Diaper Warning

I had to laugh when a dl I know told me that if you have a septic tank never tear open wet diapers and flush the fill in the toilet or like him shower with diaper on and rip open diaper to let gel down drain

The poly crystals that add absorbency by swelling up when wet will plug your leach lines.

(gee I guessed this years ago)

it only cost him $3700.00 to find this out

dlcripple AKA da gimp

LOL, I found that out when I was 13, I took a shower and it exploded so I quickly sat down and ripped the diaper off and started to scoop the poly crystals into a garbage bag along with the actual diaper part and tossed it away in the outside garbage. I can't confirm nor deny some didn't go down the drain and dramatically slow it down to the point of not moving water down said drain, LOL. needless to say I never took a shower in a diaper again!

I shower in my diapers all the time! The trick is to be gentle with them, and to put a washcloth over the drain in case it does break. Still a bitch to clean up, but having that huge, soggy diaper is well worth it!

Wow. What a mess and an expensive pain in the butt. Thanks for the heads up.

Had a very similar experience but with the drain in my washing machine. We had a party and I was doing the laundry the next day. Piles of cloth diapers and all of the fetish wear that folks had left behind. Somehow somewhere a couple of adult diapers ended up in the first load of cloth diapers. I came into the laundry room to a flood with water pouring out of the washing machine drain. Same scenario the crystals from the diapers closed off the drain enough to back it up flooding my laundry room. One of those things that really makes you say dam and a few other choice words like ####. I found the offending diapers in the load and would have bitched someone out but they were Bambinos and I was the only one wearing them that night at the party.

Another plus in the cloth diaper side. : )