Regardless of cost and if space was not a huge concern what do you think would be the most convenient toilet to use and maintain? My parents are considering a van conversion to go around when they travel to watch their grandkids at sport.
To me the difference between a cassette toilet and a pota poti is that to empty a pota poti ( like mine), you have to take the top half off, which is the bowl and seat and sometimes a fresh water tank and set it aside to get at the holding tank and take that some place and dump it. In what I call a cassette toilet you open a door and the holding take slides out and you take that someplace to dump it, no moving or disconnecting the bowl, like the Winnebago Revel.Do not live in van full time. I use a Dometic # 972 with the mounting clips to fix it in place. Do not understand why a cassette toilet is any different. Both require taking the container out to dump it.
Being male, it is easy to separate the #1 from the #2. Just use a old Quik powdered chocolate container for # 1. Pour a small amount of Clorox in container to eliminate the smell. Much easier to carry the Quik container to dump it than a part of a toilet.
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I actually gave them a few bucks early on... but abandoned it. Hard to beat the split #1/#2 program versus the best-case situation on the composting setups.Here is a new composting toilet coming to market called Cuddy. It is an Indiegogo project that has already been fully funded. Current purchase level is $600. Designer was not happy with existing solutions he was using in his van so used Covid year to design a better one to address all the issues. If your into taking a small risk and are OK with delayed delivery (Delays are common with these projects in my experience) than give it a look. They just met stretch funding goal and are now making it water resistant so it can stay in a wet bath during showers. Cuddy, the best portable composting toilet
We’ve used our nature head for about a year now with no smell. What dirt of compost do you use? Is it properly vented?We spent the big bucks on a Nature's Head composting toilet. It's definitely functional as-is, but despite several good reviews from various people on this forum and YouTube, I'm a little underwhelmed as it relates to the dollars we spent. There are some design issues that aren't particularly impressive (e.g. not being able to empty the pee bottle without completely opening the toilet).
EDIT: Ours also smells, despite cleaning it thoroughly with bleach water after a couple weeks of use. It's like it's embedded in the plastic. Our next step is to clean again with bleach water, but this time with a much higher concentration.
If I were buying again, I'd go with a different manufacturer.
Craig
Look at the Air Head, a few more dollars but several big advantages over Natures Head. I'm going with a Thetford Porta Poti...if you have to empty anything, save $800 for something else and empty the whole thing...no big dealGood write-up/tips. I'll give some of these a try with our Nature's Head.
We spent the big bucks on a Nature's Head composting toilet. It's definitely functional as-is, but despite several good reviews from various people on this forum and YouTube, I'm a little underwhelmed as it relates to the dollars we spent. There are some design issues that aren't particularly impressive (e.g. not being able to empty the pee bottle without completely opening the toilet).
EDIT: Ours also smells, despite cleaning it thoroughly with bleach water after a couple weeks of use. It's like it's embedded in the plastic. Our next step is to clean again with bleach water, but this time with a much higher concentration.
If I were buying again, I'd go with a different manufacturer.
Craig
We've used the Nature head for 2+ years with no smell (we use peat moss) and we spray the urine hole/area with vinegar on occasion! My only issue is, why didn't they make the seat comfier, I would think for the $$ they would have thought of thatWe’ve used our nature head for about a year now with no smell. What dirt of compost do you use? Is it properly vented?
Nothing like some quality time in the "library".My only issue is, why didn't they make the seat comfier
I am going with a Laveo toilet. Don't see it mentioned very much, it is a totally different technology. I am still doing my conversion so can't report on it yet. But the whole dump the urine, stinky toilet thing is not my cup of tea.. You are being redirected...Regardless of cost and if space was not a huge concern what do you think would be the most convenient toilet to use and maintain? My parents are considering a van conversion to go around when they travel to watch their grandkids at sport.