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Dry Loo in garden room

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CorpusCallosum · 26/10/2020 10:49

Has anyone got experience of this type of loo in a garden room/office:

www.waterlesstoilets.co.uk/toilets/separett-pee-1020

DH thinks it will be fine but I am worried about the smell and cleaning 🤢 It would be great if my reservations are unfounded!

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TW2013 · 26/10/2020 10:54

Surely you just say he is responsible for cleaning it and use the indoor one leaving him to his cesspit.

chukwe · 26/10/2020 10:57

I'm currently building a garden office and also thinking of getting one myself.

It'll used for wee only.

Anyone have the experience?

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 26/10/2020 11:25

I couldn't use one of those.
What if you need to 'dab' with toilet paper on completion of the task?
Where does that go?

Sounds like work of the devil.

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CorpusCallosum · 26/10/2020 16:05

Exactly the loo roll - in an adjacent bin?? 🤢

I'd love to leave him to his cesspit but I'd also like a garden room I can use for WFH too as and when and/or use as sheltered space for garden parties which we used to do often.

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Bananalanacake · 26/10/2020 16:13

Four hundred quidShock

DespairingHomeower · 26/10/2020 16:52

Its a hell of a lot better than the camper loos of my youth (also wee only)

Do you actually need it though? How far is it to your house/what about a loo external to your house (is there a logical place for it to go?)

chukwe · 26/10/2020 17:08

@DespairingHomeower external loo in my garden room currently building requires planning permission maybe a lot of money to build.

I'm planning to use the house loo but I'm just considering buy one but not the one in the link

MawnyStannit · 26/10/2020 17:11

£400!! Get a bucket.

Greypurse · 26/10/2020 17:45

100% use a bucket!

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CorpusCallosum · 26/10/2020 18:04

🤣 use a bucket!!

I'm questioning whether we need it. We're blessed with a v long v narrow garden, prob takes about 30-45sec to walk from where garden room would be to the house. Doesn't sound like much but on a rainy day you would be wet and have to put shoes on etc - it'd be a pain.

Issue is if we put plumbing down to the garden room (which was 100% the original plan) the structure has to conform to building regs and the foundations because of nearby mature trees would need to be 75m3 of concrete 😲 We've looked at other options but they're either not suitable or prohibitively expensive for... a loo 🙄

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Bargebill19 · 26/10/2020 18:10

I would look at composting loos. Getting quite common in boats nowadays. The one you are looking at is only for a wee .... and sometimes you do need to do a poo at the er same time! Very easy to use and clean. Yes you do need a separate bin for the loo paper.

Bargebill19 · 26/10/2020 18:11

You can get a composting loo for £400.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 26/10/2020 18:23

I was watching a cat in a neighbours garden earlier today. Now they have an interesting solution which you might adopt. A pop-up gazebo could be used for modesty, although actually the cat didn't even bother with one of these.

mumsy27 · 27/10/2020 02:47

I like the idea, will it work?
Kids and their friends spend lot of time in the game's room and sleepovers, a good distance from the main house.

PerveenMistry · 27/10/2020 03:03

Nasty. Walk to the house.

FastFood · 27/10/2020 06:30

Dry loos are amazing.
I spent a weekend with 20 friends camping in a clearing in the woods, all we had were 2 dry loos for the 20 of us. (And loads of food to digest)
I swear, it never smelt or felt dirty.
This is witchcraft.
A normal loo would have been hell on earth.

Needless to say that it wasn't wee only, 20 people, 3 days, do the maths.

Reedwarbler · 27/10/2020 12:46

I think I would rather have a Porta Potti/cassette toilet (also popular on boats, types for all tastes and set ups), at least then if you mistakenly (or out of desperation) do a no.2 at least it won't ruin it. It's a lot of money for a urinal, and I'm not convinced it wouldn't smell. The other idea would be a macerator loo, but it depends where your drains are. But, tbh, is it really that much of a faff to get back in the house?

ComtesseDeSpair · 27/10/2020 15:53

I’d definitely look into a composting loo. A friend has one on a piece of land he uses for camping and mooring his boats. It doesn’t smell (or not any more than a compost heap generally does) and doesn’t require very much infrastructure at all.

Guymere · 27/10/2020 16:12

How big is the garden ?

You don’t need pp just for a loo. You need it because the building needs it.

Guymere · 27/10/2020 16:14

Dig a long drop hole and plant a bush if you are that desperate!

Bargebill19 · 27/10/2020 17:01

@Reedwarbler

We currently have ports potties - they are really heavy to shift and please, never empty them down a household loo. You will have all sorts of plumbing issues to deal with if you try. We are changing to composting as it’s something we will be able to manage as we get older and Elsa emptying points disappear or become prohibitively expensive.

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CorpusCallosum · 27/10/2020 17:23

@Guymere the building doesn't require planning permission but plumbing triggers a requirement to comply with building regs. Complying with building regs means way over spec foundations for a v light building due to tree roots. This is super expensive so we're looking at doing away with the plumbing.

I've told DH I don't want a dry loo down there, it will smell and be gross and he won't clean it (even if he says he will). We are back to the drawing board with whether we build anything at all 😩

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Reedwarbler · 27/10/2020 21:39

@Bargebill19 I don't know where I indicated I would be emptying a Porta potti down a loo, but thanks for the rather patronising response. When we had a narrow boat I was quite capable, even as a mere woman, of loading a full potti onto a trolley, wheeling it to the elsan disposal and emptying it all by myself. Amazing, isn't it?

Bargebill19 · 27/10/2020 21:46

@Reedwarbler
So sorry to have offended you. It was meant as a more general comment on their downsides.
So glad you are now bank dwellers.

Bargebill19 · 27/10/2020 21:47

And yep I’m a woman who has emptied hers for over 20 years. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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