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Dianes
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The toilet in our new French house is different to anything we've seen, and we were wondering if it is common over there. It has a normal toilet base, but goes straight down with no u-bend. The "cistern" looks like a vertical gas tank, and when you pull the lever up the water empties with a whoosh, like a ship's toilet.

Diane
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We visited a French house with a similar system, and it was because they had a fosse etanche not a fosse septique and this type of toilet reduces the amount of water needed to flush, and hence the frequency with which you need to empty the tank. Do you know what type of fosse you have?

John and Angie Moore (17)
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We have something similar, but we have been told that our system is older than a fosse etanche, it is called a puit perdue (spelling).

It is quite literally a large hole in the ground into which all the liquid just soaks away, yeuchh!

The toilet has a flap which you press down so that everything just falls straight down the hole and this process is how the 'rim flush' is activated.

Jongleuse is hoping that the permis comes through soon for the fosse septique!


Jongleur
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