If we lose water supply during Sandy, do we put the water in the tank or toilet bowl to flush?

You can pour the water directly into the toilet bowl from a bucket. It will flush by it self.

Make sure after it flu7shes, you pour some more water in to seal the trtap and prevent sewer gases from entering your home.

Dump it directly in the bowl. That is what you are doing when you flush anyway -- it is the pressure of the water coming from the tank that causes the flush. So putting it in the tank first is a wasted effort -- I don't know why anyone is telling you to do that.

During power outages when you don't have a lot of water, save the dirty dishwater or water you used to wash with and use that to flush -- or leave buckets out for rain water and use them to flush. No point wasting clean drinkable water on toilet flushing. Instead of dumping water in the bathroom sink to wash or shave and then letting it go down the drain, use a dishpan or plastic mixing bowl set in the sink, then dump that dirty water in the bucket by the toilet to use for flushing.

It takes about half a bucket of water to flush the commode. Save the water for drinking and use the rain water for flushing. Most tanks store about 3 gallons I would use the bucket direct.

Doing the water in the bowl, you usually don t need as much water to make it flush. This will depend of course what your trying to flush and how much.

Power outages we do one stool for #1 and use it a few times before flushing and another stool for #2 and carefully flush after each use. GL

maximum modern lavatories do not positioned adequate water in the bowl to overflow with one flush. You probable have a partial obstruction in the rest room capture. If plunging hasn't dislodged it you are able to wish a snake or maybe might might desire to take the rest room loose from the floor and do away with the item. one greater, uncommon, threat I relatively have seen is that the water orifices into the rest room bowl might nicely be blocked with calcium development up and the water isn't entering rapid adequate to create a "flush". you are able to chip out the development up with a stiff cord or small screwdriver.

Just fill the tank and you can flush it like normal.

Either one actually, but if you choose the bowl you'll a bucket and pour it quickly.

In the tank.