Why is your piss yellow and smells? That would be my bigger concern
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Everyone saying that piss stinks really need to be drinking more water #Hydro Homies
For real. I have a pissoir in my garage that i don't use too often. Once my dad was over and used it and apparently didn't flush. I went in there a day or two later and it was full of murky brown-ish water that smelled absolutely disgusting. I know the last time he drank water was probably in 2006, but still
...or they just live with someone who needs to be drinking more water.
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If you don't immediately throw someone who doesn't flush off of your property to never return, you're nasty too.
Flush every time. Piss stinks and leaving it in the toilet causes those nasty water-level rings of scum on the toilet bowl. Fucking disgusting.
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I live in a desert and have my water trucked in every 3 weeks at significant cost.
Flush every time. Piss smells.
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Always flush. I have a septic tank and if you don't make sure to run some minimum amount of water into it, it'll get crusty and start to have clog problems. As long as we're running water though it's great for 8-10 years between pumps.
Better to just run more water when possible.
Also it's nasty if someone goes to take a dump and there's piss chilling in there. If you get hit with Posideon's kiss it's gonna be double nasty. So you flush it before doing your business and now the net effect is zero anyway, wasting the effort. Blech.
I have a friend with a septic tank, the system is old, probably long overdue for some kind of serious maintenance or replacement that they've been putting off because the town is doing some big expansion of the sewer lines and their street is supposed to be on the list for it and they intend to get hooked up to it, but no one seems to know quite when that's coming. Their property also generally has some weird drainage issues and is sort of in a semi-wetland area, so their septic tank sometimes has a hard time dealing with things when we get a lot of rain, so they have to have a let it mellow policy sometimes depending on the weather. Most of the time the guys will just opt to go find a tree in the back yard.
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8-10 years between pump... As in emptying it or as in replacing the pump? Because if it's the former then that's way longer than it should!
yes, 8-10yr between emptying it. It's a fairly large tank (1800gal iirc?) for a small family. The last time we had it done the local guy said it looked great and there weren't any problems. so something must be working right.
however a rental with a smaller tank constantly had problems with clogging. find out tenant was from california and brought all their water saving fixtures with them and took military style showers so the tank never got any real thru-flow. plus was a very heavy tp user... yeah. gotta have water moving, put original fixtures on and told them to start throwing their tp in a trash can. no problems since.
Septic tanks should be emptied every two years, the tank might look great, it's your drain field that will be ruined way more quickly. People not draining their tank often enough is the reason why municipalities have started just adding it to their taxes and taking care of it themselves instead of letting people contaminate their lot.
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After all the rain we've had this year, and having WaterSense toilets, it's been a feeling of luxury being able to just flush that piss. It helps prevent yucky buildup in the toilet as well. But when we swing back to seven years of drought, I'll start letting it mellow midway through the first dry winter.
The more I flush the more water I use.
The more water I use the less money I have.
The less money I have the more sad I am.
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Just flush the toilet. Get a water efficient toilet if need be, problem solved
If I'm living solo, sure, I'll let it mellow, but never brown. If others are around, I never mellow, as a courtesy.
Grew up on a farm with limited water. Flush a shit, always, and piss only after it started to smell.
Fast forward 20yrs, living in town, have a family and we still do the same.
Water is a valuable resource everywhere; a bit of piss in the dunny really isn't a big deal.
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