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tonyco1:
This is a subject we don’t actually like talking about!!!!!

Ever wondered about the pedal bin by each toilet? (Note: there are a few exceptions to this - but 90% of rooms / Apt's are as below).

The Amazing Toilets of Corfu - this is information you will need to know about!
This is a quick guide for the uninitiated – of the strange system of Toiletry Hygiene in Corfu and some of the other Islands of Greece.
Right – now this info below came from an original info sheet from the resort. All the apartments are the same as far as I know
(Crazy Building Reg's.) - This is not a wind up !!! Only a handful of Buildings have upgraded to bigger sewer pipes.

Previous visitors to Corfu may remember the following:-
    The Sewer Pipes of Corfu are less than 4 inches in diameter – this compares to the 10 inch pipes of the UK.
    The Sewer Pipes mainly lead to a ‘type’ of individual septic tank – not main sewers as we are used to in the UK.
    This basically means that what you flush down the toilet is very limited in material and size – or it blocks the sewers.
    All apartments in Corfu usually warn customers not to put toilet paper down the toilet,
        certainly no Ladies ‘pads’ etc….. these items swell in water and block the sewers.

They usually ask you to put all toilet paper into the pedal bin next to the toilet! (Yuk! - not quite what we are used to!!).

    A blocked sewer caused by a guest will result in a charge of around €80 usually.
    A lined pedal bin is supplied in each Apartment’s Bathroom for guests to place their Toilet paper.
    It is changed daily and is quite the normal thing for the locals to deal with.
      - - -  Don’t feel any embarrassment over this practice – it’s normal working over in Corfu.


I suggest you do the same as us, as it’s quite alien for us Brits, (most Europeans in fact,) NOT to put toilet paper down the Loo.
but - as I nearly ‘copped’ a charge one year, I am now more careful.
I was lucky (but embarrassed), - as it cleared with a hose and didn’t need jetting or rodding out. I don’t risk it any more!!!!

This is the method we adopted:
We buy baby wipes from a Supermarket and place them in the Loo, as they clean easily.

Use baby wipes and then toilet paper to finish off your cleaning, placing the ‘slightly’ soiled papers/wipes into a Nappy sack first
then into the pedal bin, or directly into the Bib provided.

Sorry – a bit tongue in cheek – (or wipe in cheek - LOL)
but worth thinking about as it’s a good compromise to blocking the toilet up.

stressed0506:
and..... how many of us have arrived home and continued to put paper in the bin by the loo in our very own bathrooms? I own up ... after being in sanstef for a month it usually takes me a few days to forget the paper in the bin habit!

tonyco1:
Yes - me too!! LOL - after all these years it does not seem strange at all!

tonyco1:
I thought this should get a read again for the newbies to Corfu!!
Essential reading - essential toileting!! LOL

Paulene Dean:
Another little tip Tony & all is to take some cheap nappy sacks with you - any toilet paper can be put into nappy sacks, tied and then placed in the bin - makes the bathroom smell a wee bit nicer - excuse the pun
 :-*

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