Composting Toilets
Having just read how some people have had black water valve issues, has anyone used a composting toilet on their 5th wheel?
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valhalla360 wrote:
We don't have one in the 5th wheel but we've had one in the boat for around 6yrs.
Assuming can get access to a dump station on a regular basis, I would say they are a waste of time in an RV. It's quick easy and painless to dump an RV tank. Unless you do something to mess it up, the valves last many years.
On a boat, it's a different matter.
- Every campground has a dump station or on site sewer. While it's mandatory to have holding tanks, it's not uncommon to find you must take the boat hours travel away to find a pump out.
- Boat plumbing forces the solids thru hoses only 1.5" in diameter often with 90 degree bends. All done with complicated pumping mechanisms. In your RV, it's all gravity fed thru 4" diameter pipes with minimal bends. If you are inserting solids with greater than 4" diameter...you need to see a doctor.
- When you have a leak in a boat, it is stored in the bilge, often completely out of reach. In an RV, it typically winds up on the ground.
The problems that pushed us to get a composter for the boat largely don't exist for an RV.
Thanks, that was helpful. I had read some posts of people with valve issue which led to the post. I was recently looking at an RV park where the dump station was near the top of a windy hill you somehow had to back into. But that is probably a rare exception.
