What do you use to clean your toilet?

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Er1cCS

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Mates,

I use a liquid toilet cleaner at home, but wonder whether that might be damaging to my boat system. What do you recommend for general cleaning of boat toilets?

TIA
 
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I use an enzyme based toilet bowl cleaner that you can buy at a local janitorial supply house. It contains lots of live friendly micro-organisms. I swab the bowl real good and do not flush so that the enzymes sit in the lines and will eat away all the waste. Stuff works great and really helps keep the bad smells away.
 
Scrubbing Bubbles followed by lots of fresh water. We irrigate the vacuflush head for two minutes with each pump out. Sealand recommends using a powdered laundry detergent like Tide without bleach during this process. When the bowl is disinfected (scrubbing bubbles) we fill the bowl to the top with fresh water and add the Tide. With the pump out running at the dock, we hold the pedal down for 2 minutes and pump out until empty. The key to avoiding smells is to alway use the proper amount of water by holding the flush down for the full 3 seconds.
 
"I use a liquid toilet cleaner at home, but wonder whether that might be damaging to my boat system. What do you recommend for general cleaning of boat toilets?" -- Er1cCS

The key issue here is that many of us use an live bacterial/enzymatic H/T treatment system vs a formaldehyde ( blue stuff ) treatment. It is important to not damage the bacterial colony by contamination. "CP" is an enzymatic cleaner, it works fine, and does no damage to the fittings not does it damage the bacterial colony. Anything with bleach would kill off the beneficial bacteria and should not be used.

Of course, if you are using a formaldehyde H/T treatment ( which kills -everything- ), this is not an issue.

I suspect that if you are using one of the treat/hold/dump systems, you should stick w/ CP as well.
 
I use a drop or two of pine cleader, scrub it and flush it through with fresh water. My head is raw water feed, so the flush through is with on board fresh water.
 
We use a little clear plastic bag filled with green granules.
Fill the bowl with water and drop it in.
When the fizzing stops, flush.
It is for boats, we got it at WM.
 
I only recommend Raritan's "CP." The primary reason is that Raritan doesn't retain a staff chemist, and we simply cannot keep up on all the toilet and tank treatments, and "smell good" products that are out there - many of which don't even list their ingredients on their packaging.

The retail price for a 22 oz. bottle of CP is $12.99. If you call Mike at BoatFix, (603) 856-8841, ext. 252, he'll quote you a better price for it. BoatFix no longer lists it, by itself, on their site, but they can still supply it.

BoatFix also carries Raritan's "Potty Pack" (a 22 oz. bottle of CP plus a 22 oz. bottle of KO) for $18.04, where Raritan's retail price is $25.46, so it's roughly a 30% discount from retail. (I'd expect a similar discount on CP, by itself - part # 1PCP22, in a 22 oz. bottle. It isn't offered in any other size.) For those of you who are in the dark, "CP - Cleans Potties" is a toilet bowl cleaner; "KO - Kills Odor" is a holding tank additive.

Whatever you choose to use, be sure to read the label on the product and avoid products that contain chlorine, petroleum, kerosene (such as pine oil), and if your toilet has plastic parts especially avoid ANY product that contains phosphoric acid in ANY quantity - it attacks some of the commonly-used plastics that are used in marine toilets and causes them to become brittle and crack. Dow's bathroom cleaner (Scrubbing Bubbles) is one of those which contains phosphoric acid.

Products that are used in the bathroom at home usually aren't suitable for use with a marine sanitation system: toilet, holding tank or treatment system.
 
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