Blue toilet disc safe for septic tank?
Mene mene tekel upharsin
into your toilet tank if you have a septic system?
The package says "safe for septic", but I'm not
sure if I should believe. Thanks.
tony j. podrasky
I had trouble with the toilet flushing. It wasn't doing
a good job at removing the contents, if you know what I
mean. No one else on the 1st floor had this problem so
that ruled out clogged pipes.
I ran into a plumber one day and mentioned it to him, and
what did he think. He said "I'll be you've got one of those
damned "blue" things in your tank. I said, Yeah, why?
He said they disolve, but not always completely, and the
particles lodge in the ring (where the water runs into
the toilet) and clog it up, so when you flush you get a
trickle instead of a stream.
I emptied the tank and jammed a couple of hoses into the
hole in the bottom and forces some high-pressure water into
the ring. It did a good job of flushing out the particles,
I also let it drain and spilled some Mr. Coffee cleaner
into the ring and let it set for a day, then flushed it
again. The toilet worked well after that.
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Scott Benton
: Is it safe to drop those little blue-colored discs
: into your toilet tank if you have a septic system?
: The package says "safe for septic", but I'm not
: sure if I should believe. Thanks.
I think that "safe for septic" means that it won't hurt your tank. I'd
say that it's nothing but trouble for the little septics in the tank, though.
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Pat R. Brown
: In article <25APR94....@oscar.zis.ziff.com>,
: Mene mene tekel upharsin <p...@oscar.zis.ziff.com> wrote:
: >Is it safe to drop those little blue-colored discs
: >into your toilet tank if you have a septic system?
: >The package says "safe for septic", but I'm not
: >sure if I should believe. Thanks.
I would not do it. Two things come to mind... First is that those things contain
clorine and it is there to kill bad bacteria in the toilet... but being non-selective
it may kill useful bacteria in the septic tank if there is not enough dilution.
Secondly the coloring may harm the useful bacteria in the septic as well. My guess
is based on the idea that one should only use white toilet paper in a septic tank
(per Logsdon in Two Acre Eden) as the dye in the colored stuff is not good for the
useful bacteria in the septic.
Pat in Greenacres, WA (really!)
Dan Sorenson
Safe? Certainly. Advisable? That depends. Those
blue discs contain chlorine, usually, which will kill bacteria
in the toilet and in the septic tank. Likewise, colored toilet
paper may have an adverse effect on those bacteria in your septic
tank. The real question is how often you have to pump your
septic tank and can you stand paying for it a little more often
for the sake of blue water in the toilet bowl?
Having grown up on a farm with 1100 head of hogs, the
smell is not enough for me to even notice, let alone consider.
Personally, I'd think an air freshener and a toilet brush would
accomplish the goal and be a lot easier on the septic tank.
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Frank Reid
The small print on those things reveals that they have no sanitizing
action. They do nothing except turn the water blue. If you encounter a
toilet with blue water, inform your host in a shocked whisper, "Do you know
the Smurfs have been peeing in your toilet?" :)
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L.A.Z. Smith
>Secondly the coloring may harm the useful bacteria in the septic as well.
>My guess is based on the idea that one should only use white toilet paper
>in a septic tank (per Logsdon in Two Acre Eden) as the dye in the colored
>stuff is not good for the useful bacteria in the septic.
The reason to use only white toilet paper has less to do with the
action of the dye on your septic tank as it does with the action of
the dye on the paper itself. For some reason, colored toilet paper
does not dissolve as readily in water as white toilet paper. So if
you use colored paper you'll end up having to have your tank pumped
more often.
Leah Smith le...@smith.chi.il.us