Showing features and how the porta-potty set works that I just got on Ebay! You can see what it looks like in my Chill Gorilla Privacy Tent review. Here is a link to Ebay about this product: m.ebay.com/itm/5-Gallon-20L-T...
Great video I got mine in the mail last week and then finally put it together and tested it today. It is a pretty awesome contraption, while I did not get mine for camping, mine is more for emergency situations such as when the power is out and you don't have any extra water. a standard toilet uses about 4 gallons of water to flush and as you know this one only takes I'm guessing about a half a gallon or less for #2 and #1 requires 0 water.
Urine diversion dry earth toilets are better for continuous use though you can just stock the toilets and dry peat moss for emergency use. Camping use is probably the most bothersome way to use them as you would need to clean them for storage afterwards instead of just dumping them. Note that for continuous use, you can just dump half of the contents into your compost pile and use the remaining half as filler instead of constantly putting in more peat moss as filler, this also saves on using water to clean them.
@@davidjollie3807 You don't have to use water except to clean them for storage. For continuous use, there's no need to hose them out except for cosmetic reasons if someone has diarrhea and even then only if there isn't enough filler material such as peat moss or sawdust to bury it and keep it from sticking to the sides.
Using the sink drain for the tank is awesome and totally conservation minded. You get a badge for that. I will be doing the same as I just ordered both not too long before finding your video. Good job!
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I was thinking of putting something portable in the 1st floor closet under the stairs, for my 💯 yr old Auntie!! Mom's having issues now, too. Shame plumbing is other side of condo.
Great idea especially for a tiny home. To prevent water splash in sink, Cut the neck down and install it lower to the sink. Also use a backsplash shield around the top of the sink.
I also bought both of these components, for my Sprinter "Over-nighter" van ... I am completely pleased with the performance of both. They are a very simply, and very reliable ... no power needed, so ... always ready to "go" ,,, when you need to "GO!"
Thank you for this!!! I’m looking into one of these because I want to get land and go off grid. It’s gonna take me a while to get either a septic tank or a composting toilet but this would be really good before that!
My daughter is moving into a place with no kitchen I’m thinking of ordering this for now. I would imagine you have to dump the dirty sink water out daily
I live in an apartment by myself and I love my mini porter potty. I have that sucker right underneath my table in my bed room. Sometimes I just dont want to get up. I just want to do my buisness and go to bed.
Oh how I love it....that is too cute! I wished we had those when I was in the Army doing 7-30 days field training! We had those disgusting blue porta-potty smelling toilets and barely a half working hand washing station. I think I may got ahead and get this for my tiny house with a portable rv holding tank to stay off the grid.
I had the same idea/ setup but i have the thetford flushable porta potti with this sink and it is super but I use two 5gallon water bottles to use my grey water coming from the sink so when I'm ready to empty the potty I don't have to do all that disconnecting cause I'm full time user.
Hey Jenna, this is freakin' cool!!!!! Between your vid and another lady ... I will have no problems camping. Now all I gotta search for are solar panels for light/electric source. Thanks!!!!
These camp toilets are designed on the basis that you would be at a campsite and could empty them out at an outhouse or a restroom facility on a daily basis so I would not expect using them without emptying them at least once every other day. They sell chemicals to put in the five gallon waste compartment that help neutralize the odour and slow down the anaerobic bacteria which produces the foul odours and the methane gas. If you don't want to be emptying the toilet daily or every other day, get a dry earth composting toilet such as the Airhead, Natureshead or C-head. These have urine diverters do the solids are kept dry and mixed in with a medium such as peat moss, coconut husks, sawdust, newspaper clippings etc. This keeps the decomposition aerobic which doesn't produce foul odours. The composting medium should absorb the initial odours of the fecal matter and after that it should be similar to the odour of fresh earth onc the bacteria gets busy. The various toilets often have a powered vent to ensure what odours there are would be vented and of course bring fresh air to keep the bacteria culture aerobic. You can usually go a month without emptying one of these and it's actually preferable to not empty them completely so that you're not starting from scratch once you have a bacterial culture that gobbled up the odours. If you have a compost pile, you just empty them in there and it'll be fertile soil in between six months to a year, otherwise you can bag it and throw it out with the trash. The urine receptacle often has to be emptied every one to three days but they are more options to disposing a bottle of liquid then there are for disposing of black water from a camp toilet, the urine does tend to have an odour but you can put the chemicals used in camp toilets to help neutralize that or even just vinegar or bleach, basically the acid keeps the bacteria from growing and bleach kills the bacteria (you can use vinegar or bleach with the camp toilet too). Unfortunately, these composting toilets would have no need for grey water but you could drain the sink into a five gallon tank and use the grey water to water your flower beds (just don't put vinegar or bleach in it unless you're trying to kill weeds).
@@stevecarr1992 It is more correct to say there is urea in urine and urea can breakdown into ammonia hence there are many conditions where urine has the scent of ammonia, however it is true that ammonia and bleach will produce chloramines which are hazardous to breathe hence ventilation is important. Certainly mixing cleaning ammonia with bleach is a serious mistake but mixing urine with bleach is not as serious as mixing ammonia with bleach.
Composting toilets don't compost anything. It's should be call a dry toilet. You are seriously misinformed if you think it's safe to dump a months worth bucket of human poo onto the ground. It's would take at least 1.5 years, in the right conditions, to be safe enough to dump on the ground. Human waste contain many bacteria like Salmonella and E. coli that can cause illness and death. These dry toilets aren't being disposed of properly due to the spread of this misinformation and lack of common sense. They are contaminating the environment and ruining nice boondocking sights. Some places will never be reopened to the public again because people ignored the dumping warnings. If you had to pay the cleanup bill of the land and water due to human waste, you would ban people from using your land too.
@@laurieschaeffer1162 Boy, what crawled up your rear... It's never been said that the toilets produce garden ready compost, just that what's collected can be disposed of in compost bins, piles or trash bins. Of course it takes up to two years to actually compost organic matter so you're not going to be dumping the contents into your garden, nobody said the toilets are full fledged compost bins, just that they are toilets.
Try putting a "T" pipe with a shut off (installed in a sideways T format) so if you're washing dishes with particulates (and the shut off is set to open for vertical flow), it'll flow into another tank or bucket of your choosing. Once you close the knob, and only have grey liquids coming down, they will pour out of the side, and travel down your current pipe to the left and into the toilet for recycled utilization when nature calls. This should reduce the chance of food and other particulates from clogging your portable toilet pump. 😉
How often would you have to empty this ? / is it easy ? Im renovating a detached garage and cant have a toilet due to septic tank issues and I’m thinking about getting this since it has a sink too . Please lmk thanks !
Hi Jenna, Great video!! can you tell me, the base of the sink, could it swivel around so that the foot pump would be out front? hoping one of these might fit in a narrow space I have.
The sink locks into place at the base. You could probably rig it that way and not have the sink completely screwed in but find another way to secure the sink
I'm going to be living in a van fulltime. I love this setup but I definitely need it to be inside the van not outside. As long as I use bungee cords to make sure it stays in one spot, do you think I would have any issues while driving? if everything is sealed up good, should the water and everything else stay in its place until I'm ready to empty it? Thanks 🙂 kim
As long as it is secured upright I dont see why you would have an issue. I would just make sure to put the original cap on the toilet instead of the sink drain while traveling.
There is cleaners and solutions you add to the tank and you rinse out until water is clear. There is usually dump stations where I camp so that is where I clean it out.
Sherilyn Fox It does come apart easily. The tank, bowl and stand comes apart and you would have to undo the clear tube to the faucet. I would definitely say yes to being able to prefill the toilet's flush water. The only concern I have with the sink's tank is that the fill hole has a tough rubber top with a very small hole to help with pressure for the foot pump. It might be okay but I havent tried it yet. It kind of reminds me of kids sippy cups that help prevent spills.
There is a cap you screw off to put in the water for both the sink and toilet. The sink holds 5 gallons or almost 18 Liters. The toilet's flush tank is smaller, my guess around 2.5 gallons or about 9 liters. The tank that holds your waste (bottom tank) is 5 gallons or about 18 Liters. I hope this helps. 🙂
Unless I am looking at something wrong isn't the waste tank capacity wrong? It says the waste tank holds 20L. If you fill the sink freshwater tank with 20L and the toilet with 10L of fresh water that is 10L over the max capacity of the 20l gray water waste tank. Am I correct or looking at something wrong?
Well you are correct, the waste tank will fill quicker before you run out of flushing water. At that point, you just have to drain the waste tank. The pro of using grey water from the sink as flushing water is having to fill the flush tank less.
Does the little bit of liquid that flushes the toilet actually do a good job of flushing waste into the bottom? And is there a lot of problems with waste sticking to the little door inside the bowl?
I am sure it will work with any. The drain is the only thing connect to the fill tank which doesnt have to fit perfectly as long as the toilet's fill tank's hole is bigger than the sink drain tube.
my friend bought me th sink & toilet-my family put it together for me-as i was physically unable to at th time...i tried putting th sink drain hose into th toilet fresh water opening but th tube doesn't seem to fit...im going to try & disconnect th drain tube from th sink, to see if th other end fits...but i was wondering if any1 else had such difficulty?... terri a.
The tube from the sink drain does not screw in perfectly but as long as the tube fits inside the flush tank hole you should be fine as the water slowly drains downward into the flush tank.
@@Catastrophic616 i ended up shaving down th pvc drain tube-i figured there must hv been a problem, otherwise my brothers would hv got it in... now it's connected & i am so gratefu-it is really working out gret!l...thanx!
I bought them together on ebay or Amazon I can't remember at this point lol the sink I think can come separate and as long as the drain tube can sit in that hole, it will be fine. Honestly, it doesn't perfectly fit with the toilet it came with but it works lol
