If you have one of those swinging type toilet roll holders in your RV toilet, chances are, after a drive along a not so smooth road, you find the paper conveniently unrolled and positioned for use on the floor. It doesn't take much to keep it rolling once there is enough hanging down to provide the necessary downward weight. Answer to stopping this is SIMPLE. Before putting the roll on the holder, squash the roll to make the cardboard centre oval and wella !!! The roll swings happily back and forth and the paper stays where it is supposed to be !!!! Try it. It's been working like a charm in our RV for 5 years and 95,000 km.
Aus-Kiwi said
04:38 PM Dec 13, 2016
Well ?? We have to be double jointed to use ours . Our role sits on vanity . I guess when Mr Winebago designed it he sat face to wall ?? Right about ovaling centre ..
corolly2 said
05:03 PM Dec 13, 2016
It only took about 2 rolls for me to look for an answer as rerolling toilet paper is not my idea of " living the dream"
Aus-Kiwi said
05:10 PM Dec 13, 2016
Off subject . My kids give me heaps about the things we did with no or little budget . I used to bring the long commercial rolls home and wind them on the old empty rolls . Lol I worked out a way using roller paint applicator and electric drill . Times were tuff !! Lol
corolly2 said
07:23 PM Dec 13, 2016
Things we do eh. I used to sell stuff to dairy farmers back in the late 1960's and with 5 kids in the family at that time (we had 6 eventually), the cost of providing milk was a little exie. I used to buy a gallon of milk for 80 cents off the farmer and decant it into the glass milk bottles, put alfoil tops on them (which I told the kids was a new style of top they were using) because I knew they would never drink the milk if they thought it had come from a cow on a farm. I would leave the bottles on the front steps as though they had been delivered by the milkman and got away with it for a while. Ah well, it saved a few dollars for a few weeks
Tony Bev said
07:52 PM Dec 13, 2016
I have a swivel cassette toilet, and have room to jam a toilet roll between the seat and the wall, they have never unrolled yet
If/when the boss wants me to put a toilet roll holder in there, I was thinking of a few different sizes of elastic bands, to stop the roll unrolling, as we drive along
jules47 said
08:57 PM Dec 13, 2016
However, as travellers, it is best to use the "under" method -
nine times out of ten, you roll will not unroll while travelling!!!
I use a rubber band. Put it on the holder first, up where it meets the wall, then the roll. Then I twist the band and put it over the open end of the holder.
Works well for me.
Aus-Kiwi said
10:38 AM Dec 14, 2016
I've used matches to clean my fingers . Never thought of using s rubber band ? Aha when paper runs out .. Lol
The Belmont Bear said
03:00 PM Dec 31, 2016
Hey kiwi using a paint roller with an electric drill must have been painful you would have needed to be very careful you didn't get anything caught in it. Personally I think I would have persisted with using a toilet roll even if it did unravel.......probably a lot safer
Dunmowin said
11:04 PM Jan 3, 2017
Rubber band keeps both my toilet roll and paper towels in the kitchen in place.....
However, here is a great opener for a happy hour: Ask each guest as they arrive "Are you a scruncher or a folder" and wait for the hilarious replies - or blank stares.
villatranquilla said
11:59 AM Jan 22, 2017
I put a clothes peg on the holder against the roll - never un-rolls
Dunmowin said
09:44 PM Jan 22, 2017
Dunmowin wrote:
Rubber band keeps both my toilet roll and paper towels in the kitchen in place.....
However, here is a great opener for a happy hour: Ask each guest as they arrive "Are you a scruncher or a folder" and wait for the hilarious replies - or blank stares.
Obviously with "all" the replies I had to this comment, I am greeted by blank stares!
jules47 said
10:20 PM Jan 22, 2017
Okay - Dunmowin - are you a "scruncher or older" ?
Dunmowin said
10:44 PM Jan 22, 2017
I am a folder from way back, and not ashamed to admit it. What about you Jules?
jules47 said
11:49 AM Jan 23, 2017
Definitely a folder - ok anyone else going to own up - scruncher or folder?
What about you - BB or AK?
aussie_paul said
01:03 PM Jan 23, 2017
Definitely a folder
Aussie Paul.
Possum3 said
11:22 AM Jan 31, 2017
Always fold - ensuring the heavy newspaper printing on inside - otherwise transferred ink on the dot.
Blues Man said
08:04 AM Feb 2, 2017
Try folding or scrunching with grass or leaves
baysidetas said
11:05 AM Feb 2, 2017
We have a swinging holder with a curved stainless steel plate that lays on the roll. Stops the paper from unrolling and also assists the user to tear the paper at the perforations providing they hold the plate down.
If you have one of those swinging type toilet roll holders in your RV toilet, chances are, after a drive along a not so smooth road, you find the paper conveniently unrolled and positioned for use on the floor. It doesn't take much to keep it rolling once there is enough hanging down to provide the necessary downward weight. Answer to stopping this is SIMPLE. Before putting the roll on the holder, squash the roll to make the cardboard centre oval and wella !!! The roll swings happily back and forth and the paper stays where it is supposed to be !!!! Try it. It's been working like a charm in our RV for 5 years and 95,000 km.
It only took about 2 rolls for me to look for an answer as rerolling toilet paper is not my idea of " living the dream"
Things we do eh. I used to sell stuff to dairy farmers back in the late 1960's and with 5 kids in the family at that time (we had 6 eventually), the cost of providing milk was a little exie. I used to buy a gallon of milk for 80 cents off the farmer and decant it into the glass milk bottles, put alfoil tops on them (which I told the kids was a new style of top they were using) because I knew they would never drink the milk if they thought it had come from a cow on a farm. I would leave the bottles on the front steps as though they had been delivered by the milkman and got away with it for a while. Ah well, it saved a few dollars for a few weeks
I have a swivel cassette toilet, and have room to jam a toilet roll between the seat and the wall, they have never unrolled yet
If/when the boss wants me to put a toilet roll holder in there, I was thinking of a few different sizes of elastic bands, to stop the roll unrolling, as we drive along
nine times out of ten, you roll will not unroll while travelling!!!
I use a rubber band. Put it on the holder first, up where it meets the wall, then the roll. Then I twist the band and put it over the open end of the holder.
Works well for me.
Hey kiwi using a paint roller with an electric drill must have been painful you would have needed to be very careful you didn't get anything caught in it. Personally I think I would have persisted with using a toilet roll even if it did unravel.......probably a lot safer
Rubber band keeps both my toilet roll and paper towels in the kitchen in place.....
However, here is a great opener for a happy hour:
Ask each guest as they arrive "Are you a scruncher or a folder" and wait for the hilarious replies - or blank stares.
Obviously with "all" the replies I had to this comment, I am greeted by blank stares!
I am a folder from way back, and not ashamed to admit it. What about you Jules?
What about you - BB or AK?
Definitely a folder
Aussie Paul.
Try folding or scrunching with grass or leaves
Barrie