It was such a pleasure to work on this compost toilet, but we have to say that it was thanks to your donations that we were able to finish it. We had to spend quite some money for good quality products, to have a long lasting compost toilet. It took a few days to finish it, but that was mainly because we had to collect stuff step by step. The hours we spend building it was definitely worth it. We learned already so much! And best of all is that we found creative ways to recycle almost all the materials.
Look at this beautiful end result! Soon we will post some video content on how we build this compost toilet. And in the coming months we will finalize the design with some details and a cute window to have a nice view while doing your big business ;)
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Geoff Lawton inspired us with this amazing compost toilet design. It was something that we could realize easy without any experience. We started on making the ventilation pipes. Tijn was cutting gaps from the bottom to the top with an angle grinder.
After installing the ventilation pipes we made the filter for (peeing) liquids. With a concrete steel grid and some bird nets wrapped around it is super easy to create this liquid filter. Tijn drilled a hole at the bottom of the wheelie bin and installed a draining valve. Sander and Tijn together managed to make a cover out of a recycled cement tub and we were done!
On the second day we headed to the Brico (a French construction market) in Flers. Some parts we needed we couldn't get second-hand. Thanks to half of the donations we were already able to buy new parts like draining valves and other metal parts. It was shocking how expensive these parts are, so later during the day we tried to collect more parts in our place.
We found some beautiful old door panels which we sanded completely. One of the door panels from the old barn was quite small and fitted perfectly as a toilet seat panel. From the old workshop the previous owner made a new barn door out of steel. Also from this we had some spare parts left and this suited really good as a waterproof roof.
In the previous months we were searching for a cheap wood supplier. One that maybe sells old planks or at least second hand, so we can save some money. One big problem... old wood can still be expensive! Luckily we had contact with a brocante 5 minutes away from our house. The old man working there showed us his workshop where he was upcycling old furniture. With some Google Translate we managed to get an agreement to have a lot of oak wood for only €100.