[AT] Shop bathroom question

Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois USA gwaugh at wowway.com
Sat Feb 16 10:07:45 PST 2008


Any sort of reasonable perc capacity of your soil, and this should work 
with no problem at all.

Wouldn't please the rule makers, but 100% effective, and what with very 
low use, no problems at all.

/Gene
Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois USA/


Dave Ernst wrote:
> While you guys are on this subject....
> A toilet room out here in the shop has been on my mind for quite some time, 
> expecially making the trek back to the house under duress.
> Your thoughts on septic. I'm way out of town, so I can do what I want in the 
> way of a system.  One toilet won't take much, and a friend I know buried a 
> couple of plastic 55 gallon drums, coupled them together by a 4" sleeve at 
> the sides near the top. The first became the holding side and the other he 
> drilled holes through the sides and bottom.  It has been several years since 
> it was installed and no problems, however it very seldom in used.
> Any thoughts?
> Dave
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois USA" <gwaugh at wowway.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Shop bathroom question
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> Being an ex plumber, I would suggest your latter thought---use the left
> over insulation to provide additional insulation for the plumbing---AND,
> as you say, you don't want to put anything between the plumbing and heat
> sources.  With overhead pipes especially, I would probably just drape it
> directly over the pipes to maximize the effect.
>
> Jealous of your shop!!!
>
> /-- 
> Gene
> Gene Waugh
> Elgin, Illinois USA/
>
>
> Len Rugen wrote:
>   
>> I've talked about my shop project before, it's a 30x50 enclosed building 
>> insulated with foil-bubble-vynal wrap.  I'm also building a 8 x 10 
>> bathroom, shower and "freeze proof" room.  It has 2x4 walls and I'm going 
>> to put kraft faced fiberglass bats in the walls and ceiling.
>>
>> My question, I had to get another roll of my bubble wrap, I was short 
>> about 1/4 of a roll, now I have a lot left over.  Would it be a good or 
>> bad idea to add this between the kraft paper and sheet rock in the 
>> bathroom?  I'm going to have a drop ceiling so I can put the plumbing up 
>> there, so I could also put it against the kraft paper up there as well, 
>> but it needs to be ABOVE the pipes, don't want to isolate them from the 
>> heat source.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Len Rugen
>>
>> rugenl at yahoo.com - personal & consulting
>> rugenl at prairiehome.k12.mo.us Prairie Home R-V Tech Coordinator
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