Detailed instructions on how to make a toilet in the country

Landscaping a personal plot begins with the installation of a toilet. Having chosen a suitable place, you can begin to build this necessary element of country life.

How to make a toilet in the country? The most reliable and popular type of country convenience remains the classic latrine with a cesspool, but there are other options for toilet structures.

Types of country toilets

What kind of toilet to make in the country? Conventionally, street latrines can be divided into two types: with and without a cesspool. Dry closets and powder closets work without a cesspool.

Modern designers have developed many models in which there is no sewage pit. And what is better - a dry closet or a traditional cesspool? A waste cesspool is the most common and cheapest way to implement an outdoor sanitary unit. Installing and maintaining a dry closet will not be cheap, but sometimes you can’t do without it.

Types of country toilet houses

In what cases it is impossible to install a latrine with a cesspool:

• If the soil is shale or limestone
• If the groundwater level is high
• If the number of residents and guests is large

How to make a country toilet? To decide on the choice of the most successful sanitary and household building, you need to take into account the features of each design. So, latrines differ in the way they collect and dispose of waste:

• dry closet
• Powder closet
• play closet
• With cesspool

A powder closet is an alternative to a dry closet installed without a cesspool: instead of it, a container is placed for collecting sewage, which is periodically cleaned by hand. Dissolution of wastewater occurs due to the peat bog, one kilogram of which is able to process up to 10 liters of sewage, combining them into useful fertilizer.

We watch the video, various types of country closets:

A backlash closet is a combination of a home sanitary unit with a cesspool. If you want to install a lavatory of a similar design, you must take care in advance of the possibility of cleaning it with a cesspool machine. If this is not possible, then the backlash closet cannot be installed.

The ease of operation of a pit latrine is an advantage over a device without a drain installed. You will not need to take care of the periodic cleaning of the accumulated feces, you will not need to spend money on the maintenance of the toilet and purchase special solvents and absorbents. You can make a cesspool yourself, and install a toilet house above it.

How to make a cesspool

Stages of manufacturing a septic tank

How to make a country toilet correctly? When installing a restroom, certain sanitary and hygienic requirements must be observed:

• Distance from the well - at least 20 meters;
• The toilet is not installed in the center of the yard;
• Distance from the border of the neighboring plot - at least one meter;
• The design is installed taking into account the wind rose (to avoid the spread of smell);
• Provide an entrance for the sewer truck.

To ensure that the septic tank meets all hygiene standards, consider the following:

1. The depth of the pit should be from two meters
2. The shape of the sewage pit is a square with sides of 1 meter or a rounded pit with an internal diameter of 2 meters (for reinforced concrete rings)

The most reliable type of sealing the cesspool will be. First, it will keep groundwater from being polluted. And secondly, it will save your crop from sewage. With the help of reinforced concrete rings, an absolutely sealed sewage system is obtained.

Watch a video on how to properly make a cesspool:

The strengthening of the sewage pit with wooden boards or bricks is a thing of the past. Now, waste isolation is carried out using concrete rings and covering the bottom with a concrete screed. The only drawback of such a system is cleaning with a sewer machine. But if you do not appear in the country all the time, then the cost of cleansing will be negligible.

A popular method of installing a septic tank remains a drainage system. But it can be installed in case of a small consumption of water resources by the family. Because with high water consumption, waste disposal will be difficult. The disadvantage of the drainage system is the constant smell in the yard due to the constant pollution of groundwater.

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The installation of the drainage system is similar to the method described above, but a reinforced concrete slab (or concrete screed) is not installed on the bottom, but sand and gravel (crushed stone) are poured:

• Approximately 10 cm coarse sand
• 5 cm of small granite gravel

A coating made of thermally bonded geotextile is mounted on top. Keep in mind that the environmental police do not welcome such constructions.

Schemes of country septic tanks

After installing the cesspool, you can install a house for a septic tank. Which drawing of a country toilet to choose? A classic backyard toilet is a frame sheathed with building finishing material.

We make a septic tank with our own hands:

The frame of the house is fixed on a columnar foundation. To ensure waterproofing, a roofing material is laid between the foundation and the wooden box (frame). The popular "birdhouse" replaced the original design of the hut house. The hut differs from the birdhouse not only in design, but also in the principles of structure.

Scheme Hut or Birdhouse

The birdhouse is designed with a sloping roof, sloping towards the rear wall. The scheme of a country toilet of the hut type is a triangular-shaped house with a gable roof. Advantages of a hut house over a birdhouse:

1. Septic tank won't rain
2. No supporting frame required
3. On the side you can place a container for peat or other materials

The peculiarity of the toilet house-hut is that the gable roof is the side walls of the building. The drawing of a country toilet hut is simple and will not cause difficulties. Installation sequence:

Preparation

• Put together a platform-floor and sew up with boards, leaving a hole. Coat the boards with an antifungal compound in two layers
• Install the finished platform on the base
• Put together the front and back walls, sheathe them with clapboard.

Construction assembly

The dimensions of a country toilet such as a hut are not large. Do not forget to install a transom under the roof for ventilation, which will also be triangular in shape.

We watch the video, assembling a closet for a summer cottage:

Roofing material for the Hut can serve as:

1. Decking
2. Slate
3. Galvanized corrugated sheets
4. Other materials

Build or buy

What is more profitable - to buy a ready-made model of a house or to build a hut-type country toilet according to the drawing on your own? If you doubt that you can handle the installation of a septic tank yourself, buy ready-made products. But any owner of the dacha can make a house from a wooden base and sheathe it with clapboard.

For work you will need:

• Hacksaw
• Plane
• Hammer
• Screwdriver
• self-tapping screws
• Nails.

Having elementary skills in using this toolkit, you can build a house for a country toilet with your own hands.

Approximate consumption

• Two edged boards (6 and 4 meters)
• Floor board - 4 pieces of 6 meters
• Lining 3 meters long - from two to four packs (depending on the inner lining)
• Glassine - at least 4 m
• Ruberoid - 1.5 meters
• Sand - 2 buckets
• Galvanized nails - 2 kg
• Nails for lining (without hats) - 2 kg
• Nails for slate - 20 pcs
• Self-tapping screws - a handful
• Slate - 2 sheets (8-wave)
• Sheet of galvanized iron for a ridge - 1 piece
• Door with fittings - 1 piece
• Antifungal liquid

1. How to make a toilet in a summer cottage? To keep your country toilet stable and not blown away by gusts of wind, securely fix the bottom of the building.
2. Install the structure about 20 centimeters above ground level.
3. Do not clad the building over the pit: install the floor and toilet seat first. After aside, build a frame, and transfer it to the finished base. You can't do this alone - you need the help of two more people.
4. Control the vertical and horizontal level at all stages of installation.
5. The door block must open outward, otherwise the entrance to the building will be difficult.
6. Take care of the light window so that you do not turn on the light during the day.
7. Between the wooden frame and the stone base there must be a waterproofing layer (roofing material).
8. If the walls are not sheathed with vinyl clapboard, they are painted with paint.
9. Do not forget to treat the wooden canvas with an antiseptic.

As you can see, it is not difficult to build a good septic tank in the yard on your own. You only need to have the skills to use working tools and draw up a detailed drawing.

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You should also calculate the amount of building material so as not to go to the construction market once again. The most optimal design for a country restroom would be a hut-style house. A cesspool drain is best made of concrete rings. As for the drainage system, you decide for yourself. But for clean air, absolute waterproofing is better than drainage.