Be sure to check the video description for links to all the supplies you'll need to instal the urine diverter. Also, be sure to check out our other compost toilet video that's almost at 1,000,000 views: ua-cam.com/video/_YPO9Elmlsg/v-deo.html
Thank you, thank you! We have a natures head also and the urine jug is the worst part of having a composting toilet. We didn’t want to drill a hole in the floor or into our grey tank. This seems to be an easy solution! Sent a link to the hubby… another project to do!😝
Yessss!!! It was just too much pee dumping haha. That smell is 🤢 this is such a simple solution and anyone can do it. Just follow each step in the video and you'll be good to go. It's been 6 months now of using it this way and no problem at all! We included links to all the supplies in the video description. Let us know if you have any questions.
I like this setup and I'm looking to do something similar. Could you share the name of "this little guy" (the black plastic adapter between the urine diverter and the braided nylon hose)? I can't seem to find anything like it on Natures Head's website.
I would be so grateful to know how you empty the toilet composting tank ? do you still have to disconnect everything then remove the toilet and take it out to empty? How is that with the new diverter feature
Hey! Yes we still disconnect everything and remove the toilet to clean the poop bucket. But don't have to do anything for the urine anymore. You can watch our other video to see how we dump, clean and prep the toolet here ua-cam.com/video/_YPO9Elmlsg/v-deo.html
Hi , Well done I’m going to do what you did wth that pee-wee divert. Do you get any smell coming back up the PVC pipe line when the urine has finished flowing through the hose or is there always water in the line to stop smell from making its way back up through the toilet head?
Without a p- trap, you'd be smelling the grey tank through the toilet, everytime you open the toilet? Easy enough to make up a p trap with a couple of pvc fittings glued together but surely it would be necessary? 😁 (For someone who had a pipe that doesn't have a 'slump' in it, leaving some water behind as a barrier to smells out of the tank, the p trap would be an essential add-on.)
@@dethmaulit does, but the trap in a normal toilet is flushed an the only liquid I guess you can say that’s left in the trap is fresh water. So there’s no smell that comes back up. Due to the slope that has being lower an no fresh water to go in. The only thing left in that p-trap is pee. Though small of a hole that is that’s holding the last that went in before the next use probably isn’t going to really start smelling before the next person goes. Even if it didn’t form a trap. Since it’s really going to what was a grey water tank. Enough dishes an soap from cleaning going in their also. Probably would be diluted enough it wouldn’t really make much a smell. An dumped frequently enough at the dump stations
Thanks for sharing. Now I have no regrets in spending $90 on a toilet instead of $1000. I have a conventional toilet and never poop in it. I enjoy going 💩 in the outdoors, otherwise I pee and spritz just like y’all. It goes into the black tank. Which is what you guys now have instead of gray tank because of the urine. Grey tanks can essentially be dumped on the ground in many areas because of the absence of human waste. Black tanks need to be disposed at a dump station. If y’all didn’t plan on moving, I’d consider installing a pee tank.
We are actually shipping our Airstream to our land in Costa Rica in a couple of months. We will eventually install a flush toilet but will be keeping compost probably for the next 6 - 8 months.
Great vid man. Ever thought of digging a big hole and sticking a connected big bottle filled with limestone with holes in the bottom then covering it with soil. Endless draining:0)
Great video....but....haven't you just created a normal toilet in the end? If you have to flush the tube with water anyway, and it is going to a septic tank of sorts with all your greywater, why not use a low-flush toilet? IMO, keeping the urine separate was the point...you could drain that away (under your lemon tree or whatever) and not being wasting water. Even 2 cups of water per toilet visit x 3 people per day is 30+ cups of water (2 gallons) which is 730 gallons a year. Still a lot less than a flushing toilet but still... My suggestion would be to use gravity (yay gravity!). Cut a hole in your floor, draw that flexi-hose straight through the floor to a small drainage pit (only has to be 2 x 2 x 2 ft filled with gravel) and then you never think about it, it doesn't smell and you use barely any water (maybe just a couple of squirts of your essential oil-infused water). The latter is what we are doing, so not just speculating! lol 🙂🙌🏼
Or you can get one of the composting toilets that drain to the back. The Nature's Head owner has been told to offer this as an option, but he wasn't interested. Nature's Head is a knock-off of the Airhead. Both made for boats.
Anyone who's interested. As soon as you introduce urine into any holding tank you have immediately turned that tank into a BLACK Water holding tank and it would need to be discharged/dumped accordingly. Also, the adapter that is shown/used in this video on the toilet for the urine output is no longer available from Natures Head, so go to the plumbing section of your local big box building supply store and use you imaginations
The alternative is cutting a hole in your flooring, then cutting another hole into your tank under your trailer and risking toxic fumes rising into your RV. I saw a few other people do that and it looks like a headache! So many days of work. This instal only took a few hours and has been working no problem!
Be sure to check the video description for links to all the supplies you'll need to instal the urine diverter. Also, be sure to check out our other compost toilet video that's almost at 1,000,000 views: ua-cam.com/video/_YPO9Elmlsg/v-deo.html
Thank you, thank you! We have a natures head also and the urine jug is the worst part of having a composting toilet. We didn’t want to drill a hole in the floor or into our grey tank. This seems to be an easy solution! Sent a link to the hubby… another project to do!😝
Yessss!!! It was just too much pee dumping haha. That smell is 🤢 this is such a simple solution and anyone can do it. Just follow each step in the video and you'll be good to go. It's been 6 months now of using it this way and no problem at all! We included links to all the supplies in the video description. Let us know if you have any questions.
This is very useful! Definitely a helpful tip for travelers as well.
Glad you find this video useful!
If they'd manufacture the adapter with an elbow, or you can glue one on, then the low point is eliminated.
I like this setup and I'm looking to do something similar. Could you share the name of "this little guy" (the black plastic adapter between the urine diverter and the braided nylon hose)? I can't seem to find anything like it on Natures Head's website.
I would be so grateful to know how you empty the toilet composting tank ? do you still have to disconnect everything then remove the toilet and take it out to empty? How is that with the new diverter feature
Hey! Yes we still disconnect everything and remove the toilet to clean the poop bucket. But don't have to do anything for the urine anymore. You can watch our other video to see how we dump, clean and prep the toolet here ua-cam.com/video/_YPO9Elmlsg/v-deo.html
It looks like it would be worth it only having to fiddle with it for the solids tank every 3-5 weeks or whatever, instead of every day lol
So how easy was it to clean the bottom of the top part of toilet after you did this?
Hi , Well done I’m going to do what you did wth that pee-wee divert. Do you get any smell coming back up the PVC pipe line when the urine has finished flowing through the hose or is there always water in the line to stop smell from making its way back up through the toilet head?
Perfect! Easy to change the braided hose & everything. Great job!
Wow this is absolutely amazing DIY. COOL idea buddy
Makes life a lot easier, that's for sure!
Without a p- trap, you'd be smelling the grey tank through the toilet, everytime you open the toilet? Easy enough to make up a p trap with a couple of pvc fittings glued together but surely it would be necessary? 😁 (For someone who had a pipe that doesn't have a 'slump' in it, leaving some water behind as a barrier to smells out of the tank, the p trap would be an essential add-on.)
It looke like it naturally forms a P. Unless the white surface in the video is lower than it looks
@@dethmaulit does, but the trap in a normal toilet is flushed an the only liquid I guess you can say that’s left in the trap is fresh water. So there’s no smell that comes back up.
Due to the slope that has being lower an no fresh water to go in. The only thing left in that p-trap is pee.
Though small of a hole that is that’s holding the last that went in before the next use probably isn’t going to really start smelling before the next person goes.
Even if it didn’t form a trap. Since it’s really going to what was a grey water tank.
Enough dishes an soap from cleaning going in their also. Probably would be diluted enough it wouldn’t really make much a smell. An dumped frequently enough at the dump stations
Thanks for sharing. Now I have no regrets in spending $90 on a toilet instead of $1000. I have a conventional toilet and never poop in it. I enjoy going 💩 in the outdoors, otherwise I pee and spritz just like y’all. It goes into the black tank. Which is what you guys now have instead of gray tank because of the urine. Grey tanks can essentially be dumped on the ground in many areas because of the absence of human waste. Black tanks need to be disposed at a dump station. If y’all didn’t plan on moving, I’d consider installing a pee tank.
We are actually shipping our Airstream to our land in Costa Rica in a couple of months. We will eventually install a flush toilet but will be keeping compost probably for the next 6 - 8 months.
Way to go, this sounds awesome !
We are having trouble with urine getting into the waste area… have any suggestions?
Great vid man. Ever thought of digging a big hole and sticking a connected big bottle filled with limestone with holes in the bottom then covering it with soil. Endless draining:0)
They don’t sell the urine diverter anymore :(
Awesome Video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the great video!
Why did you use a clear hose vs a black one ? or is that your next project !!!? LOL
So theres a guy in a psych ward. He says "doc you gotta help me! I think I'm a toilet!" Doctor says, "yeah, you're full of crap"
hahaha I've had a doctor actually tell me I'm full of crap...the days when I didn't poop often :( - Kristen
Good information
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just got the adapter and can’t get it to not leak. There’s a big gap even when screwed right as possible. Thoughts?
Plumbers putty
Cut a notch in the piss holster so the hose can be a P-trap again!
what if number two gets smeared on the toilet bowl tho
Great video....but....haven't you just created a normal toilet in the end? If you have to flush the tube with water anyway, and it is going to a septic tank of sorts with all your greywater, why not use a low-flush toilet? IMO, keeping the urine separate was the point...you could drain that away (under your lemon tree or whatever) and not being wasting water. Even 2 cups of water per toilet visit x 3 people per day is 30+ cups of water (2 gallons) which is 730 gallons a year. Still a lot less than a flushing toilet but still...
My suggestion would be to use gravity (yay gravity!). Cut a hole in your floor, draw that flexi-hose straight through the floor to a small drainage pit (only has to be 2 x 2 x 2 ft filled with gravel) and then you never think about it, it doesn't smell and you use barely any water (maybe just a couple of squirts of your essential oil-infused water). The latter is what we are doing, so not just speculating! lol 🙂🙌🏼
Nasty backflip of germs into the sink upstream.
Gosh good point
Run a little sink water as you pee, or install a one way valve so no backflow
Has anyone ever tried wood pellets instead of cocochor ?
Or you can get one of the composting toilets that drain to the back. The Nature's Head owner has been told to offer this as an option, but he wasn't interested. Nature's Head is a knock-off of the Airhead. Both made for boats.
Anyone who's interested.
As soon as you introduce urine into any holding tank you have immediately turned that tank into a BLACK Water holding tank and it would need to be discharged/dumped accordingly.
Also, the adapter that is shown/used in this video on the toilet for the urine output is no longer available from Natures Head, so go to the plumbing section of your local big box building supply store and use you imaginations
Doesn't look that easy :D but I guess its the best to do it yourself
If you follow exactly what siya does in the video with the right parts, it will 100% work.
The alternative is cutting a hole in your flooring, then cutting another hole into your tank under your trailer and risking toxic fumes rising into your RV. I saw a few other people do that and it looks like a headache! So many days of work. This instal only took a few hours and has been working no problem!
Why waste that urine? Most places won't care if you drain your urine outside as long as it is only urine. Good fertilizer
You CAN'T put urine into your grey tank, which is where your sink water goes. There's a reason why campers have a black tank. That IS NOT OKAY.
Won't your drains smell