How to build a country toilet with your own hands

The very first and necessary construction on the site, perhaps, is the toilet. To build a cottage toilet with your own hands is not an easy task, besides it does not require large expenditures. First you need to decide on its design and location. There are not so many options. The best option is to install it with a sewer in the house, but this is not always possible.

The device of a toilet with a cesspit is technologically uncomplicated, but a number of sanitary norms must be observed. It should be at a distance of about thirty meters from the sources of water supply and at least twelve meters from the house. If the depth of the groundwater level is less than 2.5 m, then it is forbidden to arrange such a construction. In this case, everything is organized as follows: it is equipped with a waste container that can be taken out. In the back wall make a hole for ventilation and another - for cleaning. A container with a peat-sawdust mixture is put in the waste container after each use of the toilet. This is done to destroy the smell. The house itself is set on posts. If the conditions allow you to build a cottage toilet with a cesspool, you need to provide for its location, whereby a special machine for pumping waste can reach the cesspool.

The pit itself should be large enough. Dig it out quickly enough so that a chance rain does not fill it with water. The bottom and walls must be concreted or bricked. You can use concrete rings or install a metal or plastic container in it. In the pit, you can run bacteria that will process the feces into compost. If the soil is sandy, the bottom of the pit can not be concreted. Sand will play the role of a filter. Above, above the cesspool, a lid is made. After the design issue is resolved, you can start building a cottage toilet with your own hands. A small house is built from the timber, inside it is a seat at an altitude of about 100 cm. Inside the house is covered with plywood or DS. The roof is made of a saddle and closed by a slate.

For stability, the housing of the house is buried at 60-90 cm.

To do this, the vertically installed frame bar is made longer by the depth and acts as a pile.

Under such uneven bars, holes are drilled in the ground.

Regardless of whether you bought a house or built a cottage toilet with your own hands, it must necessarily be equipped with ventilation.

The house can be bought and ready. It costs from 20,000 to 30,000 rubles.

It is possible to build a country peat toilet. It decomposes impurities, they can be pawned in compost and used as fertilizers. The bio-toilet due to a special liquid also decomposes impurities. It does not need to be equipped with sewerage, electricity and water supply, and smells are destroyed by special deodorizing substances. At the moment this is the most convenient option. So it's quite possible to arrange a cottage toilet with your own hands, it will save money and take a little time.