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I'm looking for a camp and an outhouse may be my only bathroom option at least at the beginning. Are they all horrifying? Can an outhouse not be gross lol? I'd like my wife and daughters to come to camp and not have to drive into town several times a day lol

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I’d recommend skipping the pit and go buy a portapotty to put in it.  Put some of that Rv sanitary treatment in its sewage and water supply tanks. 
 

A regular outhouse with a pit might work ok for guys, in this day and age, but won’t cut it for women and children.  The portapotty’s have a removable sewage tank below and a built in water storage flush tank in the back.  You can dump the tank out back somewhere, when no one is looking, or bury the contents, if you’re feeling energetic.    

Digging a pit for an outhouse is asking for fly and bee, and smell issues, which women and children will not tolerate.  You can avoid all that with the portapotty.  

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If you build one, give plenty of room from the door to the seat, otherwise your knees are hitting the door.  At my dad’s camp he also has a plastic Folgers coffee bin that he stores the roll of toilet paper in, incase mice get in the outhouse.  I’d pine board the interior, no stain to keep it bright, and polly/seal the entire interior.  Bolt an actual toilet seat down, and have a light on the ceiling, battery powered tap light even.  If it were me, id take a broom right before their visit incase of any cob webs, etc…and don’t forget a vent stack.

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My outhouse at camp has a removable seat and the seat hangs above the wood stove. It also is insulated and has heat “small buddy heater.” I like a good lid, not just a toilet seat lid but a sealed sturdy lid. This eliminates most of the smell and forces the vent pipe to vent out the top. My door is a glass storm door with a shade. I have a beautiful view and there’s no reason to be walking in front of it. My daughter “16” is the only one ever seen pull down the shade.  I’ve added a bar rail to the front of mine because the shorter folk always complained I built it too high. 

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Depends on how upity the women and children are. We had an out house at our cottage on the St Lawrence  River. Just bomb it before you use it. Big spiders love them lol

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Buddies camp in Maine has one.  Lots of ladies use it without issues.  Lime is your friend.  Good friend of mine runs the sewer plant in his town. He gets some very potent cherry smelling stuff that works pretty good.  And as @Bionic mentioned, a coffee can keeps the mice from eating your TP. 

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We had one for years that we built . Lime helps break down the build up and we regularly poured bleach down the hole. We had a shower bag that hu g off the side and the water ran into the hole . We had 2 families using it all summer and 3 of us using all hunting season for quite a few years and never ran out of room.

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We use two at camp ,that said my wife and daughters never stay more then a day and "hold " it all day LMAO .

The seat gets a little cold come late season mornings, but it's a good old adk hunting camp .

Some of our younger hunters wait until the last possible minute then run down to it to avoid prolonged smells of odors 

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4 hours ago, crappyice said:

Seems crazy but would you be better off with something like this?  No lasting smell, and since you are dog owners, you're all used to picking up shit bags anyway!

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+1 for a travel potty type thing. My wife and daughter use it all the time on road trips. 

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