We recently bought the Dometic Powercare tablets at a bargain price and you got 25% extra in a tub. These are even worse than the green tabs we have tried on previous occasions. The smell when emptying is horrendous. BTW no mention of formaldehyde anywhere on the container or pamplet.
The previous lot of Dometic tablets were brilliant, but we bought them about 2-3 years ago when the CAMC were running a special on them.
Immediately prior to using the new tablets we used the Elsan blue purchased in about 2015 and found in the garage when doing a clear out. No issues there with smell.
Need to start looking around again!
The previous lot of Dometic tablets were brilliant, but we bought them about 2-3 years ago when the CAMC were running a special on them.
Immediately prior to using the new tablets we used the Elsan blue purchased in about 2015 and found in the garage when doing a clear out. No issues there with smell.
Need to start looking around again!
Formaldehyde and smell are mutually exclusive - formaldehyde stops the decomposition of solid waste and stops the smells - it also stops sewage systems working as well as being cancerous whish is why it's generally withdrawn - formulations without formaldehyde allow/encourage decomposition which generates the smell and needs more "perfume" to overcome.
These new type improved Dometic Powercare tablets are marketed as the blue as the non formaldehyde are in a green container and the colour green. Not quite sure what they use to break down the solids? I thought that Formaldehyde added the breakdown of solids?
Olpro is probably a rebranded product as doubt if they have the facilities to make their own. however if it works who cares where it is made? LOL!
More likely just SOG systems which are widely used in South Africa and Australia
It's made in Britain which is something and another reason to support them in my book.Olpro is probably a rebranded product as doubt if they have the facilities to make their own. however if it works who cares where it is made? LOL!
Not an expert, but I do know that formaldehyde is used in hospital pathology departments to preserve samples as they are at the point they're fixed, so in that context at least they're preventing decomposition.
That said, I've never known a caravan toilet chemical, of whatever colour, that significantly breaks down...umm..solid matter...in the short timespan between the matter entering the tank, and the tank being emptied. Waste stays in the site sewage pit for much longer, obviously, and that's got to be where the break down happens.
Done plenty of camping in South Africa and also had a small trailer camper and had never heard of the SOG system until we moved to Britain. I belong to a SA caravan fourm and it has never been mentioned? When we used to go camping we simply used ant bear holes or dug a hole as no toilets in caravans in those days.
When pee(r)ing into the abyss you’ve got more to concentrate on than colour. But you can’t really determine colour down there even for a fresh charge. 🚽
You can get a few toilet chemicals that say they can be added to the top and work at the bottom. Given the vivid colours of these and the awkward filler for the toilet I do not risk it as I do wonder if a small spill would stain the very white side of the caravan.
I’ve put the Elsan Green in ours and been using the van as an office today. Quite agree on the stain risk as it is vivid.
Have to see how it goes.
Kev
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Dunno about the White side of a caravan but did have a bottle of blue “ One” toilet fluid up end itself in a front locker. Never got the stains out.
mel
mel
I have to agree about stain risk see how it goes in the next three hols
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