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…
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…
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…
Sump pump and really high ground water level
A lot of water rained down on the land over the last week. Sometimes in torrents. The pond is nearly full now. But the rain has help us to identify the parts of the land that need better drainage. The back of BaanMae seems to become a giant puddle sometimes, and we noticed some of…
Keeping the mosquitoes out of the slow sand filter
The slow sand filter that we use to treat both the untreated greywater and the aerobic treatment system (ATS) treated black water has been working quite well. Now that it has been running in its final configuration for a few weeks, we are planning on sending the output water to be professionally tested pretty soon…
Sand filters, PVC pipes, siphons and weirs
We have been using a slow sand filter to treat our gray water for some months now and it has been working quite well. There was a problem due to normal intermittent use that the water level would drop due to evaporation and expose the sand, which basically kills off the biofiltration layer, but we…
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…
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