I'd be interested to know what everyones toilet habits are. Would you be prepared (as I am) to adopt the new aussie come now bigflesh slogan...

"if its yellow, let it mellow, if its brown, flush it down"

The practise involves forgoing the usual flush after every wee in the interest of water conservation.

Just a thought, but I am sure... a subject of healthy (if not slightly smelly) debate regarding our toilet habits. Note - one has to flush ones first wee of the day immediately due to its stronger vapours.

No this is not a **** take

Your views?

It's not really a bigflesh slogan, it's been the mantra of Australian loos for years hasn't it?

good one BT - they nicked it off me!

Sometimes if I've got in late and night and taken a waz, I've not bothered because it would wake the parents and younger brother :blush: and I think thats something our parents have told us to do since we were young. Bit nasty if someone leaves a floater in over night though :gag:

I have been to places on the continent which had 'stop/start' flushes i.e. you hold the presser thing down as long as is needed, so you don't use a sistern-full every time. If it's only wee (and a bit of paper) you hardly need any water. I thought that was brilliant - the simplest ideas are the best. Why isn't everyone doing it? I think their toilet bowls and U bends were better designed as well, to be honest ( the number two water requirement was also very small).

I don't flush for wee unless I have visitors. I think it's a bit different if you live in shared accommodation.

I have a slimline sistern anyway. The council sent round some eco-people to fit a hippo (to displace a volume of water) but there was so little room in the sistern for the expanded hippo that it broke the flush mechanism. The plumber walked straight in and said 'I know exactly what's wrong, don't tell me, we've had to mend thousands.' All very well meant, but a total waste in time money and resources (and poor endangered hippos!)

I used to work on an environmental project that experimented with technologies for use in the third world. Sometimes I wondered why we couldn't use them here. One was a toilet system that only needed a pint of water. And it worked! But our conventions make us extravagant. We are conservative in our everyday designed environment.

But then some people drink it, so they need not flush at all... :gag:

But then some people drink it, so they need not flush at all... :gag:
Yes it's called Fosters amber nectar:gag:

Luckily I have 2 flush settings on all 3 of my bogs. One I call the number one setting and one I call the number two setting (full flush).

When we get the bathroom done, I'd be interested in greywater flushing, or at least harvested rainwater. Anybody know any more about this?

When we get the bathroom done, I'd be interested in greywater flushing, or at least harvested rainwater. Anybody know any more about this?

arhh, you could collect rainwater and use it to flush said wee's and stools away thus harnessing the power of nature to act as an environmentally friendly water syphon through a complex system of pipework? gasp.

I have a volume displacement unit installed in my cistern. Easily available and can be fitted by anyone. Works a treat by reducing the amount of water the cistern holds. Its called ..........................a brick!