A new or different take on composting toilets

You treat yours with rid-x or perhaps yeast?

 

My dogs wipe out the gresse from the insides of the pots and pans.

 

Dog spit and dog tongue precleans pans great considering 0 effort on my part.

 

The previous owners of my new place installed a composting toilet before they left. I love it! It is in its own house (I call it my princess castle) . There is no smell what so ever. I am looking at moving the castle down and making it part of the inside plumbing with access to the composter part on the outside of the house. For now it stays where it is as I have too many other projects to finish right now.

 

Im doing a little research on composting toilets,, not a whole lot of info on them here on the forums ,, as best i can tell looking at the forum on this stupid phone,, but , if you have any info on your composting toilet, name brand and likes or dislikes about it would be useful. thank you.

 

There may not be much info about composting toilets at survival monkeys, but there's a lot of info about them on the internet, especially youtube...will dig up some links for you. There are commercially made products, though contructing one from scratch with recycled or store bought materials from a hardware store is feasible, if somewhat more effort may be required.

 

There's a wide variety of composting toilet systems, ranging from small systems suitable for an RV, boat or tiny house, to conventional sized systems suitable for most domestic dwellings, to large systems designed for public toilets and commercial. buildings.

Compost Toilet Condensed Instruction manual.

Humanure Handbook – Free Download - The Permaculture Research Institute

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this should get you started...so to speak, at least in understanding the principles upon which humanure composting works. Just be aware that local government authorities may have some involvement in regulating domestic installations, particularly in urban and suburban jurisdictions...rural areas may be somewhat more flexible in that regard...check before installing a domestic system...conditions may apply.

 

Thanks,, haven't been to utube yet ,, but started looking on the net for different store bought options.. I may have to go with an Incinloet type system.. I'm looking at possibly having to use that in place of a septic system. Theres a lot of areas where I may be wanting to put a small house that will not perk ,, so I'd have to try and squeeze this option thru the county building offices.

 

You may have better luck with a commercially manufactured solution that has found wide acceptance, particularly by local government authorities...a DIY solution may face additional compliance hurdles and intrusion, particularly in urban/suburban jurisdictions. YMMV in the boondocks.

 

Based on years ago observations of incinolet in various forms in the dry areas of Oregon, you won't care for the stink. Composting was (back then) a far better, less intrusive option. Just make sure the composter bin is sized correctly.

 

I use RidX in my septic tank and it's never needed to be pumped out.
Fact is, if the toilet gets slow I pour RidX in and let it compost the clog in the toilet and it clears right up.

 

The USAF had a bunch of these at remote RADAR sire (SEEK IGLOO) for the so-called Top Camp (RADAR site, no living facilitates. The domes had a case of C rats - later MREs and 20 gallons of water in case a storm trapped you at the dome. All had so called Turd Toasters. Nasty stuff. I noted the resident staff almost always had a bucket and a couple of boxes of trash bags on hand.

It wasn't so much that they didn't work - it was when they didn't work the last user got to clean up the mess and make the fix...

 

I'm thinking if I can just get the county to give me the O.K. on the Incinolet , or something similar,, and get the ok on some grey water drainage,,, once they're off my back , I can dump the crap in a metal bucket, stir in some mogas,, and a few limbs and burn the crap every week or so. Stack me some sandbags ,, throw a match in the bucket,,, stir it a few times ,, sit behind the sandbags with the AR,, and have a few flasbacks ,,, and good times for all ,,,,,

 

Sorry to be slow in reply, you probably have bought and installed one by now. I will get you the info. next week when I get home (yea!!!) I think it’s a SunMar. The compost that came out of it last year was sweet. I really like not having to worry about supplying water to a flusher. Also the whole septic system and headaches with that make me glad I have the composting one. It requires that you turn the drum every other day to keep things aerobic, I think of it as my morning exercise, except it’s easy. All access to the “working “ parts will remain accessible from outside the cabin.......... I think