My ex uses Rubbermaid garbage bins (never used for garbage, I mean he bought what's designed for garbage) and empty deep buckets that pool chemicals & such come packaged in, for water collection.
Rain catchment feeding into a drip line ran over the leech field. There is a list of good surface plants to put over septic systems, mostly wetlands grasses
Wow, great build and done right. That's coming from a plumber! I'm going to install this exact toilet system on my off grid property! Thanks, I really appreciate your effort and simple explanations of the build process. God Bless
Have you thought of placing a worm bin where the solids fall? Worms will eat feces and toilet paper, which will also help with preventing bugs and pathogens.
Worms were in an outhouse toilet at a Boy Scout camp we went to once when I was helping the Troup Master. It was creepy, but certainly effective!! With all the kids using it, too!
Never use worms they cause problems with the soil by adding castings and microorganisms, they also put toxic nitrogen and carbon in the soul that can never be used by any thing other than trees and plants and fungi you dont want that, you want sterile soil with no chance of germ infectin
You are a beautiful teacher, thorough and easy to listen to! Your outhouse is the most technical and rustic making it pleasing to the outdoorist! Nicely done!! If there were awards to be given I would nominate you or vote for your design, execution and tutorial!! Bravo!!
Also the waste chamber should be sloped so no "raking" is required from below the conveyor belt. I've seen several old timey pit toilets have two compartments and one is sloped to a deeper area so it naturally fills up first.
This excellent video on his off-grade outhouse was done over a year and a half ago. People have asked comments about freezing temperatures and the author of the video obviously has decided not to answer questions. I myself have been thinking of an outhouse on my off-grid property and this gives me some interesting ideas. For me at the southern edge of the Adirondack mountains freezing is definitely an issue. But I am appreciative of the information and the video and the time to produce it. Thanks.
Disappointing, especially when he asked for comments and questions. Have you considered a small wood stove for your design? I lived in upstate NY for three years, but I didn't do any winter camping. I know how cold it can get.
I was looking into many off grid designs for a project in New Hampshire and considered the following: you could bury the water cistern and use a solar pump. It could be noisy and solar is certainly not as reliable in cold Temps but the water wouldn't freeze if you built it correctly and used the right insulation. 2. There are heating elements that could used to keep the pipe Temps just above freezing. Would solar provide enough consistent wattage? Not sure. 3. With this design you could probably shut off the outside sinks and figure out how to insulate the inside line to prevent freezing while keeping the main water supply unfrozen (either by burying or conditioning. I've heard that just having a pilot light in an insulated room is enough to prevent freezing in some cases...if the water volume is large enough). Good luck.
Sorry to be slow to respond to comments. We are in NC so we rarely get consecutive days of sub freezing temps. When we do, we shut off the valve from the tank to the handwashing lines and then drain the hoses by stepping on the pedals. That said we often forget to do that and have not had any damaged hoses or valves. The polycarbonate roof keeps the closet and the outhouse much warmer than the ambient temps.
You could also make a pedal operated soap dispenser, rather than having to push down on the plunger with your hands, so that the whole hand washing process is handsfree.
Hands free? How do YOU wash hands without rubbing them together? That's what my mama taught me more'n 70 yrs ago.......jus' sayin', like, yuh know what i mean? 😉
Looks awesome. You could put a fitting on the end of those faucets and slow the water down it doesn't need to be flowing that fast just to wash your hands. Might save you some tank filling
This is the best outhouse/composting toilet video I have ever seen. I love your set up. I'm going to try to do something very similar. I'm living in my unfinished tiny cabin and do have a flushing toilet but I poop outside in my make shift outhouse until I decide for certain how I want to build it. I really like everything about your set up. I do compost my solid waste with dirt and worms. No smell at all.
This is absolutely beautiful, and fascinating! I love how every detail was carefully considered. I would’ve liked to see a shower, but I still love it.😍👍
We thought about adding an on demand propane heated shower. The Juulca brand is what we considered. It would not be difficult to add that into the closet. In fact the closet in the original designs was going to be the shower.
I've built a similar setup : differences are; roof is utilized as water catchment into 1000 litre pod; solar panel on roof to charge heavy cycle battery which provides lighting, exhaust fan and power for water pump at wash stand. All water from wash stand goes into the drop pit. Toilet is a reinforced sided drop pit with a heavy maceration pump set in the bottom of the pit. The waste is pumped out when needed to covered settling/decomposition pits . Once dried/decomposed , (usually six to eight months) this waste is used as compost in non food use gardens. 👍
Great Work, Out house and video!!! My wife was totally against the composting toilet idea but this one she might be alright with!!!! Thanks for sharing!!
In the Texas Panhandle there is a business that uses all of the manure from feed lots to create compost. Some local document shredding companies get rid of their shredded paper by taking out to where he compost manure and he mixes it with the manure and builds mounds a couple of 100 yards long. He also mixes microbes and water together and sprays it on the mounds as they are being built. He has a machine that he can use to drive along the mounds and turn them over while adding more microbes. By the time the mounds make their way to the other side of the field the paper and manure has been turned into a rich compost that he sells to gardeners, landscapers, and farmers who he has spreaders to spread it out over their fields. He can also make specialty compost. If you have iron poor soil he collects iron dust and chips from machine shops that he can mix into the manure. One time he got a contract for compost to be spread under a new electrical transmission line that required a certain percentage of wood chips to be added to the manure as it composted. His compost is so good that he has rice farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi that buy his compost and pay to have it trucked out to their fields. So, if your composting is done properly, there is no reason why it can not be spread over your yard and watered in or in your garden if mixed into the soil.
Would have been nice to use rain catchment to top off your washing water. An IBC tote to catch and treat the rain water and a solar pump to top off the 35 gallon tank.
Have you see Paul Stametz' video on using oyster mushrooms to convert/eat up human waste products? Apparently, solid waste beds can be seeded with oyster mushroom spores and the mushrooms eat/convert the potentially hazardous waste into non-hazardous material (called mycoremediation). I'd love to see someone use it and do a video on their experience. Add'l Note: Mycologist, Paul Stametz, purchased a property in the 'Boundary Waters' areas where human waste is strictly controlled. His video on how he removed all signs of human waste via mycoremediation (using oyster mushrooms) was very intriguing.
I'm assuming the property is either in a warm climate or isn't in use during the winter months as YES the hoses & the holding tanks will absolutely freeze without a heat source or possibly adding a salt solution to the water which wouldn't exactly be friendly to the environment or to washed hands I would imagine! lol
The clear roof already extends over the water tank which could be placed on a painted metal shelf and the entire top half of the closet insulated with the hoses placed internally to create a mini green house just to help keep it above freezing.
If it going to be below freezing for a couple of days we usually drain the tank of water and empty the lines. One night of freezing temps has not caused any problems thus far.
I got this beat by miles. I do both (#1, #2) in a FREE food-grade repurposed plastic bucket and FREE wood shavings from my farm. Mine is portable, NEVER smells or attracts insects, compost everything down to "soil" and works ANYWHERE inside or outdoors. Did I mention it was FREE?
I just watched your video and tried to give it a like but my remote is acting up and it went to dislike. I was able to fix the dislike to a like but wanted to leave you a comment so that you would know it was a mistake and you deserve a 10+! I’m new to the whole desire of building an outhouse or anything for that matter and this was a very comprehensive video and I can’t wait to see more from you! I know absolutely nothing about building anything but I believe I’ll be able to accomplish a great building if I follow along and rewind as many times as I need to😂😂😂😂 great job!!!! I hope UA-cam doesn’t include my accidental dislike as an actual one!!!!
This is a fantastic design! My dad built an outhouse when I was a kid. We put a lot of work into it. But it was not this techno advanced. We put crushed limestone after using to help decompose. That storage room outside cd be adapted to a shower room. You hv all the plumbing installed. Depends on the climate tho. 🥶 Does your tank freeze in the winter?
Saw dust is better than wood chips to help decompose poop. It will also keep it from stinking. I saw the problem you have with toilet paper. I also don’t put toilet paper in my composting toilet. I have found by using one of those empty containers that handi wipes come in is the answer. I use double sheets to wipe my bottom and lay them on top of the handi wipe container. When I get done, I fold them all at one time in half. I open the big lid and drop them in. When the container gets full, I take the lid off and just shake it over a trash can. There is no oder while doing this. Then I tie the top of the trash bag and put it in a road side dumpster to be picked up every week. I think the toilet paper starts decomposing the poop on the paper or dries it up enough it doesn’t stink. Anyway. You didn’t convince me to go the same route you have gone but I did find it interesting. My system is just too simple and fool proof to change it. Later
Yes, a very good tutorial, and I really appreciate that you show the actual waste. Many video makers are too coy to show what we do naturally. We have to be realistic about it to learn anything. I think the addition of specific red worms would be a good idea. The worms that come naturally will be normal earthworms whereas the red worms (sorry I don't know their botanical name) work specifically on poo and other organic materials (wood chips/shavings/paper). And the suggestion of a sloping pit floor sounds like a great idea, as they use this on some composting toilets, and the material slowly makes its way downhill while decomposing. I am wondering if it could be incorporated into a home (on an outside wall, of course)? The toilet system I will use also separates the urine from the solids, but in a conventional flush toilet, that flushes 2 litres for the solids and 0.2 litre for the urine. I will send the urine to mix with the grey water to dilute it enough to use on an orchard, while the solids can go into a very much smaller septic tank system, or into the municipal sewerage system. This will save a huge amount of water, as a conventional flushing toilet uses approximately 30 litres a day per person, whereas mine will use 3 litres a day per person.
I don’t have any plans to build an outhouse, but the few times I’ve ever used one it’s always made me think that there has to be a better way than just a pit directly below me, with smell filling the room. Which immediately leads to thoughts of how to get that pit to be behind me, where the smell could rise up into the outside air and be dispersed, instead of under me and stinking. Some sort of angled ramp has come to mind in the past. But a conveyer belt seems good too, as long as those scrapers are working well. And separating urine is also good. So there is at least some urine and solid mixing as both of them contact the conveyer belt before it is pumped away. And, am I seeing this correctly, the urine just runs off the side of the conveyer belt? And there is nothing washing any of that off each time. So, it’s just pee on the belt and everything that is under the belt, and… it just dries. And no consequence for someone who doesn’t pump the solid waste all the way to the end of the belt. If it just sits there it will dry up and fall off next time. And… do all the water lines freeze in the dead of winter? My other immediate thoughts, after the few times I’ve used an outhouse in the dead of winter, is about supplying some form of temporary heat for each person’s use. There ought to be a better way than freezing your ass off.
Wow!!🎉🎉😂 Now THAT is the ultimate supreme, outhouse! Im thinking of making an outhouse on the corner of our property out in the woods. It will go good with the tiny cabin i just built out there!🎉 12v system for lighting and charging is a must! Totes for paper 🗞️ and other materials is important!🎉 Good job!! 👍👏🎉😂
Have you ever considered depositing used toilet paper in a separate container? Say a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag liner. You could then process it separately however you choose. Throw it out with the trash or burn it or whatever.
Thanks for creating & sharing this, Sustainable Outhouse ⭐️ I wish more people understood that sewage is created, not naturally occurring! Even when we ‘squat in the woods’ the solids & liquids are (mostly) separated! With ‘normal’ toilets, we create sewage, add drinking water and then collect it all to be treated!?
That is just fantastic! It should be compulsory in every home instead of the wasteful polluting systems used now. Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed to learn more.
This is a great outhouse, way beyond the ones I grew up with. The air-flow makes sense though our Australian wildlife finds their way into any gap, some are friendly but it's the bitey ones I like to avoid.
Put a couple Osage oranges, they are not poisonous, have a slight orange smell, they dry out to a black ball but don’t rot. I replace every year. I keep by doors inside the house and in garage, and by garage door. It repels crickets and spiders. I honestly never get any crickets now, and spiders. It’s naturally repels them. Some people will place them in a cupcake tin, I don’t not since they don’t rot. They are amazing! I just order on Amazon!
The maintenance alone was shocking. Example the tree stick.to pick off toilet paper off stuck. Why not put in a garbage pail near toilet . Alot had to be taken apart and put back together.
Awesome video! Quick question, why was the toilet put so close to the side wall? Shouldn't there have been an 18-inch gap between the toilet and the side wall, so a person could sit more comfortably?
The only suggestion I would make for improvement is to divert rain water to a tank for hand washing. This would minimize the amount of water needed from the house. Depending on the level of rain fall in your area it could eliminate the need to fill the 30 gallon tank altogether.
QUESTION(S) 1. How far away from a housing structure is this outhouse? 2. Does there have to be a bit of a slope? 3. You said there's a couple of tubes in the leechfield how deep? Full of stones, top and bottom? Fabric cloth around the pipe? 4. Do you clean it outwith a digger? Do you have to clean it out? I know it will take a long time to fill but eventually it will need the "soil" removed so there's more room for new waste products. Yes? 5. Did you think of putting a Reed bed in the leechfield to help clean the water/urine runoff? You are now the outhouse that all outhouses will be measured against. That is a beautiful structure.
I'm so curious what extra steps, other than build of course, it would take to include a bidet in this system. Phenomenal video, friend. Thank you for this! If you happen to have any resources to point me to regarding a bidet in combination with this system, please let me know!
Wow! Amazing job! My only questions are related to winter conditions and whether or not a glass lid for the solids chamber would work to create higher decomposition temperatures. In theory you could use the cured solids for compost. Thoughts?
😂😂😂😂😂 my grandparents used an old outhouse for 50yrs that was nothing more than a hole in the ground with 3walls a door & roof. Don’t forget the 3 corncobs & they got modern and started using SEARS catalogs.
I too was thinking of how to add a sun shower of some kind. Utilizing water catchment. A lot folks think they will just dig a pit but don’t understand how diseases are spread from waste. This set up hits the issue - separating urine from feces. You could also catch urine and use on gardens (great phosphorus) . But not the feces easily. They just carry too many pathogens. You don’t want that in your garden generally. Takes a LONG time to break down enough. Love this video!! 👏
Superb video thanks…. By the way, I noticed you have lots of wood, if you make some charcoal and then sprinkle it in your collection pit, your removal potential owners. You could even cross them and put it in the first filter tray in your urine box and it will absorb the smell 30 and then remove it and use it around Fruit Tree’s. It will capture carbon in the store for thousands of years but also provide an amazing source of facility for your fruit trees. Good luck.
Ive been using my outhouse for better part of two years. Basically daily. The key for mine not filling up is burning my paper and not throwing it in the hole.
My thoughts… three sinks seemed excessive and would just do one sink for hand washing and one wash tub so u could wash larger items like a pair of jeans, or use to do dishes (if in a campground situation). I would put in an outdoor shower with solar to warm water. Don’t want to make water too comfortable of a temperature to keep those showers short! Love outdoor showers.
What keeps all those hoses from freezing during deep winter ? I live in the Deep South but we still get frozen busted lines in winter if un protected !!
the urine would need to flow pretty fast in the far north. It's super hot when it leaves the body but that would last for just a foot of descent. Serious acceleration is in order. or Odor.
A rain-barrel would be useful attached to the gutter to collect water for reuse.
That's what I was thinking... that roof should be used for rainwater catchment.
I thought the same thing! Even more reuse and environmentally friendly!
My ex uses Rubbermaid garbage bins (never used for garbage, I mean he bought what's designed for garbage) and empty deep buckets that pool chemicals & such come packaged in, for water collection.
Rain catchment feeding into a drip line ran over the leech field. There is a list of good surface plants to put over septic systems, mostly wetlands grasses
We looked into reusing the roof runoff, but decided against that because the run off can contain pathogens from bird droppings.
Wow, great build and done right. That's coming from a plumber! I'm going to install this exact toilet system on my off grid property! Thanks, I really appreciate your effort and simple explanations of the build process. God Bless
It is very nice!
And I would hire you to build one for me!!
Agreed. Excellent build and design.
Thank you!
Unfortunately, not legal in most parts of the U.S. Hopefully, our legal system will catch up with science soon.
Have you thought of placing a worm bin where the solids fall? Worms will eat feces and toilet paper, which will also help with preventing bugs and pathogens.
GREAT ADVICE!
Wow, who knew
Worms were in an outhouse toilet at a Boy Scout camp we went to once when I was helping the Troup Master. It was creepy, but certainly effective!! With all the kids using it, too!
Never use worms they cause problems with the soil by adding castings and microorganisms, they also put toxic nitrogen and carbon in the soul that can never be used by any thing other than trees and plants and fungi you dont want that, you want sterile soil with no chance of germ infectin
@@deekelley891 the Australians, they have a patented system that kicks butt, it's even been tested in a bar/tavern setting. The worms are great!
You are a beautiful teacher, thorough and easy to listen to! Your outhouse is the most technical and rustic making it pleasing to the outdoorist! Nicely done!! If there were awards to be given I would nominate you or vote for your design, execution and tutorial!! Bravo!!
Thank you!
This is the best solution i have ever seen on the internet so far!
Also the waste chamber should be sloped so no "raking" is required from below the conveyor belt. I've seen several old timey pit toilets have two compartments and one is sloped to a deeper area so it naturally fills up first.
This excellent video on his off-grade outhouse was done over a year and a half ago. People have asked comments about freezing temperatures and the author of the video obviously has decided not to answer questions. I myself have been thinking of an outhouse on my off-grid property and this gives me some interesting ideas. For me at the southern edge of the Adirondack mountains freezing is definitely an issue. But I am appreciative of the information and the video and the time to produce it. Thanks.
Disappointing, especially when he asked for comments and questions.
Have you considered a small wood stove for your design? I lived in upstate NY for three years, but I didn't do any winter camping. I know how cold it can get.
I was looking into many off grid designs for a project in New Hampshire and considered the following: you could bury the water cistern and use a solar pump. It could be noisy and solar is certainly not as reliable in cold Temps but the water wouldn't freeze if you built it correctly and used the right insulation. 2. There are heating elements that could used to keep the pipe Temps just above freezing. Would solar provide enough consistent wattage? Not sure. 3. With this design you could probably shut off the outside sinks and figure out how to insulate the inside line to prevent freezing while keeping the main water supply unfrozen (either by burying or conditioning. I've heard that just having a pilot light in an insulated room is enough to prevent freezing in some cases...if the water volume is large enough). Good luck.
Sorry to be slow to respond to comments. We are in NC so we rarely get consecutive days of sub freezing temps. When we do, we shut off the valve from the tank to the handwashing lines and then drain the hoses by stepping on the pedals. That said we often forget to do that and have not had any damaged hoses or valves. The polycarbonate roof keeps the closet and the outhouse much warmer than the ambient temps.
You could also make a pedal operated soap dispenser, rather than having to push down on the plunger with your hands, so that the whole hand washing process is handsfree.
Hands free? How do YOU wash hands without rubbing them together? That's what my mama taught me more'n 70 yrs ago.......jus' sayin', like, yuh know what i mean? 😉
There were no dogs around.
Sysrem seemed very complicated and high maintenance
This is by far one of the nicest out house I have seen for off grid living. Well done.
Excellent! Best off grid waste management system I’ve ever seen. Well done explaining the build. Going start saving for one myself:) respect….
Best outhouse I’ve ever seen
Excellent video, thank you. Well thought out, detailed, and easy to follow.
Amazing craftsmanship. Based. 10/10 would utilize this outhouse.
Thomas Crapper would be proud of this ingenious solution!!!
Looks awesome. You could put a fitting on the end of those faucets and slow the water down it doesn't need to be flowing that fast just to wash your hands. Might save you some tank filling
That is the fanciest most technical outhouse I've ever seen!
This is the best outhouse/composting toilet video I have ever seen. I love your set up. I'm going to try to do something very similar. I'm living in my unfinished tiny cabin and do have a flushing toilet but I poop outside in my make shift outhouse until I decide for certain how I want to build it. I really like everything about your set up. I do compost my solid waste with dirt and worms. No smell at all.
Glad you like it. Good luck with your project!
Amazing... Best off grid toilet I have ever seen, that is as close to a "normal" toilet as possible. Good job and good video 👍😀💪
this is a next level out house! I like the wash basin beside it idea, just building mine right now and got a few good ideas from the video!
This is absolutely beautiful, and fascinating! I love how every detail was carefully considered. I would’ve liked to see a shower, but I still love it.😍👍
We thought about adding an on demand propane heated shower. The Juulca brand is what we considered. It would not be difficult to add that into the closet. In fact the closet in the original designs was going to be the shower.
This is something every house need asap .
Only people wise enough to live in the country can take full advantage of this resilient tech.
De-liberalization chamber has good design. Maybe get some street poop from Portland. Room for a few chairs.
Clear and concise tutorial ! Im blown away at how nice this is!
I've built a similar setup : differences are; roof is utilized as water catchment into 1000 litre pod; solar panel on roof to charge heavy cycle battery which provides lighting, exhaust fan and power for water pump at wash stand. All water from wash stand goes into the drop pit.
Toilet is a reinforced sided drop pit with a heavy maceration pump set in the bottom of the pit. The waste is pumped out when needed to covered settling/decomposition pits . Once dried/decomposed , (usually six to eight months) this waste is used as compost in non food use gardens. 👍
Nice. What region are you in?
@@PatrickKQ4HBD Western Queensland; Australia. Semi arid so water is a premium. 👍
This is beautiful! Only thing I would change is going to a black tank instead of a clear/white to keep mold from growing.
Good catch
The water tank has bleach added. This will prevent mold.
Great Work, Out house and video!!! My wife was totally against the composting toilet idea but this one she might be alright with!!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Very interesting! This is definitely a great idea for parks and similar sensitive areas. Same with folks living off grid.
In the Texas Panhandle there is a business that uses all of the manure from feed lots to create compost. Some local document shredding companies get rid of their shredded paper by taking out to where he compost manure and he mixes it with the manure and builds mounds a couple of 100 yards long. He also mixes microbes and water together and sprays it on the mounds as they are being built. He has a machine that he can use to drive along the mounds and turn them over while adding more microbes. By the time the mounds make their way to the other side of the field the paper and manure has been turned into a rich compost that he sells to gardeners, landscapers, and farmers who he has spreaders to spread it out over their fields.
He can also make specialty compost. If you have iron poor soil he collects iron dust and chips from machine shops that he can mix into the manure. One time he got a contract for compost to be spread under a new electrical transmission line that required a certain percentage of wood chips to be added to the manure as it composted. His compost is so good that he has rice farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi that buy his compost and pay to have it trucked out to their fields.
So, if your composting is done properly, there is no reason why it can not be spread over your yard and watered in or in your garden if mixed into the soil.
Would have been nice to use rain catchment to top off your washing water. An IBC tote to catch and treat the rain water and a solar pump to top off the 35 gallon tank.
Have you see Paul Stametz' video on using oyster mushrooms to convert/eat up human waste products? Apparently, solid waste beds can be seeded with oyster mushroom spores and the mushrooms eat/convert the potentially hazardous waste into non-hazardous material (called mycoremediation). I'd love to see someone use it and do a video on their experience. Add'l Note: Mycologist, Paul Stametz, purchased a property in the 'Boundary Waters' areas where human waste is strictly controlled. His video on how he removed all signs of human waste via mycoremediation (using oyster mushrooms) was very intriguing.
I will have to take a look at that! Thank you!
This toilet is genius and the bird noises was fabulous. Thank you for sharing and it would be great to have this at my house.
Very clear and thorough explanation of an excellent design.
Love it 👍 Great job! Love the poly carb rood. Makes it so bright and not creepy like most outhouses! What about winter? Doesn’t the hoses freeze?
It's a wonderful idea. I'm going to try it!
I'm assuming the property is either in a warm climate or isn't in use during the winter months as YES the hoses & the holding tanks will absolutely freeze without a heat source or possibly adding a salt solution to the water which wouldn't exactly be friendly to the environment or to washed hands I would imagine! lol
The clear roof already extends over the water tank which could be placed on a painted metal shelf and the entire top half of the closet insulated with the hoses placed internally to create a mini green house just to help keep it above freezing.
If it going to be below freezing for a couple of days we usually drain the tank of water and empty the lines. One night of freezing temps has not caused any problems thus far.
@@joeljong931I like that, greenhouse. Kind of a self heating, insulating set up.
I got this beat by miles. I do both (#1, #2) in a FREE food-grade repurposed plastic bucket and FREE wood shavings from my farm. Mine is portable, NEVER smells or attracts insects, compost everything down to "soil" and works ANYWHERE inside or outdoors. Did I mention it was FREE?
it's just not as entertaining as mimicking a fast food production line.
This is a great alternative. What was the total cost?
Project total $7,782.48
grants $3,000.00
out of pocket expense $4,782.48
You've covered every eventuality. Super clever! 👍
I couldn't imagine the cleanup required after a few explosive episodes.
Excellent video. We’re going off grid and will definitely be looking into this
i want these on every trail
Now that is pretty awesome. Very well thought out design and very much a must have. We will for sure have one for our camp.
I love the mechanical simplicity!
Nice! I would love one on my farm. Would have to figure out a winterization tho.
I just watched your video and tried to give it a like but my remote is acting up and it went to dislike. I was able to fix the dislike to a like but wanted to leave you a comment so that you would know it was a mistake and you deserve a 10+! I’m new to the whole desire of building an outhouse or anything for that matter and this was a very comprehensive video and I can’t wait to see more from you! I know absolutely nothing about building anything but I believe I’ll be able to accomplish a great building if I follow along and rewind as many times as I need to😂😂😂😂 great job!!!! I hope UA-cam doesn’t include my accidental dislike as an actual one!!!!
This is a fantastic design!
My dad built an outhouse when I was a kid. We put a lot of work into it. But it was not this techno advanced. We put crushed limestone after using to help decompose.
That storage room outside cd be adapted to a shower room. You hv all the plumbing installed. Depends on the climate tho. 🥶 Does your tank freeze in the winter?
Well done !
Very tidy
Saw dust is better than wood chips to help decompose poop. It will also keep it from stinking. I saw the problem you have with toilet paper. I also don’t put toilet paper in my composting toilet. I have found by using one of those empty containers that handi wipes come in is the answer. I use double sheets to wipe my bottom and lay them on top of the handi wipe container. When I get done, I fold them all at one time in half. I open the big lid and drop them in. When the container gets full, I take the lid off and just shake it over a trash can. There is no oder while doing this. Then I tie the top of the trash bag and put it in a road side dumpster to be picked up every week. I think the toilet paper starts decomposing the poop on the paper or dries it up enough it doesn’t stink. Anyway. You didn’t convince me to go the same route you have gone but I did find it interesting. My system is just too simple and fool proof to change it. Later
I loved what you’ve done! Simple, clean and functional. I want one !
Nice idea, neatly executed & brilliantly presented 👍
Yes, a very good tutorial, and I really appreciate that you show the actual waste. Many video makers are too coy to show what we do naturally. We have to be realistic about it to learn anything. I think the addition of specific red worms would be a good idea. The worms that come naturally will be normal earthworms whereas the red worms (sorry I don't know their botanical name) work specifically on poo and other organic materials (wood chips/shavings/paper). And the suggestion of a sloping pit floor sounds like a great idea, as they use this on some composting toilets, and the material slowly makes its way downhill while decomposing. I am wondering if it could be incorporated into a home (on an outside wall, of course)?
The toilet system I will use also separates the urine from the solids, but in a conventional flush toilet, that flushes 2 litres for the solids and 0.2 litre for the urine. I will send the urine to mix with the grey water to dilute it enough to use on an orchard, while the solids can go into a very much smaller septic tank system, or into the municipal sewerage system. This will save a huge amount of water, as a conventional flushing toilet uses approximately 30 litres a day per person, whereas mine will use 3 litres a day per person.
I don’t have any plans to build an outhouse, but the few times I’ve ever used one it’s always made me think that there has to be a better way than just a pit directly below me, with smell filling the room. Which immediately leads to thoughts of how to get that pit to be behind me, where the smell could rise up into the outside air and be dispersed, instead of under me and stinking. Some sort of angled ramp has come to mind in the past. But a conveyer belt seems good too, as long as those scrapers are working well. And separating urine is also good. So there is at least some urine and solid mixing as both of them contact the conveyer belt before it is pumped away. And, am I seeing this correctly, the urine just runs off the side of the conveyer belt? And there is nothing washing any of that off each time. So, it’s just pee on the belt and everything that is under the belt, and… it just dries. And no consequence for someone who doesn’t pump the solid waste all the way to the end of the belt. If it just sits there it will dry up and fall off next time. And… do all the water lines freeze in the dead of winter? My other immediate thoughts, after the few times I’ve used an outhouse in the dead of winter, is about supplying some form of temporary heat for each person’s use. There ought to be a better way than freezing your ass off.
Hey how do you prevent your water from freezing in the winter?
Glad you asked that. I was thinking the same thing.
Move south
@@fnsfabrications6844 Georgia here. It was 28F this morning in mid-November. Gotta go further. 😉
Dig deeper
Awsome high tech Urination Station and Poop Portal! Very well done!
Wow!!🎉🎉😂
Now THAT is the ultimate supreme, outhouse!
Im thinking of making an outhouse on the corner of our property out in the woods. It will go good with the tiny cabin i just built out there!🎉
12v system for lighting and charging is a must!
Totes for paper 🗞️ and other materials is important!🎉
Good job!! 👍👏🎉😂
Have you ever considered depositing used toilet paper in a separate container? Say a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag liner. You could then process it separately however you choose. Throw it out with the trash or burn it or whatever.
Great job, & a nice explanation!
All that’s needed now,
is a bookshelf,
& a magazine rack!
Have a good one!
You had me at rat trap spring!
This has got to be one of the coolest videos I've ever seen on UA-cam!!!!!!
I used a tolet of this type at a NP backpackers campground. Simply outstanding solution.
How do you keep the water lines from freezing over in the winter, or to you drain all the lines?😊
Thanks for creating & sharing this, Sustainable Outhouse ⭐️
I wish more people understood that sewage is created, not naturally occurring! Even when we ‘squat in the woods’ the solids & liquids are (mostly) separated!
With ‘normal’ toilets, we create sewage, add drinking water and then collect it all to be treated!?
The clean water chamber could just collect rainwater and be still be mounted high for gravity feed. Screens for bugs and leaves.
What do you do in the winter? How do you keep your water from freezing?
Antifreeze maybe
That is just fantastic!
It should be compulsory in every home instead of the wasteful polluting systems used now.
Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed to learn more.
Ya- you evidently don’t live where it gets very cold.
That's the nicest outhouse I have ever seen.
Well thought out answering all my questions.
Does the toilet drum and shoot freeze up with winter use? Does the above ground decomposing chamber freeze and stop working in winter?
This is a great outhouse, way beyond the ones I grew up with. The air-flow makes sense though our Australian wildlife finds their way into any gap, some are friendly but it's the bitey ones I like to avoid.
Put a couple Osage oranges, they are not poisonous, have a slight orange smell, they dry out to a black ball but don’t rot. I replace every year. I keep by doors inside the house and in garage, and by garage door. It repels crickets and spiders. I honestly never get any crickets now, and spiders. It’s naturally repels them. Some people will place them in a cupcake tin, I don’t not since they don’t rot. They are amazing! I just order on Amazon!
I just checked out their website and was shocked at how expensive an outhouse can be, especially when a shovel could replace the whole thing.
Same here, who has 5 grand to spend on a toilet alone, then the rest of the material to finish the build, insane
@@IAmPhoenixRising81 I agree. Too expensive. And the youruber ignored many questions
The maintenance alone was shocking. Example the tree stick.to pick off toilet paper off stuck.
Why not put in a garbage pail near toilet . Alot had to be taken apart and put back together.
I like Nate Petroski ideas better. He even installed a bidet .
Pretty soon you'd run out of space. Besides, who wants to dig a hole in the rain and fill it up when you're done?
Pretty ingenious, that use of a rat trap!! Really impressive!!
that rat trap could take a finger off for sure.
Awesome video! Quick question, why was the toilet put so close to the side wall? Shouldn't there have been an 18-inch gap between the toilet and the side wall, so a person could sit more comfortably?
Good question.Lots of larger people out there (like me).
Maybe toilet close to the wall is a thing. We looked at several houses in Oklahoma and your thigh rubbed the wall in all of them.
Code is generally 15 inches on either side of center
I thought the same thing!
And solids would drop to center of chamber to make raking to one side or the other.
The only suggestion I would make for improvement is to divert rain water to a tank for hand washing. This would minimize the amount of water needed from the house. Depending on the level of rain fall in your area it could eliminate the need to fill the 30 gallon tank altogether.
QUESTION(S)
1. How far away from a housing structure is this outhouse?
2. Does there have to be a bit of a slope?
3. You said there's a couple of tubes in the leechfield how deep? Full of stones, top and bottom? Fabric cloth around the pipe?
4. Do you clean it outwith a digger? Do you have to clean it out? I know it will take a long time to fill but eventually it will need the "soil" removed so there's more room for new waste products. Yes?
5. Did you think of putting a Reed bed in the leechfield to help clean the water/urine runoff?
You are now the outhouse that all outhouses will be measured against. That is a beautiful structure.
This is so cool! Love solutions that are more sustainable. Next add on design would be a non toilet paper usage. Duvet approach?
This seems like a very EXPENSIVE outhouse setup.
I'm so curious what extra steps, other than build of course, it would take to include a bidet in this system. Phenomenal video, friend. Thank you for this! If you happen to have any resources to point me to regarding a bidet in combination with this system, please let me know!
Wow! Amazing job! My only questions are related to winter conditions and whether or not a glass lid for the solids chamber would work to create higher decomposition temperatures. In theory you could use the cured solids for compost. Thoughts?
Thanks for spending the time to post this.
😂😂😂😂😂 my grandparents used an old outhouse for 50yrs that was nothing more than a hole in the ground with 3walls a door & roof. Don’t forget the 3 corncobs & they got modern and started using SEARS catalogs.
A perfectly done, thorough, great video.
Wouldn’t the small closet area make a great shower? Awesome video, thanks so much for sharing
I too was thinking of how to add a sun shower of some kind. Utilizing water catchment. A lot folks think they will just dig a pit but don’t understand how diseases are spread from waste. This set up hits the issue - separating urine from feces. You could also catch urine and use on gardens (great phosphorus) . But not the feces easily. They just carry too many pathogens. You don’t want that in your garden generally. Takes a LONG time to break down enough. Love this video!! 👏
We were originally going to have a Juulca on demand propane heated shower in the closet.
Great video--- How much approximately would this likely cost? We are buiding an eco park?
Do you install for others?
Project total $7,782.48
grants $3,000.00
out of pocket expense $4,782.48
It's over $4,000 for one of those toilets!!!! 😱😱 Guess I'm doing a standard outhouse like the Amish use!
But the cost in Europe is half the cost. ?/?💩
Yeah i just looked it up its 4500.00 plus shipping 😢
Put in regular septic system and use collected rain water to flusj
@@janicelane8979 That's fine, until you're in a drought.
This is wonderful. Are there build plans available? I would love to build this, your so clever. I hope your able to reply. Thank you
I would also be interested in build plans!
Excellent video. Excellent explanation. Well done!
Sorry but I don't have any diagrams or blueprints available for sale.
Thanks for the reply. Maybe someday :)
Superb video thanks…. By the way, I noticed you have lots of wood, if you make some charcoal and then sprinkle it in your collection pit, your removal potential owners. You could even cross them and put it in the first filter tray in your urine box and it will absorb the smell 30 and then remove it and use it around Fruit Tree’s. It will capture carbon in the store for thousands of years but also provide an amazing source of facility for your fruit trees. Good luck.
I am thinking of a place to escape to on the weekends and when I retire. This would be perfect.
You could use rainwater to fill up tank
YES! Catching rainwater year round will save a lot of money and time.
Excellent. I want one. Thanks for sharing. Wish you more success as well.
You could have saved Bill Gates a $100M with this!
love this and thank you for posting!!!
The shear title got me to click😆
Excellent video very informative thank you. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great video, quality work, but at 4500 bucks a pop I don’t think this is the next best thing to the flush toilet.
What a thorough video! Thanks... I'm feeling inspired and informed ☺️✌🏾
Magnificent, thoughtful and super creative. Keep em coming, SAHWEET 👍✅😁
You are an excellent teacher!
Ive been using my outhouse for better part of two years. Basically daily. The key for mine not filling up is burning my paper and not throwing it in the hole.
My thoughts… three sinks seemed excessive and would just do one sink for hand washing and one wash tub so u could wash larger items like a pair of jeans, or use to do dishes (if in a campground situation). I would put in an outdoor shower with solar to warm water. Don’t want to make water too comfortable of a temperature to keep those showers short! Love outdoor showers.
We have a lot of visitors who need to wash hands before eating which is why we have 3 sinks. For a family outhouse it would be overkill.
What keeps all those hoses from freezing during deep winter ? I live in the Deep South but we still get frozen busted lines in winter if un protected !!
the urine would need to flow pretty fast in the far north. It's super hot when it leaves the body but that would last for just a foot of descent. Serious acceleration is in order. or Odor.
Well constructed and super interesting design, thanks for sharing.