No black water tank
Just kicking around some ideas. Who has gotten rid of their black water tank ? The obvious solution is a composting toilet. A lot of boaters have gone this way, but I am not a big fan. Ii is l...
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SoundGuy wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
I've used a casset toilet a few times, another no thanks...the size is drastically smaller so you have remove it and carry it to a dump station daily.
Back in our popup days when we were a family of 4 I installed a Thetford 585 electric flush porta potti with a 5 gal waste tank in our Santa Fe and it would easily get us through a typical weekend - i.e. arrive Friday, leave Sunday. Only if I knew we were going to stay longer would I take the waste tank over to the dump station, usually early Sunday morning when no one else was around. These days there are just the 2 of us so I have little doubt one of these toilets, whether porta potti or cassette toilet with a similar size waste tank, would easily get us through at least 4 days of camping without emptying. I've got a waste macerator setup here at the house so I can service travel trailer waste tanks at home and ignore campground dump stations entirely but given the choice I'd rather have a cassette toilet with a 5 gal waste tank that can be accessed from outside the trailer ... no question about it. It's just no biggie at all to take just the waste tank over to the dump station when the place is otherwise empty - certainly far superior to having to drag your trailer into a long dump station line up on a Sun afternoon. :R
Portapotti and casset are different.
We had a 5 gal tank on our first boat. If you severely ration toilet use...sure you can get away with it...but then why not take it to the logical conclusion and not have a toilet at all.
Casset's make sense in truck campers due to space and weight limitations...that also might be a place where I would consider composter.
