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Three Blockages in Three Weeks - a change from one in two to three MONTHS

https://corporate.thameswater.co.uk/media/News-releases/News-Release---Beddington-rag?The loo roll panic seems to have caused three blockages in three weeks at the Beddington Sewage Works in Croydon.  This is caused by "unflushables" being put down the loo.  And that is just one sewage works!  Just pee, poo and loo paper down the loo please peeps!  You can also find out about Thames Water has key workers who will be working during this lockdown.  Not everyone can work from home.You can find out more on their website. How about finding out how to use less water?  https://corporate.thameswater.co.uk/sitecore/content/Thames-Water/Thames-Water/be-water-smart

Philippa Bond ● 2412d15 Comments

Worrying, but this is where you need a government. There are 600,000 volunteers fgs. There is no genuine shortage of toilet tissue. Why can't HMG and Thames Water get toilet rolls to anyone and everyone that needs it - otherwise just deal with it!

Michael Winstanley ● 2412d

Are there still shortages in the shops now that the original panic buying has finished?Anyway they are saying if you use something other than the specifically designed to disintegrate loo paper then please bin it rather than flushing it.  It may disappear from your sight but it sticks to all the other unflushables down the sewer including congealed fat and turns into fatbergs.  There's lots of info on their website.  Nobody wants to find their loo backing up and overflowing!

Philippa Bond ● 2412d

Nk shortages in shops avx havnt been for a couple of weeks.  Not sure how govt is to blame for greedy b.....ds without a brain panic buying.

Andy Pike ● 2412d

Andy, I think I agree with what you’re saying but you’re obviously writing in code and I’m not sure I’ve cracked it!  Mmkgx hidwwop?

Jonathan Callaway ● 2412d

That's fat fingers on a phone pad Jonathan I'll check more carefully b4 pushing the go button in future.😁

Andy Pike ● 2412d

I hope you never worked on a City trading desk, especially at those long gone terminals where there were keyboards with 0, 00 and 000 buttons.  One fat finger could move the market - and find the owner of the fat finger out on the street looking for a new job. Still, it didn’t ruin every career. I had a boss who taught himself to touch type. We think he was successful but everything he sent was in code - because he hit the button to the right of the intended one almost every time. And just for fun (we think) he hit the caps buttON HALF WAY THROUGH and never used punctuation.  So everything he wrote was ignored and naturally he was immediately promoted!

Jonathan Callaway ● 2412d

"Just pee, poo and loo paper down the loo please peeps!"Another public service announcement from Philippa. 🙄 How ever did we manage our everyday lives before? 🙀

Sue Hammond ● 2412d

Nationalised toilet rolls? For the many and the poo!

Peter Evans ● 2411d

For heavens sake!!  I really don't think that the run (excuse the pun) on loo rolls has meant more put down the loo!!!  Everyone needs to think sensibly, there is no evidence that Covid19 gives the squits, just that people are quite concentrated on their bottoms!!

Bunny Payne ● 2411d

Might be J-cloths blocking drains that wouldn't dry in the microwave.

Barbara Stevens ● 2411d

I suspect that there are far more people who have been running a just-in-time shopping system instead of the store cupboards we used to run in the past.  Then when everyone goes out to buy more it's a problem... especially when they are packed in large bags.The retail analysts seem to think the problem was actually that just a few bought a lot more but a lot more of us bought just one more.  That makes sense when we've just been told that we may have to stay in for two weeks.It certainly seems to have caused a problem at that sewage works.  There certainly were Thames Water vans with messages on them to not flush wipes. It's a great way to try and get the message across.  I've seen packets of wipes claiming them to be flushable only for the small print to say just one at a time.  They're plastic and don't disintegrate even if they disappear out of sight.  Such cynical marketing imo!Barbara:  You can put wet flannels in the microwave to heat them NOT to dry them.  I don't advise eating them unless you are really desperate.

Philippa Bond ● 2411d

Philippa like myself and other's on this forum you had been telling the members if they didn't have any toilet paper to use J-cloths to wipe their backsides, then wash them and dry in the microwave. Or have you forgotten what you say on all the other forums as well as our's. Not flannels like you are now suggesting. I think most members will wipe our backsides with what we want I don't think we need to be told.

Barbara Stevens ● 2411d

Barbara:  I have NEVER EVER suggested DRYING anything in the microwave.

Philippa Bond ● 2410d

What have you used your flannels for Philippa.

Barbara Stevens ● 2410d

When FIL's flannels missed the washing machine wash we put them in the microwave in water and soap to heat up. FIL was nearly 100 and had always used flannels.  When the kitchen cloths get dirty we often did the same.  Not much different from the boiling of nappies in the past in a pot on the kitchen stove, or in a pot on a primus stove on a building site as happened to mine. I don't happen to have a microwave in London. I don't like flannels.I have been incredibly lucky with loo rolls (so far) I ordered a box of them from a company called Who Gives A Crap just after Christmas before this panic over them.  I shared them with some of my family.You can wash your bum with whatever you like but if you do flush things down the loo which are not designed to go down then you are likely to cause problems in the sewers blocking them and which just might end up overflowing in your home.  Who wants to have problems like that? 

Philippa Bond ● 2410d