Installed a bidet for myself about a year ago and love it. I rather dry myself than clean myself any day, plus it does a much better job of cleaning. Always wondered how it would work on a composting toilet, now I know, and it's great news. Thanks for posting this and looking forward to your next video.
I like your chill energy and chill music in your videos. I've been gathering ideas for a van build, your DIY composting toilet and bidet is the best bathroom solution I've seen yet!
Yes!! I was about to remove my black tank and install a composting toilet in my rv and was wondering what to do with the fresh water line and thought ooh a bidet. Thanks so much for posting this, it’s gonna be a lot easier than to explain to my spouse on how this will work with a diy composting toilet.
The two videos you've done on this are awesome. Inspired me and a few friend of mine I've shown. Thanks a lot!!! From a fellow British Columbian - now expat in the US.
I’m wondering how the added water from the bidet is going to effect the composting side of toilet. Please consider a follow up video after you’ve used it a while. Just found your channel and subbed.
It is a perfect benefit! We use a urine seperator to keep the smell non existent, because we do not have any pee in our compost we don't need to empty it as often. The problem with having a completely dry bucket added to the compost pile is we have to add water so we can achieve thermophilic bacteria. With the added water from the bidet it keeps the moisture content of the compost perfect so we do not need to add water to our pile outside. The other benefit is just that little bit of water keeps the pail nice and clean and we get double the time before we have to empty it (less toilet paper and sawdust needed). AND the nitrogen to carbon ratio is much better too because there is a higher ratio of 💩 to sawdust (very high in carbon). Literally NO drawbacks after the install. Thanks for the sub, we are going to do an update video in the future for sure.
@@ThisOffGridLife Here’s a Thing… Some buttholes are oddly shaped (by birth or by poor surgical reconstruction, or by certain other…umm…practices)…often causing a splatter effect that would that little rear-bidet-wand at the back…on some models worse than others, potentially causing spread of biota to the forward parts of female genitalia. Which can cause UTIs in females. THAT is a bad thing. Technically, female nether-regions should be either: A) wiped from front-to-back, Or, B) sprayed from front-to-back. We found a handheld sprayer with choices of sprayer heads & lengths of wand, that hooks to a water supply (either water supply to normal toilet, or, other plumbing), on AMZN, for around $40. It is handheld, so, Anatomical females can spray from front-to-back, & anatomical males can use it from the rear. There were VERY good reasons, girls are taught to do this. Do NOT let the male-dominant bidet market fool you, Chicas! It matter! And, since poo buckets can get too dry to work right, this also helps add some water to that. Also, to boost efficacy of composting bucket contents, add some red wiggles worms! Ana Eddy (sp.?) wrote the book “Solviva” (look online). She did MUCH research & tinkering about this…she discovered those little creatures actually abate coliform bacteria (which is what authorities worry most about spreading to groundwater). Those will compost the solids faster than without, as long as the bucket is in their favorite temp range..about what average houses are. Or a greenhouse. Anyone interested, could learn a Large amount of very sensible info about it…maybe more than ya wanna. The book isn’t even very thick, nor is it high-grade science-talk…just down-to-earth good sense.
No idea why the function buttons stopped working since the OS15 bunch of updates…could be Gaagle, too. But, posting this, deleted a couple things 😠, now, can’t edit. …the splatter from misguided poop can splatter the rear sprayer spigots. That can cause infections for women, & they wouldn’t connect the infection, to the “clean” use of a bidet. They & their docs would just keep throwing antibiotics at the recurring infections, making the person sicker over time, never solving the real problem. Bidets started out as a separate toilet-looking thing…which was big enuf, males could sit facing room, & females could sit facing the wall, to assure spray washing their respective undercarriages the right direction. Few have that much room. Enter: the modern units…which all spray from the rear….not one bit of consideration for female requirements! Of course, mileage may vary, because everyone’s different. But, there’s NO WAY it’s sanitary/safe for females to use rear spray bidets, ESPecially if many people use the facility.
Yes thank you adding this to our outhouse this spring. The urine diverter is perfect going to use your link and hey one. Exactly what we were looking for✌TY guys cute video
Thanks for making this video. We are just beginning our bus life journey and are still only in the planning stage, making lists of our must haves and the thought of having to leave my bidet behind was making me sad. I agree it’s a life changer and I’m glad I won’t have to give it up!
It such a little amount of water, and the saw dust soaks up extra moisture. Plus, in the summer when its dry, the compost pile will be getting that extra boost of moisture it needs
@@ThisOffGridLifegreat to know! I’ve been a little bit worried about how everything was going to work-I’m trying to sort some things out for Muslim hygiene requirements so I’m glad to know it should work
This is such a great idea! I think this could work for a Clivus Multrum style composting toilet with a big ventilated tank (IBC) for long-term composting in a cellar below. Except like you do, by separating #1 and #2. By adding red wriggler worms (Eisenia fetida) to the tank (vermicomposting), the #2 would break down so fast that you'd very rarely have to empty it (decades even). The worms do require a moist compost pile, which is why #1 is not separated in Clivus style toilets. But with a bidet, I think maybe you can. Not mixing #1 and #2 makes the liquid output (straight from #1 only in this case) much safer to use as fertilizer. That has been my main concern with Clivus style toilets. (I suppose you'd still need to drain some leachate from the tank, which wouldn't be as safe to use.) I love how adding a luxury item to a composting toilet can actually improve on both the composting (vermicomposting, safer liquid fertilizer) and the bidet (safer due to no splashing). This is so much better than a WC. Add a heated toilet seat and you're in toilet heaven!
Curious, how has this been working for you? I REALLY want to add a bidet to a compost toilet in my skoolie. I don't see why it couldn't be done. I currently use Coco Coir as my medium so my thought would be to just use less water when making it to compensate for the added water from the bidet.
it's been awesome. it's so little water that there is no negative effect. try making the coco coir the same way, or with less water and see what works best
I love my portable bidet, but I’m concerned that all that water would keep the poop wet instead of the composting material drying it out. Does the water go in with the poop, or down the seperette drain?
Water goes into the bucket not the urine diverter. We have found quickly that filling the bucket takes at least twice as long due to hardly any toilet paper in the bucket (and less sawdust required). Also the moisture content is absolutely perfect to add to the compost pile when the bucket is full, not to mention that little bit of water in the mix helps keep the bucket clean! Win win win !!!
I have already switched away from toilet paper to “family cloth” (old washcloths cut in halves or quarters and deposited in a “diaper pail” with sanitizer), so when I get into my vehicle, unless I have a finicky guest, there will be NO toilet paper. Which type of composting material do you use?
Well, even if only you switch, it will lessen the impact on your composting! And eventually, he’ll realize he only really needs to dry off after using the bidet, so it rarely gets very dirty. For sanitizing, I use a hyperchlorous solution that I make by using a bottle that puts electricity through salt water to separate the chloride from the sodium, so it behaves like bleach but breaks down into a solution that is harmless to the environment. I love it, and it’s so much cheaper than other cleaners!
YESSSS!!!! This is so amazing, been wondering how i could get a bidet on my bus andddd now i know it’s totally doable! Just found your channel and LOVE your personalities/couple-ness, such fun-loving, adorable and awesome people to watch! Appreciate you taking the time to document your journey and share 🙏🏽 sending love, light and CLEAN HAPPY BUTTHOLES 💩😊💟
How do you deal with the added moisture in the compost toilet? Does the water go into the urine diverter or does it go into the dry section? It seems it would trickle into the solid section when you first turn it on
Your answer depends on how you treat your waste after it leaves the bucket. All humanure systems I know do not base its effectiveness in getting to that 55 degree C temperature, but in killing pathogens with time in an aerobic environment. Getting and maintaining that temperature is not an easy task; keeping poop dry and aerated is quite simple. I'm hoping your follow-up will show how you maintain that temperature. Thanks! PS: if you are maintaining this temperature, I hope you are using that heat for ancillary purposes as well, like building a greenhouse over it to produce food through the winter.
In the warmer months it's no issue keeping the compost pile at 55 degrees. But usually in the winter it is less. We are not set up to use the heat created by it but its in the summer so it wouldn't matter anyways. We'll definitely do another video on the compost pile. We do have one but it's an earlier video and let's just say our video quality has improved since then
Well you inspired me that a composting toilet CAN have a bidet! Blowing my mind that your saying moisture added is good for your poop. I think I'd build something to divert water into the liquids container while spraying, and do some wet and dry experiments...
I´m spending a lot of time figuring how to send bidet water to the urine hose. Awesome !!. A question: what do you think about sending the urine to my RV gray tank ? Gray water will be composed by kitchen and shower sink (soap+oil/grease+pasta water?...).
I am wondering if you noticed that the smell was worse when you began adding water to your solids bin? I am putting a composting toilet in my tiny house but don't want to give up my bidet seat!!
Does this defeat the purpose of having a "DRY" solid waste? I build compost/dry toilets for RV/van dwellers using a stainless steel urine diverter and drain line, that eliminates urin order. If this works it would be a definite game changer. Especially for hairy guys 👦! Edit: i saw your response to another comment and saw your explanation, however van/rv dwellers do not have access to a compost pile as you know if you used yours on the road. How would you think this would work in that circumstance? Thanks
There is such a small amount of water, we don't notice any extra in the bucket. The sawdust is a bit damp but it's not sloshing around if you know what I mean.
Radie Morgan- traveling folk with a compost toilet need to set up some compost locations with land anchored friends to stop and leave their material for friend to compost after they leave. y.... or add a compost holding tank? Maybe heat it with engine exhaust a bit? IMHO those who do not do this are being anti-environmental .... and if you dont care about environmental shiat (pardon the pun) they are just being GROSS dumping the NOT composted yet material where ever, when ever; even though it is legal... unless of course they actually stop at a waste treatment plant to dump it.. which is an option according to a friend who works at one. what do you recommend users of the ones you build to do with their "not yet composted" material when on their journeys?
Ok! I am really interested in the “gritty” details of the workings of the system. What are the 2 discs with the slits in them for? I presume u use paper to dry the washed down patch when u are finished hosing down? I believe the resulting compost is super fertiliser for the spuds. Thank u both for the clarity of ur presentation! Greetings from the spud loving green isle . Raymondo.
The two 'discs' are for attaching to a toilet, it's a universal connector,but the composting toilet is a bit different and we macgyvered it. Yes,we still use tp. They market that you use less but I don't think that's true, either way, we love having the bidet 😆
I have been researching this because I am not willing to give up my bidet yet looking at composting toilets. Does all the water go in to the solids portion though?
For the most part it does, sometime down the seperstor. Depends on the angle really. It doesn't get super wet though. The saw dust absorbs the extra moisture
If I add a bleach additive to the water line will it lighten my chocolate star fish to a more appeasing color or not. I am asking this cause I read your shirts and it is for a friend. Lmao! Great vid very entertaining and informative as well. So this shit was actually brought to us by Tushy. Awesome. :D
It is working great. We haven't noticed any excess water build up, the sawdust soaks it up. It's good for the compost pile, we find it's dry enough here that we need the moisture. My only dislike is the nooks and crannys on it are hard to clean without small brush or something. Still totally worth it
In humid areas I wonder if the added water in the solids bucket would be a problem? I live in Washington so humidity is something I have to keep in mind..... would love this option though.
We haven't had any problems. We're slightly north of wash. In BC. The summers are so dry that we tend to add water to the compost and if it's looking to wet (raining alot), we tarp it. There is not a whole lot of water build up in the bucket either
Cold water. We have hot hot water on demand that takes 15-20 secs to start coming through the lines, so it doesnt make sense for us to use warm water. Tushy does make a bidet with a warm water option though
Okay, so I know I'm dropping here without watching your other videos, but it looks like you've already got actual plumbing going in your bus. How much pressure does the bidet need to work? And is the water coming to it being pumped or is it gravity fed?
We're off grid. I went to the website, Hello tushy. Nothing on composting toilet instructions....😕😏😒 How or where did you set up water??? The product relies on water pressure from tank/sink...just trying to understand. Husband & I are off grid & would like to buy this.
We added a T connection from the water line that runs right next to it. So it's pressurized from the pump all the time. We definitely had to fiddle around to make it fit the composting toilet
Wait, isn't the whole point of a separator to stop the solids getting wet and causing a stink? This would just get water where it doesn't belong, won't it?
It is urine that is causing the smell, not liquids as such. Some moisture is good for composting, as long as it doesn't get too moist. The bidet appears to be within the limits, so I think it's pretty genius. I'd be interested in seeing a follow-up though.
The urine when mixed with poo causes that septic smell we all know. Water adds no smell to the compost bucket and Infact is an essential part of the breakdown process when we put it in the compost pile.
The wood is on a hinge so we ljust lift it up and remove the bucket. The urine seperator just slides into the drain pipe. The bidetis attached the wood that lifts
@@ThisOffGridLife O saw that but when you all showed the urine separate it looked like it was over the compost. So how you move the Urine separater when ya need to go #2
I always told myself that if I were to have an off grid life with composting toilet, that I would have TWO separate units. One composting toilet with a urine diverter, and a second unit being a bidet which is plumbed directly to the grey water tank. Isn't mixing water into the dry composting solids part of the toilet a bad thing?
we find the 12v hardly uses any power and you don't have to worry about batteries running out. we leave it running all the time. One thing we've noticed is when the wind comes, it does blow the smell in, so depending on your location, be aware of the wind direction :)
There a few comments here that we have addressed that topic. There no issues, we typically had to add moisture because it is dry here. If it's going to rain a lot, we'll tarp the compost pile. But otherwise, business as usual
I was trawling youtube for the workings of an old terraced house outhouse tipum toilet and you cam up. This is the second vlog on the toilet but I have a question. I understand the analogy about 'would you just wipe poo off your hand with a paper towel?' But my question is...... not all bowel movements are swift and complete. If you have a suspected incomplete movement and use the water douche then how do you know your butthole is clean? Even if you had a swift movement, how would you know it is clean. I understand the positives and I'm fully 'behind' this but...... how do you know? Do you still have to use some toilet paper to check and dry? Or do you use a cloth towel? I really enjoyed these two vlogs and you have a new sub from Stafford England UK 🇬🇧.
@@ThisOffGridLife thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to reply. I really appreciate it. Makes sense. As a supplementary question can I ask your partner/husband's employment is? I was pricing out Homestead land in BC (Pipe Dream) and unless I won the lottery there is no way I could do this. I am in awe of what you do and have accomplished and wish you success and happiness in the future x
We haven't done an update video but it's been awesome. We just did a video about installing a seprett composting toilet in our house (haven't fully used yet) but we are adding a bum gun to it because we love the bidet, but aren't able to add it to the new toilet. We also talk about why we are switching to the new toilet and where you can get one ( canadianoffgriddepot.com ) ruclips.net/video/ajaAbKzVIMY/видео.html
95% of my toilet paper gets shoved into the cardboard tube of the previous roll(s) of toilet paper. It then provides HEAT for me in the winter as it gets burned in the wood stove. Not new normal..... but logical normal. And saves water compared to bidet.. a huge thing in a smaller rig.
@@ximono zero smell...zero biological issues. Most toilet paper used for wiping... least for me, that as any fecal matter of significance is, the first wipe set. It gets flushed. 2cnd or 3rd set of the 3 sheets folded for wiping.... have nothing but a small streak that even a fly would not consider a waste of time to land on, but by then it is stuffed in a tube and put away anyway so that does not happen. sure their are soft stool days that don't fit above ... usually they all end up getting flushed.
Did you get problems to dry the poop with all this cleaning water added ?? I'm a Muslim and we use water to clean our selfs ...I'm want to install a composting toilette and my big problem is the water we use ..I thought that it's doesn't work with a composting toilette bcz you need to dry the poop with sawdust and adding cleaning water will not help...
I am sorry, I know you made a big effort in creating this, but it seems your organizational principle was low price rather than high quality. The “Toushy” bidet toilet seat is quite Mickey Mouse imho…
adding any liquid to the compost hinders the effectiveness of the composting process. It is why there is a urine diverter built into the compost toilet seat. This will greatly extend the composting time. Use toilet paper for a composting toilet, use this bidet devise with a regular flush toilet.
Actually a dry compost will have difficulty becoming thermophilic, you need the compost moist but not wet for the compost pile to reach 55°c in order to kill pathogens. The bidet is a perfect solution to keep that right level of moisture achieved!
I've never heard of this before. We have very big compost piles on our farm & we compost pretty much everything. Maybe it's different for toilets but if we get a dry spell with no rain our piles don't cook as well. Dry materials don't compost very well.
@@Oldfarmlady Humanure is very nutrient rich, there's a lot of food for bacteria to so its thing. As with any compost, some moisture is good, while too moist or too dry is no good.
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Installed a bidet for myself about a year ago and love it. I rather dry myself than clean myself any day, plus it does a much better job of cleaning. Always wondered how it would work on a composting toilet, now I know, and it's great news. Thanks for posting this and looking forward to your next video.
Thanks for the comment :)
I wondered about a bidet too
Don't you still have to use TP anyway to dry?
I like your chill energy and chill music in your videos.
I've been gathering ideas for a van build, your DIY composting toilet and bidet is the best bathroom solution I've seen yet!
Yes!! I was about to remove my black tank and install a composting toilet in my rv and was wondering what to do with the fresh water line and thought ooh a bidet. Thanks so much for posting this, it’s gonna be a lot easier than to explain to my spouse on how this will work with a diy composting toilet.
The two videos you've done on this are awesome. Inspired me and a few friend of mine I've shown. Thanks a lot!!! From a fellow British Columbian - now expat in the US.
I’m wondering how the added water from the bidet is going to effect the composting side of toilet. Please consider a follow up video after you’ve used it a while. Just found your channel and subbed.
It is a perfect benefit! We use a urine seperator to keep the smell non existent, because we do not have any pee in our compost we don't need to empty it as often. The problem with having a completely dry bucket added to the compost pile is we have to add water so we can achieve thermophilic bacteria. With the added water from the bidet it keeps the moisture content of the compost perfect so we do not need to add water to our pile outside. The other benefit is just that little bit of water keeps the pail nice and clean and we get double the time before we have to empty it (less toilet paper and sawdust needed). AND the nitrogen to carbon ratio is much better too because there is a higher ratio of 💩 to sawdust (very high in carbon). Literally NO drawbacks after the install.
Thanks for the sub, we are going to do an update video in the future for sure.
@@ThisOffGridLife Here’s a Thing…
Some buttholes are oddly shaped (by birth or by poor surgical reconstruction, or by certain other…umm…practices)…often causing a splatter effect that would that little rear-bidet-wand at the back…on some models worse than others, potentially causing spread of biota to the forward parts of female genitalia. Which can cause UTIs in females.
THAT is a bad thing.
Technically, female nether-regions should be either:
A) wiped from front-to-back, Or,
B) sprayed from front-to-back.
We found a handheld sprayer with choices of sprayer heads & lengths of wand, that hooks to a water supply (either water supply to normal toilet, or, other plumbing), on AMZN, for around $40. It is handheld, so, Anatomical females can spray from front-to-back, & anatomical males can use it from the rear.
There were VERY good reasons, girls are taught to do this. Do NOT let the male-dominant bidet market fool you, Chicas! It matter!
And, since poo buckets can get too dry to work right, this also helps add some water to that.
Also, to boost efficacy of composting bucket contents, add some red wiggles worms! Ana Eddy (sp.?) wrote the book “Solviva” (look online). She did MUCH research & tinkering about this…she discovered those little creatures actually abate coliform bacteria (which is what authorities worry most about spreading to groundwater). Those will compost the solids faster than without, as long as the bucket is in their favorite temp range..about what average houses are. Or a greenhouse. Anyone interested, could learn a Large amount of very sensible info about it…maybe more than ya wanna. The book isn’t even very thick, nor is it high-grade science-talk…just down-to-earth good sense.
No idea why the function buttons stopped working since the OS15 bunch of updates…could be Gaagle, too.
But, posting this, deleted a couple things 😠, now, can’t edit.
…the splatter from misguided poop can splatter the rear sprayer spigots.
That can cause infections for women, & they wouldn’t connect the infection, to the “clean” use of a bidet. They & their docs would just keep throwing antibiotics at the recurring infections, making the person sicker over time, never solving the real problem.
Bidets started out as a separate toilet-looking thing…which was big enuf, males could sit facing room, & females could sit facing the wall, to assure spray washing their respective undercarriages the right direction. Few have that much room. Enter: the modern units…which all spray from the rear….not one bit of consideration for female requirements!
Of course, mileage may vary, because everyone’s different.
But, there’s NO WAY it’s sanitary/safe for females to use rear spray bidets, ESPecially if many people use the facility.
@@Chimonger1 thank you for this comment, you made me aware of the issue. Thank you for speaking up
@@Chimonger1 I have a Bidet and it has a door that opens and closes after each spray. I have a dual bidet and It covers bother sprayers.
Toilety worth it
Haha yes!
Yes thank you adding this to our outhouse this spring. The urine diverter is perfect going to use your link and hey one. Exactly what we were looking for✌TY guys cute video
Thanks, glad you enjoyed :)
Thanks for making this video. We are just beginning our bus life journey and are still only in the planning stage, making lists of our must haves and the thought of having to leave my bidet behind was making me sad. I agree it’s a life changer and I’m glad I won’t have to give it up!
Still bing watching... You all had my rollin laughing. :)
I WOULD THINK ADDING WATER TO YOUR COMPOST WOULD MAKE THINGS EXTRA MUDDY...LOL GREAT VIDEO THANKS FOR SHARING.
It such a little amount of water, and the saw dust soaks up extra moisture. Plus, in the summer when its dry, the compost pile will be getting that extra boost of moisture it needs
@@ThisOffGridLifegreat to know! I’ve been a little bit worried about how everything was going to work-I’m trying to sort some things out for Muslim hygiene requirements so I’m glad to know it should work
omg his reaction to it!!! This was great!
Thanks
This is awesome!! Love the shirts as well!! Cheers 🍻😊
Thanks, they are hilarious. Not sure I'll wear it around town though 😆
@@ThisOffGridLife Hahahahha 🤣🤣🤣 I’d wear the shirt in town...but nowhere fancy!! Lol
This is such a great idea! I think this could work for a Clivus Multrum style composting toilet with a big ventilated tank (IBC) for long-term composting in a cellar below. Except like you do, by separating #1 and #2.
By adding red wriggler worms (Eisenia fetida) to the tank (vermicomposting), the #2 would break down so fast that you'd very rarely have to empty it (decades even). The worms do require a moist compost pile, which is why #1 is not separated in Clivus style toilets. But with a bidet, I think maybe you can.
Not mixing #1 and #2 makes the liquid output (straight from #1 only in this case) much safer to use as fertilizer. That has been my main concern with Clivus style toilets. (I suppose you'd still need to drain some leachate from the tank, which wouldn't be as safe to use.)
I love how adding a luxury item to a composting toilet can actually improve on both the composting (vermicomposting, safer liquid fertilizer) and the bidet (safer due to no splashing). This is so much better than a WC. Add a heated toilet seat and you're in toilet heaven!
Loved the reactions!❤😂
Nice "edit". Turned out really well. Thanks for sharing.
Curious, how has this been working for you? I REALLY want to add a bidet to a compost toilet in my skoolie. I don't see why it couldn't be done. I currently use Coco Coir as my medium so my thought would be to just use less water when making it to compensate for the added water from the bidet.
it's been awesome. it's so little water that there is no negative effect. try making the coco coir the same way, or with less water and see what works best
@@ThisOffGridLife sounds good. This seems like a great idea 🤙
I love my portable bidet, but I’m concerned that all that water would keep the poop wet instead of the composting material drying it out. Does the water go in with the poop, or down the seperette drain?
Water goes into the bucket not the urine diverter. We have found quickly that filling the bucket takes at least twice as long due to hardly any toilet paper in the bucket (and less sawdust required). Also the moisture content is absolutely perfect to add to the compost pile when the bucket is full, not to mention that little bit of water in the mix helps keep the bucket clean! Win win win !!!
I have already switched away from toilet paper to “family cloth” (old washcloths cut in halves or quarters and deposited in a “diaper pail” with sanitizer), so when I get into my vehicle, unless I have a finicky guest, there will be NO toilet paper. Which type of composting material do you use?
We use sawdust for covering. I'd like to switch to rags/washcloths as well. Greg is not so keen so far 😅
Well, even if only you switch, it will lessen the impact on your composting! And eventually, he’ll realize he only really needs to dry off after using the bidet, so it rarely gets very dirty. For sanitizing, I use a hyperchlorous solution that I make by using a bottle that puts electricity through salt water to separate the chloride from the sodium, so it behaves like bleach but breaks down into a solution that is harmless to the environment. I love it, and it’s so much cheaper than other cleaners!
I just ordered a bidet for my composting toilet. Here’s hoping! 🤞🏻
YESSSS!!!! This is so amazing, been wondering how i could get a bidet on my bus andddd now i know it’s totally doable! Just found your channel and LOVE your personalities/couple-ness, such fun-loving, adorable and awesome people to watch! Appreciate you taking the time to document your journey and share 🙏🏽 sending love, light and CLEAN HAPPY BUTTHOLES 💩😊💟
How do you deal with the added moisture in the compost toilet? Does the water go into the urine diverter or does it go into the dry section? It seems it would trickle into the solid section when you first turn it on
Your answer depends on how you treat your waste after it leaves the bucket. All humanure systems I know do not base its effectiveness in getting to that 55 degree C temperature, but in killing pathogens with time in an aerobic environment. Getting and maintaining that temperature is not an easy task; keeping poop dry and aerated is quite simple. I'm hoping your follow-up will show how you maintain that temperature. Thanks! PS: if you are maintaining this temperature, I hope you are using that heat for ancillary purposes as well, like building a greenhouse over it to produce food through the winter.
In the warmer months it's no issue keeping the compost pile at 55 degrees. But usually in the winter it is less. We are not set up to use the heat created by it but its in the summer so it wouldn't matter anyways. We'll definitely do another video on the compost pile. We do have one but it's an earlier video and let's just say our video quality has improved since then
This bidet is a game changer!
Bought one. Thanks for the discount :)
Well you inspired me that a composting toilet CAN have a bidet! Blowing my mind that your saying moisture added is good for your poop. I think I'd build something to divert water into the liquids container while spraying, and do some wet and dry experiments...
I was thinking about this problem too...any updates?
Um … just pour a cup of water in the solids bucket after each poo and see how it goes.
You guys are so cute! Good job!
Good one guys, I love my bidet
I´m spending a lot of time figuring how to send bidet water to the urine hose. Awesome !!. A question: what do you think about sending the urine to my RV gray tank ? Gray water will be composed by kitchen and shower sink (soap+oil/grease+pasta water?...).
that is not legal.
been wondering about one of these, love the idea and would end the task at hand on my regular toilet.
I am wondering if you noticed that the smell was worse when you began adding water to your solids bin? I am putting a composting toilet in my tiny house but don't want to give up my bidet seat!!
No, as long as you have the fan it’s all good. It really wasn’t a whole lot of water
Does this defeat the purpose of having a "DRY" solid waste? I build compost/dry toilets for RV/van dwellers using a stainless steel urine diverter and drain line, that eliminates urin order. If this works it would be a definite game changer. Especially for hairy guys 👦!
Edit: i saw your response to another comment and saw your explanation, however van/rv dwellers do not have access to a compost pile as you know if you used yours on the road. How would you think this would work in that circumstance? Thanks
There is such a small amount of water, we don't notice any extra in the bucket. The sawdust is a bit damp but it's not sloshing around if you know what I mean.
Radie Morgan- traveling folk with a compost toilet need to set up some compost locations with land anchored friends to stop and leave their material for friend to compost after they leave. y.... or add a compost holding tank? Maybe heat it with engine exhaust a bit? IMHO those who do not do this are being anti-environmental .... and if you dont care about environmental shiat (pardon the pun) they are just being GROSS dumping the NOT composted yet material where ever, when ever; even though it is legal... unless of course they actually stop at a waste treatment plant to dump it.. which is an option according to a friend who works at one.
what do you recommend users of the ones you build to do with their "not yet composted" material when on their journeys?
One word. Crazy! But cool.
Welcome to the club!
That'll really help when you're "in the mud"😜
Haha definitely
Im muslim and im about to start building my bus and have been worrying about this issue, thank you for making this video and posting it
It's a very clean process actually
Ok! I am really interested in the “gritty” details of the workings of the system. What are the 2 discs with the slits in them for? I presume u use paper to dry the washed down patch when u are finished hosing down? I believe the resulting compost is super fertiliser for the spuds. Thank u both for the clarity of ur presentation! Greetings from the spud loving green isle . Raymondo.
The two 'discs' are for attaching to a toilet, it's a universal connector,but the composting toilet is a bit different and we macgyvered it.
Yes,we still use tp. They market that you use less but I don't think that's true, either way, we love having the bidet 😆
I have been researching this because I am not willing to give up my bidet yet looking at composting toilets. Does all the water go in to the solids portion though?
For the most part it does, sometime down the seperstor. Depends on the angle really. It doesn't get super wet though. The saw dust absorbs the extra moisture
If I add a bleach additive to the water line will it lighten my chocolate star fish to a more appeasing color or not. I am asking this cause I read your shirts and it is for a friend. Lmao! Great vid very entertaining and informative as well. So this shit was actually brought to us by Tushy. Awesome. :D
How is it working so far? I'm wondering about too much liquid in the solids bucket. Thanks for any update!
It is working great. We haven't noticed any excess water build up, the sawdust soaks it up. It's good for the compost pile, we find it's dry enough here that we need the moisture. My only dislike is the nooks and crannys on it are hard to clean without small brush or something. Still totally worth it
In humid areas I wonder if the added water in the solids bucket would be a problem? I live in Washington so humidity is something I have to keep in mind..... would love this option though.
We haven't had any problems. We're slightly north of wash. In BC. The summers are so dry that we tend to add water to the compost and if it's looking to wet (raining alot), we tarp it. There is not a whole lot of water build up in the bucket either
Did you plumb the bidet to your cold water or hot water line?
Cold water. We have hot hot water on demand that takes 15-20 secs to start coming through the lines, so it doesnt make sense for us to use warm water. Tushy does make a bidet with a warm water option though
Would you add a bidet to your bathroom?
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Okay, so I know I'm dropping here without watching your other videos, but it looks like you've already got actual plumbing going in your bus. How much pressure does the bidet need to work? And is the water coming to it being pumped or is it gravity fed?
Great video..😂
Brilliant lol
I cannot wait till the 5AM dump, when the water is 26 degrees, or is that a heated waste line? Canadians?
We're off grid. I went to the website, Hello tushy. Nothing on composting toilet instructions....😕😏😒 How or where did you set up water??? The product relies on water pressure from tank/sink...just trying to understand. Husband & I are off grid & would like to buy this.
We added a T connection from the water line that runs right next to it. So it's pressurized from the pump all the time. We definitely had to fiddle around to make it fit the composting toilet
@@ThisOffGridLife-- Thank you!
@@DE2borknot2b enjoy!! It is seriously the best addition haha
Wait, isn't the whole point of a separator to stop the solids getting wet and causing a stink? This would just get water where it doesn't belong, won't it?
It is urine that is causing the smell, not liquids as such. Some moisture is good for composting, as long as it doesn't get too moist. The bidet appears to be within the limits, so I think it's pretty genius. I'd be interested in seeing a follow-up though.
Love your videos, BUT yall are CRAZZAZYYY lol (good kind of crazy)
It's great, we in India have a bum gun for this very purpose. 👍
I have to ask: What's a bum gun? 🙂
Hi, very informative and highly amusing 😁🤔😁. Is the liquid still diverted as urine would be?
From the bidet? No it goes in the bucket.
@@ThisOffGridLife hi, thanks for the response. I thought it was best to keep the solids dry or is it just diverting the urine that is important?
The urine when mixed with poo causes that septic smell we all know. Water adds no smell to the compost bucket and Infact is an essential part of the breakdown process when we put it in the compost pile.
@@ThisOffGridLife hi, thanks for the clarification.
I understand that you are using a urine seperater for the bidet but how do you move it when your using the compost?
The wood is on a hinge so we ljust lift it up and remove the bucket. The urine seperator just slides into the drain pipe. The bidetis attached the wood that lifts
@@ThisOffGridLife O saw that but when you all showed the urine separate it looked like it was over the compost. So how you move the Urine separater when ya need to go #2
@@ForestTre oh, it stays in place. It only covers half of the opening
How do you dry off?
I can't believe they threw tp in the bin! I hear that those still go for quite a bit...
I always told myself that if I were to have an off grid life with composting toilet, that I would have TWO separate units. One composting toilet with a urine diverter, and a second unit being a bidet which is plumbed directly to the grey water tank. Isn't mixing water into the dry composting solids part of the toilet a bad thing?
It's not a bad thing it's just a different way to compost. I find dealing with the waste much easier with the seperate urine removal.
Don't you still use the paper to dry yourself??
Recommend battery operated fan? Thx
we find the 12v hardly uses any power and you don't have to worry about batteries running out. we leave it running all the time. One thing we've noticed is when the wind comes, it does blow the smell in, so depending on your location, be aware of the wind direction :)
What size exhaust are you using on the frame of the bus to let the fan's air out?
It's a 12v computer fan, 3 inch
🤔🤔🤔 what do y'all do with the urine?
It goes into a rapid filtration pit outside ( pit full of rocks and sand)
It’s fantastic fertiliser for fruit trees and bushes, don’t waste it!
Using baby wipes after toilet paper is adequate for a clean butt.😉 Been doing it for over 25 years. 😁Thanks for sharing!
have I missed the answer about how adding liquid to the solids changes the composting game?
oops! found it. thank you
There a few comments here that we have addressed that topic. There no issues, we typically had to add moisture because it is dry here. If it's going to rain a lot, we'll tarp the compost pile. But otherwise, business as usual
I was trawling youtube for the workings of an old terraced house outhouse tipum toilet and you cam up. This is the second vlog on the toilet but I have a question. I understand the analogy about 'would you just wipe poo off your hand with a paper towel?' But my question is...... not all bowel movements are swift and complete. If you have a suspected incomplete movement and use the water douche then how do you know your butthole is clean? Even if you had a swift movement, how would you know it is clean. I understand the positives and I'm fully 'behind' this but...... how do you know? Do you still have to use some toilet paper to check and dry? Or do you use a cloth towel? I really enjoyed these two vlogs and you have a new sub from Stafford England UK 🇬🇧.
You can use toilet paper as well if you want, we do. I've heard of people using a cloth as well. Comes down to personal preference
@@ThisOffGridLife thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to reply. I really appreciate it. Makes sense. As a supplementary question can I ask your partner/husband's employment is? I was pricing out Homestead land in BC (Pipe Dream) and unless I won the lottery there is no way I could do this. I am in awe of what you do and have accomplished and wish you success and happiness in the future x
I'm defending going to do this in my bus
Yes!! You won't regret it
I love my bidet, you got a crapper cleaner 💩
Lmao. U guys shirts. Lol
Update video?
We haven't done an update video but it's been awesome. We just did a video about installing a seprett composting toilet in our house (haven't fully used yet) but we are adding a bum gun to it because we love the bidet, but aren't able to add it to the new toilet. We also talk about why we are switching to the new toilet and where you can get one ( canadianoffgriddepot.com )
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You should have just gone to the garden section of a hardware store and bought a drip-irrigation sprinkler head for $0.25. That is all this is.
Is that warm water or cold? Or can you choose? 🤣
We use cold only but you can get a different model of their bidet to have the option of warm.
@@ThisOffGridLife WOW! 😆 that must feel a little shocking in winter!
@@stephanieruncie6951 it's really not bad at all. It's such a quick spritz
95% of my toilet paper gets shoved into the cardboard tube of the previous roll(s) of toilet paper. It then provides HEAT for me in the winter as it gets burned in the wood stove. Not new normal..... but logical normal. And saves water compared to bidet.. a huge thing in a smaller rig.
But, the smell? The hygiene?
@@ximono zero smell...zero biological issues. Most toilet paper used for wiping... least for me, that as any fecal matter of significance is, the first wipe set. It gets flushed. 2cnd or 3rd set of the 3 sheets folded for wiping.... have nothing but a small streak that even a fly would not consider a waste of time to land on, but by then it is stuffed in a tube and put away anyway so that does not happen.
sure their are soft stool days that don't fit above ... usually they all end up getting flushed.
Just adjust spray angle and sit forward. Goes in urine drain
More for pleasure than business. Lol
How Gross drinking out of that glass made my stomache flip.
Hi, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Did you get problems to dry the poop with all this cleaning water added ?? I'm a Muslim and we use water to clean our selfs ...I'm want to install a composting toilette and my big problem is the water we use ..I thought that it's doesn't work with a composting toilette bcz you need to dry the poop with sawdust and adding cleaning water will not help...
No, it was fine. We often have to add water to the compost pile when it’s summer
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Ok one year later teview
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I got one of these a while back after my son installed one. They are great. Can I ask what the T-shirts are about? Ask me about my butthole??
The bidet company sent them to us 😂
Maybe its just me but I would still need to use toilet paper. I would prefer to pull my pants up to a dry butt.
We do too. We aren't using less tp like they advertise, but it's still refreshing and we couldn't go back
I am sorry, I know you made a big effort in creating this, but it seems your organizational principle was low price rather than high quality. The “Toushy” bidet toilet seat is quite Mickey Mouse imho…
adding any liquid to the compost hinders the effectiveness of the composting process. It is why there is a urine diverter built into the compost toilet seat. This will greatly extend the composting time. Use toilet paper for a composting toilet, use this bidet devise with a regular flush toilet.
Actually a dry compost will have difficulty becoming thermophilic, you need the compost moist but not wet for the compost pile to reach 55°c in order to kill pathogens. The bidet is a perfect solution to keep that right level of moisture achieved!
I've never heard of this before. We have very big compost piles on our farm & we compost pretty much everything. Maybe it's different for toilets but if we get a dry spell with no rain our piles don't cook as well. Dry materials don't compost very well.
@@Oldfarmlady Humanure is very nutrient rich, there's a lot of food for bacteria to so its thing. As with any compost, some moisture is good, while too moist or too dry is no good.
don't give a crap.
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