Let’s Get Down to Business! Building ULTRA POSH Narrowboat Compost Toilet
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If you’re living in a narrowboat, van or tiny home and have ever wondered about building a compost toilet, then stick around. In this DIY compost toilet video, we take you along on the build process with us. While all narrowboat toilet options have their pros and cons, we have finally made the switch from a cassette toilet to a composting toilet. This is the first step towards tackling our narrowboat bathroom, and another step towards the eventual completion of our narrowboat interior.
Do you have a compost toilet, a cassette toilet, a pump out toilet or an incinerator toilet? Let us know in the comments! We hope that this new narrowboat toilet system will be simple, clean and environmentally friendly.
Get yourself a speed square for the square cuts with the circular saw! Just hold the square on the timber and use as a fence for the saw 👍👍
That food looks so yummy!
Boat looks great! X
Good idea! I knew there must be an easier way 😂 hope you’re well mate
We are so pleased and thank you.
A trip down memory lane! (Building eco-loos, that is…) Well done, you’re doing great things. It’s refreshing watching videos of people figuring out all the stuff that doesn’t work immediately, I think most people edit all that stuff out. As in, ta-da, a toilet!! With your movies, we go on curry breaks with you as well. Well chuffed.
Ahh, thanks Jim!! I guess it’s all such a learning curve for us, it would be pretty artificial if we didn’t include the bumps (and curries) along the way 😉
Great work guys, DIY skills are on point! The India food looked amazing too.
Thanks for Watching Bro
Ah I miss your videos guys!
More coming soon!
@@FloatingStranglers Have you ever thought about doing videos from your time in China? Would love to hear about that journey!
That ended up looking really good, love the choice of paint colour, it's all coming along really nicely.
It's a shame you can't just dump "the goods" (lol) into the canal, I wonder if that can be done if it's treated beforehand?
Do you plan to use the compost for growing your own food? That's like the ultimate recycling system haha.
You're welcome by the way! I'll send more coffees when I get paid.
Thanks again! To my knowledge, there isn’t an onboard treatment facility that could make sewage safe to throw in a canal! Yeah, not sure what we’ll do with the ‘humanure’ yet, but we have a good six months or so to figure something out. Would be cool to use it to grow something though…. Cheers. Joe
@@FloatingStranglers Could always register yourselves as a water company, they dump sewage into rivers and the sea all the time and their members get paid dividends! :P
I think the composting thing is a great idea, but I do think you need to check about ventilation as Jason mentioned.
No one wants a stinky boat! :)
@@FloatingStranglers On another note, I was pausing the video as Tamzin was going through the instructions, I had no idea urine could be used as a fertilizer!
Just did a quick google on it and found - Urine contains important nutrients for plant growth, including carbon, phosphorous, potassium and nitrogen, and when handled properly, it makes a darn fine plant food.
Who knew? Not me, that's for sure :P
Are you at the Banbury canal day today
How long do you hold the solids for before it's composted, and then where do you dispose it??
Hi Carole. We’ll have holding buckets on the front deck to break it down in. We’ve heard mixed reports… some say it takes months to really look like soil from a garden, others say weeks. Once that happens, we can dispose of it a remote natural area or grow plants with it 😆
I don't like to be the bearer of bad news and I'm sure you are trying to be environmentally friendly, but your solid waste will take months to breakdown and, as per government health and safety guide lines. You should bury it away from water causes, streams and wells. Your urine should also be disposed of away from water causes. Why do you think we are having problems with blu algae and duck weed. It's why the farmers have wide strips of none arable land near water. To prevent pollution. Your poo is no different it needs to be treated correctly.
Hi Carole, we are expecting a full 12 months for the waste to be fully broken down and safe. We will be keeping it containers until that point. With the urine, we live near a CRT services so we will be disposing it down the elsan point. We won’t be disposing of it near any water sources.
So how's the luxury loo holding up? :=😜
Hey Adam! Still in the process of figuring the system out, but we’ll do an update on it soon! Thanks for the support mate
@@FloatingStranglers Ah good to hear! Definitely a system that needs careful planning. Can't wait to see the next video, especially now summer has arrived.
Don't you need a fan / extractor on it
Hi Jason! From what I’ve read, as long as you keep the liquids and solids separate, you don’t necessarily need a fan to get enough air in there to activate the composting process. Apparently opening the toilet seat for a short time once a day is enough. However, time will tell! Thanks for watching