POTTY Facts (fess up about your potty)

[HouseInABox]

we had a cassette potty in our old pop up and we just a little bit of the blue stuff in it, now we only used it for #1 but no odors.   In our new pop up my dh installed a regular camper potty that hooks directly up to the sewer no holding tank, we use it for both, when we hook up I run some of the blue stuff down and I clean every other day on the day we leave I run more blue stuff and and flush the system well.  (If we don't have full hook ups we can use a blue dolly and dump at the dumping station.  As long as the seal in the potty itself is good you shouldn't have any odor problems adding the blue stuff is a precaution and a help.  We have made our own curtain to close when using the potty and for changing we have 2 dd.  I love it and thank dh everytime we set up.  Sure beats using the trashcan with paper towels in a grocery bag during a raging storm!

Your wife will thank you.   As far as using the potty in the camper, why would that be any different than using my 1/2 bath off my kitchen or my 2nd floor bathroom - it's your home, you don't use an outhouse there?  You use air freshener there when the needs arise why would it be any different.

[Lifeangel1]

We use our cassette toilet "Full Service" also. We have never had smell issues. I keep the window behind it opened. I wouldn't do without it.

[ldgregory]

1 Does the potty smell up the pop up. Chemical or other smell?
2 looked at one with porta potty, the whole camper had the aroma of the chemicals in the porta potty.
3 how many people actuall use their pottys? and is it just for emergency or convience?
4 rated 1-5 1 being very easy how easy is it to clean out the canister potties?
Thanks

1. I bought the cassette safe citrus fluid that goes into my flusher and into the canister. I only smell the fresh citrus when we flush.

3. My wife, two daughters and myself, but we only use it for peeing at night or if we're dry camping (full service).

4. I'd give it a 1.5 to 2. The C4 cassette is very easy to dump (even in a standard toilet). Rinsing it is easy, but you know how when you're rinsing something off with a hose, no matter how careful you are, there's always that one drop of water that splatters off whatever your washing and hits you right in the corner of the mouth?

All in all, it's extremely handy. No getting out of a warm bed to put on extra clothes and a jacket, stumbling around outside walking to the toilet in 40 degree weather, and no accidents with the kids who didn't quite wake up in time to make the walk to the toilet.

Leif

[warwgn3]

My Camper doesn't have anything in it, so I have no problem walking to the bath-house.  I actually prefer that than peeing on a tree.  I'm privacy concious when I have to go, so the bath house with stalls wins every time.

My Dads camper has a cassette potty, and I don't remember ever using it. Even when I was a kid I was brave enough to walk to the bath house all by myself.

As for the shower, I'll have one before I go camping, and one when I get home...  I can survive a few days without a shower, as long as I have a clean change of clothes.

[gr82bamom1]

We purchased a pop-up with a shower and a potty because my 5-yo gets up during the night and I thought it would be easier for my 9 year old to take showers - WRONG. While camping, the kids go to bed later and they have yet to use the potty once!!! The shower and potty are a complete waste of space!!! I would buy a pop-up without them and purchase a cheap potty to throw in at night in case of emergencies! I have been so impressed with the state parks in Ohio and the cleanliness of the rest rooms and shower houses!

Good Luck!!!

Vicki

[PattieAM]

My '06 Fleetwood Niagara has the residential style china bowl toilet, and hard walls.  There is no odor when used, flushed.  Water in the bowl before and after flushing prohits odor.

[austinado16]

1 Does the potty smell up the pop up. Chemical or other smell?

2 looked at one with porta potty, the whole camper had the aroma of the chemicals in the porta potty.

3 how many people actuall use their pottys? and is it just for emergency or convience?

4 rated 1-5 1 being very easy how easy is it to clean out the canister potties?

Thanks

1) Been out on 2 trips in our new-to-us PUP.  First one was 5 days total, second one was 2 days.  No smell at all.

2) See above

3) My wife, my 8yr old daughter and myself use it for night time and early morning.....but not "full service (yet)."  

4) 1.....very easy to clean with the big swing-out spout. Dump, rinse, set out in the sun open for a day to dry.  Ready for the next trip.

[bgambino]

We like many others here have the cassette potty with a shower. We used like most everyone else only for #1. It was one of the requirements we had we purchase our Palomino Mustang. It has a built in cassette potty with a shower. I use the shower all the time and the potty.  My wife still prefers to shower at the campground but does like the potty. It has a shower curtain that goes around it for privacy issues and besides we are family and we have the same issues at home. We have 3 girls ages 11, 10 and 3 (the opps). Anyway it has a valve that you simply open when you want to go to the bathroom, do your business, flush and close the valve. No smells. Its easy to clean and beats late night walks to the restroom.

[harleywolf]

One thing I haven

[Skoozy]

O.K. I am a bit new to the camping with amenities. Currently in the process of switching from tent camping to a grand Pop Up (If I ever find a used one). I am hearring different things about the potty issue. Have decided that a shower is not a necesiity but the wife would like a potty also have 2 kids 9 and 13. In many of the ads I read that the potty was never used.Here are my questions

1 Does the potty smell up the pop up. Chemical or other smell?

2 looked at one with porta potty, the whole camper had the aroma of the chemicals in the porta potty.

3 how many people actuall use their pottys? and is it just for emergency or convience?

4 rated 1-5 1 being very easy how easy is it to clean out the canister potties?

Thanks

Brand new to the pup scene and our pup has a chemical toilet, wouldn't do without it now.  Two kids, 4 and 1.  We use it only when necessary:  late at night, early morning, or for that 'pee pee' dance when he's waited a bit too long.

Answers:
1)  no smell at all, although #2 hasn't been done in it
3) we've used it in the early a.m.
4) 5 - slide out the canister, empty it into the dump station or toilet.  even has an air valve to control spills

Never used a porta potty, but love our chem. toilet