Category: Composting

BaanRimNaam update: composting toilet chamber under the house is completed

We’ve made quite a bit of progress in this last week regarding the composting toilet for BaanRimNaam. First, the toilet itself is taking shape: The bathroom has been tiled, and is mostly ready for the toilet also: But most interesting, I think, is the construction of the chamber under the house to keep the composting…


Composting toilet progress

We’ve made some progress on the composting toilet on BaanRimNaam. This is the wooden frame: While many of the composting toilet designs you find on the internet are basically just boxes, you’ll notice that ours tapers inwards at the bottom. This is to allow you to put your feet closer together and further back so…


Finding space for a composting toilet system

I wrote recently about ordering the vermicomposting toilet plans from Biorealis.com. I’ve read through the plans and they are well thought through and use very easily sourced parts. The funny part is that so much of what he wrote about and considered in the design is targeted toward Alaskan weather, so things like heat retention…


New plans for a vermicomposting toilet

Back to everyone’s favorite topic… toilet sewage! I have previously written about exploring options for a composting toilet in BaanRimNaam. But rather than go with a totally modern (“normal”) looking composting toilet, we’ve decided to build our own. In exploring the Internet, we came across biorealis.com, which has some well explained and thought out designs….


A nice and modern looking composting toilet

I’ve always been interested in composting toilets. Why produce messy, dirty, nasty, and hazardous  raw sewage waste coming out of your house when the alternative is to produce high quality compost soil? Our land doesn’t have a utility sewer around, so we have to process and dispose of sewage on our land anyway, so this…


Hot compost

(Yes, those are chickens checking out the compost pilefor any tasty bugs that might have fallen in.) I’ve been walking around with the IR thermometer a lot recently measuring insulation temperature, etc. So I happened to have it on me when I walked past the compost pile. Since hot compost is a good thing both…


LandDevelopment: Composting and planting

We’ve been composting the mulch that comes out of the leaf shredder in a DIY compost tumbler we made: The compost tumbler is based on this design. I didn’t wait for the stuff to fully break down because we wanted to experiment with it, and there is a lot more shredded leaves to compost. (It…


Wood Chipper and Leaf Shredder

Yesterday, Praew and I drove to the other side of Bangkok to check out a business that sells wood chippers (among other things). The place was quite interesting. It looked like a 3 storey tall family owned warehouse of equipment. The lift (elevator) was large, industrial, steel, very slow, had that old fashioned kind of…