frahkn

The 'toilet bowl' on ours is designed to allow solids to drop into a container where it is mixed with coir. The design allows pee to flow forward where it passes into a 5 litre bottle which can then be taken and emptied into an elsan or an ordinary toilet. At first a little care is need with positioning for the 'activity' but it quickly becomes straightforward. We have to empty our liquids bottle every 2 days but carry spares.

Yes, certainly. I initially put the emptied 'product' into a lidded plastic container which I sourced at Wilco. I tend to empty the toilet solids every 3 weeks and can fit two lots of product into a single container. So in theory would fill a container every 6 weeks. I had planned to store these containers in a very large (1700 litres) deck locker on the boat but in practice we tend to go home about once every 6 weeks or so (we spend about half the year on the boat but need to be at home at less than 2 monthly intervals for insurance purposes and for the garden) so the containers are taken home and added to the home compost heap. I say nothing whatsoever against those who use other safe disposal methods but I would not personally choose to do so. Started a thread which has much more detail but can't find it at the moment.

Totally agree. Fortunately I have a composting toilet so don't have to use a bin bag.

Five pages so far and I haven't understood any of it - I understand most of the words, just not when they are joined up. Bit like some of the threads in the politics section (without the rude bits).

Had a big job done there a couple of years ago. Absolutely first class workmanship but really expensive.

As I have posted previously, my examiner said that he could see that the boat would pass as soon as he had parked his car. Admittedly he had been able to park right by the boat but the boat was moored end on from his viewpoint.

Refleks stoves come with a stainless steel grid to protect the flue, as standard I think. They must be more or less mass produced.

You do have a point but I think they looked more worried than fascinated. I've taken the boat that way a couple of times and the dog and I walk different bits of it every day when we are home, so perhaps I've become over familiar with the route. To be honest it's hard to imagine the busy wharfs depicted in the likes of 'Idle Women' when you walk past today.

Strangely enough I watched a wide-beam pass through Olton (going towards Camp Hill) this morning. I wasn't close enough to speak to the crew but presume they knew that they would have to turn before the locks. Seemed a pointless trip, nothing particularly worth seeing along there.

1 Get closed cell foam 2 Get a separate applicator nozzle which you can change from can to can 3 Larger cans are more cost effective but not if you can't use the whole can at one time so get some small ones as well 4 You can get cans of nozzle cleaner to blow a used nozzle clear after use - this is an expense but a useful one.

If you assume that an anchor tossed overboard is going to save your boat - something has failed, either the anchor or the assumption.

If peace of mind is a high priority (it is with me) then RCR are useful for an insignificant fee. My experience is that they get it right in the end but that the end is not always particularly near the beginning.

Yes, as I have said (repeatedly) we compost all our 'product' as part of our home composting arrangement. We produce 5 litres of 'product' per week on the boat, 50% of this is coir, the rest isn't.

We have a Victorian house with no toilet downstairs and have thought, for many years, of installing one. The problem is that though we have a useful space (below the staircase) it is a fair distance to the external waste stack, partly over a solid concrete floor. The faff of a macerator, pump and piping has put us off doing anything so far but we are considering a composting solution now that we have had experience of the one on the boat. Like the boat, this would be a "forced" change rather than an ideological one.

I'm quite confident that it's not illegal but that is not the point; surely if you choose a composting toilet you need some arrangement for composting the output. I would not have had one (despite the convienience) if I was not in a position to arrange composting.

If you plan to live aboard you need to consider storage space while composting finishes. I would emphasise that while the original 'product' does not smell and is easy to 'handle', it is not compost. In my opinion it should not be binned in that state. The loo is still fine after a second year by the way.