Have you ever done this?

I once dropped a spring that I needed for something or another down the toilet.. I was a bit frustrated. When I dumped, I rinsed out the hose and out popped the spring!

My husband lost a fork the same way. No idea if it is still there. 6 years later, I doubt it.

We have a towel rack behind the toilet. Someone knocked a washcloth off it into the toilet and didn't notice. That had to be fished out as it was blocking the pipe into the tank. Not pretty.

late bloomer wrote:
My wife dropped a plastic spoon down the toilet. She was emptying a pan of soapy water from the sink. How concerned should I be?

How concerned? It depends on if you want to reuse the spoon.


Sorry, I just could not resist any longer.

Personally, if I dropped something solid, even a plastic utensil, I'd want to dump the tank as early as possible. Mainly because I really wouldn't want something hard to come shooting down the slinky with the rush of a full tank and the possibility of perforating the slinky and making a mess of things.

My wife's sister dropped a real nice silver bracelet down the toilet. We tried a few things to recover the bracelet but nothing worked. As far as I know it's still in the black tank.

The one concern about dropping something into the black tank - don't run a macerator until it has passed if you have one.

When I installed mine - a friend reminded me of the time his was destroyed by a hair brush he didn't know was dropped in the toilet.

To always keep a 3 inch hose and way to connect it to the tank if necessary.

We always wash dishes in a small plastic tub to minimize gray tank use. This leaves more room for showers.

We start dumping dish water in the toilet a day or two before we leave to fill the black tank if not already full.
I thought this was SOP!

SAR Tracker wrote:
"This too will pass." :B

Priceless!

late bloomer wrote:
we had some grease, and water with food particles and gunk in the water from washing dishes. Rather than pour it on the ground to attract ants and critters, we just pour it into the black tank. (well I usually do it) This time DW did it and missed a plastic spoon.

Depends on where you stay but a lot of state parks,etc. have a low of gray water drain outlets all over. I would rather haul gray water to dump then whatever is in the black tank.

Tom_Diane wrote:
I don't disagree with any of the reasons. Its just that I do what CROWE does I guess. I know that gray water tanks are smaller. I suppose that where Im at, you can let gray water into the ground. I don't usually when at campgrounds but wouldn't hurt anybody if you are boon docking. But laws might be different elsewhere. In fact if I'm parked for several days, I will leave the gray water valve dripping and give a little more if it rains to wash it away even though some stated allow it

Most places I have heard about is that it's not allowed to dump gray water on the ground.