So here's some finnish dry-toilet culture for a change!
This is Ekolet, a finnish invention and the only dry toilet on the market (that I know of) that composts urine at the same time as doodoo.
I had the privilege of installing it to cellar of a big farm house and here's the story about it!
I had the privilege of installing it to cellar of a big farm house and here's the story about it!
Here is how it works;
It has four separate chambers, like pieces of a pie, except there is empty squeare space of 20cm in the middle.
Everything from the toilets comes down te crap pipes(the brown pipe high in the picture, behind it there is another black one), the poo stays in a chamber and the pee goes trough to the very bottom from where it goes in to a pump(in the front right) and circulates to the top where it drips trough plastic membranes with bacteria coat on them, and the pee changes its form so it stops smelling and becomes a ready fertilizer.
Every year the whole machine is turned quarter cycle, and in four years there is ready super soil to empty for the garden!
A ventilation pipe goes all the way to the roof and a small fan keeps underpreassure in the tanks to take out the possible smell, though when the fermenting gets going there is not much of it.
Everything from the toilets comes down te crap pipes(the brown pipe high in the picture, behind it there is another black one), the poo stays in a chamber and the pee goes trough to the very bottom from where it goes in to a pump(in the front right) and circulates to the top where it drips trough plastic membranes with bacteria coat on them, and the pee changes its form so it stops smelling and becomes a ready fertilizer.
Every year the whole machine is turned quarter cycle, and in four years there is ready super soil to empty for the garden!
A ventilation pipe goes all the way to the roof and a small fan keeps underpreassure in the tanks to take out the possible smell, though when the fermenting gets going there is not much of it.
This is the first floor toilet from inside.
And from te outside.
The second floors toilet,
and heres the seat.
It's hard to see, but this tube goes straight down about 6 meter before the chamber!
With a good flashlight, you can watch the free fall! ;)
It's hard to see, but this tube goes straight down about 6 meter before the chamber!
With a good flashlight, you can watch the free fall! ;)