A few weeks ago, our team of construction workers finished building us a custom composting toilet for the BaanLoiNaam (the floating house). I am always impressed with their woodworking skills, and really complemented them on this one. The basic approach we are using here is based on the traditional “Loveable Loo” eco toilet as described…
Composting hacienda is finished and ready to begin using
Last time I posted about the composting hacienda, the roof was up and the walls were partially done. Since then, we have finished the walls and added rain gutters and 1200L of drums to collect the rain to use for keeping the compost appropriately damp. Here are some pictures from the construction: You can see…
Building a composting hacienda
The cages we built quite a while back for the compost piles we’ve had going for about two years have been almost perpetually overflowing, so I’ve been thinking for some time now that it is time to build something bigger and more permanent. In addition, it seems like a good idea to build a roof…
Composting toilet update: building some additional holding tanks
We’ve been using the composting toilet in BaanRimNaam since we moved in late in December last year, and I like it a lot. Call me weird (many of my friends have), but I really like understanding and implementing the full path of our food from growing to cooking to eating to … well processing it…
Adding worms to the composting toilet in BaanRimNaam
Back in August before we started building the composting toilet in BaanRimNaam, I mentioned that the plans we bought were designed for vermicomposting (composting with worms). But when we moved in around New Year’s I decided to just start using the toilet without the worms. Best case is that it would compost, but more slowly….
Scary plant gets a funny name
I wrote previously about the scary spiky “Little Shop of Horrors” looking plant that Praew planted in her keyhole garden, and now that it is bearing fruit, I understand what it is and why she referred to it as “a kind of a tomato”. We had stumbled across a packet of seeds for a plant…
Finalizing the composting toilet
One of the most interesting aspects of moving in to BaanRimNaam was getting the composting toilet ready for actual use. Unfortunately, I left this for after dark, so the mosquitoes were chewing me up, but the process was fairly straightforward (albeit somewhat improvised). For the tank down below the house where the composting will occur…
BaanRimNaam: Composting toilet and sink in place
The composting toilet is done and ready for testing. The toilet seat is attached as well as the urine diverter. The chamber down below is completed. We will probably start out testing the toilet in a traditional composting capacity and we will wait to try vermicomposting until we move into the house. (The worms will…
The tomato plant from Little Shop of Horrors
Praew planted a few plants in her keyhole garden in mid October. Apparently these plants really like our compost, because they have grown quite large in a matter of about 4 weeks. In particular, Praew is telling me that the big spiky one in the foreground is a tomato plant: The leaves are about 20-30cm…
Composting toilet nearly completed
The composting toilet is nearly completed. The wooden toilet box has been completed and now has a glossy finish, and the toilet seat has been attached to it. The glowing blue center is the light from down below reflecting off the PVC pipe in the center. This effect will be gone once we close the…
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