- This is the Thetford Porta Potti 565 camp toilet,
it's about as luxurious as they get
when it comes to portable toilets, let's check it out.
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Hi guys, its Ben from Snowys here today
with the Thetford Porta Potti 565 portable toilet,
this is the luxurious one in their range
its as much taller,
it's got a few extra fancy features
and you can see how much bigger it is
than the smaller ones in this series here,
so you've got a much taller seat height,
now it measures 44.8 in height to the top here
is 38.8 in width and about 45 centimetres in depth
and the seat height inside
is about 44.3 centimetres to this top section here.
Now there's two different toilets in the 565 series,
there's the 565E and the 565P.
This is the 565E here,
because it has an electric pump here
so it's a push button pump,
it's got batteries that go in there
I'll show you about that shortly,
press that and the toilet flushes.
Now there is another toilet looks exactly the same,
the only difference is this pump here,
and it has the same pump as this smaller version,
one is here, which is a piston pump,
so you've got to physically pump it up and down
to get the same flush action inside,
other than that the features are all the same in the toilet.
So we're gonna put this one aside
and we'll run through all the features of this guy here.
So having a look on the outside here, the top section here
is a 15 litre flush water rinse water tank
on top of a 21 litre wastewater tank on the bottom here,
now the wastewater tank
has got a little level indicator here,
so in that's full that flicks over to red
so you know it's time to empty it.
A bit of a grab handle at the front here,
which teams up with one at the back as well
make it easier to carry around.
If we flick your hand to the side here
its got a cool little feature which is a toilet roll holder
on the side here, so we can use any toilet roll
and it just pops in here this flexes out,
you can put your toilet roll in here
and it tucks away in the side of the toilet there.
On the back here more carry handles
both for carrying it when it's all together,
but also for carrying this
when you're emptying the wastewater tank,
you've got to carry handle there.
This is the lever that is used
to remove the top section,
one of the lever on this side here
I didn't show you is this one here,
which opens up the valve inside when you go to use it,
I'll show you more on that shortly
and then nothing on this side here.
We move around to the top of the toilet here,
before we opened the lid, we come to the back here
we flick this little tab up here
we've now got access to the flush button here
so we can flush it once the lid's closed
in the middle here we've got a little level indicator
for the rinse water tank so it's blue and red,
obviously when it's red, it's empty
when it's blue, it's full.
And this is the side we use to fill the rinse water tank,
we can get the water in there,
to fill it we use some accessories
that came with the toilet if we open it up here,
inside is a little bag here,
I haven't taken these out yet,
but this is a little funnel that you can use
to put in here to help filter,
you don't splash water everywhere.
Once that's full you use this little white cap here
to seal that up,
so the water doesn't splash around everywhere
this cap here actually seals the spout
on the waste water tank that I'll show you shortly
and then you get batteries included with a toilet here,
which go in the electric pumping,
now to remove this we give it a bit of a twist,
just a small twist,
and that will then come out
space in there for the six batteries put that back in place,
and that will then operate the flush feature on the toilet.
And looking at the top of the toilet here,
this seat here also folds up makes for easy cleaning
and then also shows the little jet here,
which is where the rinse water sort of shoots out
in around the bowl here to flush everything down.
Now to use the toilet, first thing you'd wanna do
to set it up at least is put your rinse water
and fill the top tank up here,
that rinse aid that you put in
there helps keep the bowl clean.
And then in the bottom tank,
you wanna put some wastewater additive
in there which helps all the waste to breakdown.
When it comes time to do your business,
I'm not gonna demonstrate this literally,
but the first thing you do is the lever on the side,
we pull that forward,
which opens up this valve inside here
and allows the waste to go down
into the wastewater tank at the bottom.
Sit down do what you need to do,
once you're done, flush the toilet and press this,
you can close the lid if you like
before you do that, flush this everything flushes down,
close this up and that then seals all the bad smells
and things in the bottom tank of this toilet here.
We can close the lid down when you're done
while that's closed
you can still see the little level indicator
for the rinse water tank here
but once this little indicator down here goes red
it indicates that you need to empty the wastewater tank,
now to do that we spin it
around to the back of the toilet here
we pull this lever here which releases the top section
that comes off we can put this aside,
give it a clean if we like,
we've now got our waste all sealed up inside here.
This lever here does the same thing
as the lever on the side of the top section did
this grey lever on the side here
if we spin that we can open up the seal here,
you won't need to do that to empty it though,
all we need to worry about when emptying it
is this spout here of which before you've used it
you would have grabbed these big cap here,
now put that over the top, you need that there
'cause it's sealing all the bad smells inside here
and you use that in conjunction
with this little bleeder valve here,
so you go to empty this at a sewerage point
or in a toilet don't ever emptied into a septic system
because the materials used in here aren't good for septic.
We turn this around,
you tip this up as such you hold down
on the little bleeder valve the white button here,
which allows air to come in here
to minimise the amount of clogging you get in here
you take the cap off as we've done here
and you'll empty this into the toilet
or sewerage point until the container is empty.
Put a little bit of extra water in there,
give it a bit of a swirl rinse it out
empty the last bit out
and you're good to go,
you then put the cap this white back on here, fold it over
and you're good to put the top back on again
Now the top just seals with this little nip here
catches on the front there
so we put that on first,
lean it forward,
and then push down at the back
so that this catch pops into place.
Now empty the toilet weighs about five kilos,
depending on which pump you get 4.9 or five kilos
but when it's full obviously you've got an extra set
of 35 litres of water in there so it can get pretty heavy.
So you do wanna make sure you've got a decent bag
to carry it in order to transport it in,
Blacksmith Camping Supplies have made one
specifically for this,
this is their extra large toilet bag.
So if you put this inside one of these guys is going
to store really well in the back of your car,
you should never get leaks with one of these
'cause they're pretty well sealed on the bottom,
but these have got a PVC base on them.
We put that in there,
if they should happen to be any leaks,
it's gonna catch in the PVC base at the bottom there,
put this over the top fits nice
and easily plenty of room in there, seal it up,
and that's a great way to transport your toilet
also seals any should there be any smells,
which you shouldn't as its sealed,
but should there be any slight odours about it
that contains it within the bag.
That is the Thetford Porter Potti 565 series,
it's a luxurious toilet for those
who don't like digging holes
or using traditional bucket toilets
or maybe the long drops that you find in the campsite.
You can grab these online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices every day.
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