Friday, Mar 11, 2022 at 18:01
I have a few thoughts.
We have always just had porta potti's & they have served us
well. We travel mainly in the bush, & digging a hole to dispose of the contents is generally fairly easy.
We came close to buying a vehicle with a vacuum
toilet & realised that what seemed like a nice idea in practice was not quite as good as first thought. Still a cassette, but more than one needed. Warnings about being full when they were full, not beforehand. Vacuum leaks. Cassettes fill quicker as more water used.
Composting toilets are becoming more popular, in particular the Natures Head offering. Big advantage is extended periods between emptying & urine separation. This means less smell, & contents can be easily disposed of by burying or in rubbish.
Enter Crohn's Disease - bugger! There has been one period , pre-medication, where a composting
toilet would not have coped
well. Think serial diarrhoea non stop for 3 weeks. Hopefully never again , but no guarantees. A porta potti/cassette
toilet would have coped far better.
Emptying a
toilet is never going to be 'pleasant' but some can be worse than others. Using sodium percarbonate makes the task 'bearable ' for us. The thought of a large tank full of you know what needing to be emptied with an attached pipe, a) requires a
dump point - too much to bury in a dug hole anywhere, b) something going wrong with a system like that is the stuff of nightmares & c)why would anyone want to carry 88 kilos of sh*t around with them..... and as for adding that sort of quantity into a long drop - anyone doing that should be hung drawn & quartered! d) Not always easy to get a vehicle close enough to a
dump point so need to carry extra hoses. (& clean them!).
Without Crohns - I would choose a composting. With Crohns - possibly still a composting & hope that those 3 weeks are never repeated, or a cassette.
For regular caravan park use - I'd use the caravan park toilets - or if night excursions were needed - a cassette is convenient or urine separating composter is convenient.
All that said - toilets are a very personal thing & need to be acceptable to all who will use them & empty them.
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Follow Up By: Ron & Carol - Friday, Mar 11, 2022 at 19:49
Friday, Mar 11, 2022 at 19:49
Thanks for the reply I like the cassette system even though needs emptying once a week. But the van we are looking at has no cassette but directly to the black
water tank. Was interested how others with a tank get on. Be nice if parks had a black water pipe beside the
grey water pipe but would probably stink out other users.
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