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Cabin to build
05-26-09, 09:24 PM
I’m putting in a septic holding tank at our lake lot. I’ll run 1 line to our RV trailer and I’d like to run another very short line to a location where I’d like to build an outhouse.
1. If I connect the outhouse to the septic tanks with 6 ft of angled PVC, will I need to put water down the drain every time I use it? If I have to, I can locate the outhouse directly above the tank so it drops straight into the tank.
2. Do I need to worry about smelly air coming from the tank into the outhouse? Is there anything I can do to minimize this?
1. If I connect the outhouse to the septic tanks with 6 ft of angled PVC, will I need to put water down the drain every time I use it? If I have to, I can locate the outhouse directly above the tank so it drops straight into the tank.
2. Do I need to worry about smelly air coming from the tank into the outhouse? Is there anything I can do to minimize this?
DaveC72
05-26-09, 09:38 PM
I wouldnt put an outhouse with a direct pipe on top of or in any way direct-connected via pipe to a holding tank. Way to nasty a place to ask people to go and sit. People who grew up with or have experience with a regular outhouse might tolerate it.. but yer gonna offend some visitors for sure lol.
Do you have available pressurized water (even lake water) ? An actual toilet with a small pressure tank nearby as line-pressure holding might work cool. Then it would have a trap @ the toilet and you could slope the pipe as per normal (is it 1/4" per foot laterally ?).. any more and the liquids leave the solids behind, and less and it just kinda stays there.
Otherwise.. maybe a chemical toilet that you could run over to the holding tank once in a while and manually dump in with some kinda easy-access ?
Do you have available pressurized water (even lake water) ? An actual toilet with a small pressure tank nearby as line-pressure holding might work cool. Then it would have a trap @ the toilet and you could slope the pipe as per normal (is it 1/4" per foot laterally ?).. any more and the liquids leave the solids behind, and less and it just kinda stays there.
Otherwise.. maybe a chemical toilet that you could run over to the holding tank once in a while and manually dump in with some kinda easy-access ?
Cabin to build
05-26-09, 09:55 PM
Yes its 1/4 inch per foot.
We don’t have water, and we’re a block away from the lake. Currently we're using the trees I'm thinking the outhouse would be one step in the right direction ;-) Do you think the smell would be worse then a traditional outhouse with a hole in the ground below?
We don’t have water, and we’re a block away from the lake. Currently we're using the trees I'm thinking the outhouse would be one step in the right direction ;-) Do you think the smell would be worse then a traditional outhouse with a hole in the ground below?
DUNBAR PLUMBER
05-27-09, 02:01 AM
Sewage Gas is going to be the most uncomfortable experience inside that that outhouse.
I'd personally build the floor of that outhouse to accept a closet flange and set a toilet on it, using wax ring and all and use water from a nearby creek or runoff, pond to flush the toilet.
Lots of considerations in your situation but sometimes doing what the bears do keeps the legal entanglements to a minimum. :D
I'd personally build the floor of that outhouse to accept a closet flange and set a toilet on it, using wax ring and all and use water from a nearby creek or runoff, pond to flush the toilet.
Lots of considerations in your situation but sometimes doing what the bears do keeps the legal entanglements to a minimum. :D