Toilet Rolls - soft but not strong

Culag Your link is interesting. I am tempted to experiment.

Do let us know how you get on, Nelliemoser ,

I use Home Bargains Nicky Elite 18 rolls, for £3.99 ....what a bargain... it has a baby lotion smell... so gives the bathroom a lovely delicate scent. It is far superior to any other toilet paper I have used... I used to buy Cushelle... but they seem to have changed it... and it is very thin now.

I have been buying Waitrose's own brand, but next time I am near Home Bargains I will invest in the Nicky Elite ones. I share a drain with two neighbours and when it was blocked it overflowed over my patio. Not at all nice. The reason for it was that my neighbour's son and girl friend had been flushing wipes and condoms.

I recommended Nicky Elite on the first page, similar price to yours pamelaJEAN the packs I get are £1.99 for 9 rolls.

Andrex with Aloe Vera - DH insists - he has a very sensitive botty!!

My first after school job was in Woolies. I had to write the price in individual rolls of Izal and build a pyramid!. I think Nickyelite is also sold in Home Bargains.

When ever I needed tracing paper to do my homework I would raid the Bronco! For its 'proper' use my mum showed me how to scrunch it to make it softer. These day I use Waitrose Essential and have no complaints

I go for Cushelle - at present. The trouble is you just find one that's good and they go and "improve" it. I did like the one that had the ad. with bears using it, but they filled it with THIRST Pockets. These made a layer of dust all over the floor AND gave me blocked sinuses. Can't remember its name, or maybe it was Cushelle? Whatever! I've been trying so many in recent years. .

Our toilet was always blocking when we first moved here. One year my husband had to wait here for the drain engineer on Christmas Day, so then we had a camera put down. Am I the only one who has a DVD of their drains?
The grandchildren have been taught not to put wipes down the toilet, but granddaughter sometimes forgets.
I told you that you should buy recycled toilet paper!

Culag I have been experimenting with the solubility of disposable wipes and bog roll.

I filled two pots with 500ml of tap water at tap temperature.
At midday I put three sheets of ASDA "Shades so soft" toilet paper into one pot and did the same with an Andrex "disposal" toilet wipe into the other one.
I stirred them both around the same number of times each, every 10mins or so. In about 40mins the toilet paper had disintegrated into slush in the jar.
After 5hrs 20mins the Andrex wipe is starting to disintegrate, but
has a way to go still.

For the sake of their domestic plumbing does anyone else want to play scientists, with another brand using these same conditions? I am particularly interested in seeing how long the cushioned ones take to go totally into mush.

Blame Culag posting that link for this strange request.

I must get a life!

You only need to use half a one of these at a time. After using ordinary toilet paper. So it will not block drain.

Velvet and Cushelle are neck and neck in my opinion. But Cushelle make huge rolls that you don't have to change so often. So it wins.

Brilliant Nelliemoser

Nelliemoser, I was just wondering if you were my neighbour, but I don't live in Cheshire! Neighbours had a problem with Andrex 'disposable' wipes so she has been doing some experiments!

Yes Jinglbellsfrocks, I agree about size of Cushelle rolls . I used to get Velvet though and didn't like it after they made it softer. _Came to pieces too easily. So Cush is one up at present.
By the way, HATED the scented Cush. I got them by mistake and they spent months in the spare room , airing!

Nellie please keep up the good work with your testing, I have a septic tank and have to be so careful as to what I flush

I don't flush them even though it says they are 'flushable'. I wrap them in some koala toilet paper and bin them.

Probably 'too much information' as DH would say.

Those Nicky ones came out top in a comparison on the tely but no one knew where to buy them from. I still don't understand why it is we used to use newspapaer when I was a child but the toilets didn't block.

Bigger diameter pipes, Tegan?

The cisterns used to be higher. (pull chain ones) Perhaps the water went through with a bigger woosh. And, of course, newspaper disintegrates fairly easily.

I replaced the flushing mechanism inthe cistern of a close-coupled toilet that is only about ten years old. The old one flushed 10 litres. This one flushes 6 litres. Doubtless very good for conserving water, but not for giving it a good whoosh through.

Mr P would be very happy to provide advice on this topic, as it is his speciality! (he is a drainage engineer)

Strange really, asking him to deal with the cat's litter tray, and he's marked absent. Show him an overflowing septic tank with turds and tampons bobbing about and he's in his element! (Well, not literally of course)

Not sure how much is in the cistern of the toilet we had fitted about 4 years ago, but not enough to flush properly in one go, so loo often has to be flushed twice. So much for conserving water (and after last winter do we need to?). I like to see a good whoosh through Elegran.

solubility of different brands of toilet tissu.
Further to my previous post the Andrex toilet wipe took a good 24hrs to disintegrate to a reasonable mush.

As Asda's own brand is the only Bog roll brand I have and I CBA to buy any other just for the purpose of research., I am calling on GNrs to do their own experiments with some of the thicker brands.

Put three sheets of Bog Roll in a jar with 500mls of tap water at and stir regularly over period of time until they are dispersed into the water. not teh time it takes.

My house plumbing is good modern mains drainage but I could see how a lot of tougher bog roll paper never mind "soluble" wet wipes could cause a lot of blockages. It probably really depends on how much water you flush with I assume the less water you use the more danger of blockage there is.

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