@@guytech7310 that requires a lot more time and infrastructure to install. We simply ran out of time before winter. So far the incinerator is working great for us!
So I have spent the last 30 years of my life working in remote and weird locations in the mining industry. Hands down the best toilet solution I have come across was incinerating toilets at an underground mine in Colorado, they were on a timer and we would burn them off between shifts. Worst solution was a composting toilet that liked to boil over and flood the area with raw sewage.
Mine is about 30 years old. "Incinolet" brand. It's expensive to operate. The paper liners and electricity. About one kWh per 'flush' adds up fast. The wife uses it. I just use the oldfashion outhouse.
The smell is a little strange, but you'll get used to it. You won't want to run it while anyone is on the deck. You can use it twice, before you burn. And mine never smelled between times, even with a previous load waiting. You can make your own liner papers. (You'll go through your 1000, sooner than you might expect.) Get some baking parchment paper. Unfold one of the current liners and use it as a pattern. It's as simple as cutting the parchment paper to size, and folding it. Saved me tons of money!
This has been really interesting! I have heard a lot of people talking about these incinerating toilets but this is the first time I have seen a detailed description on how it installs and operates. Of course with you two the added humor makes it even more enjoyable! I wish you both well and a really enjoyable Christmas 😀
I can't believe I actually got excited about the ash reveal 😂 and I spent 30 minutes watching a video about a toilet. Really glad for you guys to be able to do your business so comfortably now!
I was waiting for this video! My family camp is off grid on an island, no power, and we used to have a propane burner toilet, but have since gone to compost, for ease of use for off grid. Love the fact that there is an electric option now!
I've seen many things on UA-cam before but a modified Jeep with tank tracks with a full frozen shitter ratchet strapped to the back is a new one 😂🤣, thanks for the good ol chuckle 😁
Hey guys, I think this is super cool (well probably very hot to completely get rid of the waste) but a super cool idea. And looks really efficient and NO SMELL is the best of all. The other great thing is no plumbing to block or freeze. Like to said this has so many geat applications. Congratulations on a simple solution!!!
That road sure is looking good, this winter with all the snow and cold used to be more common so I hope you both can enjoy the quiet time together and catch up on some well deserved rest. Keep warm and watch for signs of hypothermia, tight boots and gloves are not good, keep the blood flowing and use layers. Puppies too. I look forward to a snow removal video and how you are doing with the cold. Cameras hate cold, dry rice and a ziplock after each cold use helps to reduce condensation.
Get a bag of water softener salt, to thaw out the ports pot. On construction job sight here in Iowa, they just place salt pellets in the urinal. The pee mixes with the salt and keeps everything below from freezing.
Very very interesting! I missed it that you haven't had the chance to install a septic system yet. I had an outhouse once and no running water at all for 2 years up in Fairbanks, so I feel your pain! But you found a great solution for "doin yer duty". Thanks for showing how it works; the banana was a great idea!
What happens to the liquid pee? Probably the next most asked question is how do you do your laundry? Love watching your innovations and problem-solving. You two are fearless!
Guys, thank you for this useful information. I watch your channel for ideas to address issues that every remote, difficult-to-reach setting deals with. Hands down one of the best lower-cost, low-smell, remote-location solutions I've seen that the females in our family will accept. Your is a good near-term solution while other projects are being completed during the same period, given the upfront costs of a septic system vs. an incinerator toilet plus the near-term costs of two other projects. Available solar power compared to propane costs is the right direction. It would be amazing if the company improved the ash handling with a built-in "fireplace" ash vacuum. I handle the RV tanks for the family. There are good solutions for every problem if you search. I found a black & gray tank adapter that creates a high-pressure water jet from a garden hose. The clean water jet acts as a "no-power required" RV macerator that turns everything in the holding tanks into liquid. The combined fresh & waste liquid then travels at high pressure via a waste garden hose placed into a septic tank or sewer inlet. You can see when the black & gray tanks are emptied because the water jet adapter is clear. You allow the clean water to flow for a few mins to rinse waste tanks and garden hose. One of the best RV gadgets I've found. The incinerator information is useful, and the toilet sled was funny. Thank you for providing important, useful information creatively.
Trying really hard not to mark silly comments about skids and pooverlanders. Silliness aside, another wonderful video and it's great that you have the confidence to talk through some of the issues associated with off grid living. I had wondered if you could attach the exhaust stack to the vertical post on the deck but then Riley explained the three foot rule. Have yourselves a lovely week and have a merry Xmas.
22years USN SEABEES...our 1st priority was the BERM, 2nd was the latrine/slit trench/benjo! Being raised on a remote farm/ranch -i always favored the Birch John.
I had to laugh when I saw this video. it brought back memories of our incinerating propane toilet when we lived off grid. We learned a hard lesson the first time we burned the waste. We had over filled the toilet and it ended up boiling over all over the place. lol We didn't do that again but once we got the hang of it the toilet worked great.
When I was young back in the dark ages of the 60’s, we lived on a farm in a 20x22 house with no running water. Life was very much simpler back then. Want water, go outside with a bucket and hand pump the water out of the cistern. You need to go to the bathroom, walk down the part 75’ away from the back door and go in the outhouse. It was a two holes with a moon cut in the door. Dig a hole a few feet deep and put the outhouse over it. Keep a bag of lime inside with a cup and put some in once in a while so it wouldn’t smell bad. My Mom was so excited when we finally got a well and running water, she went out and set it on fire. The problem was the electric pole was only a few feet away and it caught on fire. Good thing we had running water! Put the pole fire out with the garden hose! Good time had by all!
I know it doesn't really mean much, but if I have to go through 2 walls like you did, I would use the long 1/4 inch drill bit first. That way I know exactly where the second hole needs to be cut. Most hole saws have a 1/4 inch pilot bit. Automatic alignment. Just keep the long bit that goes through both walls at the same time as straight and level as possible
What about the wee? I imagine you don't need to use the paper liner when you do a wee only? Does it drain out the lower pipe? Though I thought the lower pipe was bringing the air in from outside?
Great job guy’s, I give this vid a 1, but the ‘Thunder Box’ has to be a 2! Here’s a tip Riley, dont lean on the verandah rail if ur having a number 1! Interesting ep & solution, Ive never heard of incinerating toilets before, will have to see how it goes on the power side at 2Kw per load or 2, I can imagine it could use a lot of power when u guys are sick, & that could cause problems for many on off-grid setups, but then u have one of the best off-grid solar setups I have seen. Merry Xmas
Another great video. Great bathroom solution, very good system. Hope you guys have A Wonderful Christmas and A fantastic New Year. Stay Safe Derek from across the pond.
Best part of owning your house you can just rip holes into your house 😂😂😂i always love when you decide" alright im doing it!" Then after you do it you think to yourself, "did i plan this correctly, should it be more to the right?" But its all perfect lol
Ok so you’ve nailed a unique and very practical solution for solid waste. But as a toilet with no plumbing hooked up now how is the liquid waste managed…?
Wow! That's a 💩load of information. Interesting video. And while it's an expensive piece of equipment, it's likely competitive (at least) with installing a modern septic system, especially in the sort of terrain you guys are dealing with.
Awesome video guys.the more I watch of your videos the more I won't to watch. Happy Christmas 🎄 to you all.including your 4 legged family members. Best wishes .Jason Adams. Boston.uk.
If code will allow it, I'd put in a "crib" instead of a septic tank. I have both. Lots of septic tank considerations and issues. The crib has been flawless for seven years.
Poopie video...in the nicest possible way. Very informative and well handled! I didn't expect you to show the results after two weeks, so you took me by surprise and so did what you showed! $5000 huh...mmm, I wonder what it takes to build such a pooper?
5k?! I know someone, or knew.. long story. That built a septic system for half a dozen cabins, with tanks and leech fields and all that for only twice that. To serve five times the people.
When I worked on the North Slope of Alaska back in the 70s and 80's some of The camps still used a version of these toilets, we called them shit seating dragons
Can you smell it outside? I remember when I was in the Navy and we were pier side in a foreign port with no CHT discharge that they had to use large industrial incinerators to take care of the poo, and those things reeked. Can you even detect it outside when its burning????
Mice in your toilet is not the problem. Rats do though frequently invade off grid sewage systems. You need to take a lot of care with that, especially in winter.
So why didn't you just go straight across it's elevated high enough that nobody's going to reach it and that way it would just be straight off the side of the deck but it looks good for what you had to do
You look way too young to be making this cardinal sin that you have been making: Before about 1973, electrical delivery voltage was nominally specified as 115 or 230 volts. Before 1968 it was approximated as 110 or 220 volts. Now that you are talking about modern systems (since 2000) you should know the utilities target 120 or 240 volts. Even your inverters should say that right on them! Maybe you are around "old" people a lot? Also curious about your location. You have California plates on one of your vehicles but the porta potty had an Idaho phone number on it. Where are you (roughly)? The toilet solution looks extremely reasonable. Congratulations on finding that and for sharing it!
Do you have to burn every poop or can you poop a few times, with ventilation, and burn it once you have a few "loads"? You have a lot of panels but 2kWh seems like a lot of energy for one poop.
You guys are the Gold standard of multiple categories. Who would've thought I'd spend close to a half hour watching something about doo doo. Way more fun than watching the doo doo on TV, haha Best to you both!
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Maybe I am odd, but why not a regular flush toilet & septic system? That's pretty much how ~95% of americans deal with it.
@@guytech7310 that requires a lot more time and infrastructure to install. We simply ran out of time before winter. So far the incinerator is working great for us!
@@AmbitionStrikes OK. Hopefully a regular flush toilet for 2023!
Happy Holidays!
I missed it, but what do you do for water source?
Did you drill a well?
So I have spent the last 30 years of my life working in remote and weird locations in the mining industry. Hands down the best toilet solution I have come across was incinerating toilets at an underground mine in Colorado, they were on a timer and we would burn them off between shifts. Worst solution was a composting toilet that liked to boil over and flood the area with raw sewage.
YUCK 🤮
If you have the electricity to run them, they are the future. Maybe when the price comes down more and more off grid homes will have them.
mmm.. . sounds t a s t y
the use of words "boil over" made me giggle
Mine is about 30 years old. "Incinolet" brand.
It's expensive to operate. The paper liners and electricity. About one kWh per 'flush' adds up fast.
The wife uses it. I just use the oldfashion outhouse.
snowverlandering the port-o-potty down the driveway is one of the most awesome things I've seen lately.
The smell is a little strange, but you'll get used to it. You won't want to run it while anyone is on the deck. You can use it twice, before you burn. And mine never smelled between times, even with a previous load waiting. You can make your own liner papers. (You'll go through your 1000, sooner than you might expect.) Get some baking parchment paper. Unfold one of the current liners and use it as a pattern. It's as simple as cutting the parchment paper to size, and folding it. Saved me tons of money!
Wonder if you could stretch it a little further and burn every turd time?🤣
Do you pee in it too?
What is the actual purpose of the paper? Is it to help combustion to start, or just keep the bowl clean for less bacteria buildup?
@@novelettemorgan128 I don't.
@@insaynbcr It 'encapsulates' the waste. Otherwise, good luck keeping it clean...
I’m so happy that you’ve gone in depth into the waste subject. 🎊 A warm place to defecate is essential to an off grid home. Congratulations 🎈 😊
This has been really interesting! I have heard a lot of people talking about these incinerating toilets but this is the first time I have seen a detailed description on how it installs and operates. Of course with you two the added humor makes it even more enjoyable! I wish you both well and a really enjoyable Christmas 😀
I can't believe I actually got excited about the ash reveal 😂 and I spent 30 minutes watching a video about a toilet. Really glad for you guys to be able to do your business so comfortably now!
I was waiting for this video! My family camp is off grid on an island, no power, and we used to have a propane burner toilet, but have since gone to compost, for ease of use for off grid. Love the fact that there is an electric option now!
I also have an off grid family island. Planning to install the propane version of this toilet. Mine is in the 1000 islands where is yours?
I've seen many things on UA-cam before but a modified Jeep with tank tracks with a full frozen shitter ratchet strapped to the back is a new one 😂🤣, thanks for the good ol chuckle 😁
Hey guys, I think this is super cool (well probably very hot to completely get rid of the waste) but a super cool idea. And looks really efficient and NO SMELL is the best of all. The other great thing is no plumbing to block or freeze. Like to said this has so many geat applications. Congratulations on a simple solution!!!
Very good! I always wondered how those things worked. I'm thinking of using one of those for an upstairs bathroom for guests. Thanks for sharing.
With the right equipment and a creative mind anything is possible, lol I'm so happy for y'all having an indoor toilet after so long.
That road sure is looking good, this winter with all the snow and cold used to be more common so I hope you both can enjoy the quiet time together and catch up on some well deserved rest. Keep warm and watch for signs of hypothermia, tight boots and gloves are not good, keep the blood flowing and use layers. Puppies too. I look forward to a snow removal video and how you are doing with the cold. Cameras hate cold, dry rice and a ziplock after each cold use helps to reduce condensation.
Contrary to popular belief Riley, your SH*T don't stink! Great investment and upgrade. Take Care Guys, Tom
Get a bag of water softener salt, to thaw out the ports pot. On construction job sight here in Iowa, they just place salt pellets in the urinal. The pee mixes with the salt and keeps everything below from freezing.
Dealing with a crappie situation. You did that well. Alan
Incinolet is great. Used to have them for workers to use on Florida interstate....
Very very interesting! I missed it that you haven't had the chance to install a septic system yet. I had an outhouse once and no running water at all for 2 years up in Fairbanks, so I feel your pain! But you found a great solution for "doin yer duty". Thanks for showing how it works; the banana was a great idea!
Very cool toilet. Yall make living off grid, look easy. Love the video's.
What happens to the liquid pee? Probably the next most asked question is how do you do your laundry? Love watching your innovations and problem-solving. You two are fearless!
Probably just boils/evaporates during the incineration process.
Guys, thank you for this useful information. I watch your channel for ideas to address issues that every remote, difficult-to-reach setting deals with. Hands down one of the best lower-cost, low-smell, remote-location solutions I've seen that the females in our family will accept. Your is a good near-term solution while other projects are being completed during the same period, given the upfront costs of a septic system vs. an incinerator toilet plus the near-term costs of two other projects. Available solar power compared to propane costs is the right direction. It would be amazing if the company improved the ash handling with a built-in "fireplace" ash vacuum. I handle the RV tanks for the family. There are good solutions for every problem if you search. I found a black & gray tank adapter that creates a high-pressure water jet from a garden hose. The clean water jet acts as a "no-power required" RV macerator that turns everything in the holding tanks into liquid. The combined fresh & waste liquid then travels at high pressure via a waste garden hose placed into a septic tank or sewer inlet. You can see when the black & gray tanks are emptied because the water jet adapter is clear. You allow the clean water to flow for a few mins to rinse waste tanks and garden hose. One of the best RV gadgets I've found. The incinerator information is useful, and the toilet sled was funny. Thank you for providing important, useful information creatively.
Very informative! You touched on all the specifics. Including the cost! Thanks.
I WISHED THOSE WERE AROUND WHEN I WAS A KID.........LOVE YOUR CONTENT....
The skid steer with the forks would have been a great solution!
Pro hole saw tip, replace the standard pilot bit with a 12" bit. It will make the pilot hole for the second hole while drilling the first!
Great video thanks! Ok, so where are you guys hiding that snowblower 😆 ?
Trying really hard not to mark silly comments about skids and pooverlanders. Silliness aside, another wonderful video and it's great that you have the confidence to talk through some of the issues associated with off grid living.
I had wondered if you could attach the exhaust stack to the vertical post on the deck but then Riley explained the three foot rule.
Have yourselves a lovely week and have a merry Xmas.
22years USN SEABEES...our 1st priority was the BERM, 2nd was the latrine/slit trench/benjo! Being raised on a remote farm/ranch -i always favored the Birch John.
I had to laugh when I saw this video. it brought back memories of our incinerating propane toilet when we lived off grid. We learned a hard lesson the first time we burned the waste. We had over filled the toilet and it ended up boiling over all over the place. lol We didn't do that again but once we got the hang of it the toilet worked great.
When I was young back in the dark ages of the 60’s, we lived on a farm in a 20x22 house with no running water. Life was very much simpler back then. Want water, go outside with a bucket and hand pump the water out of the cistern. You need to go to the bathroom, walk down the part 75’ away from the back door and go in the outhouse. It was a two holes with a moon cut in the door. Dig a hole a few feet deep and put the outhouse over it. Keep a bag of lime inside with a cup and put some in once in a while so it wouldn’t smell bad. My Mom was so excited when we finally got a well and running water, she went out and set it on fire. The problem was the electric pole was only a few feet away and it caught on fire. Good thing we had running water! Put the pole fire out with the garden hose! Good time had by all!
I know it doesn't really mean much, but if I have to go through 2 walls like you did, I would use the long 1/4 inch drill bit first. That way I know exactly where the second hole needs to be cut. Most hole saws have a 1/4 inch pilot bit. Automatic alignment. Just keep the long bit that goes through both walls at the same time as straight and level as possible
Drill your pilot hole thru all the substrates first. That way every thing always lines up
Riley riding down the hill on the back of the porta potty like a dog sled is one of the funniest sights I've ever seen.
What about the wee? I imagine you don't need to use the paper liner when you do a wee only? Does it drain out the lower pipe? Though I thought the lower pipe was bringing the air in from outside?
I thought that I'd seen it all until I watched you guys move the outhouse. 😂
way more interesting than I expected it to be.
Great job guy’s, I give this vid a 1, but the ‘Thunder Box’ has to be a 2! Here’s a tip Riley, dont lean on the verandah rail if ur having a number 1!
Interesting ep & solution, Ive never heard of incinerating toilets before, will have to see how it goes on the power side at 2Kw per load or 2, I can imagine it could use a lot of power when u guys are sick, & that could cause problems for many on off-grid setups, but then u have one of the best off-grid solar setups I have seen. Merry Xmas
Okay, who *didn’t * see the stud Ryan drilled into the middle of? I am ribbing you man, you’re the king of home Reno.
My 10-year old son could not stop laughing while watching this video. By far, this is my kids favorite videos. And the bananas were the best!
Another great video. Great bathroom solution, very good system. Hope you guys have A Wonderful Christmas and A fantastic New Year. Stay Safe Derek from across the pond.
Very informative
Add the ash to your compost for the following years garden.
(Just don't tell anyone )
Sweet!!! Merry Christmas!!!
One more question, can it be used just after the first( previous) usage or do you have to wait for the incinerator light to go out?
You can use it back to back even during a burn cycle.
@@AmbitionStrikes seems like a scary and venerable position to be in; sitting...um...exposed on a furnace.
Best part of owning your house you can just rip holes into your house 😂😂😂i always love when you decide" alright im doing it!" Then after you do it you think to yourself, "did i plan this correctly, should it be more to the right?" But its all perfect lol
I wonder if the snow sliding off the roof is going to tear the vent off the soffit? You might have to put a snow diverter on the roof.
Ok so you’ve nailed a unique and very practical solution for solid waste. But as a toilet with no plumbing hooked up now how is the liquid waste managed…?
Wow! That's a 💩load of information.
Interesting video. And while it's an expensive piece of equipment, it's likely competitive (at least) with installing a modern septic system, especially in the sort of terrain you guys are dealing with.
Only you guys could make a toilet video so fun
I feel so "relieved" its a good option for you.
Awesome video guys.the more I watch of your videos the more I won't to watch. Happy Christmas 🎄 to you all.including your 4 legged family members. Best wishes .Jason Adams. Boston.uk.
OMG too much like a parody of dumping an animal roadside . Too Funny . And the Deer moment was priceless .
Now all you need to build is an ash dump tray with a chute in the wall down to a ash pail down in the shop.... 😉
If code will allow it, I'd put in a "crib" instead of a septic tank. I have both. Lots of septic tank considerations and issues. The crib has been flawless for seven years.
Norwegian engineering at its finest! Cinderella toilets for the win.
Poopie video...in the nicest possible way. Very informative and well handled! I didn't expect you to show the results after two weeks, so you took me by surprise and so did what you showed! $5000 huh...mmm, I wonder what it takes to build such a pooper?
My only complaint on this video was the missed opportunity to yell out “SH*TTERS FULL!” 👀🤣🤣
Porter Potty bit reminded me of Top Gear or Grand Tour but without potty shattering.
think I would dig a outhouse with remote on demand heat for the majority of goings and save the indoor for middle of the night use
Didn't know Jeep was making a portipoty!🤣
Amazing!!
5k?! I know someone, or knew.. long story. That built a septic system for half a dozen cabins, with tanks and leech fields and all that for only twice that. To serve five times the people.
That is Amazing! Merry Xmas❤
To be able to flush a toilet and worry is Priceless
This and the dozer episodes are my favorite videos of yours so far.
Throw baking soda into the Porta potty. It will lessen the bad smell.
When I worked on the North Slope of Alaska back in the 70s and 80's some of The camps still used a version of these toilets, we called them shit seating dragons
do You have to trash the ash or can you use it for something else just curious if you or somebody else has said something?
Does it say thank you after you're done?
Does the toilet have facilities to heat water or the bathroom air? That would be cool!
awesome!
Is the toilet unusable during the burn process? Seems like it could be frustrating with multiple people to be locked out for 60-70mins
It's completely usable during the burn process. Multiple people can use it back to back.
Kinda contageous to watch you two having fun, playing with well, you know.
Country living = outhouse? oh well, your way was more entertaining.
Can you smell it outside? I remember when I was in the Navy and we were pier side in a foreign port with no CHT discharge that they had to use large industrial incinerators to take care of the poo, and those things reeked. Can you even detect it outside when its burning????
that is some movement
Please don't use a kitchen utensil to mash down the ashes. LOL
Thanks for the information. I also need a solution and this looks like the bet I have seen.
Is this the Cinderella eco toilet?
Didn't know they existed. Cheer's.
Well that was a sh!!ty video 😂. As always very entertaining. We can’t wait to get back “home” to N Idaho. 8 more days. Merry Christmas friends.
what happens if the other person has to go while the toilet is doing it's burn?
So, if there’s no septic system for a “regular” toilet, where does the shower/sink water go?
Hello! I’m new to your channel. Where is this build being done? There is so much snow up there.
So I'm guessing by going this route, you would not be required to have any true of septic system or fill bed?
Mice in your toilet is not the problem. Rats do though frequently invade off grid sewage systems. You need to take a lot of care with that, especially in winter.
Nice - well done video. High tech solution…
Wonder if one of these would be cost effective on a canal boat 🤔Do you have a link to their site .
So why didn't you just go straight across it's elevated high enough that nobody's going to reach it and that way it would just be straight off the side of the deck but it looks good for what you had to do
Have crap will travel ,LOL well done .
"This looks kind of stupid" Nope. If it's stupid and it works, then it isn't stupid!
Awesome
Where does #1 take place?
You look way too young to be making this cardinal sin that you have been making: Before about 1973, electrical delivery voltage was nominally specified as 115 or 230 volts. Before 1968 it was approximated as 110 or 220 volts. Now that you are talking about modern systems (since 2000) you should know the utilities target 120 or 240 volts. Even your inverters should say that right on them! Maybe you are around "old" people a lot?
Also curious about your location. You have California plates on one of your vehicles but the porta potty had an Idaho phone number on it. Where are you (roughly)?
The toilet solution looks extremely reasonable. Congratulations on finding that and for sharing it!
Can you put that ash in a compost pile
Sawdust in a 5g bucket works just fine then you can compost and then spread it around or just bury it between some trees and let the bugs eat it.
Amazing. 2 kW on a regular power grid. Be happy you're not paying utility taxes on burning poop. :) lol
they use those burn pottys on the ship a lot so as far I know if they have a bunch of sailers they handle you guys
Do you have to burn every poop or can you poop a few times, with ventilation, and burn it once you have a few "loads"? You have a lot of panels but 2kWh seems like a lot of energy for one poop.
What about liquids?
You guys are the Gold standard of multiple categories. Who would've thought I'd spend close to a half hour watching something about doo doo. Way more fun than watching the doo doo on TV, haha Best to you both!
Ain’t that the truth!
I couldn't agree more---absolutely the best all around!
@Ray Reeves AFUCKINGMEN DUDE! IKR!
...anyone else think the paper liner for that toilet looked like a really big coffee filter?
I'm not proud of that observation by the way 😵💫
U r just keeping it real😂😂
The liner IS an oversized wax lined coffee filter