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On a prosaic note, what do forumites think is the best daily routine to keep their seatoilets sweet? Indeed, is it possible? Now I know that once a year or two, they have to be stripped down and resealed/decalced, but what is the best daily ritual to take care of the darlings?

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Flushing it.

More seriously, a slug of vegetable oil works wonders for lubrication and smooth running.. I'm lucky on my boat as the toilet is plumbed directly into the skin fittings, and so there is very little plumbing to smell.

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I 'salad dress ' our heads! Once a week adose of oil to keep them well lubricated and once a week a dose of vinegar to dissolve the crud! Works pretty well, also wipe around as often as I remeber with household cleaner on porcelein bits and lid.

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Depends what you mean by 'keeping sweet' - normal flushing works well. If you mean the pong you get after it has been left for a week, then the ONLY cure is to flush it with FRESH water when you leave the boat, which MUST include filling the inlet pipe. This smell is from the decomposing sealife in the inlet pipe. Deodorants etc don't cure it. Also as others have said, flush thro' some vegetable oil occasionally.

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strip down once or twice a year. Mine is now abt 8 years old and never been touched. I dont put anything down it, (other than re-cycled food and loo paper /forums/images/icons/smile.gif), but what I do do is thoroughly pump it out after use.

I will have to do something this year cause the pump needs some lubrication.

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Get one of those inline filters. Bowl gets a good disinfection/freshening every time you flush. Mmm, pine fresh...




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The sink outlet in the heads on my boat is plumbed into inlet side of the toilet, so I pump a a good couple of basins-full of fresh, chlorinated drinking water through the system at the end of each day's cruising (leaving the inlet seacock closed).

Didn't realise I could do this until increasing whiffs and a similar post appearing some weeks ago on this forum prompted some experimentation. And what a difference it has made - this and the very occasional dose of Ecover has eliminated all smells. Should be easy enough to rig up...

Robert



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Had my present boat 7 years and nothing except a good flush and a dose of cooking oil every so often ......

No prob.

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I can tell you guys don't live aboard! Every year or two (not twice a year!) our lavac used to need cleaning and seals, but we did have a family on board 24/7.... perhaps the salad dressing system would have saved some of that.
I have often thought that a sea toilet system would be great on land in our houses, if we really wanted to save water.

Lavac rules ok
Just for the ease of cleaning round it.


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It would save water but you would need a hell of a long inlet and outlet hose/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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