How We Built A Compost Toilet Under $4 + Reclaimed Materials (Subtitles/CC) | Fancy Free RV 

Wow! I can't believe how many comments have pretty much accused Fancy-Free RV of lying! The title does NOT say "how YOU can build a compost toilet under $4", it's "How WE built a compost toilet for under $4", and that's exactly what they (she) did! Give me a break people!! Give HER a break!

I find it interesting that people are so quick to give you grief for making a video showing them how to do something . Maybe they should just make their own video . Thanks for the how- to.👍🏻

Used one in our cabin for several months before plumbing could be installed. 5 gallon bucket, bag, cedar shavings from pet store. No smell, no out in 20 below weather at night, was amazing. Picked up urine bags from sportsman,s warehouse with absorber gel. Cheap, efficient.

One of the things I've heard elsewhere, that I don't always see mentioned - as far as the potential odors coming from a composting toilet, is that separating the urine from the feces is the key. The Urine can be diluted with water & then dumped around shrubs & serve as a nutrient. Diluting it is a good idea so it won't "burn" the plants. The feces in a medium like coir, sawdust, with shredded paper - ie: junkmail - will all break down together & turn into compost. You can buy activators used in composting to facilitate & accelerate the process. Compost - once aged properly - has no bad odors.

A Nature's head (popular for some reason) composting toilet costs nearly a thousand dollars before shipping. It requires an electrical hookup to work most efficiently. $4 is a FAR BETTER price to pay for essentially the same thing. So what if someone has to pay "more" because they don't have everything on hand? It's still cheaper than commercial - made.

This is great, I'm trying to decide if I want to build a compostable toilet and this looks visually appealing and easy to build. Thanks for the idea. 😊

I love that you got a toilet seat as a present!! I need friends like yours haha.

Thank you! This is exactly what I've been looking for. I don't want to spend $50 on a styrofoam separator, and like you I already have all the materials, even a funnel :)

Terrific design to separate solids and liquids. Love the use of materials you already had on hand. We will be using this tutorial when we build ours. Thanks!

Good job! I just finished making mine today, with the urine jug and wood shavings compartment behind the bucket. Yours is much more streamlined...I love it! God bless.

Well done.. I have one that is a disabled person's aluminum frame and seat from thrift store..you just put the bucket undeneath

Awesome! I am researching and preparing to do full time RV living in about 2-3 years. I planned on having a composting toilet and wondered if I could make my own. Thank You!! This is great!

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing idea! Hey people be nice, when someone shares something with you it is a gift...just say thank you. What the heck is wrong with people, sorry you had to see that rudeness after all your time and effort to make this video for us, you are the best ;)

This is fantastic! I was looking at the Nature's Head version but now I understand how they work I'm definitely going to follow you. Thanks, you've just saved me £800 and I can design it to fit my boat exactly!

Thanks for sharing this. Love how it's curved and not square. You've inspired me!

I think your build is functional, practical and user friendly, thanks for sharing. Now all I need are materials that can withstand moisture or rethink my wet shower. None the less, it's less than the composting toilets on the market. You've given me the idea, now imma run with it. Thank you.

This is an excellent tutorial! Thank you! Finally a design that works for our super tiny skoolie :) Also, I can hear everybody great. It IS all about the base ;)

THANK YOU ! great enginering! "Wheres there is a will theres a way!" CONGRATS! Jp

Thank you so much. We have been searching for a toilet for our off grub cabin. And this is exactly what we want. Really appreciate your video. Leslye

thank you for the thorough step by step video and "showing the how." i love the sleek/ space saving design. im going to use this method/ build one:) You can see you guys have a great relationship. SMART and good folks to share. yall take care and hope to see ya on the road!

Love the video. thank you. I will adapt by adding a 12v fan to suck out the bad air but really impressed with this design. excellent.

That's a good looking cigar!

We are going to build one for our cabin. I always like being able to build something from left over materials! Lol. Great job, thanks for posting.👍😊

Always wanted to build one, now that we have just gone through all this nonsense in Texas it's the perfect time to completely come off of everything. Glad I was mostly set up or it would have been way worse.

Looooove it ! I didn't have everything on hand so mine was 15 $ but it works awsome !

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This video will defiantly help my fiancé and I plan our toilet for our skoolie! Don't exactly want to drop a grand on a toilet that we can just make ourselves for so much less.

Loved the end, little kids are so funny!👍😅

This is AWESOME!!!! Thank you for this!!

Thank you very much for this video. It is very clear and simple! It matters a lot knowing how many videos we can find that are complicated and aim to sell you a brand-new big device... made in plastic of course!!

First off thanks for search clear instructions on the how to. You know most of us are visual Learners so it was great to see it not just reading instruction page. I'm new to this... As a woman when we sit down how do we make sure that the urine goes into the final area? Next question is do you just dig a hole in the ground and dump the bucket feces part into it? I'm new into the idea of if we were to have a local or a national power outage and I'm just trying to figure out what to do with a head of time! Thank you very much for keeping making a great video! Very clear and easy to understand dot-dot-dot and the results are very impressive!

Great job and thank you for sharing your ingenuity, it is inspiring. Don't waste time and energy responding to haters, they are unworthy. I've seen the $960 toilet and your concept is a good alternative.

0:07 shows perfect style thanks so much

Oh my goodness I love this video! Thank you so much for all of it! You make it look so easy. I'm a little nervous but I know I need to get over it! I love this! I have not looked yet but if you were going to perhaps to design a side kit to put the mulch in next to the composting toilet, would it have the same shape as the toilet? I can't get over how beautiful this is. You see I clean for a living so I'm always upside down with my head and somebody's toilet or shower or tub. And now I'm building a shuttle. And I want to build this nope I'm going to build this! I cannot wait! I was watching this and thought oh my gosh if I didn't want the wood look I could possibly get the stick on tile or laminate flooring I guess it's called?

Awesome idea! Thank you for sharing this with us. Even if one does not have the materials like myself it will still be much cheaper than buying one of the manufactured products on the market.

Great job of showing this build.- greetings from the woods of Ontario, Canada. Glenn & Maureen

Awesome video. I knew there was a better way then a $950 store bought. I am planning to be in Idaho this spring, looking for land to build an "Off-grid Learning Center" and this is a perfect project for people to build for their situation. Liked, Subbed, and notified. Thanks

Great idea! wished you had shown and described in more detail how you designed the out side of the toilet it looked pretty nicely finished.

Looks perfectly nice

We’re looking at a composting toilet too! You guys did pretty good making your own! Awesome!

I love this idea! it is more compact then other ones I have seen made.

Thanks for sharing this. Your “we” is the same as ours on some projects. Lol. Rise above the haters. You’ve got this. KOKO! Btw, Fancy Free is also the name of our rig, christened 9/28/15. Happy and safe travels!

Very cool! I've been thinking about changing over, and you've given me more pros on it.Thanks!

Great use of scrap material! Your daughters face when you asked if her bucket was her poop bucket... Lol! She had no plans of using it for that! Ha!

Very nice construction. Thanks for sharing. Take care and Best regards Colin

Awesome build. I plan to make my own with mostly scrap and recycled/repurposed parts. Will take some time to get everything but I'm in no rush for it and would like rescue things from the landfill

Awesome tutorial. Thank you for sharing your FREE advice.😎

I like this idea! I think the only thing I would change is try to line the wood. With some kinds or waterproof or cleanable surface. Would want to be able to clean if anything that splashes or gets gross easily and not have the wood absorb anything.

Thank you for sharing this from germany. IT looks 👍

Truly great work! Thank you. I will be building one for sure

We use peat moss also and keep the vinegar/dawn spray nearby for diverter. We do however, have a small fan with a vent pipe. No odors!

thanks for sharing

That’s pretty awesome, might have to copy that design for my camper

Great idea.. thank you for sharing

I like u video I've watched so many I think I saw yours pretty much standard mine will only have the bucket but I'll use bags I'll be mostly in city areas and I will have a 5 gal bucket urinal pvc pipe and funel and hose I don't want to bury anything every thing poured out or in trash can but your video is great.

I got to try this. love your idea.

Great job... excellent video ! LIKED/SUBSCRIBED !

Three years late. Thank You for posting this.

Nice! It's all about the base. :D

👍Good idea. Thanks for sharing. 💞 I’ll check out your other videos as well.

GREAT DIY BUILD!...much thanks.

Thanks so much for this video!!! I love the way this one looks opposed to the plain square box's. I plan to follow your lead on this one & also to save myself some $$ and use a funnel for the diverter, rather then waste more $$ on something I can accomplish for much less. I don't even have my rig yet but no matter what I wind up with I'm going to be using a composting toilet so why not be a step ahead of the game?

Great video! I plan on replacing my wet commode in my Sundance camper. I think I'm going to build a bigger box though and incorporate a DC exhausting fan. The gray water is an issue though, because I think that not all states and counties look at gray water the same

Very good!!! About to convert my Newmar 5th wheel over to composting..... lots of cool designs out there 😎

Brilliant. Thank you for helping to educate us all AND the planet:-)

Awesome. Thnkyou

Great job! Much more attractive then most I've seen.

Very nice job!

I'm doing this tomorrow. Thanks

Very nice video...Thank you...I have to agree looks way better than most composting toilets I've seen. :))

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Hello 👋 !!! I am currently shopping for DIY Composting Toilet options THANK YOU FOR SHARING WHAT YOU DID !!!!

You could use a plastkc bag in the bucket for easier disposal.

Great work, thanks for sharing your ideas. Will surely try this out!!

thanks for making this

Thanks for the info! I think it's great that you and your Dad get to spend this special time together. Enjoy every minute of it. No regrets! And as for the haters, screw em! Keep up the good work and please post again soon.

Great Idea and Cool project...thanks

That was awesome. Thank you for posting.. 💕

Cool, thanks great video! Keep em coming

I love it..thanks

Great video !

This is great! Before I can register my bus as an RV to get it licensed I need permanent toilet facilities. Instead of paying $1000 for a commercial composting toilet I can have my friend's dad build one for me. He's a carpenter that will be doing some of the building on my bus.

Nice, looks great too. I love the old school Craftsman steel casing jigsaw. I like the way you fine folks think. Got my subscribe.

great toilet

The ladies of the household must be very good shots to be able to aim for that small black hole in front... My girlfriend had trouble aiming for a twice the diameter funnel causing spills... I decided to get a commercial urine diverting insert to make the toilet more clean (looking) Now my composting toilet looks just like a regular toilet be it with a somewhat irregular number two idea bucket.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Great idea! Well done!

I really like the way this one is made, however, the pics towards the end flash so fast I can't keep up...lol! Is the directions written down somewhere so an older person like me can finish this project out? We want to build one for our cabin. 😁

This is awesome! Good job guys!

ThNk you for this video.we have.1 bathroon in our house and were looking for an option for a second. I think I just found it.

awesome job

Good job

Great video... Thank you for sharing...

Wow great idea

Wooow I love these structures of the pit toilets I'm running any NPO in the rural area of KZN South Africa I want to change the face of pit toilets so that we can make our on compost I love to learn more about this

thank you for sharing, those who aren’t happy they can click out, it’s as simple as that. again thanks for the idea.

Great video thanks.

Excellent!

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

Thanks for watching?? No...I want one made!!! This is the best design ever! How much would you charge?? I am not handy with tools. Again, how much with shipping and handling?? Yes...I am serious!! Great design!!!!