flushing toilet in the middle of the night

We don’t flush in the night. The loo does get more stained though as a result.

Don't flush during night unless absolutely necessary ...

This thread really made me laugh, because expats in Switzerland are constantly complaining about the rule not to flush during night ... Most people live in apartments, and especially with older ones- insulation is not great- so it is considered socially unacceptable to flush after 10pm and before 6/7 am.

Nope unless we have to of course.

Infoman, thank you for the good advice which I will happily take. Well said!

I'm on a meter so, same as Marmight. I only shower when I have to wash my hair, and I collect the run off cold water in a jug to use for watering plants.
Saves water and money.

We don't flush at night unless it's absolutely necessary.

I don't always flush during the day if I'm here on my own.

Obviously not the whole day, but maybe every second or third use.

We have a little en-suite shower room and don't flush in the night really just because it's so noisy. If the need arises I go upstairs and flush to my hearts content there.

Flushing is such an automatic reaction for me that often I’ve flushed the loo even when I’ve told myself I won’t! Our loo isn’t very noisy, though, and in Scotland we have an abundance of water.

I dont get why flushing at night is different to during the day unless you are likely to wake someone. I dont like to waste water so only flush when necessary.

Macerator? What on earth is that?

Thanks to this thread, I’ve just used my loo that is broken! The handle came off about ten days ago and dh can’t fix it so we’re waiting for the plumber to get a bit.

I’ve managed to remember not to use the loo for the past ten days but after my last post, I trotted off and went straight in there. It wasn’t until I actually went to flush that I remembered the handle was missing, so I had to take the lid off the cistern and fiddle about with the insides to make it work.

Dont flush if its only a wee or two. But would do if it was a poo. I cant remember having to poo in the night.

I have never flushed at night. We were brought up not to, as the upstairs bathroom was adjacent to our parents' bedroom.

As a teenager I tried desperately to be the first into the bathroom in the morning when I had a period, as the thought of the entire family seeing the condition of the bowl embarrassed me.

This is weird! We were having this conversation less than a week ago, with our daughter and fiancé. We have started flushing more since we got new toilets that put a beaker full of water down. Even the long flushes are too short most of the time! However, for the last thirty years, we’ve been very diligent about our use of water, only flushing straight away if it’s brown?! because of droughts etc. Usually what happens at night, is if one of us gets up, the other usually wakes, so we flush then. I don’t really like it sitting in the bowl at night, because we don’t have bathroom window open. In the evening, watching tv, we can go several times in the downstairs toilet, but just flush when we go to bed!

Not only do we not flush, we do not turn the light on either. The bathroom door is directly opposite the bedroom door and about 5 foot away.

That way we do not even wake when we go to the loo in the night, so no long wakeful sessions trying to get back to sleep.

Gosh never heard of this what’s different from night to day
I flush every time I go if there’s a family going to the loo in the night isn’t it smelly by morning

Don’t flush at night either. Also share bath water- have done for past 39 years when there was a water shortage. I always go in the bath first though.

Bluebelle No, we do it, and no lights, to make sure that the effort to make the visit wakes us as little as possible so that we quickly get back to sleep.

If I turned on all the lights, flushed the loo etc I wouldn't get back to sleep for an hour and if it was after 4.00am I wouldn't get back to sleep at all.

Definitely don’t put any lights on, have been known to nod back off whilst still on the toilet!

Only if essential and we don't put the light on either in case we waken each other up.
Loo never stains. We clean it first thing.
Its also a waste of water.
We flush during the day.

We only flush when necessary when at home (bit different when staying with family). We're also on a meter so want to save money as well as water.

As for getting up in the night, one of us nearly always does - at which point, the other says 'Leave the light on!'

Well I never!
I was telling a neighbour about this thread. She said that as she visits the bathroom several times a night, when she visits friends or family , she takes a plastic jug . ( can you see where this is going?) If she needs a wee in the night, she goes to the bathroom, uses the jug and pours contents down the sink. A silent visit !!

Oh! Halfway through your post I was thinking what a good idea, but I’d assumed you were going to say she fills the jug from the tap afterwards and pours it into the loo to flush away what’s in there (quietly)....

Me too maggiemaybe ??
monica I live alone so don’t wake anyone? I don’t put lights on as without my contacts in I can’t see anything anyway?
To be honest I m not too worried one wee a night will cause much difference to my water meter price I suppose it’s habit Ive just always flushed after using the loo whether wee or poo

When it comes to the environment I’d rather have one or two flushes a night than all the massive buildings that are lit up like Christmas trees now there does lie a huge problem We as a nation must waste millions on all the buildings fully lit I might start a thread on that It’s awful