RV Toilet Types, Sizes, and Accessories
Dave SolbergDescription
When nature calls, having a comfortable place to, well, go on the road can make all the difference. A few decades ago, RV owners had one toilet option: plastic with a flush pedal. Now, there are several types of RV toilets with countless accoutrements and accessories that allow you to completely customize your bathroom experience. If you want a taller bowl that requires little upkeep, you can have it, as long as you’re willing to pay for it. If you don’t plan to use it much and feel fine sticking with the standard plastic and pedal, that’s your prerogative.
In this quick lesson, RV expert Dave Solberg talks about some of the options available to those looking to upgrade their RV toilet. He explains why you might opt for one type of toilet over another, and shows you an example of a popular modern model. Once you know what’s out there, you can tailor your toilet selection to your needs!
If your toilet appears to be broken, watch our video on RV toilet repair.
In the good old days of RV-ing back when I started, there weren't a lot of choices in toilet. You had either plastic or porcelain, pretty much pedal operated. Today there's a wide variety of choices. There's even the ergonomically designed and environmentally friendly compost valve toilets. Just to give you an idea of the different styles that are out there, the basic you'll see in travel trailers economy version is a plastic toilet with a pump system like this. Now the plastic, the disadvantage of that is that it discolors faster, it's harder to clean, it's not quite as stable as well, and it's a lot shorter. Now you go up to the porcelain version like this, it's a lot more solid in the unit. You can you can get them in taller versions. In fact we took this one out of an existing 2000 I believe it was motor home, and we got the taller version, more residential style because these have a tendency to be a lot shorter. It is an upgrade. It was a little more money. The differences, you'll see in this, now this one happens to be a pedal operated one so I would pull this up, and that would fill the bowl inside here before I used it, and I kind of like to leave it that way when I'm at the campground so make sure no orders and stuff come. And then when I go to flush it, I simply pull the lever down, and it's going to open that flap and typically you'll have some water running in here that'll help clean that out. Now, the standard ones don't come with a shower or cleaner like this one does. It's a price point. So you'll see it in the lower ones, but this will help to clean that out otherwise when you go to flush, you're probably gonna have to take a cup of water and do a little bit of assist with it. You can also get, like I say the macerating toilets now that they literally compost the waste inside of it with a variety of processes that they use. So a lot more choices. Taller residential styles. A lot easier to clean. So if you've got one of the older styles, you might want to look at upgrading, it's pretty easy to do.
Why on earth would you film a video showing a dirty (moldy?) toilet? It was gross looking with lots of black inside. Yuk. SHOOT A NEW VIDEO!
I have a 2000 Monaco Diplomat and while trying to change toilet I found the old base plate has 4 screws and new toilet has 2 screws that do not line up with old base plate. I am not able to realign toilet to make them match. What can I do to install this toilet?
I need to replace the seal at the bottom of the bowl, how do you determine who manufactured your toilet. I have a 2008 Keystone Raptor with a porcelain toilet, but I can't find any identifying info on it.
I’m replacing my toilet with a taller one but the water line is short, how do I extend the water line to fit the new taller toilet?