Can I Use Regular Toilet Paper in My RV?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- In this TH-cam video, we decided to test rv toilet paper vs regular toilet paper to see which dissolved best in water and also RV toilet chemical. The results were surprising!
The rv safe toilet paper ( both 1 ply and 2 ply toilet paper) dissolved well as you would expect. But the residential regular toilet paper also dissolved pretty well. We tested regular toilet paper from Walmart and also Angle soft toilet paper.
We would say the results were pretty surprising because even though we ran the best RV toilet paper and treatment test we could all the results were pretty similar.
Our advice is that if you are a full time RVer or you go RV camping very frequently you could probably get away with using regular residential toilet paper in your camper. But, if you camp infrequently, we recommend only using RV safe toilet paper in your camping trailer or RV so the toilet paper doesn't clump and clog your black tank.
0:00 Intro
5:48 Camco 1 Ply
7:07 Campa Soft 2 Ply
8:23 Great Value Walmart
10:08 Angel Soft
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Hi Everyone, We hope you enjoyed our video! What did you think of the results? Do you use RV or residential toilet paper? Please say hello by leaving a comment below! Also, please feel free to ask any questions or just tell us about yourselves. We want to get to know you and share our RV experiences.
That took a lot of time and expense on your part to do, thank you for all you do to try and make happy campers.
Hi Joseph,
Our pleasure! We love making videos and trying to help the RV community any way we can!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
I would say the most important thing to remember is to never let your black tank run dry. I always fill my tank with about 8 gallons of clean water immediately after draining the tank. This will ensure that any left over toilet paper is submerged and won't have a chance to harden on the tank or the sensor. I am a full time RV-er and I use 1 ply residential toilet paper along with a couple tablets in the holding tank. So far I have never once had an issue. Thanks for the great video.
Hey TH-cam Nick,
We appreciate the insight and info!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
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Inspired by this video, I did my own test of RV safe tp vs. Scott's 1000 sheet tp. Scott's did great, much better than the thicker RV safe paper. Scott's is what we use at our house, so that is what we'll use when we camp now. Just because it says RV safe doesn't mean it breaks down all that well in reality. Thanks for this video!
Hey mansfieldpark,
We appreciate your input and experience!!!
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Great test guys. I was expecting more from the treatments than just the water. ❤️🇨🇦❤️ Cheers!!!
Hi F&T,
We were surprised by that too!
Thanks again for watching our video!!!!
We really appreciate your support!
Mike and Susan
Interesting! Thanks for the demo and info!
Hi Cindy!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Very helpful! Thanks!
Glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting.
It’s 2am in Phoenix and I fascinated by this toilet paper analysis 😆 I don’t even have a trailer (yet), haha!! Fantastic video, subscribed!
Hi kirk1968,
That is awesome!!! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for watching, commenting and subscribing!
Mike and Susan
Great value. Definitivente
Hi Emilio,
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Another great video and thank you for the info. On your travels do you ever run into any other TH-cam campers
Hi Mike,
Glad you like the video!
We run into other TH-camrs but its pretty rare. Usually at an RV Show but it's been a while since we could attend a show.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Thank you for the video. Blessings to you.
You are so welcome. And same to you! ❤️
I really appreciate the test using the chemical for comparison!
Muskoka ON 🇨🇦
Thanks Pat! Glad you found our video helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Big fan of toilet paper breakdown experiments.🤣😂.... I can’t help it....
Hi Reiki Lady,
LOL! That is too funny!!!
Thanks for watching!
Mike and Susan
So the RV & Marine TP, uh, wiped out the competition (at least for us short-term users). :-) Thanks again for the info! We are gearing up for our maiden voyage, albeit a short one, to a local camp so that my 91-year old dad can get a taste of RV life for a day or so before we start our move to Tennessee from KKKalifornia. We bought the RV primarily for his comfort during our move but we also love camping so we'll love having the RV for that as well!!
Have a most excellent week!!
Hi Mike,
Definitely recommend the RV safe TP for the weekend warriors out there!
Good luck on your cross-country move!!! Keep us posted on your travels!
Mike and Susan
Just a thought: having traveled through SE Asia, I noticed that the Vietnamese use a little squirt gun (just like the kitchen sink sprayers in the US) that's attached to the wall near the toilet (kind of a manual bidet, from the French). So when you're finished with number 2 (and also number 1 for the ladies), you give yourself a good squirt while still sitting, then use a probably very generic 2 ply, couple of squares, toilet paper and get yourself dry and then discard the paper in a waste basket. (no smell) This takes a couple of tries for you to be experienced and is also hygienic. I will adapt one when I get back on the road. Also also, love your content and stay safe out there.
Hi Tuvia,
Thanks for sharing that tip!!!
Glad you lie our content too!!!!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Dometic sells a toilet with a sprayer.
@@kathleenjettlund7617 Thanks, that's good to know. In my case just adding one would be the least expensive option. But thanks for the info!
Hi Mike, just about to finally use our motorhome for the first time since we bought it nearly a year ago. 😪😪 Not the most scientific test, but well done, And realistically just as accurate an outcome I’m my opinion. Thanks for a great video. Regards Simon and Wendy in Attleborough England. 👍👏👏👏
And you’re still our preferred bloggers!
Hi Simon And Wendy,
Glad you liked the test! And thanks so much for the kind words!!!!!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
@@RVBlogger hi Mike, by American Standards it’s nothing, but we did around four hundred miles with regular stops and our cassette was playing up. We used a good brand toilet roll (Andrex) and it almost completely dissolved in twenty four hours. And thanks we had a great “first time out” regards Simon and Wendy.👍
Nice seeing Susan out from behind the camera! One blogger said any brand is okay as long as it says septic safe. True? I love my super soft Charmin!
Hi Rosemary,
I love it when Susan gets in front of the camera with me! She isn't comfortable with it yet but thanks for the kind words of encouragement!
Septic safe isn't the same as RV safe so I don't think that's correct. Septic systems have a holding tank and a big truck pumps the waste out of the tank. Not at all what happens when RVing.
Hope that all makes sense...
Thanks for watching and for your comment!
Mike
I've used the Sam's club toilet paper for years
It Septic safe and I use with chemicals it breaks down pretty good
I like it alot. Walmart and Sam's club
Tb breaks down well.
Plus we empty our tank at least once a week at campsites
Also.once couple of months we use Ridix 2 to 3 times a year
@@laurafernandez8281 In your RV?
Great info, is as well greatly appreciate,
even though I don’t have a camper yet, but who knows in the near future lol
Hi Jaime,
Hopefully someday you will get a camper!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Good video guys, you sure went to a lot of work to do this experiment , we always used the blue aqua stuff , but never put toilet paper in the toilet,
We just had a zip lock bag in a trash can with a lid, and got rid of it every day, we had a very bad experience with having to clean out a poop cycle ,
So that will sure smarten ya right up , 🤣 so therefore we used a plastic zip bag, got along great that way ,
Hi Mildred,
Thanks for sharing Mildred...sorry you had such a bad experience!
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Mike and Susan
I was using Angel Soft since I use it at home since its septic safe. I wasn't happy with it in the camper. Switched to the same Great Value toilet paper you used in the test for our camper, and it breaks down much better. I also use Unique holding tank treatment.
Hi DOINWRK,
Thanks for sharing your experiment!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Nice experiment! And now you are ready for the next TP shortage, too! 😄
Hey AIPU,
LOL we sure hope so! 😂
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We use regular Scott's 1000 1ply in our RV and Boat and have for many year's and haven't had any issue's.
We use to buy Happy Camper which is not allowed in California any longer. So we now use Odorless on occasions of lots of use for longer periods of time along with a scoop of Arm & Hammer with Oxyclean Powder detergent that you Must mix with water to fully dissolve then flush. This detergent helps Alot with odor even without the Odorless product and is what we have found in the past year in both RV and Boat works just Fine by it self for less money and fights toilet holding tank odor!
We have changed how we do things since we made this video a few years ago...we use whatever TP we want, we use Matt's Liquified, and we use a lot of water. All of this worked great and we got grades of A and A- on our 2 tanks when we had Klean Tank clean them out for us.
Thanks for sharing your experience too!
Mike
We've used Charmin soft for years and we rarely use any chemicals.
Hi Renea,
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Thanks for the info. Perhaps showing the cost of each type of TP would have been helpful as well. Also, maybe, you made a case for a macerator toilet. Thanks again.
Hey RJW,
Thanks for the input!
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So I live in a rural area with a lot of boondocking and almost never a RV Dump near by. I usually have to haul home my black tank and dump at a local gas station with a dump. Sometimes those are 200 miles plus to get home. So I would be super curious as to how shaking up the containers would change this.
Hi Evan,
I would bet it would make the toiler paper break up quite a bit if you bounced down the road for a couple hundred miles. Maybe we will conduct a test about this one day...
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
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Angel soft tp works great breaks down fast
Hey Motorbikemike,
We appreciate the input!
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We’ve used charmin for yrs in our trailers with chemicals with no issues
Hi Brenda,
Makes total sense!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
I'm glad you didn't just use plain water. That's not what is in an RV toilet.
Hi Amy,
How's it going!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
I think if your worried about an issue with the tp, just have a $1 trash bucket with a plastic bag in it on side of toilet and put the used tp in it, then put in trash when your done with your business.
That's definitely an option. Thanks Rose!
Interesting test. Is the chemical additive more effective with waste in addition to toilet paper? Maybe bacteria and other elements of waste matter play a role?
Hi Insightful Professor,
Perhaps that is possible but it exceeded the limits of our experiment!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
This is the second RV video this week that featured toilet paper. The Outdoor Boys used moss when they forgot TP, but they were camping in the woods where there was plenty of moss. The little Outdoor Boy who used it said it worked fine.
Hi Mishawaka Post,
How do you keep track of all the RV toilet paper videos? lol!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Is it common to have drains clog up? Newby here.Thinking of RV camping and want to get it right.
Hey John,
Good question. You're more likely to have debris on a tank sensor than a clog, but we definitely recommend adding a toilet chemical to break down any waste in the tank.
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Some res. TP says that it is septic tank comparable or safe, would that make a difference?
Hey OSE,
The test was to see if it truly does make a difference!
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I'm curious as most people don't dump their black water daily so would it have broken down more say a week of sitting?
Hi Randall,
I think most people dump more often than once a week but maybe the TP would break down more if it sat that long. We were basing our test on typical weekend campers.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Doesn’t the pressure from the black tank flush water provide aggregation in the tank?
Hi Mike,
Great question! Nope, it just drains out like when you drain a bathtub. There is no agitation at all.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
What about the impact to the communal sewer or septic system it gets dumped into?
Hi Gene,
Zero impact.
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Mike and Susan
I grew up boating with black tank toilets and most had a grinder assisted flush. Our family’s rule was always, no toilet paper in the toilet - period! We always had a little trash can with liner and a lid that we used instead. Surprisingly, there was never an odor problem with that method.
Hey Corri,
That's a great idea!
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I'm more interested in how additives break down solid waste. I suspect that's more likely to clog pipes?
Hi jo,
The solid waste is rarely a problem. It's the TP that creates the clogs or sticks to the tank sensors.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Thank you for this video!!! Maybe we should all wipe and put the tissue in a bag next to the toilet lol.
Hi ZeeZee,
Some people actually do that especially when boondocking.
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Mike and Susan
I have been using Walmart Everyday Soft. Now I can't find it in stock. Is anyone else having a problem finding it? If so what did you switch to?
Hey Donna,
Sorry to hear your having troubles! Good luck!
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I would have liked to see how Scott toilet paper would have reacted since it's advertised as septic tank safe.
Hey Roanna,
We used 2 RV specific tp's, I can't imagine Scott TP would be any better than the ones we tested, but if we do another experiment we'll be sure to try that!
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@@RVBlogger I conducted an experiment of my own, inspired by your tests, and found that Scott's 1000 sheet tp did great against the RV safe tp that we had! In 24 hours, Scott's really broke down well, while the RV safe tp did not. When you compare the thickness of the two sheets, it's easy to see why Scott breaks down well: it is much thinner paper. Thanks for the video and the info.
Can a bidet be installed in the RV?
Hi Nia,
Yup! It sure can!
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Mike and Susan
I think there is a misconception among RV’ers regarding the purpose of adding chemicals to the black tank, it assists as a deodorizer and to break down human waste not cellulose from trees. Thanks for your attempt to replicate real conditions. I have watched many of these the last week. Seems odd everyone choosing the same topics for content at a close interval. Thanks for your investment and time.
Hi Bob,
It is a weird coincidence that several videos about this came out in the same week. We see people asking about it all the time on our Facebook Group and maybe others had similar questions popping up in their communities too. There are lots of newbies out there.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
We just bought some chemical called Unique. We will have to try this experiment because Todd from NRVTA did a video of using it and it turned dog food into liquid.
Hi sahbuhnim,
Not sure why dog food would be a good test but ok...any dry dog food will turn to mush in water...
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Mike and Susan
@@RVBlogger because it best resembles the food we eat as far as nutrients goes.
I think think the chemicals are mostly to cover the smell.
Hi Kathy,
We think so too but this is right off of their website:
"LIQUIFY: Waste solids & most ordinary household tissue ( no expensive special tissue needed )" so they claim it can break down the TP...
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
My wife and I went to Thailand a few years ago and for the most part, they don't use toilet paper. In fact, you rarely found a toilet to sit on. They have what are called "Squatty Potties." Toilets and toilet paper are a luxury over there and so we had to learn how to do it the "Thai" way. And medically speaking, it's MUCH better for you to squat than to sit on a seat. When you squat, your interior plumbing lines up properly to purge. When you sit on a seat, you squeeze your gut tissue/muscle until you force things out.
In any event, there was normally a bucket of water next to the toilet and there was a cup in the bucket. You just poured the water down your back side and you use your left hand (in Thailand, you use your left hand) to clean yourself. Pour some water in the bowl to help the flush. Go wash your hands with soap. All done. No need to fret over "RV safe TP."
Granted, we are SPOILED and WUSSES in our Western culture and this Thai method is not for everyone but it IS an option that billions of people do every day because they don't have the luxuries that we have. If you've had kids, then you've had lots of things on your hands and so it won't kill you to clean yourself with your hand and water and then wash with soap.
Hi Mike,
So how did you dry your butt after you poured water down your backside?
Mike
@@RVBlogger Air dry! LOL Actually, you kind of have to do a "cheek flip" to get the excess water off and then you'll air dry fine.
@@soujrnr Dude - you crack me up!
LOL! Have a great day!
Mike
@@RVBlogger - Funny thing about it is that I'm not kidding. LOL That's how I was taught by the Thai people. Have a MOST excellent day!! :-)
You said left hand, most are right handed. Why the left hand?
Maybe drive around the park to “agitate” before dumping?
Hi Kathy,
Good thought but I don't think anyone will do that unless there are no sewer hook ups at the individual campsites but there is a dump station. Even then it's not a long drive.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Regular 4 ply TP works best in our RV and has since the beginning. The reason is simple; WE DON'T Flush the paper down. That is what doggie bags are fore!!
Hi Kathy, Steve, and Trooper Blanck,
Apparently there are a lot of people who don't flush TP...we definitely prefer to flush it and we use RV safe TP to avoid any problems. Plus we flush out tank regularly to help maintain it.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Mike and Susan
Probably should have weighed what was left to make the experiment more objective.
Maybe so...
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Mike and Susan