I'm weighing the pros and cons on changing over to a cassette toilet.Anyone out there with recent experience?

My dad had a home built camper that we borrowed. It had a cassette toilet. It worked but, we used it very little.Our 96 Southwind has a toilet and holding tank. Personally, I would not want a RV, of any size, with a cassette. The holding tank is much more convenient.If you're going to be staying mostly at campgrounds and use their toilets it may be okay. For everyday use, I wouldn't want one.

(No experience with a cassette toilet) I think in an RV with a "full" water system sinks/shower/toilet - using the system as designed is the easiest. That being said, as a fellow Michigander, I know winterizing can be a pain - many of us do that multiple times per year, depending on whether we head south for a winter vacation (and just how far south you go). It's why I opted for a self-contained freshwater system for the kitchen sink; and a "Luggable Loo" with kitty litter as our middle-of-the-night potty. No more worrying about how cold it will get at night.

gbopp wrote:My dad had a home built camper that we borrowed. It had a cassette toilet. It worked but, we used it very little.Our 96 Southwind has a toilet and holding tank. Personally, I would not want a RV, of any size, with a cassette. The holding tank is much more convenient.If you're going to be staying mostly at campgrounds and use their toilets it may be okay. For everyday use, I wouldn't want one.I disagree. A cassette toilet is Much more user friendly versus a black tank. Capacity is less, but emptying the poo is a whole lot easier. No need for a dump station, any tirlet will do or even a pit tirlet or a dug hole in the ground and, you can use the grey water to recharge the holding tank. Less mess, no stinky slinky and way more convenient. Plus they are totally self contained.. No plumbing, no knife valves, nothing but a slide out tank.Might not work in all applications but are good for probably 95% of all RV apps.

SidecarFlip wrote: No need for a dump station, any tirlet will do or even a pit tirlet or a dug hole in the ground and, you can use the grey water to recharge the holding tank. I just open my dump valve while rolling down the Interstate, no dump station needed. You can't easily do that with a cassette tirlet. :B

I have a cassette toilet in my FnR. Having gotten used to having a toilet with black tank in the clipper, I can see the difference.The cassette toilet doesn't hold as much - so you need to dump it more often. But, you just dump it in a campground toilet. The FnR cassette toilet can also be dumped using a stinky slinky and a dump station, but you can do whichever way is more convenient - remembering that the grey tank does not use the same piping as the toilet so you have to move the stinky slinky to dump both in that manner. It is easy to carry the cassette to a toilet - no need to use a rolling tote, etc. The clipper toilet must be emptied using a dump station, etc. The grey and black tanks use the same drain pipe, so no moving the stinky slinky around - just open and close the gates.Once you are comfortable with how often you need to dump, there really is no operational difference between the two.I would not hesitate to get another cassette toilet RV if the rest of the RV was what I want.

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Deb_and_Ed_M
Explorer II
Sep 04, 2018
(No experience with a cassette toilet) I think in an RV with a "full" water system sinks/shower/toilet - using the system as designed is the easiest. That being said, as a fellow Michigander, I know winterizing can be a pain - many of us do that multiple times per year, depending on whether we head south for a winter vacation (and just how far south you go). It's why I opted for a self-contained freshwater system for the kitchen sink; and a "Luggable Loo" with kitty litter as our middle-of-the-night potty. No more worrying about how cold it will get at night.
gbopp
Explorer
Sep 04, 2018
My dad had a home built camper that we borrowed. It had a cassette toilet. It worked but, we used it very little.
Our 96 Southwind has a toilet and holding tank. Personally, I would not want a RV, of any size, with a cassette. The holding tank is much more convenient.

If you're going to be staying mostly at campgrounds and use their toilets it may be okay.
For everyday use, I wouldn't want one.

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