How long should urine mellow in the toilet before flushing? I'm trying to conserve water.?

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How long should urine mellow in the toilet before flushing? I'm trying to conserve water.?

Answer 1

Good question. Can only be one answer...let the smell determine the time.

Answer 2

Only flush for poo poos or, better still, use one of those Swedish composting bogs which doesn't require water, and gives you compost for the garden.  It doesn't niff, it's dry and not unpleasant to handle.  I widdle on the garden, not in the bog.  Why waste good urea?  Gardeners and farmers pay for it.

Answer 3

It can stink pretty fast  a lot depends on what you eat and how much water you drink.

A better solution would be to reuse shower water , washing machine water for flushing toilets.

Answer 4

how long can you (and your house mates) bear the smell?

Answer 5

I do this because I work from home and drink iced tea all day (and hence, pee all day.)  I flush after every 3rd time because I think that's probably all the tissue that can go down in a single flush.  It never stinks, but it doesn't go more than a couple of hours.

Answer 6

If, after you have flushed the loo, you sprinkle the toilet bowl lightly with bicarbonate of soda and leave it, it cleans the toilet and prevents odours. You then have to flush less often, works well if you have men/boys in the house because as they wee the bicarbonate of soda gets washed into the loo.

Keep a bottle of malt vinegar in the loo too, and this is not only good for cleaning, but a great disinfectant. Use it to wipe the seat and around the bowl to prevent smells.

Just as a tip, encourage women in the family to use less paper when they wee, if you are not flushing each time. There will be less blockages. If you do get a blockage, sprinkle half a small tub of bicarbonate of soda down the loo and pour on neat vinegar until it fizzes. Leave it and after a couple of hours it usually has unblocked the loo. If not you will have to plunge and add bicarbonate of soda and vinegar and wait again.

Answer 7

Pee in the back yard. No water usage at all. How do you think the Native Americans handled sewerage treatment?

Answer 8

Hoo boy, you folks are something else.

Answer 9

if u want to conserve like mjorly don't flush EVER

Answer 10

well leave it there until you need to go for a number 2 otherwise when it lands in the water the splash will hit your backside and you will get covered in p**s

just a theory, never tried it...

Answer 11

stop urinating alltogether ! that will conserve water in your body.

Answer 12

Look into a composting toilet, they don't require water and your septic tank will be out of a job!

Answer 13

Tried it, don't do it... it stinks FAST... either get a low flow toilet or put a brick in it...

Answer 14

if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down

Answer 15

Ive always heard "IF IT'S YELLOW LET IT MELLOW, IF IT'S BROWN FLUSH IT DOWN" but i live with my wife and daughter so i cant follow that. but you might wanna try using a brick or fill a empty bottle up with sand and put it in the holding tank. this will take up space and the toilet will use less water when you flush, its a very simple and cheap method to save water

Answer 16

Never. Conserve water by all means, but not like that.

Just remember the one thing that stops diseases - far more than any vaccination programmes or medical advances - is good, fresh, clean water.

Wash the car less, water the garden with a can - not a hose, but don't do what you're thinking of.

Answer 17

its good to conserve water but not this way please ur bathroom will stink terribelly

Answer 18

dont, get a low flow toilet and try to conserve water other ways

Answer 19

Alot depends on how concentrated it is. Some folks hydrate well others do not. Another consideration is female or male. Females usually utilize tissue. If allowed to accumulate it makes the flushing difficult. Having lived in a place where water is scare, wells that go dry, no county/city water, its been a necessity to conserve water. So, around here if you use paper it goes into a trash can, and when the color darkens through normal breakdown or multiple deposits you flush. With the advent of new low volume flushing, one can save large amounts of water, by following the above mentioned rule: yellow mellows brown goes down, you can save 5 to 10 gallons a day with a low volume toilet. The other option for toilet water savings is to use old bath water to flush with. During drought times we keep a 5 gallon drywall bucket in the bathroom. Half a bucket flushes completly and leaves enough water to keep some in the bowl. Many mobile homes use that procedure. Shower water is recycled to flush toilets with. While you may think/feel that this stream is icky, think about the fact that many in this world have to drink what goes down that toilet after its "Sanitized, purified" Which is better?

Answer 20

ewwww thats nasty

Answer 21

That's the wrong way to conserve water.  If the smell won't get you the germs will.  It's not worth getting sick.  

"4. Place plastic jugs filled with sand or stones in your toilet tank to reduce the amount of water it uses per flush. Don't use bricks, which can flake off inside the tank and interfere with the toilet's operation."