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Oh! The bucket flush
It WORKS!!
I have never laughed so hard in the bathroom in my life. I have no idea why I found it so funny, but I was very skeptical, so when I poured my bucket of catch water into the bowl, and it flushed, I couldn't stop laughing.
Re: Oh! The bucket flush
No, I don't think most people have!
My tub drips and I haven't managed to fix it (the screw is stripped out) so in the meantime I've been catching the water in a bucket. What my cats don't drink, I've been using to fill the back of the toilet after a flush, but I was told about the bucket flush here and finally tried it. I am still really amused. It cracks me up everytime.
lol! You ask this as though everyone has.
Alisha - so did you turn off the water to your toilet? How was there not already water in the bowl?
I guess I've just been lucky...
We've been unable to flush for short periods of time when the power was out at my parents' house, but we couldn't run water either, so the bucket flush wasn't an option.
Your parents have an electric toilet?
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
they have a well with an electric pump.
I guess if the power was ever out for too long, they would have gone out and bought some water, but it never stayed out for more than a few hours, and we had 3 toilets, so... lol
I am laughing at you laughing at the bucket flush.
No there was water in the bowl (and pee, just to be correct lol). You dump in a bucket of water all at once, and it flushes, just like if you were to have flushed normally! I really have no idea how I thought the toilet flushed, but duh, its just gravity/force of a bunch of new water being introduced. Its just like flushing, only now when I have a bucket of drip water I can use that for less water consumption!
They see us rollin'...they be hatin'.
That's the thing RP, I was just filling up the back after a flush, which is kind of a pain, when someone told me about the bucket flush. Try it!! Even if you don't have a drip, just get a bucket of water or use your water after cleaning or something. You just dump the bucket in (dump, not slowly pour) the bowl, and it flushes!
See...I'm still totally amazed and amused.
Nope.
I'll admit I've never done this!!! Instead when we were out of power I opted for the bucket-pee.
Or during that big black out on the east coast back in 2003 I was staying in what used to be an old hotel. There were 20 rooms and only 4 of us sleeping there so we just kept going to different bathrooms because they each had one flush in them. How horrible is that!? But in our defense, there was no water, either!
We used to keep a bucket in the shower to collect water and 'bucket flush'. I kind of thought most people knew about it, since my kids grew up with it.
DH was in Guam during a typhoon, and got stuck there for a couple of weeks. The hotel gave them buckets, and they had to bring in pool water to flush with.
I'll admit- since we didn't need the extra water to water the plants today I did the bucket flush with my left over shower water. How fun!!
Mainerocks- I just used a half gallon water can that I have to catch stray shower water with and it worked! So you don't need a lot. I'd say at .5 gallon to a gallon would work well. My half gallon DID flush it, but sort of weakly.