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Had some friends brats for a visit a few weeks ago who would not have a pee in the bucket and insisted on using the toilet, so a week later the toilet stinks and dispite my missus scrubbing many times with dettol ect its getting slowly worse and to be frank now bloody stinks, anybody have any ideas for plan B cos the missus is going bonkers?
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Maybe loads of watered down Elsan Blue ? The stuff they use in chem loos ? Fill bowl couple of times and flush through ?

Are you sure that the smell is coming from the bowl ? You know what kids are - they may not have hit the porcelain - girls and boys !!
 
We have had our boat for 19 years, and never use a bucket always the proper toilet. We dont have any smell, so you need to change your plastic piping, and next time persuade them to keep pumping for much longer, cause that is normally the problem

Frankly, if you wanted me to use a bucket when you have a perfectly good loo, I would not come on-board your boat again. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif If you really cant manage a simple task like keeping it fresh smelling, rip it out and get a chemical one
 
Talbot's right, there really is no need for boat bogs to smell. Like most bits of kit they need to be used regularly and thoroughly.
On skippering a strange boat one of my first tasks is to station one of the crew looking over the side (easiest moored to a pontoon of course) while I pump toilet tissue through so that he/she knows what to look for. Then do it for real, counting every pump from when the bowl is empty NOT from when you start. That's the number you write on a card, engrave on the bulhead, etch in people's minds.
End of problem. But you'll be surprised how many pumps are required -very few loos clear in under 20, most are 20-30, even 40 if the English trait of incorporating a long anti-siphon bend is carried to extreme.
Heads that leak, need a service or new piping, are a different issue of course.
And for those that can't aim accurately? A scrub round with dilute disinfectant should suffice, or the problem lies elsewhere.
 
Nothing wrong with using the loo so long as you hit the target, these brats obviously did not and thats the problem, must be the shower tray or walls stinking which my wife has scrubbed many times since trying to eliminate the smells, nice clean toilet to a nice clean stinking room, even with the window left open a bit, they must have pi**ed all over the place! and now it stinks no matter how much my wife scrubs it and why should she, if your not willing to clean it dont dirty it!
PS dont like strangers using my home loo iether, does anybody!
 
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PS dont like strangers using my home loo iether, does anybody!

[/ QUOTE ]er No probelm with others using the facilities, as long as they keep it tidy, but . . . I don't like using non familiar toilets/heads ?!! Is it JUST me? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Sounds like there are some gaps or bad joints in the cladding of your heads that have got some pee in. It's not tricky to clean surfaces so they don't pong, so there must be some surfaces you are not reaching.

(I speak as an ex-Dyno-Rod manager and Drain-Cleaning Company proprietor, or as certain friends called me, Captain Sludge)
 
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PS dont like strangers using my home loo iether, does anybody!

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Anyone who comes on to our boat or our home including children are shown where the the toilet is and it is made apparent that it there to be used if necessary.

As far as I am concerned access to toileting is one of the most basic human needs, if someone eats and drinks they need to empty waste products and that is all it is.

We have a chemical loo with a tank that will last two or three days without being emptied. It does not smell using the thetford blue solution in the holding tank. I did not get on so well with the green stuff.

David
 
Have your friends change their brats, they obviously have smelly pee!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Second the "Simple Solution". Get it from a pet shop and put it in a spray bottle. Spray it on giving a good dousing (everywhere from waist height down by the sounds of it) and let it dry naturally as the enzymes need to work. Give a second dose if you need it.
 
I agree that it take more strokes to clear a marine loo than most people realise, but blokes who sit down to pee are weird!
In my (forensic) experience, men who habitually sit down to pee generally have some serious psycosexual problem- not the sort of thing to encolurage in young, impressionable male crew, IMHO.
 
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I agree that it take more strokes to clear a marine loo than most people realise, but blokes who sit down to pee are weird!
In my (forensic) experience, men who habitually sit down to pee generally have some serious psycosexual problem- not the sort of thing to encolurage in young, impressionable male crew, IMHO.

[/ QUOTE ]Not done much long distance offshore racing then.... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Serious physcosexual problems.What a load of garbage.If you have done any amount of sailing in a blow you would know it is virtually impossible to to aim accurately on a moving boat.At home is a different matter.If you want to continue having a urine infested loo carry on the way you are.
 
I have sailed approimately 30,000 miles in a variety of small boats including two Atlantic circuits and Azores and back, and have crewed in two Fastnets, so there.
 
It sounds like it has run down the side/back of the bowl and under the base of the toilet. I had the same problem before replacing mine this winter. Most will lift off if you undo the 4 bolts holding them down. This time I put a little bead of sealer around the toilet base to stop any "accidents " ruining underneath and causing the same problem in the future.
 
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Serious physcosexual problems.What a load of garbage.If you have done any amount of sailing in a blow you would know it is virtually impossible to to aim accurately on a moving boat.

[/ QUOTE ]Not only that but you have your oilys at half mast and only one hand free to hold on!
 
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