Something had been nagging me until, 'the penny dropped' (an old English joke). Put a door on the poop bucket space! A great place for animals and creepy crawlies to shelter from rain, cold and heat. How could you make such a mistake? It's no place to get such a surprise. Glad to see others have noticed fatal (?) error. Keep going, a wonderful adventure. Thank you.
Looks like the lid to the toilet doesn’t sit flush on the seat, so any critters coming in that back entrance can sneak up and bite you in the …..well, you get the idea…..that back area needs a door…..such a rookie mistake! 🤦♀️
This may be 'over-engineering,' but you may want to mount under the seat (inside the sitting box) a small plastic or metal pee blocker towards the front of the toilet seat. This way when men sit to pee, they won't accidentally miss the catch bucket. It's been 9 months since this was uploaded, so you probably already addressed this if it was actually a problem! I've made a few outhouses, and this was actually a challenge in 1 of them, haha. Those messy kids!
I recommend a 'chimney' to take away any smells. Connect a 100mm tube from box with poop bucket and up through roof, all unwanted smells will be drawn away.
I have seen composting toilets use a funnel made of flexible plastic, like rubber roofing material or a bucket with the bottom cut out, to ensure that the fresh sewage goes directly into the catch basin and not onto the toilet itself where it’s harder to clean.
@Lastgame23s Lastgame23s Pee isn’t hazardous unless you have a huge amount concentrated in one place, like thousands of people at a rock concert. Poo has to be dealt with carefully, because it contains deadly microbes that can leach into things people eat, and the same microbes can be carried by flies.
Aren't you supposed to pee elsewhere? I read that if you pee and poo into the same container it makes the compost process significantly less effective.
An insert for a separation toilet would be a good idea for use of recycled plastic. With such an insert you could separate urine from the rest. This way the moisture level is easier to maintain, without too much saw dust, the smell is kept down and the bucket will not have to be emptied that often. The additional benefit is that the guys don't pee on the toilet seat :-) These separators sell for good money. Using recycled plastic for it, generates an unique selling point.
I would suggest you tie a strong string to the handle of the mug you use for the sawdust, because you just know that someone sometime is going to drop it in the hole! :)
Well done ! It would have been great to separate peen from poo. Pee, onces diluted to 1:20 with water makes instantly the perfect fertilizer for any plant, while poo needs a two year cycle to be composted. Separate fluid helps also a lot to reduce smell too.
Even if you just get the blokes to pee in watering cans it's better than nothing. On one community garden I've been involved with we used an old plastic bottle, turned upside down & attached to the wall, cut into a rough urinal shape and with a short hose attached to the lid feeding through the wall and straight into a normal compost bin next to the composting loo. On my own allotment I just pee into a watering can (in the composting loo shed!) and then use it to water the apple and plum trees. You can get pee diverters for the ladies too but that's a bit more involved as their, er, "plumbing" is a little bit different to us chaps (so I'm told! ;-) ).
Everyone tells one to seperate the pee from the poo, but if there is no need for liters of fertilizer and you have no sewer I dont see any big advantages. I think it can also make more work if you have no sewer. In my experience the smell is not a big problem if one uses more sawdust and maybe effective microorganisms. Which would also help to break the poo down much faster.
@@megaultraglow There's a bit of missinformation here. First, you really need a full 2 years composting cycle for poo because it's the time required for tompost to get rid of pathogenic bacterias which can otherwise set into garden food and contaminate people if not composted properly. You can't speed up the process except with chemicals. Second I already explained the perks of separating pee from poo, but here's all : - Pee is a totally balanced, performing, natural, instant, fertilizer. Which is a need and a huge advantage anyways when you have to grow food. - 75% of composting toilet smells comes from the pee, which is liquid and hard to dry, and it turns into amonia which is particularly smelly. - unseparated feces require more carbonate materials than poo to absorb moisture (250%), so separating feces is greener. In a quest for a sustainable living, especially off grid, you have to do your best at every stage. Any half solution brings full problems.
@@axelSixtySix I think two years is the worst case, with a meat eater with bad gut flora. A good plant-based person with good gut flora has very benign stool. It could be dealt with basically the same as cow manure.
I would need a imperial tape measure. The craftsmanship and quality of that commode is quite frankly higher than I would have done if someone hired me to build one. This will be a fun series to watch. You guys should really package these videos together in a couple years as kind of a starter kit for people looking to do what you are doing. The level of advancement in cordless tools really really gives your group a major leg up over anyone else before you.
Lift the whole house onto some stones (~15cm) with some plastic on top as water barrier to avoid capillary water transport from the stones into the wood.
First composting toilet 👏👏👏. One of several I expect, as you grow, and have more volunteers. Planning for the leaching waste water is very important so wells and springs are protected. So much happening.
This actually the best channel of all the precious plastic channels. You guys need to monetize all your channels if you haven't already. The money can be used to fund the organization.
As an old Hippie from the 70's USA, the outhouse on my farm would fill with water and occasionally when dropping a load a little drop of that water would slash up and hit you right on the money spot! (Arm gripping shrieks of terror ensue) so I installed a sheet metal baffle of sorts so your poop would hit that first and deflect and minimalize any splashing (huge sigh of relief!) but our friends from the city when visiting complained about when they finished they would turn around and expect to be doing something to complete the transaction and were left unfulfilled~~~ sooo I installed a toilet handle to the side of the box with a chain that went down to the tin baffle, when you turned the handle it wiggled the metal a little, it actually did nothing but it solved the city people anxiety and gave me great amusement!
Goats will convert the undergrowth to milk and cheese for you. Is there a board to seal off the back where the bucket goes? If not something is gonna start living there.
I'd advise getting a few spare buckets and lids. Then you can empty a few buckets at once, makes life a lot easier. And always have a spare, there's nothing worse than needing to go and having to empty buckets first. Lol
Pretty easy to see the pile building... I know good whole-food plant-based people have monstrous sized deifications, but there's still no excuse if when you poop if it has support from below.
That looks great. You might want to hang door from opposite side so the diagonals are supporting. Sorry, just some advice rather that showing any disrespect.
Thank you for these great videos. Pleasantly surprised at your command of English. And so VERY thankful for that bluegrass music you play in the background.
For people that were worried about the compost : my grandparents - who lived in a very similar village in the center of Portugal- had for more than 60 years a compost toilet ( only difference is the the deposit on the back was around 1.8 meters high...in fact that was a squared hole in the ground .with no plastics or anything else ..only the ground ,so the urine will slowly disappear in the soil...) and that was emptied once a year...and the humanure was mixed with the manure that comes from the corrals of other animals they had ( cows ,pigs, sheep) in a big pile ( around 4 metres x 4 meters x 1 meter)intercalate with bush layers,cut in the forest, in the middle of the courtyard...where it stays for around another year before it went directly onto the tillage to be mixed in the plowed earth and nobody got sick from it : my grandparents died at the age of 97&98 .wich are very common among the people who live there,and they had the same type of toilets in their houses.... even today there is no public sewage in the village...
Fun fact - the sitting was made of wood ( although the "shitting house or cabin..." walls are made of brick like a small house..) and it got a perfect circular hole where we sit when doing our business...and that hole has a perfect matching lid ,made of wood ( probably the same wood that comes out when they cut the circle...) , with a handle in the middle, so when we finish doing business we close the hole with the lid ( it seals the hole completely..) and no smell comes up at all....with that fancy plastic lid they had I'm not so sure....👃😀
I think honestly people nowadays are so brainwashed thinking sewage is the only way to go. After looking into compost toilets I actually think sewage is so much more unhygienic and just born out of necessity for cities/lack of space and people living in higher buildings. The earth deals so much better with our humanure. Besides, all the sewage 'water' needs to be dealt with and cleaned aswell and is dumped back into nature too.
I've built a few composting toilets before and I highly recommend raising the thing off of the soil as soon as possible (definitelly before the winter) as well as installing a urine seperator (we-pee). There's lot of reasons to seperate pee and poo, mainly smell and composting reasons. I can explain in more detail if that's interesting to you. The seats and the house look awesome though! Keep up the good work
Next job, build a compost bin nearby to empty into, or rather build 3, one for each yearly cycle. Also, ventilation to the cubicle and also to suck the stinky air and flies out of the loo part. And a door at the back to keep out the flies and wildlife who might want a poo dinner or make a nest. And also, make a separator to catch the pee so it doesn’t all mix together.
Good basic design, however, pee shield of some type of plastic will help protect wood, paper bag for disposing of toilet paper (then burn bag) and add a skylight to ceiling with a clear polyvinyl sheet. Best wishes.
Like your videos allot. An I really like seeing you guys built every from scratch. I noticed that the diagonal beams on the door to the toilet is going from the wrong directions. They need to go opposite to support the weight of the door better and secure its not dropping. Think off the gallow when building doors 😉
Nice building.....but....I would have found a spot in the shade where the outhouse is on a mound or added dirt where you put it instead of putting it in a hole you dug, it rains a lot there.
A DRY composting toilet would work much better for you! The idea is to separate the urine from the solids. I have seen them in rural areas in México, they work very well! They build two separate deposits for the solids, and they use one toilet first. When it is full, they switch to the other one. (Two toilets but only one in use). The full one gets "sealed" for a number of months, and when the time is up (don't remember if it is 6 or 9 months), they open it up from the base at the back where they left a door, and they take out the compost, ready to use in the garden or orchard. The urine is diverted directly into a big bottle or bucket. Then they dilute it and use it directly in their garden. The great thing is that it doesn't stink. They use leaves, woodchips to cover their feces. Here is a link in case you want to check it out for future composting toilet ideas. ua-cam.com/video/98B8lpuSPZE/v-deo.html "Letrina abonera seca" (Dry composting toilet)
U could add 2 little levels for the feet so u poop in a squaty position.. its healthier cause "relaxes your puborectalis muscle more and straightens out your colon, giving the poop a straight route out" eheh Remarkable project so far .. hope to visit soon! Hugs
Story from my neighbor. Her father visited their cabin and decided to help with the composting loo. Not wanting to carry the stink through the house he decided to lift it out the window instead. So he opened the window and dangled the bucket out, but the ground was too far down, so he reached out a bit more, and a bit more... and fell headfirst into the bucket. My neighbor laughs so hard she can't breathe, the kids scream in pure poop horror and mom calmly locks herself in the kitchen. I'm with mom, she got her priorities straight. As for dad, I don't know how he got out of the bucket and got cleaned up again.
I suggest that future versions be raised off of bare soil. Oil won’t prevent rot and termites for very long. Building looks very sturdy otherwise. The seat is a great product. How many toilet seats are in the world? That’s a lot of plastic.
Are termites not a consideration in Portugal? If you put timber straight on the ground here in Australia they would completely eat in a couple of years
I wonder if it may be a good idea to level off the ground around the out house. it looks like the land around it is higher, so I worry that when it rains the out house will get flooded. Great prototype. Keep up the great work and thanks for the update!
Get a pee diverter with either another bucket to empty or a pipe that goes somewhere to drain. this will eliminate the odor problem. When the two mix it creates a stinky outhouse, but if kept separate, there will be almost no odor. This is how it's done in compost type toilets in skoolies, vans, and tiny homes.
the door needs a cutout of the shape of a moon in it I´d also add a supply of cotton towels and a bowl of water to wet them and clean (so much better than paper) and something to wash your hands without touching doors first (foot operated?) that´s what covid is leaving us, obsessed about germs!
That is a lot of brand spanking new lumber for a toilet. Why not build something up against an existing building? Especially for when bad weather comes along. Water harvested from the roof could be used to wash buckets. Any forest duff can be used for carbon source; no need to purchase sawdust. When you do all of your scrub clearing, keep in mind to contain it and dry it down a bit.
The door is on backwards. The diagonals should be going up from the hinges in order to keep the shape and not sag. Over time it will sag the way it's currently supported by the diagonal braces
Wanted to mention to you that in this kind of out-houses in Norway, it's normal to have a small heart-shaped opening on the upper portion of the door, and a picture of the Norwegian king on the wall inside. The heart I guess is for decoration and ventilation. The picture of the king I have no idea :)
You may want to consider drilling a hole in the container and connect a tube and allow the “liquids” to drain off into a separate hole. An option is to dig a 4 foot hole 4-5 inch diameter hole with an angle 3-4 ft pipe sticking out of the ground, for the boys to pee. Cover the top with some fine mosquito netting, push it into the pipe to create a small indentation. Somebody gets the job once every couple of days to sterilize the mosquito net and wash down the pvc pipe. This will alleviate the smell from the boys going where ever they like and will keep the smell down. It will also keep the bugs down.
@@lightdark00 ever think you may be bad at reading? But then again, when typing on a cell phone I try an keep it brief. I think that with due diligence, someone would be able to figure out what I wrote. Basic idea is to stop urine from overwhelming the poo bucket.
@@brianjohnston9822 You described what you thought basically backwards. There are more succinct ways of describing it as well. Also confusing if you said two options or the second is explaining the first. The whole problem is the build was not as practical as it could have been. It's not anchored, direct ground contact in a lowered ground spot, the can is too close to have a proper diverter for both sexes, the back is not closed off, no aeration, no exhaust pipe out the top from the waste area, and no lighting for night/very early morning movements.
It's good you didn't make both loos at the same time, using the first as a prototype leaving room for improvement for the second one. Separate urine, no pathogens in urine so you can use it directly around your fruit trees, or just lead a line directly outside to a soak hole and plant nettles around which love urine. Well done for collecting this valuable resource.
Great little shit house! I've been making 'humanure' for over 10 years. It is a wonderful product for the garden. I was at a mini film festival here in Alentejo and on one of the nights they showed you making recycled plastic and I recognized your face and voice! Very impressive, what you do.
The best system is 1 generation from food. Trees is fine for nuts and fruits, but no roots, no leaf. Use the humanure to grow flowers and all the clippings get composted and can be used on foods the second year.
Welcome aboard, all the volunteers! It is getting exciting! How about making 2 outhouses since you have 2😂😂?! Love it. Now you can do your business comfortably. A concerned question. Are those eucalyptus trees behind? So much of them, aren't they fire hazardous?
I’m back home we use to had a well for the toilet at first made well then put the toilet cabinet on top of well well it could be from 3 to 10 meters deep I suggestion you do that it long use .
You may find you will need to seal the gaps to stop Flys taking over. The other thing would be a vent. Two things easy to add and will make life a lot nicer in summer
I really like the way you are making your videos - they inspire me! How did you start the project? Where came the idea to it from? And what is your ultimate goal with the property?
Hi everyone, our experiments here at C+O2 have found it best to let human manure sit with old leaves and fungal matter. The resulting compost is best used on trees, we use it on pecans and walnuts mostly. Vegie gardens like a more bacterial compost but there the danger of getting pathogens on leafy greens etc. if you put human manure around your vegies. Such an important topic.
I'm surprised it took you so long to build this, especially with all the rain you get, nothing worse than taking a dump in the rain, however based on my experience the bucket is way to big. You'll have to empty it reasonably often or it'll be unmanageable. I'm sure you'll get a lot more help now.
Well done on finally getting a toilet. Honestly it surprised me that it took you this long to make it a priority. It would have been one of the first requirements in my mind, purely from a hygiene standpoint. 'Indiscriminate' pooping and peeing in various areas around the campsite has multiple negative consequences - and not just from a housekeeping perspective. I hope in the future you look at separating the liquids from the solids, as that will substantially reduce the effectiveness of the compost, and it also smells horrific.
Yeah poop in Instyle you need his and her it was about time you made a toilet after seven months👍👏👏👏 I recommend putting the door on the back side to keep wild animals out I have experience snakes being in the out house when you go to sit down to do your business that was one hell of surprise😳😳😳😳
Just curious why you setup so close to the road, I believe you said you had 10 hectares which is 24.7 imperial acres, granted some of it is wooded but seems to me you could have moved a bit farther from the road
After the basics of 1: shelter, 2: water, 3: food, number 4 (so to speak) for me is the toilet!!! There is zero chance I would build a workshop before I build a toilet!!! Vive la difference I suppose.
I actually prefer cork seats. More hygienic (antibacterial, anti-fungal) and so comfortable to sit on. It even feels warm in cold weather. And it's still easy to clean.
You think that a porous material that is exposed to shit and piss is more hygienic? Have you ever seen a lab or a commercial kitchen with cork countertops?
The solution you probably want but don't know yet is called a biodigestor. Look it up. It's an "automatic" system that besides fertiliser production also produces biogas that you can use to warm yourselves and/or to cook more delicious meals.
No harsh criticism intended here but I thought I should point out that (especially if heat is used in the process of flattening the plastic in that big press) there is risk in recycling plastic. Recycled plastic I read even may be exceptionally toxic compared to newly manufactured plastics. I would encourage anyone reading this to look into VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and related subjects.
07:10 Watch how the toilet seat is made
Is there a way to buy this toilet seat. I’m moving and looking for a new one. 👌🏼
Would highly recommend putting a hatch at the back to prevent animals or something nefarious getting the wrong idea.
But what if they just want to use the poop bucket because they are tired of walking in each others' poop :'(
And to keep out so many flies! Remind folks to leave the lid down too, as that attracts flies in the places that still use these here in australia.
Something had been nagging me until, 'the penny dropped' (an old English joke). Put a door on the poop bucket space! A great place for animals and creepy crawlies to shelter from rain, cold and heat. How could you make such a mistake? It's no place to get such a surprise. Glad to see others have noticed fatal (?) error. Keep going, a wonderful adventure. Thank you.
Looks like the lid to the toilet doesn’t sit flush on the seat, so any critters coming in that back entrance can sneak up and bite you in the …..well, you get the idea…..that back area needs a door…..such a rookie mistake! 🤦♀️
This may be 'over-engineering,' but you may want to mount under the seat (inside the sitting box) a small plastic or metal pee blocker towards the front of the toilet seat. This way when men sit to pee, they won't accidentally miss the catch bucket. It's been 9 months since this was uploaded, so you probably already addressed this if it was actually a problem! I've made a few outhouses, and this was actually a challenge in 1 of them, haha. Those messy kids!
I recommend a 'chimney' to take away any smells. Connect a 100mm tube from box with poop bucket and up through roof, all unwanted smells will be drawn away.
I've used many composting toilets and this makes a huge difference!!
You would be advised to put aplastic ‘pee shield’ on the inside of the toilet box to avoid the timber getting soaked.
I have seen composting toilets use a funnel made of flexible plastic, like rubber roofing material or a bucket with the bottom cut out, to ensure that the fresh sewage goes directly into the catch basin and not onto the toilet itself where it’s harder to clean.
You beat me to it, not only will the timber rot but it will also stink to high heaven.
@Lastgame23s Lastgame23s Pee isn’t hazardous unless you have a huge amount concentrated in one place, like thousands of people at a rock concert. Poo has to be dealt with carefully, because it contains deadly microbes that can leach into things people eat, and the same microbes can be carried by flies.
This a true "bushradical" moment, he is a strong supporter of the pee shield
Aren't you supposed to pee elsewhere? I read that if you pee and poo into the same container it makes the compost process significantly less effective.
An insert for a separation toilet would be a good idea for use of recycled plastic. With such an insert you could separate urine from the rest. This way the moisture level is easier to maintain, without too much saw dust, the smell is kept down and the bucket will not have to be emptied that often. The additional benefit is that the guys don't pee on the toilet seat :-)
These separators sell for good money. Using recycled plastic for it, generates an unique selling point.
And urine, while diluted (and uncontaminated by poop) is a wonderful fertilizer!
I think guys will still pee outside the outhouse. A diverter funnel and hose would be great for those times sitting down.
"The guys" can just sit down by the way.
what i said
No guy would go peeing in that booth, believe me.
I would suggest you tie a strong string to the handle of the mug you use for the sawdust, because you just know that someone sometime is going to drop it in the hole! :)
So many suggestions in the comments, I'm just happy to see things moving forward!
But I would suggest some kind of window: looks so dark in there :|
Well done ! It would have been great to separate peen from poo. Pee, onces diluted to 1:20 with water makes instantly the perfect fertilizer for any plant, while poo needs a two year cycle to be composted. Separate fluid helps also a lot to reduce smell too.
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Even if you just get the blokes to pee in watering cans it's better than nothing. On one community garden I've been involved with we used an old plastic bottle, turned upside down & attached to the wall, cut into a rough urinal shape and with a short hose attached to the lid feeding through the wall and straight into a normal compost bin next to the composting loo. On my own allotment I just pee into a watering can (in the composting loo shed!) and then use it to water the apple and plum trees.
You can get pee diverters for the ladies too but that's a bit more involved as their, er, "plumbing" is a little bit different to us chaps (so I'm told! ;-) ).
Everyone tells one to seperate the pee from the poo, but if there is no need for liters of fertilizer and you have no sewer I dont see any big advantages. I think it can also make more work if you have no sewer. In my experience the smell is not a big problem if one uses more sawdust and maybe effective microorganisms. Which would also help to break the poo down much faster.
@@megaultraglow There's a bit of missinformation here. First, you really need a full 2 years composting cycle for poo because it's the time required for tompost to get rid of pathogenic bacterias which can otherwise set into garden food and contaminate people if not composted properly. You can't speed up the process except with chemicals. Second I already explained the perks of separating pee from poo, but here's all :
- Pee is a totally balanced, performing, natural, instant, fertilizer. Which is a need and a huge advantage anyways when you have to grow food.
- 75% of composting toilet smells comes from the pee, which is liquid and hard to dry, and it turns into amonia which is particularly smelly.
- unseparated feces require more carbonate materials than poo to absorb moisture (250%), so separating feces is greener.
In a quest for a sustainable living, especially off grid, you have to do your best at every stage. Any half solution brings full problems.
@@axelSixtySix I think two years is the worst case, with a meat eater with bad gut flora. A good plant-based person with good gut flora has very benign stool. It could be dealt with basically the same as cow manure.
I would need a imperial tape measure. The craftsmanship and quality of that commode is quite frankly higher than I would have done if someone hired me to build one. This will be a fun series to watch. You guys should really package these videos together in a couple years as kind of a starter kit for people looking to do what you are doing. The level of advancement in cordless tools really really gives your group a major leg up over anyone else before you.
Lift the whole house onto some stones (~15cm) with some plastic on top as water barrier to avoid capillary water transport from the stones into the wood.
Wax on the bottom edge of the boards will stop capillary action just as well.
Can do that, or just some concrete stumps plus ant caps ;)
@@kschleic9053 Won't be enough. If you want to keep your stuff from rotting, keep it away from the ground. Always.
First composting toilet 👏👏👏. One of several I expect, as you grow, and have more volunteers. Planning for the leaching waste water is very important so wells and springs are protected. So much happening.
Tip when you renovate the outhouse put a sheet of corrugated steel on the inside, it will prevent pee from rotting the front panel
This actually the best channel of all the precious plastic channels. You guys need to monetize all your channels if you haven't already. The money can be used to fund the organization.
As an old Hippie from the 70's USA, the outhouse on my farm would fill with water and occasionally when dropping a load a little drop of that water would slash up and hit you right on the money spot!
(Arm gripping shrieks of terror ensue) so I installed a sheet metal baffle of sorts so your poop would hit that first and deflect and minimalize any splashing (huge sigh of relief!) but our friends from the city when visiting complained about when they finished they would turn around and expect to be doing something to complete the transaction and were left unfulfilled~~~ sooo I installed a toilet handle to the side of the box with a chain that went down to the tin baffle, when you turned the handle it wiggled the metal a little, it actually did nothing but it solved the city people anxiety and gave me great amusement!
Wow Ian looks like a lovely guy and very handy!!❤
Goats will convert the undergrowth to milk and cheese for you. Is there a board to seal off the back where the bucket goes? If not something is gonna start living there.
The toilet seat, and the hole out house turn out great !!
I'd advise getting a few spare buckets and lids. Then you can empty a few buckets at once, makes life a lot easier. And always have a spare, there's nothing worse than needing to go and having to empty buckets first. Lol
Pretty easy to see the pile building... I know good whole-food plant-based people have monstrous sized deifications, but there's still no excuse if when you poop if it has support from below.
That looks great. You might want to hang door from opposite side so the diagonals are supporting. Sorry, just some advice rather that showing any disrespect.
Awesome. Works great and super easy set up. We love it.
Thank you for these great videos. Pleasantly surprised at your command of English. And so VERY thankful for that bluegrass music you play in the background.
For people that were worried about the compost : my grandparents - who lived in a very similar village in the center of Portugal- had for more than 60 years a compost toilet ( only difference is the the deposit on the back was around 1.8 meters high...in fact that was a squared hole in the ground .with no plastics or anything else ..only the ground ,so the urine will slowly disappear in the soil...) and that was emptied once a year...and the humanure was mixed with the manure that comes from the corrals of other animals they had ( cows ,pigs, sheep) in a big pile ( around 4 metres x 4 meters x 1 meter)intercalate with bush layers,cut in the forest, in the middle of the courtyard...where it stays for around another year before it went directly onto the tillage to be mixed in the plowed earth and nobody got sick from it : my grandparents died at the age of 97&98 .wich are very common among the people who live there,and they had the same type of toilets in their houses.... even today there is no public sewage in the village...
Fun fact - the sitting was made of wood ( although the "shitting house or cabin..." walls are made of brick like a small house..) and it got a perfect circular hole where we sit when doing our business...and that hole has a perfect matching lid ,made of wood ( probably the same wood that comes out when they cut the circle...) , with a handle in the middle, so when we finish doing business we close the hole with the lid ( it seals the hole completely..) and no smell comes up at all....with that fancy plastic lid they had I'm not so sure....👃😀
It's not manure. It's humanure.
@@rustyshakleford5230 thanks...
@@netby Yeah, there needs to be no cap in the seat and lid ;)
I think honestly people nowadays are so brainwashed thinking sewage is the only way to go. After looking into compost toilets I actually think sewage is so much more unhygienic and just born out of necessity for cities/lack of space and people living in higher buildings. The earth deals so much better with our humanure. Besides, all the sewage 'water' needs to be dealt with and cleaned aswell and is dumped back into nature too.
Excellent job on those amazing toilet seats❤
I've built a few composting toilets before and I highly recommend raising the thing off of the soil as soon as possible (definitelly before the winter) as well as installing a urine seperator (we-pee). There's lot of reasons to seperate pee and poo, mainly smell and composting reasons. I can explain in more detail if that's interesting to you. The seats and the house look awesome though! Keep up the good work
Next job, build a compost bin nearby to empty into, or rather build 3, one for each yearly cycle. Also, ventilation to the cubicle and also to suck the stinky air and flies out of the loo part. And a door at the back to keep out the flies and wildlife who might want a poo dinner or make a nest. And also, make a separator to catch the pee so it doesn’t all mix together.
What an amazing toilet you have!
Good basic design, however, pee shield of some type of plastic will help protect wood, paper bag for disposing of toilet paper (then burn bag) and add a skylight to ceiling with a clear polyvinyl sheet. Best wishes.
Welcome to Alex!! He seems like a great addition!!
Like your videos allot. An I really like seeing you guys built every from scratch.
I noticed that the diagonal beams on the door to the toilet is going from the wrong directions.
They need to go opposite to support the weight of the door better and secure its not dropping.
Think off the gallow when building doors 😉
Next you need to plumb in a tap and wash basin and maybe get lots of air fresheners in there!
Hey my friend
For flies try hang clear bags full of water around your living area! One gallon zip lock bags work great Love your videos
Nice building.....but....I would have found a spot in the shade where the outhouse is on a mound or added dirt where you put it instead of putting it in a hole you dug, it rains a lot there.
First star for the five star hotel :) Nice job, enjoy.
Man... Who can dislike this kind of video? x)
A DRY composting toilet would work much better for you! The idea is to separate the urine from the solids. I have seen them in rural areas in México, they work very well! They build two separate deposits for the solids, and they use one toilet first. When it is full, they switch to the other one. (Two toilets but only one in use). The full one gets "sealed" for a number of months, and when the time is up (don't remember if it is 6 or 9 months), they open it up from the base at the back where they left a door, and they take out the compost, ready to use in the garden or orchard. The urine is diverted directly into a big bottle or bucket. Then they dilute it and use it directly in their garden.
The great thing is that it doesn't stink. They use leaves, woodchips to cover their feces.
Here is a link in case you want to check it out for future composting toilet ideas.
ua-cam.com/video/98B8lpuSPZE/v-deo.html
"Letrina abonera seca" (Dry composting toilet)
Great job on the outhouse Ian!
U could add 2 little levels for the feet so u poop in a squaty position.. its healthier cause "relaxes your puborectalis muscle more and straightens out your colon, giving the poop a straight route out" eheh
Remarkable project so far .. hope to visit soon!
Hugs
Story from my neighbor. Her father visited their cabin and decided to help with the composting loo. Not wanting to carry the stink through the house he decided to lift it out the window instead. So he opened the window and dangled the bucket out, but the ground was too far down, so he reached out a bit more, and a bit more... and fell headfirst into the bucket. My neighbor laughs so hard she can't breathe, the kids scream in pure poop horror and mom calmly locks herself in the kitchen. I'm with mom, she got her priorities straight.
As for dad, I don't know how he got out of the bucket and got cleaned up again.
i think a strong wind might turn it on its side. even some rebar would help as an anchor
I suggest that future versions be raised off of bare soil. Oil won’t prevent rot and termites for very long. Building looks very sturdy otherwise.
The seat is a great product. How many toilet seats are in the world? That’s a lot of plastic.
a strong wind will make the whole thing fall on its side, it isn't anchored in any way
@@Ubya_ Fun times for anyone inside!
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Are termites not a consideration in Portugal? If you put timber straight on the ground here in Australia they would completely eat in a couple of years
Something about filming a toilet seat with such peaceful music is funny to me not gonna lie
I wonder if it may be a good idea to level off the ground around the out house. it looks like the land around it is higher, so I worry that when it rains the out house will get flooded. Great prototype. Keep up the great work and thanks for the update!
The dude with the cookie is hilarious !
Get a pee diverter with either another bucket to empty or a pipe that goes somewhere to drain. this will eliminate the odor problem. When the two mix it creates a stinky outhouse, but if kept separate, there will be almost no odor. This is how it's done in compost type toilets in skoolies, vans, and tiny homes.
the door needs a cutout of the shape of a moon in it
I´d also add a supply of cotton towels and a bowl of water to wet them and clean (so much better than paper) and something to wash your hands without touching doors first (foot operated?) that´s what covid is leaving us, obsessed about germs!
That's a great achievement, congratulations!
That is a lot of brand spanking new lumber for a toilet. Why not build something up against an existing building? Especially for when bad weather comes along. Water harvested from the roof could be used to wash buckets.
Any forest duff can be used for carbon source; no need to purchase sawdust. When you do all of your scrub clearing, keep in mind to contain it and dry it down a bit.
I built mine from mud...
The door is on backwards. The diagonals should be going up from the hinges in order to keep the shape and not sag. Over time it will sag the way it's currently supported by the diagonal braces
Exactly. Wood is stronger in compression than in tension.
It looks like a reverse double z barn door design. Has anyone ever tried diagonal braces in this unusual pattern?
You have such a great squat !
Wanted to mention to you that in this kind of out-houses in Norway, it's normal to have a small heart-shaped opening on the upper portion of the door, and a picture of the Norwegian king on the wall inside. The heart I guess is for decoration and ventilation. The picture of the king I have no idea :)
The heart part is for ventilation. Outhouses can otherwise fill with noxious gases which can be lethal.
@@DavidtheDoom How about the picture tho? ;)
@@mariushegli Maybe Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind? (Studio Ghibli animated film). She'd have become queen when her father died.
We have the heart in the door in Sweden to 🙂
In the US a 1/4 moon is the traditional door cut out shape
You may want to consider drilling a hole in the container and connect a tube and allow the “liquids” to drain off into a separate hole. An option is to dig a 4 foot hole 4-5 inch diameter hole with an angle 3-4 ft pipe sticking out of the ground, for the boys to pee. Cover the top with some fine mosquito netting, push it into the pipe to create a small indentation. Somebody gets the job once every couple of days to sterilize the mosquito net and wash down the pvc pipe. This will alleviate the smell from the boys going where ever they like and will keep the smell down. It will also keep the bugs down.
You're bad at giving directions, but I was amazed when I saw mosquitoes could live in a bucket of urine.
@@lightdark00 ever think you may be bad at reading? But then again, when typing on a cell phone I try an keep it brief. I think that with due diligence, someone would be able to figure out what I wrote. Basic idea is to stop urine from overwhelming the poo bucket.
@@brianjohnston9822 You described what you thought basically backwards. There are more succinct ways of describing it as well. Also confusing if you said two options or the second is explaining the first.
The whole problem is the build was not as practical as it could have been. It's not anchored, direct ground contact in a lowered ground spot, the can is too close to have a proper diverter for both sexes, the back is not closed off, no aeration, no exhaust pipe out the top from the waste area, and no lighting for night/very early morning movements.
It's good you didn't make both loos at the same time, using the first as a prototype leaving room for improvement for the second one. Separate urine, no pathogens in urine so you can use it directly around your fruit trees, or just lead a line directly outside to a soak hole and plant nettles around which love urine.
Well done for collecting this valuable resource.
Great little shit house! I've been making 'humanure' for over 10 years. It is a wonderful product for the garden. I was at a mini film festival here in Alentejo and on one of the nights they showed you making recycled plastic and I recognized your face and voice! Very impressive, what you do.
Got a little build montage and even an unboxing video in there, I feel spoiled too!
Great . Well done.
Doing a great job keep it up.
Try the Japanese firing technique (Yakisugi) to make wood durable against the weather. That looks great too.
I would put a small transom window or something to let a bit of light inside during the day time and put a solar powered light inside for night time.
If u add light in it u can connect little fan to light to suck smell out
(U can hook light and fan on same switch ) like a mini vent system
The best system is 1 generation from food. Trees is fine for nuts and fruits, but no roots, no leaf. Use the humanure to grow flowers and all the clippings get composted and can be used on foods the second year.
Welcome aboard, all the volunteers! It is getting exciting! How about making 2 outhouses since you have 2😂😂?! Love it. Now you can do your business comfortably.
A concerned question. Are those eucalyptus trees behind? So much of them, aren't they fire hazardous?
Torch like. Mimosa too.
I’m back home we use to had a well for the toilet at first made well then put the toilet cabinet on top of well well it could be from 3 to 10 meters deep I suggestion you do that it long use .
A pee diverter would be beneficial. Great video, thanks for sharing!
a "poo" episode....Great job.You guy´s are the future of the planet. Eco,water free and compost free.Very nice.Keep on going
It would help if you reordered the playlist so the videos play in order, not in reverse.
Looking forward to catching up on your progress...
You may find you will need to seal the gaps to stop Flys taking over. The other thing would be a vent. Two things easy to add and will make life a lot nicer in summer
Nice music❤
Looked like the seat had lights on it
Which would be nice at night time
I really like the way you are making your videos - they inspire me! How did you start the project? Where came the idea to it from? And what is your ultimate goal with the property?
I noticed the Korean using starch to neutralise the thing. Hope it helps!
Joe Jenkins recommends to use not so dry {and fresh} sawdust
What’s stopping the rain from flooding that area? You dug down instead of building up the elevation.
Hi everyone, our experiments here at C+O2 have found it best to let human manure sit with old leaves and fungal matter. The resulting compost is best used on trees, we use it on pecans and walnuts mostly. Vegie gardens like a more bacterial compost but there the danger of getting pathogens on leafy greens etc. if you put human manure around your vegies. Such an important topic.
How do you even get building permits for all these cool builds?
Love your videos! Im still searching for some property to start something similar
I hope you have some ventilation, it's not fun above 30 degrees!!
I'm surprised it took you so long to build this, especially with all the rain you get, nothing worse than taking a dump in the rain, however based on my experience the bucket is way to big. You'll have to empty it reasonably often or it'll be unmanageable. I'm sure you'll get a lot more help now.
I imagine you will not hear the highway in this, sounds probably like Max Verstappen.
you forgot to make aeration hole in the door and in the walls
very important indeed, and allows for spraying water on your shitting mates too :)
The hole needs to be in shape of a heart.
I love the idea of a "telepoop machine" just teleporting our poop to places unknown
Ian looks familiar…..was he in another video?
That is the most tough looking building I’ve seen. Why such a strong structure lol
@Lastgame23s Lastgame23s I think the biggest natural threat is wildfires tbh so brick would’ve been sick
Well done on finally getting a toilet.
Honestly it surprised me that it took you this long to make it a priority. It would have been one of the first requirements in my mind, purely from a hygiene standpoint. 'Indiscriminate' pooping and peeing in various areas around the campsite has multiple negative consequences - and not just from a housekeeping perspective.
I hope in the future you look at separating the liquids from the solids, as that will substantially reduce the effectiveness of the compost, and it also smells horrific.
What a humble guy ian is - well done!!!
Yeah poop in Instyle you need his and her it was about time you made a toilet after seven months👍👏👏👏 I recommend putting the door on the back side to keep wild animals out I have experience snakes being in the out house when you go to sit down to do your business that was one hell of surprise😳😳😳😳
Just curious why you setup so close to the road, I believe you said you had 10 hectares which is 24.7 imperial acres, granted some of it is wooded but seems to me you could have moved a bit farther from the road
Je moet wel een deurtje maken tegen de insecten en ander ongedierte
there are no flies in portugal?
After the basics of 1: shelter, 2: water, 3: food, number 4 (so to speak) for me is the toilet!!! There is zero chance I would build a workshop before I build a toilet!!! Vive la difference I suppose.
But the most important question: do you have cell reception inside the toilet?
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
I actually prefer cork seats. More hygienic (antibacterial, anti-fungal) and so comfortable to sit on. It even feels warm in cold weather. And it's still easy to clean.
You think that a porous material that is exposed to shit and piss is more hygienic? Have you ever seen a lab or a commercial kitchen with cork countertops?
Why not installing a diverter for #1 and #2 --- avoids the smell --- gives cmpost from #1 and fertilizer from #2 (diluted)
I fully agree ! You will I have a composting toilet of the 19th century if you do not put a urine diverter !
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine-diverting_dry_toilet
That's the nicest outdoors shitter I have ever seen
The solution you probably want but don't know yet is called a biodigestor. Look it up. It's an "automatic" system that besides fertiliser production also produces biogas that you can use to warm yourselves and/or to cook more delicious meals.
No harsh criticism intended here but I thought I should point out that (especially if heat is used in the process of flattening the plastic in that big press) there is risk in recycling plastic. Recycled plastic I read even may be exceptionally toxic compared to newly manufactured plastics. I would encourage anyone reading this to look into VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and related subjects.
u should insulate the poop shed, its gonna get cold in there in the winter
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