Welcome back and congratulations on selling your family home and planning the next phase of your retirement. The pancakes need to go somewhere Shane and a lot of good new composting toilets have come a long way! Tree for the boys where you can I say!
Thanks Tony, interesting topic, we had fun making it though. Busy time selling the house, good to be back in the van. Building a new home next year. Cheers Graham
Great overview. For me the composting toilet would be more inviting if you could remove catchment container externally from van, but each unto their own.
I recently saw a Sunland Caravan review where they have fitted an exterior door hatch to remove the composting toilet… Which makes good sense…Cheers Graham
Graham, hope all well with you both, good video but still not convinced the composting toilet if for us. It brings back memories of emptying our Thunder down under on a daily basis with our previous camper trailer, the cassette toilet is a major upgrade in comparison that’s for sure. As you say it’s a personal choice🤔 ZN499.
Could not agree more with your thoughts, this subject would actually prevent us from upgrading to a new Zone as you no longer have a choice. Good thing we are really happy with our current RV. and it’s cassette toilet. Regards Graham & Ann
Compost toilet hands down. Not having to find a dump point every couple of days and being able to put the waste in a bin, too easy. Yes wee needs emptying every couple of days, but if off grid I’ll find somewhere to empty the wee on a tree or somewhere discreet.
imo, that was a bit overkill on setting up the composting toilet. we just put the peat moss block in the top, added the water, then just turn it over via the handle every few hours. the next morning it was ready to go. oh, and we do both 1 and 2 at the same time with no issue
With the female body they can actually pass number one and number 2 at the same time. I'll stick,with the cassette any day. Good to see the options though.
I’m not sure why so many composting toilet users make it look so difficult to to manage a composting loo in videos. Manufacturers recommend you never totally empty a composting toilet to start with; it should never be pristine inside like old mate’s was in the video. You use a small amount of the exisiting composting material to seed the new peat. We’ve only ever used the starter spray once; when we first started our compost mix. Cleaning is just a spray of diluted vinegary water after a wee; that’s it, with a wipe around the bowl, seat and lid as needed. You don’t need to carry it outside either (well, we don’t). The top comes off and is placed into the shower recess, and the compost is scooped out into a bag. The new brick can be prepped in a container of warm water, or just placed directly into the base unit with the water and broken up in there. We used our toilet for 4 months before we changed the compost. We didn’t use it exclusively; if a loo was available, we used it. Having said that, I checked it often with the thought it was time to change it, but the compost level just didn’t seem to change and there was never the awful odour that we had with a toilet cassette (I never could cope with the smell of the chemicals used to stop the smell). Maybe people are changing their “compost” out before it’s had a chance to actually break down. As for wees, we empty it every day or second day, but we don’t use a dump point unless we’re in a caravan park as people are just weird about other folk’s wee going onto a tree or down a toilet 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️. We love our composting toilet, and will never go back to a cassette.
Give me a cassette toilet any day composting toilet to much stuffing around old mate said he could have pancakes while you empty your cassette toilet I could cook a roast dinner by the time he does his composting toilet 👍
Welcome back and congratulations on selling your family home and planning the next phase of your retirement.
The pancakes need to go somewhere Shane and a lot of good new composting toilets have come a long way!
Tree for the boys where you can I say!
Thanks Tony, interesting topic, we had fun making it though.
Busy time selling the house, good to be back in the van. Building a new home next year.
Cheers Graham
Love these comparisons. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Great video
I really enjoyed seeing the difference
Glad you enjoyed,cheers Graham
A very useful review.
Thanks Ian
Great overview.
For me the composting toilet would be more inviting if you could remove catchment container externally from van, but each unto their own.
I recently saw a Sunland Caravan review where they have fitted an exterior door hatch to remove the composting toilet…
Which makes good sense…Cheers Graham
We took the plunge 😂 and went compositing, touch wood all going well Pedro ZB489
Everyone we spoke to about compositing gave it a thumbs up, thanks for watching.
Graham, hope all well with you both, good video but still not convinced the composting toilet if for us. It brings back memories of emptying our Thunder down under on a daily basis with our previous camper trailer, the cassette toilet is a major upgrade in comparison that’s for sure. As you say it’s a personal choice🤔 ZN499.
Could not agree more with your thoughts, this subject would actually prevent us from upgrading to a new Zone as you no longer have a choice.
Good thing we are really happy with our current RV. and it’s cassette toilet.
Regards Graham & Ann
Compost toilet hands down. Not having to find a dump point every couple of days and being able to put the waste in a bin, too easy. Yes wee needs emptying every couple of days, but if off grid I’ll find somewhere to empty the wee on a tree or somewhere discreet.
Thanks for your comments, many others agree with you, maybe it’s time for us to reconsider.
Cheers Graham & Ann
Where do you empty the no.2 compartment? Looks like a bit of messing around for my liking.
I agree,That’s why we have stayed with our cassette. They said they spread it around trees and shrubs, can’t say I would like to camp next to it.
The peat moss old mate used is way too wet.
Yes, this was a new venture into the world of composting for our fellow Zoner. Thanks for your input.
Yes, this was a new venture into composting for our fellow Zoner, thanks for your input
imo, that was a bit overkill on setting up the composting toilet.
we just put the peat moss block in the top, added the water, then just turn it over via the handle every few hours. the next morning it was ready to go.
oh, and we do both 1 and 2 at the same time with no issue
Live & Learn, thanks for sharing…Cheers Graham
give me a dump point anytime, what about skid marks??
Yes, we still prefer the old cassette style!
With the female body they can actually pass number one and number 2 at the same time. I'll stick,with the cassette any day. Good to see the options though.
Hi, yes I agree, there certainly would be some body function training to encounter.
It certainly is a personal choice though..
Cheers Graham
It’s much easier to just drop the peet block in the toilet and add water and drive … - all mixed
So people have been telling me, thanks for the advice .
Cheers Graham
I think I’ll stick with the cassette
Composting is for hippies 😉
And what a lot of mucking around 👎
Agree with that, Cheers Graham
I’m not sure why so many composting toilet users make it look so difficult to to manage a composting loo in videos. Manufacturers recommend you never totally empty a composting toilet to start with; it should never be pristine inside like old mate’s was in the video. You use a small amount of the exisiting composting material to seed the new peat. We’ve only ever used the starter spray once; when we first started our compost mix. Cleaning is just a spray of diluted vinegary water after a wee; that’s it, with a wipe around the bowl, seat and lid as needed. You don’t need to carry it outside either (well, we don’t). The top comes off and is placed into the shower recess, and the compost is scooped out into a bag. The new brick can be prepped in a container of warm water, or just placed directly into the base unit with the water and broken up in there. We used our toilet for 4 months before we changed the compost. We didn’t use it exclusively; if a loo was available, we used it. Having said that, I checked it often with the thought it was time to change it, but the compost level just didn’t seem to change and there was never the awful odour that we had with a toilet cassette (I never could cope with the smell of the chemicals used to stop the smell). Maybe people are changing their “compost” out before it’s had a chance to actually break down. As for wees, we empty it every day or second day, but we don’t use a dump point unless we’re in a caravan park as people are just weird about other folk’s wee going onto a tree or down a toilet 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️. We love our composting toilet, and will never go back to a cassette.
Give me a cassette toilet any day composting toilet to much stuffing around old mate said he could have pancakes while you empty your cassette toilet I could cook a roast dinner by the time he does his composting toilet 👍
Good analogy Richard…✅