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What about no-plumbing toilets
I have heard that there are toilets that do not require a drain pipe to
the sewer or septic, and dont need water to flush them. I'm looking for something like that for a cabin which is only used a couple weeks a year. What are the options? I should add to this that I dont want a large unit since the cabin is small. I also dont have a basement so anything that needs to go under the floor wont work. I'd perfer something that is portable and movable. Yea, I know they make camping toilets that are nothing but a 5gal plastic pail with a molded seat on top and plastic bags in the pail. I bought one, they work but I'd prefer something a little more advanced and much less smelly. |
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On Nov 12, 6:34*am, "Don Phillipson" wrote:
wrote in message ... I have heard that there are toilets that do not require a drain pipe to the sewer or septic, and dont need water to flush them. *I'm looking for something like that for a cabin which is only used a couple weeks a year. *What are the options? Your choice is between: 1.. *Modern composting toilets (cf. the Whole Earth Catalogue of say 1980) designed to transform waste, viz. to be emptied at whatever intervals the process require. 2. * Traditional pit privies, that are simply filled in and covered over after (say) 10 years of use: *see Chic Sale, The Specialist. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) I'm not sure about them, but on Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe had to work on a incinerating toilet that was on a boat. If I recall correctly, it burns any waste into ashes.. That may be an option for you. |
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wrote in message ... I have heard that there are toilets that do not require a drain pipe to the sewer or septic, and dont need water to flush them. I'm looking for something like that for a cabin which is only used a couple weeks a year. What are the options? Composting https://www.lehmans.com/c-256-composting-toilets.aspx Or gas fired. http://ecojohn.com/ecojohn_sr.html A friend has a gas fired incinerating toilet and it worked well. A tiny bit of ash residue was left. No odor, no problems. |
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On 11/12/2012 9:49 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
wrote in message ... I have heard that there are toilets that do not require a drain pipe to the sewer or septic, and dont need water to flush them. I'm looking for something like that for a cabin which is only used a couple weeks a year. What are the options? Composting https://www.lehmans.com/c-256-composting-toilets.aspx Or gas fired. http://ecojohn.com/ecojohn_sr.html A friend has a gas fired incinerating toilet and it worked well. A tiny bit of ash residue was left. No odor, no problems. Darn! I lost my watch in the incinerating toilet! O_o TDD |
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When did you do that?
Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "The Daring Dufas" wrote in message ... Darn! I lost my watch in the incinerating toilet! O_o TDD |
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I have heard that there are toilets that do not require a drain pipe to the sewer or septic, and dont need water to flush them. I'm looking for something like that for a cabin which is only used a couple weeks a year. What are the options? I should add to this that I dont want a large unit since the cabin is small. I also dont have a basement so anything that needs to go under the floor wont work. I'd perfer something that is portable and movable. Yea, I know they make camping toilets that are nothing but a 5gal plastic pail with a molded seat on top and plastic bags in the pail. I bought one, they work but I'd prefer something a little more advanced and much less smelly. I saw similar unit on survival preppers. The bag was sealed after using. Close quarters !! Greg |
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:42:52 +0000 (UTC), DerbyDad03
wrote: Recapture the past. Live like your ancestors. Be a pioneer - if only for two weeks. This is important: don't forget the moon-sliver cut-out on the door ! You don't need a door. The best out house I ever used was really an *out* house. No building, just a short wall and a seat on a box over a pit. The seat looked out over a valley with a beautiful view. The short wall gave you privacy from behind, which is how others would approach the facility. If they saw someone sitting there, they would walk away or wait patiently from a distance. The camp also had a regular outhouse for inclement weather or for shy folks. Most people, male, female, young and old, loved using the open air facility on beautiful days and nights. Boy Scouts and Soldiers know how to dig a Latrine. 60 miles from nowhere my bride learned to pee in the dirt. |
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Oren wrote:
Boy Scouts and Soldiers know how to dig a Latrine. 60 miles from nowhere my bride learned to pee in the dirt. And, I trust, not to use leaves from posion ivy to wipe ... |
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On Nov 12, 11:18*pm, Oren wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:42:52 +0000 (UTC), DerbyDad03 wrote: Recapture the past. Live like your ancestors. Be a pioneer - if only for two weeks. This is important: don't forget the moon-sliver cut-out on the door ! You don't need a door. The best out house I ever used was really an *out* house. No building, just a short wall and a seat on a box over a pit. The seat looked out over a valley with a beautiful view. The short wall gave you privacy from behind, which is how others would approach the facility. If they saw someone sitting there, they would walk away or wait patiently from a distance. The camp also had a regular outhouse for inclement weather or for shy folks. Most people, male, female, young and old, loved using the open air facility on beautiful days and nights. Boy Scouts and Soldiers know how to dig a Latrine. 60 miles from nowhere my bride learned to pee in the dirt.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's a beautiful story...just not sure what the response has to do with my post. |
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On 11/12/2012 12:22 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
When did you do that? Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org . "The Daring Dufas" wrote in message ... Darn! I lost my watch in the incinerating toilet! O_o TDD Probably when trying to retrieve his cell phone. |
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On 11/13/2012 11:34 AM, Frank wrote:
On 11/12/2012 12:22 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote: When did you do that? Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org . "The Daring Dufas" wrote in message ... Darn! I lost my watch in the incinerating toilet! O_o TDD Probably when trying to retrieve his cell phone. I've dropped a pager in a toilet by accident before. ^_^ TDD |
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On Nov 13, 2:04*pm, The Daring Dufas the-daring-du...@stinky-
finger.net wrote: On 11/13/2012 11:34 AM, Frank wrote: On 11/12/2012 12:22 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote: When did you do that? Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus * *www.lds.org . "The Daring Dufas" wrote in message ... Darn! I lost my watch in the incinerating toilet! O_o TDD Probably when trying to retrieve his cell phone. I've dropped a pager in a toilet by accident before. ^_^ TDD I jumped into a hot tub with a pager on my belt. At first I thought the vibrations I felt were from the hot tub bubbles but it turned out to be my pager shorting out with BUZZZZzzzzzzzz...zzzzz...zzz...zz... |
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On Monday, November 12, 2012 9:22:05 AM UTC-5, rlz wrote:
I'm not sure about them, but on Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe had to work on a incinerating toilet that was on a boat. If I recall correctly, it burns any waste into ashes.. That may be an option for you. ....and if you recall, the process of cleaning said toilet was completely disgusting. No matter what you do, it's going to involve handling some stinky at some point or other in the process. If you think $hitting into a plastic bag is gross, try using a real outhouse where you're dumping into an open hole in the ground. The only time the smell is bearable is the first dump into a new hole. |
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wrote in message ... On Monday, November 12, 2012 9:22:05 AM UTC-5, rlz wrote: I'm not sure about them, but on Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe had to work on a incinerating toilet that was on a boat. If I recall correctly, it burns any waste into ashes.. That may be an option for you. ...and if you recall, the process of cleaning said toilet was completely disgusting. No matter what you do, it's going to involve handling some stinky at some point or other in the process. If you think $hitting into a plastic bag is gross, try using a real outhouse where you're dumping into an open hole in the ground. The only time the smell is bearable is the first dump into a new hole. My grandparents kept a scuttle full of wood ashes (from the cook stove) in their outhouse. After going, a scoop or two of ashes in the hole kept the smell at a minimum. Tomsic |
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Jim Elbrecht wrote:
wrote: -snip- If you think $hitting into a plastic bag is gross, try using a real outhouse where you're dumping into an open hole in the ground. The only time the smell is bearable is the first dump into a new hole. That's what the bucket of lime is for. Do your business- cover with lime for the next guy. Jim Even the open air out house I mentioned a few posts back had a bucket of lime nearby. No out house should be without one. |
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:01:10 -0500, Jim Elbrecht
wrote: wrote: -snip- If you think $hitting into a plastic bag is gross, try using a real outhouse where you're dumping into an open hole in the ground. The only time the smell is bearable is the first dump into a new hole. That's what the bucket of lime is for. Do your business- cover with lime for the next guy. Jim Back when I was young and in the Boy Scouts, all the camps still had outhouses. We were always told to put in a scoop of lime after we were finished, but no one ever told us what it was for. Is the lime only to remove odor, or is there another reason, such as helping the poop to decompose? I've heard of adding lime to compost piles to help them decompose, so is that similar to using it in a outhouse? |
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On 11/14/2012 4:39 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:01:10 -0500, Jim Elbrecht wrote: wrote: -snip- If you think $hitting into a plastic bag is gross, try using a real outhouse where you're dumping into an open hole in the ground. The only time the smell is bearable is the first dump into a new hole. That's what the bucket of lime is for. Do your business- cover with lime for the next guy. Jim Back when I was young and in the Boy Scouts, all the camps still had outhouses. We were always told to put in a scoop of lime after we were finished, but no one ever told us what it was for. Is the lime only to remove odor, or is there another reason, such as helping the poop to decompose? I've heard of adding lime to compost piles to help them decompose, so is that similar to using it in a outhouse? Some of the pictures I've seen of mass graves, not necessarily full of humans, show those doing the burying of the bodies/carcases spreading lime over the collection. I always wondered why lime was used that way. I found links on the use of lime for the outhouse and mass graves. It looks like there are different forms of lime used for those purposes. http://www.ehow.com/info_8313504_kin...use-waste.html http://tinyurl.com/blje97s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACalcium_oxide http://tinyurl.com/cpzwug8 TDD |
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On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:01:13 PM UTC-5, elbrecht wrote:
That's what the bucket of lime is for. Do your business- cover with lime for the next guy. The lime only helps so much. |
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On Nov 14, 11:31*am, wrote:
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:01:13 PM UTC-5, elbrecht wrote: That's what the bucket of lime is for. * *Do your business- cover with lime for the next guy. The lime only helps so much. I agree...the lime helps so much. |
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