This is a public service announcement for those of us who want our children to have sparkling clean bottoms. Do your kids use Kandoo Flushable Wipes?
Do you have a ‘low water flow’ toilet?
Do you have a septic system?
Would you prefer to hold on to several hundred dollars of your money?
If you answered yes to the above questions, than listen to me: do NOT flush Kandoo “Flushable” Wipes.
First, an experiment. Take a few pieces of toilet paper and one Kandoo wipe and put it into a sink of water. Wait 30 seconds. Lift up the toilet paper first. It will already have some tears in it from being lifted out of the water; the water will have already dissolved it so much that you can imagine that as it shoots down the pipes, it disintegrates into tinier and tinier pieces.
Look at the Kandoo. It is soaked but still in one piece.
Pull it—–it does not tear. Put it back in the water for another full minute and then try to S-T-R-E-T-C-H it—-see how far is stretches without a single tear?
We have friends who had their septic tank cleaned and, when the lid on their tank was opened, all along the top of it were little Kandoo sheets floating on the surface, oblivious of the fact that they were supposed to be breaking down in that cesspool.
In our home, one of these sheets worked its way down our pipes and got stuck to the side of a pipe WAY down into the belly of the house. Another sheet stuck to that one and pretty soon they were collecting and building their own little dam.
The cost of removing this little dam? I don’t even want to get into that.
Let’s just say that we could’ve just gone ahead and bought a bidet instead.