Sink sprayers?

Mrs.Felicity

Has anyone come up with an easy solution for spraying solids off your diapers into a sink?  

We have a BG diaper sprayer that we had previously attached to our toilet & worked great...but we just moved to a house that has a toilet where the thing you attach the diaper sprayer to is enclosed in the back of the toilet...you can't get to it (easily) to attach the sprayer and turn the valve on/off as needed.

There's a large utility sink in the basement next to the washer, which is ideally where I'd like to spray the yuck off before I toss the dipes into the wash.  For now I've just been running the cold water in the sink and putting my thumb over the spout to make a 'sprayer' (think like how you used to do on your garden hose as a kid...), but it's messy and I want a better solution.

 

madisonpeas

I am using cold water in our utility sink too.  Ours has a toggle type switch right where the water comes out that you can switch to spray.  It was there when I bought the house, but it seems like a thing that could be attached easily.  Otherwise, what about buying a cheap shower head on a hose and connecting it to the sink faucet?  Sort of like if you had a bathtub only and connected a shower head/hose but with a screw on type attachment.

ckettenb

Are you set on spraying?  Personally, I just scrape with a plastic knife and it works really well.  Maybe you could try that?? Just a thought.

luvbeingmom

I had a laundry sink with a sprayer in my laundry room next to my washing machine in my old house, and I miss it a lot

I would dump as much poo as I could into the toilet and then spray.

LetsBeNice

I use the utility sink, too. DH bought a Y-splitter for garden hoses and hooked it up where the water comes out and you would usually hook up the hose for the washer. Put the Y-Splitter there and have one hose run like normal in to the washer and then bough a cheap rubber hose for the other side to use as the sprayer in to the sick.

QuigleyCat1

This sounds like a good idea, as we have a utility sink by our washer/dryer.  However, wouldn't this eventually clog the sink?  As the poos become more solid are they safe to put down the sink rather than in the toilet?  I'm certainly not handy when it comes to plumbing so I'm just curious!    Thanks!

Mrs.Felicity

QuigleyCat1:

This sounds like a good idea, as we have a utility sink by our washer/dryer.  However, wouldn't this eventually clog the sink?  As the poos become more solid are they safe to put down the sink rather than in the toilet?  I'm certainly not handy when it comes to plumbing so I'm just curious!    Thanks!

This has actually become an issue already...I was going to get one of those 'traps' for the drain and just dump the solids out of there....

However, I don't know why on earth I didn't think of just scraping it off with something into the toilet.  That makes a heck of a lot more sense than trying to McGuyver something up in the sink.   I think we'll give that a shot so we can still flush most of it, then just soak the rest off in the utility sink before washing.

Thanks everyone!