[AT] Shop bathroom question

[Francis Robinson]

--On Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:07 PM -0600 "Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois 
USA" <gwaugh at wowway.com> wrote:

> 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/


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   :-)


	Those would be my exact thoughts Gene. Just don't sit it in a spring... 
:-)

	I am thinking of installing a sawdust composting potty in a couple of 
buildings. I have a number of members of some of my email lists that swear 
by them. In its most basic form it is a 5 gal. pickle bucket with a seat 
(seat configuration varies a lot) and a barrel of sawdust (red cedar would 
be nice). Out back somewhere they have a few plastic barrels (I think with 
holes in the bottom for drainage and air intake in the lower sides IIRC). 
After each use sawdust is used to cover the fresh contents of the bucket. 
When the bucket starts to get full it is replaced with a fresh cleaned 
bucket with a little sawdust in the bottom and the full bucket is dumped in 
the first barrel. The bucket is rinsed and hung upside down to "freshen" 
itself. A little bleach water can help it. That rotation keeps going like 
that. As the barrel fills up you just move to the next barrel and let the 
first sit and compost. With about 10 or 12 barrels it is said to be able to 
keep up with a normal house load. By the time the barrel has sat a year it 
is said to be all just compost ready for the garden or field.
	There is one lady on one of my list that has one in her house that has a 
nice varnished wood base made about like a trunk or cedar chest. The whole 
bench area lifts up to expose the toilet seat and when full you just raise 
the seat area to change buckets. It looks more like a piece of furniture 
than a potty and it has a 3" or 4" vent pipe that runs up and outside of 
the house to keep things smelling fresh. The vent could have a small blower 
for positive venting while in use if you like which might avoid the danger 
of an explosion especially if your taste runs heavy into Mexican food... 
:-)

	In a discussion on another list one fellow spoke of using a large potted 
plant in his wood shop as a urinal... I don't mind stepping out back but I 
would find that use of a potted plant to be pretty iffy...

	Since my wood shop (originally a store) is a part of my old house and is 
connected I have access to a full bathroom there. If I do decide to rent 
the 24'x45' original house I will just put in a commode and sink and plumb 
it to that septic system by connecting it to the regular house plumbing in 
the house crawl space.

	Most of the time I don't really need a shop bathroom at all but when those 
rare high speed "frightening" urges do hit 300' seems like a hundred 
miles...   ;-)





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"farmer"


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
Robinson at svs.net