Off Mains Toilets

Glass half full

Member

Location

essex/suffolk border

• Dec 25, 2017

• #1

hello all, I'm working on a project and will need to install a toilet block near a small lake, what is the best option, small cesspit, klargester or compost toilet? any pros or cons? i want good facilities, with a shower also. what have people used in similar scenarios? am thinking of getting a prefab unit, do any come with some kind of cesspit system?

 

mushnt grummmble

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Location

northen tosspot. Who the feck is walter p?

• Dec 25, 2017

• #2

Your thinking a bit posher than double spades to dig a hole and 4 car tyres to sit on then

 

Still Farming

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

South Wales UK

• Dec 25, 2017

• #3

Do you have electric there.

 

Mc115reed

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Dec 25, 2017

• #4

I have a little toilet which has a 21litre clean water tank, 21litre septic tank and you put a cemical in each... take your poop and flush it away and once a week I throw it in the back of the truck and tip it down the main storm drain in one of the fields.. comes out just like pee water the chemical must eat all the poop and paper up as it's all just water when I empty it and no smell

 

Farfrae

Member

Location

Pontargothi, Carmarthenshire

• Dec 26, 2017

• #5

Compost toilets are excellent if properly designed and managed. The main point being that urine is not allowed to mix with the solids. Used them in a remote area of Ethiopia and there were no flies or smell despite the heat etc.

 

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phillipe

Member

• Dec 26, 2017

• #6

How many peopl max?

 

Glass half full

Member

Location

essex/suffolk border

• Dec 27, 2017

• #7

its difficult to say how many people, probably only a couple a day but with odd spells of half a dozen. i have power in the field

 

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Greenbeast

Member

Location

East Sussex

• Dec 28, 2017

• #8

we have a composting loo here in the caravan, us two most of the time but obviously have visitors from time to time. I run urine through floor to a separate bucket with solids in an internal bucket. Empty both about once a week.

 

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phillipe

Member

• Dec 28, 2017

• #9

dig a tank in and dont worry about it

 

Barleycorn

Member

BASE UK Member

Location

Hampshire

• Dec 28, 2017

• #10

Drive a few holes in the bottom of an old diesel tank and bury it.

 

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phillipe

Member

• Dec 28, 2017

• #11

Barleycorn said:

Drive a few holes in the bottom of an old diesel tank and bury it.

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Nice ,that won't contaminate anything will it?i pressume the op is having a lake/fishing.do it properly do it once

 

Barleycorn

Member

BASE UK Member

Location

Hampshire

• Dec 28, 2017

• #12

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skinnyhoskins said:

Nice ,that won't contaminate anything will it?i pressume the op is having a lake/fishing.do it properly do it once

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skinnyhoskins said:

Nice ,that won't contaminate anything will it?i pressume the op is having a lake/fishing.do it properly do it once

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With the amount of use the OP envisaged it would be far less than the contamination by the local wildlife/farm animals.

 

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phillipe

Member

• Dec 29, 2017

• #13

Barleycorn said:

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With the amount of use the OP envisaged it would be far less than the contamination by the local wildlife/farm animals.

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If the public are involved do it properly

 

Pasty

Member

Location

Devon

• Dec 29, 2017

• #14

We have 2 of these:
http://www.thunderboxes2go.co.uk/

Very easy to put up. Took me about 2-3 hours total and work well. Once the IBC is full you can replace it and store it away somewhere until it's ready for tree planting etc. Not sure I'd put it on my veg.

Comes with a solar light which is motion (!) activated and is actually pretty posh.

 

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delilah

Member

• Jan 2, 2018

• #15

Built our own compost toilet, basically a seat over a 240 litre wheely bin with a bucket of sawdust to hand, just looked at the above link and yes it's essentially a thunderbox. The benefit I would say of ours is that we can wheel the 240 litre bin out the back by hand and replace with an empty one, you're not shifting a full IBC by hand.

 

Pasty

Member

Location

Devon

• Jan 2, 2018

• #16

Yeah, I've seen those. Looks like a good idea. We won't have a problem with the IBC as with a few parts taken off, the IBC will slide out from one end and we have a bobcat with forks so should be fairly easy. Hopefully.......

 

Old Tip

Member

Location

Cumbria

• Jan 11, 2018

• #17

We have composting toilets on our campsite and camping barn, as others have said it’s essential to separate solids and liquid with a bespoke separater seat. Biggest problem we have is idiots poring nappies and dog poo bags in them. We have instructions up to tell folk not to put wet wipes etc in and mostly it works ok, just not nice fishing stiff out that shouldn’t be in there.

 

Pasty

Member

Location

Devon

• Jan 11, 2018

• #18

Old Tip said:

We have composting toilets on our campsite and camping barn, as others have said it’s essential to separate solids and liquid with a bespoke separater seat. Biggest problem we have is idiots poring nappies and dog poo bags in them. We have instructions up to tell folk not to put wet wipes etc in and mostly it works ok, just not nice fishing stiff out that shouldn’t be in there.

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I guess really, it would be better to let it all compost down for a year or so and then landfill it anyway. Bound to be contaminated stuff in there.

 

lim x

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Nottinghamshire

• Jan 11, 2018

• #19

Old Tip said:

stiff

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Did something die in there

 

Spuddler

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Summer set

• Jan 14, 2018

• #20

Try woo woo waterless toilets
We have them on the solar farms
They work well