Which toilet to choose for a summer residence?

Each summer resident wants to provide the most comfortable conditions of stay on his site. One of the main conditions is the presence of a toilet. Therefore, this structure can be considered the main one and, as a rule, it build the very first on an empty garden plot.

The easiest option- this is an ordinary pit with a cubicle installed on top, but such a typical wooden toilet has two significant drawbacks: strong smell And the need for periodic cleaning of the toilet.

Therefore, today we will try to discuss how to make a toilet for giving an odorless and pumping sewage.

Ordinary closet

A typical country toilet with a cesspool

A standard rustic pit latrine cannot eliminate bad odors and needs to be cleaned periodically or relocated to a new location. But with the right setup, you can reduce these negative factors to a minimum.

• First, it is desirable to a bigger hole. Many dig a hole up to 2 meters deep or even more. ???? This noticeably delays the moment when cleaning the pit is necessary. Some toilets with a large pit during seasonal living in the country, and even more so when they drive over, only on weekends without a large number of people work right up to 20 years! And so that the pit does not sprinkle, some summer residents put concrete rings there.
• Secondly, the pit should be located, as it were, behind the toilet. That is, the booth is not placed directly in the center of the pit, but, as it were, in front of it with a small entry. The seat with the hole is located at the rear of the toilet cubicle.
• And thirdly, you must good extract from the pit. If there is a constant draft in the exhaust pipe, there will be no smell in the booth due to proper ventilation of the toilet. The exhaust pipe is located behind the booth and runs from the top of the pit to a level above the booth by about half a meter. The air is drawn out through the hood, and enters the pit through the hole in the toilet. At the same time, in the booth there is always clean supply air from the street, and there is almost no smell.

Now they often sell ready-made toilets for summer cottages - wooden cabins. Which only need to be installed on the pit and the toilet is ready for use. The installation of the toilet itself does not require special knowledge and skills. The main thing is to put the booth evenly and securely fasten it.

Powder closet

Homemade powder closet for giving

This is an outdoor toilet in the country without a cesspool.

Works by analogy with a peat dry closet.

A waste container (usually a bucket) is placed under the seat, and after a bowel movement sprinkle waste with sawdust, ash, peat or tyrsa from a special container using a scoop.

The waste container itself is periodically taken out and used as fertilizer.

Plastic toilet for giving

Standard portable plastic toilet

This option is often used in various street cafes and at various events with a massive gathering of people in the open air. It is a plastic cabin with a waste container, where a special container is filled with chemicals for processing and disinfection of sewage.

Requires periodic cleaning. There are companies that are engaged in the replacement of such booths.

This option has the right to life within the suburban area, but is not very popular.

Toilet inside the house

bucket toilet

Plastic bucket-toilet

Perhaps this is the easiest version of the toilet in the country. Different from normal baby potty the presence of a full-fledged seat with a cover.

Inside it is desirable to put a disposable bag, which must then be thrown away. But many do not do this and just wash the bucket-toilet. The package must be strong and not leak.

This bucket is often used as night toilet. During the day, a street closet is used, and at night it is too lazy and cold to go outside, and such a bucket is brought into the house. It is popular with the older generation of gardeners.

Dry closet based on microorganisms

Dry closet-bucket

This is a bucket-toilet 2.0 :), that is, a more advanced unit that does not emit an unpleasant odor. Also can be used indoors. Periodically requires backfilling of special biomass with bacteria that recycle waste. A special removable container allows you to pour already processed waste into the garden as fertilizer.

Peat dry closet

Peat toilet for a summer residence

One of the types of dry closet, where waste is sprinkled with peat from a special tank. Therefore, there is almost no smell. This type of toilet is also called Finnish toilet.

To the toilet it is desirable to connect ventilation.

The principle of operation of a peat toilet is as follows: waste is sprinkled with peat, then liquid waste is poured into a special container, or into a drain pit, and solid waste with peat must be periodically removed and used as fertilizer.

Finnish peat toilets have recently been very popular with summer residents. The most popular models: Ekomatic (Ekomatic), Piteko (Piteco), Biolan (Biolan).

Portable toilet based on chemicals

portable toilet

Another option for a toilet bucket. But in this case waste recycles a special mixture of chemicals that falls asleep inside. As well as a dry closet with bacteria, it does not have a bad smell, but unlike it, in this case do not pour recycled waste into the beds because they are not harmless.

Electric dry closet

Electric dry closet

Outwardly similar to a portable dry closet, but unlike it is not mobile and requires connection to engineering systems.

The principle of operation is that solid waste is separated from liquid, dried and moved to a special container.

The liquid component is drained into the sewer (an underground drain pit is enough without a full-fledged septic tank).

In addition, ventilation is required to eliminate odors.

At its core is almost a normal toilet, but is used in cases where there is no possibility of arranging a full-fledged sewerage system.

Full bathroom

Country bathroom in the house

Perhaps this the best option for a country house, but also dearest.

It requires a separate room in the house and utilities. In the bathroom there is a toilet bowl, to which water supply is supplied. The drain from the toilet is done either in a drain pit or in a septic tank.

• drain hole will require periodic pumping of waste using a sewage truck.
• septic tank does not require pumping, or requires it much less frequently, since in it the waste is processed in several containers.

In addition to the complexity of arranging a separate bathroom, it should also be remembered that a house with a bathroom needs heating in winter, otherwise, at sub-zero temperatures, you can defrost the water supply and the toilet.

In extreme cases, it is possible to drain the entire system for the winter and fill the toilet with non-freezing liquid.

But All difficulties are compensated by ease of use., therefore, this option has become increasingly common in dachas, even in small houses.

Warm toilet in the country

Many summer residents are increasingly going to the country in the winter. This is due to the fact that country roads began to be cleaned more often in winter, and the accessibility of the site has improved. Not a small role in this belongs to those who have chosen for themselves year-round living in the country. It is not uncommon to see full-fledged residential buildings in the country.

Heated outdoor toilet

It is cold in winter, and the question arises how to equip warm toilet in the country.

If the toilet is inside the house, then the issue is resolved by itself - it will be warm in the bathroom.

And what about the outdoor toilet? But this issue is also solvable.

• First, winter toilet in the country can be insulated. For example, use extruded polystyrene foam (penoplex). It is inexpensive, holds heat well and is not afraid of moisture. In an insulated toilet, the temperature is always higher than outside. Yes, and elementary wind protection will already create more comfortable conditions in an outdoor toilet in winter.
• Secondly, you can warm up the toilet. Yes, don't laugh. Many people do just that. Any heat source is placed in the outdoor toilet. It can be both an electric heater and a heater on any fuel. As a result, the cabin becomes warm and cozy on long winter evenings. ????

Which option to choose?

What should be considered when choosing one or another option? Consider the following factors:

Waste volume

Try to estimate how often you will use the toilet? How many people going to the restroom? The amount of waste depends on this, and, accordingly, the method of their disposal. This is perhaps the main factor influencing the choice of toilet.

Groundwater depth

With a high level of groundwater, pit toilets, and in some cases septic tanks, are excluded.

Check the groundwater level in spring.

Finance

How much are you willing to spend for a toilet? There are options from the cheapest to super expensive septic tanks. It all depends on your wallet and wishes.

Recycling

Any toilets require waste disposal Sooner or later. Think about all this in advance, choosing one or another version of the toilet. You must understand how to clean your toilet option, how difficult and expensive it is.

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