portable flushing toilet how to use a portable toilet vingli emergency survival van life car camping prepping toilet
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper summer is coming so it's a great time i decided to upgrade a
portable toilet I like to spend a lot of time outdoors I go to my Alaska off grid cabin Granny Camp I
go to other camp outs and I also like to be prepared for emergencies so while I'm
perfectly fine using an outhouse and I have the luggable loo portable potty I
thought this portable flushing toilet by vingli that order from Amazon look like just the thing I'm
going to unbox the portable flushing toilet and show you how it works when you're opening a big box
always remember rather than trying to lift the contents out open from the
bottom and lift the box off of your contents cut the tape open the flap and
lift off the box
the portable flushing toilet it looks like it comes already all put together which is fabulous you can see
it has a lid and a seat and it comes with a carrying case because this is
sort of awkward with the addition of a carrying bag you can grab and go whether
it's camping or you're bugging out the portable flushing toilet it comes with one page of directions
which are very simple and they're clear to understand you can see it's already
put together and so then it explains to you the features and how to use it let's
look it over if you turn around and look on the back there's a opening here and
you fill it with water because it's an actual like flushing mechanism and this
is the piston pump once you've done your business then you're going to pump up
the water it's already set you don't have to do anything except pump then if
you look inside this is where the water comes out to rinse the toilet when you
pump it and it's nice because if you don't take the directions with you when
you go to camp there's some more written on the inside of the lid so that anybody
else can figure out how to use it as well then you can see the waste goes
down the hole there's a lever down on the front when you want to flush it you
pull this open and it slides open the drain and allows everything to go down
the drain then you can pump it a few times to get everything rinsed out and
close that lever back on your portable flushing toilet
you can see this is a little awkward tip it up see how it opens and closes
and it has a nice rubber seal gasket around on the inside when you fill it up
with fresh water it holds about 10 quarts 10 litres or 10 quarts and that
stays in this upper tank and then when you flush it it all goes down into the lower
tank and you can see there's a gauge on here that tells you how full it's
getting so you know when it gets in the red zone it's time to start emptying it
now when you want to empty it all of your waste is down in the bottom so
there's a latch on either side and you would unlatch it pull it both of the
latches and then you can lift off the potty part with the water tank and all
of your waste is down in the bottom now you can get a better look at how this
works see how you pull it open it's new so it's a little bit tight as you can
see you pull it open there's that rubber gasket all of your waste is going to be
down in here then when you want to empty it
you pull out the drain unscrew it and then the waste will flow out of this
hole so if you had a place like a dump station you could empty it there if you
were in the woods you could dig a little cat hole pour it in there or pour it
down a toilet somewhere now remember this is a portable potty the only thing
that should go in here is something that comes out of you don't put paper wipes
trash nothing put nothing in here except urine and feces
pee pee poo poo that's it then you could easily open this up rinse it thoroughly
and clean it all out before you put it away close it up and then you're simply
place at the top back on it and re attach fasten your latches
and that's the vingli portable flushing toilet let's fill the portable flushing toilet up with water and see how it flushes
okay I filled it up with water and it's nice and it's got a handle so you can
help move it around you can hear the water sloshing around so now you need to
reattach the latches it seems a little tight but I have really weak hands so if
I can do it anybody can so now you ready to do your business in your portable flushing toilet lift up the seat
back and then you can sit here comfortably do your business don't lean
back on the seat cover it says because that will probably break it off it holds 441 pounds so don't
get too relaxed while you're using your vingli portable flushing toilet okay we're done
doing the business you'd actually want to shut the lid but then you can't see
what's going on in here so I'm going to flush it with the lid open so you can see
how the portable flushing toilet works so now you would pump it up
see how the water is coming out of here and it has enough pressure then it's
swirling all the way around the toilet bowl now it's full ready to flush and you would open this latch up and it
would drain the toilet bowl contents out but don't be wasteful because you don't have unlimited water
now close this lever back up and you can see the portable flushing toilet part it's sealed up it's not going to leak
back up and it should help keep all those scents and aromas down inside the holding tank
before you try to empty the toilet make sure that you've opened it the lever and drained it all into the holding tank
because otherwise when you lift it up anything that's still in the toilet bowl
will splash around so make sure that you have opened the valve make sure
everything went down the hole from the toilet bowl close it back up and now you're ready to take the portable flushing toilet
apart to empty it there's a little release valve here that you might want
to press to release the pressure just a little bit of air so that it doesn't
splash at you when you want to empty the holding tank
I'm going to just pour it down here into this bucket so you can see how easy it
is to empty it now it would be ready to clean open this up run fresh soap and
water through it maybe a little disinfectant close it back up pay
attention to your cap don't lose your cap and the portable flushing toilet it's ready to
use again this carrying case is cool it's very sturdy and has two straps and
a double zipper and it's square same shape as your vingli portable flushing toilet so you can
open up three sides and just set the portable toilet into the carry case
see it has a double zipper you can zip it around to the front there or just do
it all the way one way or the other there's two straps and make it easy for
carrying there's a little extra room inside the portable flushing toilet carrying case you could probably fit some trash bags in
there but I don't think like a roll of toilet paper there's not enough room
that's too bulky then make sure wherever you plan to go that you have some
plastic bags for trash and an extra roll of toilet paper
I think this vingli portable flushing toilet is going to be a great addition to my
camping gear and my emergency survival prepping gear after going through this pandemic lockdown I
don't want to find out that if we do have a resurgence in the fall and things
become worse and more people are sick what if there's an added crisis that
your plumbing stops working or the water stops running or there's all kinds of
other problems that can happen from earthquakes tornadoes snow storms frozen
pipes there's all kind of emergencies when you may not have a flushing toilet
so you can choose to have a plan ahead of time like I did find something like
luggable loo you're still going in a bucket or something like this vingli portable flushing toilet
which is more like a real toilet that it can flush and hold everything inside
it's not perfect it's never going to be as comfortable or convenient as having a
working toilet in your home but it could certainly make having to go not be such an emergency
let me know in the comments below what you're doing to make sure
that you continue to prep prepping for an uncertain future because nobody knows
what's coming but we were certainly probably in for a wild ride
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