Wooden Toilet For A Summer Residence With Your Own Hands - Step By Step Instructions With Photos, Drawings And Video

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Country toilet made of wood: recommendations and instructions

The restroom at the summer cottage allows you to work without distraction. Yes, and you don't want to go home just to get to the toilet - you can put mud on the floor. Therefore, you cannot do without a restroom located in the garden. But how and from what to make it? The construction of a wooden toilet has its own rules.

Content

• 1 Features of a wooden structure

  • 1.1 Benefits
  • 1.2 Disadvantages

• 2 Preparation for construction

  • 2.1 Drawings and correct dimensions
  • 2.2 Required materials and tools
• 3 Instructions for the construction of a simple toilet made of wood
• 4 Is it necessary to trim the country toilet inside and outside?

Features of a wooden structure

Summer residents prefer to build a toilet from boards on their site. It represents a latrine with a cesspool (backlash closet) or a structure where a container for biological waste (powder closet) is used instead of a pit. Both types of toilet are very convenient, but the powder closet needs to be cleaned much more often.

This restroom is made of planks

Wooden latrines are more in demand than plastic or metal ones. A wooden toilet has many advantages, however, there are also disadvantages.

Benefits

• The wooden structure looks beautiful and, most importantly, blends in with nature. It becomes more original after painting;
• A minimum of finance is spent on construction;
• It is used for a long time if it is processed once a year and cleaned periodically;
• Wood masks unwanted odors and smells like wood at first;
• When the toilet is out of wood, it can be disassembled in parts and burned in the oven.

disadvantages

• Wood is a fire susceptible material. To avoid unexpected fires, you can cover the boards with a heat-resistant agent;
• The wood gradually damp and rot, which can be prevented by treating it with a special preparation;
• Over time, the wooden structure deteriorates, because bugs start in it. To prevent them from eating wood, the toilet will have to be treated with a pest control agent.

Preparation for construction

First of all, they make a drawing of the future structure, that is, a wooden booth with a cesspool under it. A toilet sketched on paper will greatly simplify the assembly of the toilet frame.

Drawings and correct dimensions

A summer resident can use ready-made drawings of a wooden toilet. He will only need to thoroughly study them and strictly follow the recommendations. Otherwise, the design may turn out to be twisted and sloppy.

Among all types of outdoor toilet, the most common "birdhouse", the shape of which is a rectangle. Unlike the "hut", it requires less skill in construction.

View of the toilet from different sides

Toilet frame and interior decoration

A lavatory in the form of a "birdhouse" is usually built with a height of 2, 3 meters. The standard width of this structure is one meter. Less stringent requirements are imposed on the length of a wooden toilet, it can vary from one to one and a half meters. But if you wish, you can slightly increase all the other indicated sizes.

Required materials and tools

For the construction of a toilet, materials will be needed in a certain amount. According to calculations, only for the construction of a cesspool, the summer resident will have to prepare in advance:

• 4–6 reinforced concrete rings or a metal barrel;
• 0.25 m3 of sand;
• A bag of cement;
• 2 buckets of rubble.

When creating the base and booth, you will need the following:

• 4 concrete blocks;
• 2 m2 of roofing material;
• 2 buckets of sand;
• 3 six-meter edged boards measuring 100 mm / 50 mm;
• 3 6m floor boards 9 mm thick;
• Edged board 25 mm (6 meters long);
• Wooden six-meter beam 0.05 / 0.05 m;
• Reinforcement trims by 0.5 meters;
• Galvanized sheet metal.

The top of the booth will need to be covered with 8-wave asbestos-cement slate, of course, painted.

The assembly of the frame must be carried out using nails with a length of 1, 2 cm, 70mm, 40 mm and 100 mm (for slate) and self-tapping screws 70 mm long.

A summer resident planning to independently engage in the construction of an outdoor toilet with a "podium" and a window must purchase additional materials and items:

• Grandfather;
• Glass 0.5 / 0.1 m, galvanized hinges and glazing beads (1.5 meters) for the window.

The door is constructed from a block with dimensions of 0.9 m / 2 m. To frame it, you will need 5 running meters of the casing. You will also need to purchase hinges, door handles and a latch in advance.

To work with wood materials, you need to arm yourself with a hacksaw, a plane, a hammer and a screwdriver. And when creating a cesspool, you will need a shovel.

Instructions for building a simple wooden toilet

1. Looking for a suitable location for the toilet. According to the rules, it should stand 25-30 meters from the groundwater flow. If it is impossible to maintain the voiced distance, then the summer resident needs to immerse an airtight container in a cesspool so that biowaste does not leak into the ground.

2. Take a shovel and make a depression in the ground. There are no special requirements for its size, but it should slightly extend beyond the walls of the toilet or be strictly under it. It is advisable to put car tires on the bottom and walls. However, instead of this, a metal barrel with a volume of 200 liters can be lowered into the pit. The container immersed in the ground must be filled up on the sides, and the soil around it must be tamped. A good replacement for a metal barrel - special plastic containers, reinforced with metal ribs.

   

   Installation of a container for collecting biowaste

3. Concrete blocks are placed at the corners of the runners of the future restroom. The foundation with "pillars" is covered with roofing felt for waterproofing.

   

   Creating a foundation from blocks and planks

4. They begin to create the base: runners are made from the beams, and then they are connected and placed on an already finished platform. The boards must be covered with an antiseptic.

5. Floor slabs are laid on the runners. So that cold air does not flow from below during the operation of the toilet, the floorboards are sheathed with OSB sheets on the back. A heat-retaining material is placed between the boards, that is, foam. OSB sheets are again attached to the floor from above. At this stage, a circular hole is created in the floorboards to drain the faeces.

   

   They made a square hole in the floor here

6. The walls of the restroom are assembled from boards 100x50 mm, using nails and self-tapping screws. Wall frames are fixed to the platform using the same screws, as well as corners.

   

   Frame construction

7. The construction of the pitched roof supporting system is started. The recesses are sawn in the rafters, and then they are installed on the top board of the pediment and side walls. Then they nail it down. On the top of the structure, that is, under the roof, they put OSB sheets, laying a heater between them, and a material that protects against moisture penetration. Last of all, slate is attached to the top.
8. Make a door. To make it strong, it is pulled diagonally with two bars. The door is sheathed in the same way as the walls of the restroom. After that, hinges, handles and a latch are attached to it.

Completely finished restroom

Do I need to sheathe a country toilet inside and out?

It is not necessary to decorate the suburban toilet inside. But if the summer resident is not lazy and bypasses the walls, floor and ceiling of the toilet, then the structure will stand much longer. As a material for interior decoration of the toilet, you can use:

• Styrofoam sheets that attach to the walls tightly to each other, providing insulation from wind and moisture;
• A film stretched over supports slightly separated from the outer walls. It serves as a barrier to the penetration of cold air into the room;
• Plain or decorative edged boards, with which all walls are laid out inside the toilet;
• Lining, that is, the most aesthetic material for decoration.

If you have taken up the interior decoration of the restroom, then you should not forget about the outer cladding. Covering the toilet outside is a guarantee of its long service life, despite the effects of precipitation, low temperatures and winds. The material for external protection of the wooden structure of the toilet can be:

• Drywall;
• Siding;
• Plastic panel;
• Metal profile.

A wooden toilet in the country is the right solution, because it fits perfectly into the countryside and does not require high costs. Usually summer residents build it in the form of a "birdhouse" more than two meters high. If desired, you can extend the service life of such a toilet by performing interior and exterior decoration with clapboard and siding, respectively.