bigger vehicles. Its peculiarity is the behemothic tank, and then you can discharge less than with the other ii types. Only you can discharge only in special areas (unremarkably parking areas and, for campsites, into the waste areas for marine WCs), otherwise you accept to prove yourself with discharge pipe and cassette, just it could end very badly.

How to employ Porta Potti and/or cassette toilet?

I made some moving picture to our Porta Potti to explicate you how to use it: it works in the same fashion of the cassette toilet.

Beginning, yous should know that it is composed by two distinct parts, and you can come across them merely looking it on the front end:

We are worried specially virtually the lower part…but we'll learn how to face it with this commodity! I'g talking about the part that starts from the white handle downwards. Next to the white handle you can encounter a dark-green marker: it's non nowadays in every Porta Potti, our one has it, and information technology's the fill up-upwardly control. Information technology'south mechanical, with a little float (DON'T ask WHERE information technology flows, you don't want to know information technology) and turns into red when it's time to discharge it.

Let's start with the higher office, the easy one: also this part is a water tank, the clean water for discharge. In our Porta Potti the discharge works with a little mechanical pump driven by a piston:

Y'all can fill the tank with clean h2o just unscrewing the cap on the opposite side of the piston:

It depends on the kind of your holidays, we ordinarily don't make full information technology so much considering when we travel we prefer to proceed it empty. Many people utilize chemic products besides for this clean h2o. You can find a lot of specific products: nosotros used this one for a long time but it'southward expensive, so we oft fill the tank merely with clean h2o, using it like our domicile bath, but cleaning it!

To fill up-up the discharge tank yous can just utilise a canister or do like us: open the Porta Potti and take it under a water tap to fill it. Exist careful, anyway, to avoid dish-washing sinks and try to be respectful towards other people: information technology's the higher part of your bathroom. You lot know it is maniacally make clean and disinfected, but other people DON'T.  Endeavour always to think about what you would feel if someone else used the sink in which y'all want to fill up your WC and act accordingly.

Porta Potti is very easy to open: on the back you can detect a switch and yous have to pull information technology towards the middle:

You can see from the pictures that y'all must not force the switch, you accept to pull it simply enough to split up the two parts.

Afterward having filled the college tank, you have to ready your Porta Potti before using it. Reassemble it: and so you have just to add some water also in the lower office. How? It's very piece of cake, you accept merely to pull the white handle, equally you lot can see in this motion-picture show:

The handle gives yous an access to the discharge tank. Now information technology is empty and clean, but if you desire to use the bathroom yous accept to add some water and additive, your but friend in this muddied business, in the tank! Nosotros utilise i only brand, Thetford, and we purchase it on Amazon, because every long-term camper told us it's the best one (in particular, nosotros utilise this one, that should be a piddling more ecological, or in desperate times this one, very useful and cheaper).

The right corporeality you take to use is written in the instructions, but it can be very variable: if you remember to stay out merely for one mean solar day, yous accept to utilise a little additive and a little water; if y'all think to stay out for more than days or to not discharge information technology until is total, you have to use a unlike amount.

Anyway the additive is the central: if my friend'south friends at the kickoff of this article had known this…they would accept used their bath and their holiday would definitely have been better!

When using the bathroom, naturally, y'all have to open the handle: if you lot sense a smell when you open information technology, it means that you used likewise little condiment or that information technology has non a skilful quality. A little advice virtually toilet paper: you don't need to buy the super-expensive ane made exactly for Porta Potti: you lot tin purchase the petty, poor quality two-ply one, the kind you can find in a discount.

Permit'due south finally talk almost THAT MOMENT: the discharge.

First: WHERE can I discharge my Porta Potti (or cassette toilet that, when extracted from the side of the camper, is exactly like ours)? Every campsite has the WC KIMIK, usually a bigger toilet bowl, or a normal toilet in the cheaper campsites, next to a water tap and a rinsing pipe. If there isn't a WC KIMIK, you tin use a normal toilet, but you will have to affluent the toilet and/or wash. It can happen also that you use Porta Potti while you lot're coming domicile, so yous tin easily discharge in your ain bathroom, but yous accept to be conscientious and your WC has to be almost empty, or you will brand a disaster! Discharging in a normal WC is an extreme solution, endeavor to avoid it if yous tin.

And so, shut the white handle and open again in two parts your Porta Potti with the switch (or extract the cassette from the side of your vehicle). That'southward how it looks like: can y'all recognize the white handle opening the black pigsty in which you have peed until now? Well, I warm you to allow information technology well airtight at this moment! For the discharge we will demand the pipe on the right, the one whit the white cap.

Once you arrive at WC KIMIK, yous have to rotate the tip, unscrew the white tap and use information technology for discharging the WC! Ideally you could also push with the thumb that white round push button that will let air in the tank, helping y'all to belch everything without many problems.

The h2o tap with the pipage that you commonly detect adjacent to the WC KIMIK serves for rinsing your tank: put in some water, close the white cap, shake a little scrap and empty again. Depending on how much information technology was full and how much additive you used, information technology volition be enough rinsing a few times: if it's non well-clean at the five-time rinsing, you probably made a mistake during the previous days!

What portable WC should you choose?

We never had uncertainty about the brand to choose: during the years, Porta Potti was establish to exist, also according to other long-time campers 'opinions, the more than resistant and reliable solution, even if one of the nigh expensive. But, my friends, allow's face information technology: nosotros really want to risk that this object suddenly breaks, mayhap inside our caravan, just to relieve 20 euros?

Yous can find different measures of Porta Potti: we chose the biggest one, both in terms of tank capacity and in terms of sitting. At that place are different models; we did not purchase it online, because nosotros wanted to see it live and choose it in a specific shop. On Thetford website y'all tin also find a useful table of comparison betwixt models. The 21 litres model, like ours, can be used even for three or maybe 4 days: we are just two people and we're ever around, we don't spend all the time inside the camper, then we can easily utilize information technology for three days before discharging it. Somebody prefer to make clean it every day: in this example maybe is useful and space-saving a smaller model, but suitable for your own "heights"! If you lot're two metres high, maybe you should not cull the smaller model.

Please allow us know if you've tried other products or other reliable portable WC and what is your feel!

Source: https://www.happylittlecaravan.com/en/how-to-use-portable-toilets/

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