Toilet fluid alternative

+1 on that AD. I had been reading about it for a while on CT before giving it a go when we switched to a MH in 2019. We have been using them ever since. Besides working equally as well, if not better than  the toilet fluid, they are also much cheaper if you go for the Lidl variety. Plus of course you can also use them to do your laundry, which is not advisable with the blue liquid😂.

Never tried it, but I'll add it to my list of things to try.

However, we to have a 'top-tank' alternative.  When we are only on site for 2-3 nights, we often don't set up out 'top tank flush'.  For a short period, I often find we end up either not putting enough water/red stuff in the top tank, or we put in too much and end up throwing it away at the end.  (We always travel with empty tanks)  As an alternative, I have a 'spray bottle' with diluted red stuff, and a jug.  We just spray and put water in the jug from the washroom tap to 'flush'.  It works for a short period....

Soms folk also reckon it's not a bad idea to use plain water in the top tank, from time to time, to avoid black bits...

David

Fabric conditioner in the flush tank, small cap full, top up with cold water, splash of chemical stuff in cassette, onboard toilet primarily reserved for night time use, "no poo please we are British" except in an emergency, empty cassette every 2 days, less weight to carry/lift, have a small sack trolley should facilities be a hike away.

empty cassette every 2 days, less weight to carry/lift,

The benefit of the Lidl pods is that they are cheap enough that I can empty it daily, that way it never gets that heavy. Although the cassette has wheels, they are fairly useless on anything but tarmac. There always seems to be a Lidl we can call into to resupply.

Nothing in the flush tank, as we don’t have one and fabric conditioner in the drinking water wouldn’t be good.😉

There seems to be some suggestion that the caking agents in the wash tablets are not good for toilets. Also check whether bio tabs are ok if septic tank drainage. When we had a septic tank at home we had to be very careful what detergents went in.

We always use green toilet capsules. Usually Thetford green aqua chem. I prefer capsules rather than liquid, easier to store, easier to dose. They do work out a bit more expensive but even changing the loo every two days, sometimes every day, not much higher cost over the season as a whole. Especially compared to what many spend on their vans and trips away.

As for use of loo, we use it all the time, rarely use site facilities even if there are any where we are. We prefer sites e.g. CLs with no loo blocks.

each to their own, I have a 5 berth caravan and for many years we had 3 Gchildren in tow, and believe me if we all used the onboard toilet all the time, I would probably have had to empty twice per day and no amount of pods would have re-acted with what was in their in such a short space of time, any way it was good exercise for all including the dog walking to the facilities block, and at times quite sociable,  yes there are some exceptions and i often use my bike if the facilities block is a stretch away and give a concession to my OH

"As for use of loo, we use it all the time, rarely use site facilities even if there are any where we are. We prefer sites e.g. CLs with no loo blocks"

this was us when we first started out some 20+ years ago, today we like to take it a little easier and enjoy the luxuries of what caravanning gives us

I just use a splash of blue in ours .... the toilet is used predominately for night time No2's however, it is used to its full potential if need be 🙄 . I normally use the Thetford blue but last time we were in Go Outdoors I picked up some of their blue .... surely blue is blue!? The toilet is the best place for it ..... it's rubbish!