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Toilet for Cabin
My father is looking to replace his current outhouse and indoor toilet
(not particularly sound in any way, but grandfathered due to age) with something more ecologically sound and maybe even legal. This is a cabin that gets maybe 1-3 months' use a year, on a lake, in New Hampshire. He's about 75-80 feet from the lake, and maybe 15 feet higher. This would be something usable by a variety of relatives who visit irregularly, and would not want to be trained in a complicated toilet, carry urine to the garden, or anything else like that. On the other hand, it doesn't have to be exactly a flush toilet for them to use it, either. Gray water is handled with a French drain system, which seems to be adequate. We've looked at composting toilets, incinerator toilets (the neighbor who has one of those said that it takes about 1/2 hour to cool down enough to be used again -- a problem when there are children and old people in the house), and a holding tank that would be pumped out yearly. I suppose there's a cesspool, too, but that seems like an awfully expensive option. Ideas? thanks Wendy |
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Toilet for Cabin
ahhh what about a simple hole in the ground? These systems have been working for hundreds of
years - when full plant a tree and dig another hole. David - whose farm used this idea for over a hundred years Wilkinson wrote: My father is looking to replace his current outhouse and indoor toilet (not particularly sound in any way, but grandfathered due to age) with something more ecologically sound and maybe even legal. This is a cabin that gets maybe 1-3 months' use a year, on a lake, in New Hampshire. He's about 75-80 feet from the lake, and maybe 15 feet higher. This would be something usable by a variety of relatives who visit irregularly, and would not want to be trained in a complicated toilet, carry urine to the garden, or anything else like that. On the other hand, it doesn't have to be exactly a flush toilet for them to use it, either. Gray water is handled with a French drain system, which seems to be adequate. We've looked at composting toilets, incinerator toilets (the neighbor who has one of those said that it takes about 1/2 hour to cool down enough to be used again -- a problem when there are children and old people in the house), and a holding tank that would be pumped out yearly. I suppose there's a cesspool, too, but that seems like an awfully expensive option. Ideas? thanks Wendy |
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Toilet for Cabin
Maybe this isn't the issue, but there's litte environmentally wrong
with a well-run outhouse. I once saw a wonderful, and tastefully done, little pamphlet on how to run them right, traditionally. Well-run, odor is little and mild. There's not much environmentally wrong with a well-run cesspool-toilet system, except a bit of extra water pumping. These both assume good sites, in terms of soils, which I don't know how to determine. A buddy does. He also designs alternative wastewater, or waste treatment systems. Please let me know if you'd like his name and number. Also a guy I know set up a real simple, economical, easy to operate two bucket system that worked great for years, if a bit unconventially. While it seems beneath your freinds style and grace, list-lurkers might find it suited them individually. In knowing the set-up, I can see that it could actually be even easier to run and simpler with one bucket and a steep funnel and hose. I welcome inquiries on it. Brian Cady Wilkinson wrote in message ... My father is looking to replace his current outhouse and indoor toilet (not particularly sound in any way, but grandfathered due to age) with something more ecologically sound and maybe even legal. This is a cabin that gets maybe 1-3 months' use a year, on a lake, in New Hampshire. He's about 75-80 feet from the lake, and maybe 15 feet higher. This would be something usable by a variety of relatives who visit irregularly, and would not want to be trained in a complicated toilet, carry urine to the garden, or anything else like that. On the other hand, it doesn't have to be exactly a flush toilet for them to use it, either. Gray water is handled with a French drain system, which seems to be adequate. We've looked at composting toilets, incinerator toilets (the neighbor who has one of those said that it takes about 1/2 hour to cool down enough to be used again -- a problem when there are children and old people in the house), and a holding tank that would be pumped out yearly. I suppose there's a cesspool, too, but that seems like an awfully expensive option. Ideas? thanks Wendy |
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