Replace Toilet with Composting for FT use
Hey, I am 28 years old and my buddy is 26 and we are in the process of looking for an RV right now. That being said I am extremely interested in long term boon docking and sustainability. So this make...
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My wife and I bought a new fifth wheel in Feb. and went full time in May.
Knowing that our plan is to do a lot of boondocking and dry camping we opted to install one of the Nature's Head composting toilets.
We never even used the regular toilet, pulled it and switched toilets the night we got the rig.
We have had family obligations ever since we hit the road and have not done any boondocking yet :(
I have already seen some of the benefits for sure. We have stayed in a few spots where the sewer dump was rather far away and it didn't matter to us. Without even trying we can go a week without dumping our tanks...so if we were to be more careful with consumption and waste, having that blank tank as an additional grey would probably let us stretch that out to 10 - 14 days.
Dealing with the composting container isn't that big of a deal. When you empty it there isn't much of a smell other then wet dirt, and it is like dumping a bucket of wet dirt with itty bitty pieces of TP mixed in into a trash bag.
The only thing that is a pain in the rear, and not a huge deal, is dealing with the urine bucket. We find ourselves dumping that about every 3 days. It's not difficult and if you put vinegar in it when it is empty there is no smell....it is just a chore that has to be done every 3 days.
IF we were to never boondock and always be in parks I think I would be 50/50 on which method is better (regular black tank or composting). The only thing that would make me go with a regular set up is the cost....$1000 is a lot to swallow.
For extended boondocking I really think that this will be a nice upgrade and worth the $1000. At least I am really hoping to since we dropped the money on it :) Hopefully we will get to boondock shortly....really has been a bummer how things have cropped up keeping us from being able to do that, but it could be a good thing. My tuck needed an unplanned transmission rebuild which took my solar panel money. So we are all set up for boondock (big battery bank, inverter, solar charger, composting toilet) but will still need to run our generator at this point to charge the battery bank.
Knowing that our plan is to do a lot of boondocking and dry camping we opted to install one of the Nature's Head composting toilets.
We never even used the regular toilet, pulled it and switched toilets the night we got the rig.
We have had family obligations ever since we hit the road and have not done any boondocking yet :(
I have already seen some of the benefits for sure. We have stayed in a few spots where the sewer dump was rather far away and it didn't matter to us. Without even trying we can go a week without dumping our tanks...so if we were to be more careful with consumption and waste, having that blank tank as an additional grey would probably let us stretch that out to 10 - 14 days.
Dealing with the composting container isn't that big of a deal. When you empty it there isn't much of a smell other then wet dirt, and it is like dumping a bucket of wet dirt with itty bitty pieces of TP mixed in into a trash bag.
The only thing that is a pain in the rear, and not a huge deal, is dealing with the urine bucket. We find ourselves dumping that about every 3 days. It's not difficult and if you put vinegar in it when it is empty there is no smell....it is just a chore that has to be done every 3 days.
IF we were to never boondock and always be in parks I think I would be 50/50 on which method is better (regular black tank or composting). The only thing that would make me go with a regular set up is the cost....$1000 is a lot to swallow.
For extended boondocking I really think that this will be a nice upgrade and worth the $1000. At least I am really hoping to since we dropped the money on it :) Hopefully we will get to boondock shortly....really has been a bummer how things have cropped up keeping us from being able to do that, but it could be a good thing. My tuck needed an unplanned transmission rebuild which took my solar panel money. So we are all set up for boondock (big battery bank, inverter, solar charger, composting toilet) but will still need to run our generator at this point to charge the battery bank.
