Wherever a person lives, he tries to equip his habitat as comfortably as possible. Therefore, the first structure built on suburban area- This is a toilet. Without this building outside the city it is difficult to live even one day. To build it, you can hire specialists or do the work yourself. But even if you decide to make a toilet in the country with your own hands, you cannot do without theoretical knowledge. So we find out what needs to be done to build a much-needed structure.
Where to place the structure?
Before building a toilet, a place for its construction is determined. The remoteness of the toilet from other buildings depends on its design. Or rather, whether it will be a building with or without a cesspool.
Which type of toilet to choose is decided not only taking into account preference, but also taking into account the location of groundwater. If they are located above the mark of 2.5 meters, the construction of a cesspool is prohibited. In such cases, a powder closet is built.
When choosing a place to build, do not forget that this is a place of solitude. Therefore, it is desirable to take him a corner away from the buildings.
When constructing a toilet with a cesspool, follow the sanitary standards for such structures. The toilet should be located no closer than 12 meters to residential buildings. The distance from it to the water source is at least 20 meters. In order to avoid misunderstandings with neighbors, we are building a toilet in the country, a meter and a half away from the fence.
When planning the construction of a country toilet with a cesspool, consider how the sewer truck will subsequently drive up to it. The length of the hose for pumping sewage is only 7 meters. And 3 of them will be located in the pit.
Also consider the landscape of the site. The pit latrine of a low-lying toilet will quickly fill up during the rainy season and spring snowmelt. A building on a hill is blown from all sides by the wind.
Varieties of cesspools
Depending on the penetration of sewage into the soil, cesspools are: with a filtering bottom and sealed. The construction and operation of a sealed structure will cost more. This is due not only to consumables, but also to more frequent cleaning and calling a sewage truck. Spending on a pit with a filter bottom is less noticeable, but there is a possibility of contamination of the surrounding area. In addition, such structures are prohibited by sanitary standards.
The walls of the cesspool can be built from different materials. Depending on this, they are:
- brick;
- plastic;
- from concrete rings;
- monolithic.
Let's take a look at each of them in more detail.
We lay out a hole of brick
Option #1 - Sealed Design
Having decided on the construction site of the toilet, they clear the marked area. Dig a rectangular pit according to the required dimensions. The larger it is, the less often it will be necessary to clean the toilet from sewage. Then tamp the soil at the bottom. Pour a layer of sand (10-15 cm) and make concrete base. Do not interfere with the use of reinforcement and filler, you can crushed stone. After the concrete hardens, lay out the walls of the structure and plaster. For better sealing, they are treated with bituminous mastic. The walls of the cesspool make ten centimeters above the surface of the earth.
After laying the brick for the cesspool, the walls of the structure must be plastered and covered with bituminous mastic.
Option #2 - filter bottom design
For such a cesspool, the bottom is not made airtight. To do this, a layer of pebbles or large gravel is poured over the sand. Liquid waste through such a filter seeps into the ground. This reduces the total mass of sewage, which increases the time until the pit is cleaned.
It is advisable to make cesspools with a filtering bottom only in those places where soil waters lie very deep.
Use of plastic containers
Plastic barrels or eurocubes can be used as a waste collector for cesspools. They are buried in a hole under the toilet. For a sealed design, only the upper part of the container is cut off, where the waste will flow. For a non-sealed pit, the lower part is also cut out. At the same time, a filter layer is poured onto the bottom of the cesspool.
So that the soil does not displace plastic containers, they must be fixed with anchor weights.
Variant of construction from concrete rings
Now let's figure out how to install a toilet in the country using concrete rings. Due to the fact that reinforced concrete products can move during use, it is difficult to make such a structure airtight. Therefore, it is desirable to use it only in places with deep groundwater. The construction of a cesspool from reinforced concrete products is a laborious process. To facilitate it, a special technique is used.
Due to the heavy weight of concrete rings, special equipment is required for their installation.
After choosing and clearing a place for construction, they dig a hole according to the size of the ring. They lower the first ring and begin to dig the ground from under its base. Thus, there is a gradual lowering of the rings under its own weight. When there is enough space, install the second ring on the first. So keep on digging and installing required amount rings. At the bottom of the pit, either a concrete screed or a filter layer is made.
The top of the last installed concrete ring should protrude ten centimeters above the ground.
Monolithic concrete structure for the toilet
For a cesspool made of monolithic concrete, after digging a pit, the bottom is covered with a layer of sand. Reinforcing it is made with a call to the walls. This will give the structure strength. The bottom of the pit is poured with concrete and left to solidify completely. Then the formwork for the walls is installed and they are poured with concrete. After it hardens, formwork and pouring of the floor are made.
Defects in concrete after formwork removal must be repaired with cement-sand mortar
Construction of a toilet house over a cesspool
After the cesspool has been prepared, they begin to build a house over it. We invite you to figure out with us how to build a country toilet out of wood.
The length of the building is 20 centimeters more than the width. For example, the width is 1 meter, and the length is 1.2. Let the height be 2.1 meters. Next to the cesspool, a foundation is made according to the appropriate dimensions.
Roofing material is laid between the foundation and the wooden frame for insulation
A roofing material waterproofing is laid on top of it. A frame is assembled from a wooden block and screwed to the foundation.
Floor boards are laid on top of the frame and fixed with self-tapping screws. The floor must be quite strong, so the thickness of the board is taken at least 3 cm.
The timber frame must be treated with an antiseptic
The front and rear frames of the toilet house are made from a bar.
The front frame should be 10 cm higher than the rear
Then they are fixed on the base, exposing with the help of a level. Strengthen the structure with transverse bars.
The transverse bars under the roof should protrude 0.3 m in front and 0.16 m in the back
Then a frame for the pedestal is installed. Its height is 0.45 meters.
The height of the pedestal is made taking into account convenience
At the next stage, the frame of the house is sheathed. For this, an imitation of a bar is perfect. It has a convenient thorn-groove fastening. Sheathing the structure begins from the bottom, the boards are fixed with screws or ordinary nails. A window is cut out above the door.
When fixing the imitation of the beam, make sure that the groove is on top, and the spike is on the bottom. This method prevents moisture from entering the groove.
After that, sheathe the frame for the pedestal. Cut a hole in the middle. Its size depends on the capacity that will be installed inside. The bottom of the container is cut out before fixing.
The size of the hole cut into the pedestal depends on the container that will be used.
Then they make the roof of the house. First, the boards are fixed parallel to the front of the building at a short distance from each other.
Cross boards for the roof are fixed starting from the front of the building
Then the visor above the door is sewn from below. Fasten the boards around the perimeter of the base of the roof.
The first building that every summer resident thinks about is a toilet. And here there are a number of questions that need to be addressed. First of all, you need to decide on the type of toilet, because there are many of them. Special attention deserves author's projects, which are distinguished by an unusual design and design.
In fact, when creating a country toilet with your own hands, you yourself can become an architect and develop a unique project that is ideal for your conditions. However, there are rules that it is desirable to follow. This guarantees a long service life of the structure.
When creating a country toilet with your own hands, you need to take into account the possible frequency of use, the number of family members and the length of stay. The last parameter is of particular importance. The fact is that most country houses are used periodically. You enter them only on weekends, and even then in the summer. Naturally, in this case, it is pointless to install a structure that is designed for continuous use and ultra-high loads.
Particular attention when building a country toilet with your own hands should be paid to the level of groundwater. If it exceeds the mark of 2.5 meters, then it is impossible to dig a cesspool.
What are the types of toilets
Before you start building a country toilet with your own hands, you need to find out what they are, in general. The first type are structures based on a cesspool. This is the simplest and fast way bathroom buildings. But even here there are subtleties that you need to know about.
Firstly, in such a toilet, proper waterproofing is necessary. It will prevent spontaneous drainage in ground water. Secondly, you need to think about cleaning in advance. For this, it is best to use a sewer machine.
Biotoilets are very popular now. They are of three types:
- chemical,
- peat,
- electrical.
Their main advantage is ease of installation. Such a country toilet can be installed by anyone without special knowledge. The main thing is to connect the drain in the case of a peat toilet.
The dry closet can be placed both inside the house and make a special room for it. The features of building a country toilet with your own hands will be discussed further. The most important thing is to choose the right model. When choosing, you need to consider how many people will use the restroom and how often.
There are models of a country toilet with a tank of 100-150 liters, however, their price is appropriate. You will have to pay at least 15-20 thousand. But you can clean such a dry closet 1-2 times a year.
If you visit the dacha once a week, and completely close all the rooms for the winter, you can buy a bathroom for 5-6 thousand rubles. For a family of three, this will be more than enough.
Important ! Dry closets are indispensable when building a house.
When a house has already been erected on your territory and all the main construction work has been completed, you should take care of creating a capital country toilet with your own hands, namely a septic tank. This building is a complex of reservoirs buried in the ground. Moreover, they can be cleaned once every 8 years if a biological cleaning system is used.
Very often, when creating such country toilets, concrete rings are used with their own hands. They alternately sink into the ground, the joints between them are smeared. It is believed that the ideal number of tanks is 3. The first two serve as settling tanks. The latter is filtering. Waste is absorbed into the ground without the slightest harm to nature.
The fact is that anaerobic bacteria are present in the country toilet with a biological cleaning system. They process sewage, neutralizing all harmful substances. This is the only type of country toilets that you can create with your own hands near water supply points.
Important ! For the installation of concrete rings, you will need special equipment. But all the work can be done by hand.
We build a toilet house with our own hands
Preparatory stage
After you have decided on the place to build a country toilet with your own hands, you need to choose the type of construction you need. There is a certain golden standard, which is most often used by builders. This ratio: 2.2x1x1.4 meters. If we talk about the form, then there are three most common varieties:
- hut,
- teremok,
- house.
Before starting work, check that all the necessary tools are available in the country. To build a country toilet with your own hands, you will need:
- puncher (if this is not available, a simple scrap will do, but you have to sweat a lot);
- shovel;
- a barrel with a capacity of about 200 liters (needed for a cesspool), a concrete ring is also suitable;
The spade must have a short handle. It makes it much easier to dig a hole. A crowbar or perforator is needed in order to crush hard ground. If you decide to use electric tool, make sure you have a network connection.
Warning ! This instruction designed for a country toilet with a cesspool.
Before starting the construction of a country toilet with your own hands, make a sketch or use one of those presented below. The project must include ventilation and insulation. Of course, you can do without the latter if you do not use the cottage in winter.
The main advantage of building a country toilet with your own hands on the basis of a cesspool is its cheapness. Moreover, it is not even necessary to purchase new materials. It is enough to use what is left from the construction of the house.
Digging a cesspool
The pit is made before the construction of the house. Although there are exceptions in some cases. If you decide to make a brick building instead of a traditional wooden structure, then you can first build a building, and then dig a hole. However, you should consider that doing this will be extremely inconvenient.
The size of the cesspool directly depends on the presence of groundwater and the depth of their occurrence. The diameter is chosen according to your own discretion. However, don't make it too big. This can cause certain difficulties in the further construction of a country toilet with your own hands.
Advice ! You need to do construction in good weather.
When digging a hole with your own hands for a country toilet, try to reach the sand. Clay has poor absorbent qualities. Because of this, human waste will be extremely slowly absorbed into the ground. And this, in turn, will lead to the formation of an unpleasant odor.
Of course, you can use special substances that kill the smell, but their possibilities are not unlimited. Therefore, it is better to go one extra meter deep than to regret later that you did not.
The pit is cleared. The bottom is leveled and compacted. Only after that a barrel or a concrete ring is installed. Moreover, the barrel can be both metal and plastic. The latter option when creating a country toilet with your own hands is much preferable.
The fact is that plastic barrels do not corrode, which means that their service life is almost unlimited. Particular attention here should be paid to the quality of the plastic. There are species that can survive in such an environment for 50 years!
If you don’t have a barrel or a concrete ring, you can use cement and simply concrete the walls of the pit. This, of course, is not an ideal option for waterproofing, but it’s easier not to come up with it.
When building a country toilet with your own hands from concrete rings, you will need a crane. You will not immerse the rings in the pit on your own. Another alternative waterproofing is brickwork. It is additionally reinforced with reinforcement.
The process of creating a country toilet
To build a country toilet with your own hands, you need to plan everything accurately and follow the instructions below. The construction of the house begins with the markup. Then you need to drill holes. Later, columns are installed in them, which act as supports.
An important issue that needs to be resolved even when creating a project for a country toilet is the presence of a foundation. If the house is summer, then it is not necessary to build a foundation. Nevertheless, it is necessary when you live in the country all year round or come for the winter.
When you create the foundation of a country toilet with your own hands, it is important to take into account some parameters. First, it must be deepened below the freezing point of the earth. Second, traditionally used rectangular shape sites. But this is not an axiom. You are free to choose the shape of the foundation depending on the location of the building.
It is better to mount the frame for the toilet from wood. It's simple and inexpensive. You can, of course, use a brick, but creating masonry with your own hands for a country toilet will take a lot of time. It is not surprising that most people choose wood as their main material.
Advice ! Timber is considered the ideal material. It is inexpensive and very reliable.
When building the frame of a country toilet with your own hands, it is desirable to strengthen it from the inside. This is especially true for areas where hurricanes and storms are frequent. In the process of work, braces and scarves are used.
Advice ! To create a seat, it is enough to take the cross bars and mount them at a height of about half a meter.
The roof for a country toilet is laid without using a lag with your own hands. The material can be anything, as long as it matches the general architectural ensemble of the rest of the buildings on your territory.
You can sheathe a country toilet from the inside with your own hands using a lining. At the end of all work, a door is simply hung on the house, and the floors are laid. The floor material can be either wood or ceramic tile. Ventilation is natural - holes are made in the walls, and forced - a fan is used.
Original options for a country toilet
If you want to make an unusual country toilet with your own hands, modern building technologies provide a huge scope for imagination. There is an incredible amount of blueprints. For example, you can make a carriage-shaped building, as shown in the figure below.
If you prefer a more austere design, choose a classic house, but with a very unusual finish. Believe me, you will not have to be ashamed of such a country toilet, made by yourself. Moreover, it will become a decoration of the site.
To save space, you can make a country toilet and shower under one roof. The design is not particularly complex. It can be easily built with your own hands, if you make a little effort.
Results
Building a country toilet with your own hands is a feasible task for every person. It takes a minimum of time to dig a hole and lay a foundation. Moreover, the materials required for construction can be found in almost every country house.
A plastic barrel and the remains of slate from the construction of the roof are perfect for a toilet. Wooden beam is one of the most inexpensive materials. For those who appreciate quality and are not afraid of hard work, you can build a country toilet in the form of a septic tank with your own hands.
Landscaping a personal plot begins with the installation of a toilet. Having chosen a suitable place, you can begin to build this necessary element of country life.
How to make a toilet in the country? The most reliable and popular view The classic restroom with a cesspool remains a dacha convenience, but there are other options for toilet structures.
Types of country toilets
What kind of toilet to make in the country? Conventionally, street latrines can be divided into two types: with and without a cesspool. Dry closets and powder closets work without a cesspool.
Modern designers have developed many models in which there is no sewage pit. And what is better - a dry closet or a traditional cesspool? A waste cesspool is the most common and cheapest way to implement an outdoor sanitary unit. Installing and maintaining a dry closet will not be cheap, but sometimes you can’t do without it.
Types of country toilet houses
In what cases it is impossible to install a latrine with a cesspool:
- If the soil is shale or limestone
- If the groundwater level is high
- If the number of residents and guests is large
How to make a country toilet? To decide on the choice of the most successful sanitary and household building, you need to take into account the features of each design. So, latrines differ in the way they collect and dispose of waste:
- dry closet
- Powder closet
- play closet
- With cesspool
A powder closet is an alternative to a dry closet installed without a cesspool: instead of it, a container is placed for collecting sewage, which is periodically cleaned by hand. Dissolution of wastewater occurs due to the peat bog, one kilogram of which is able to process up to 10 liters of sewage, combining them into useful fertilizer.
We watch video different kinds country closets:
A backlash closet is a combination of a home sanitary unit with a cesspool. If you want to install a lavatory of a similar design, you must take care in advance of the possibility of cleaning it with a cesspool machine. If this is not possible, then the backlash closet cannot be installed.
The ease of operation of a pit latrine is an advantage over a device without a drain installed. You will not need to take care of the periodic cleaning of the accumulated feces, you will not need to spend money on the maintenance of the toilet and purchase special solvents and absorbents. You can make a cesspool yourself, and install a toilet house above it.
How to make a cesspool
Stages of manufacturing a septic tank
How to make a country toilet correctly? When installing a restroom, certain sanitary and hygienic requirements must be observed:
- Distance from the well - at least 20 meters;
- The toilet is not installed in the center of the yard;
- Distance from the border of the neighboring plot - at least one meter;
- The design is installed taking into account the wind rose (to avoid the spread of smell);
- Provide an entrance for the sewer truck.
To ensure that the septic tank meets all hygiene standards, consider the following:
- The depth of the pit should be from two meters
- The shape of the sewage pit is a square with sides of 1 meter or a rounded pit with an internal diameter of 2 meters (for reinforced concrete rings)
The most reliable type of sealing the cesspool will be. First, it will keep groundwater from being polluted. And secondly, it will save your crop from sewage. With the help of reinforced concrete rings, an absolutely sealed sewage system is obtained.
Watch a video on how to properly make a cesspool:
The strengthening of the sewage pit with wooden boards or bricks is a thing of the past. Now, waste isolation is carried out using concrete rings and covering the bottom with a concrete screed. The only drawback of such a system is cleaning with a sewer machine. But if you do not appear in the country all the time, then the cost of cleansing will be negligible.
A popular method of installing a septic tank remains a drainage system. But it can be installed in case of a small consumption of water resources by the family. Because with high water consumption, waste disposal will be difficult. The disadvantage of the drainage system is the constant smell in the yard due to the constant pollution of groundwater.
We watch a video tutorial, the arrangement of shambo:
The installation of the drainage system is similar to the above method, but it is not installed on the bottom reinforced concrete slab(or concrete screed), and sand and gravel (crushed stone) are poured:
- Approximately 10 cm coarse sand
- 5 cm of small granite gravel
A coating made of thermally bonded geotextile is mounted on top. Keep in mind that the environmental police do not welcome such constructions.
Schemes of country septic tanks
After installing the cesspool, you can install a house for a septic tank. Which drawing of a country toilet to choose? A classic backyard toilet is a frame sheathed with building finishing material.
We make a septic tank with our own hands:
The frame of the house is attached to column foundation. To provide waterproofing between the foundation and wooden box(frame) lay roofing material. The popular "birdhouse" has changed original design hut house. The hut differs from the birdhouse not only in design, but also in the principles of structure.
Scheme Hut or Birdhouse
The birdhouse is designed with a sloping roof, sloping towards the rear wall. The scheme of a country toilet of the hut type is a triangular-shaped house with a gable roof. Advantages of a hut house over a birdhouse:
- Septic tank won't rain
- No supporting frame required
- On the side you can place a container for peat or other materials
The peculiarity of the toilet house-hut is that the gable roof is the side walls of the building. The drawing of a country toilet hut is simple and will not cause difficulties. Installation sequence:
Preparation
- Put together a platform-floor and sew up with boards, leaving a hole. Coat the boards with an antifungal compound in two layers
- Install the finished platform on the base
- Put together the front and back walls, sheathe them with clapboard.
Construction assembly
The dimensions of a country toilet such as a hut are not large. Do not forget to install a transom under the roof for ventilation, which will also be triangular in shape.
We watch the video, assembling a closet for a summer cottage:
Roofing material for the Hut can serve as:
- Decking
- Slate
- Galvanized corrugated sheets
- Other materials
Build or buy
What is more profitable - to buy a ready-made model of a house or to build a hut-type country toilet according to the drawing on your own? If you doubt that you can handle the installation of a septic tank yourself, buy ready-made products. But any owner of the dacha can make a house from a wooden base and sheathe it with clapboard.
For work you will need:
- Hacksaw
- Plane
- Hammer
- Screwdriver
- self-tapping screws
- Nails.
Having elementary skills in using this toolkit, you can build a house for a country toilet with your own hands.
Approximate consumption
- Two edged boards (6 and 4 meters)
- Floor board - 4 pieces of 6 meters
- Lining 3 meters long - from two to four packs (depending on the inner lining)
- Glassine - at least 4 m
- Ruberoid - 1.5 meters
- Sand - 2 buckets
- Galvanized nails - 2 kg
- Nails for lining (without hats) - 2 kg
- Nails for slate - 20 pcs
- Self-tapping screws - a handful
- Slate - 2 sheets (8-wave)
- Sheet of galvanized iron for a ridge - 1 piece
- Door with fittings - 1 piece
- Antifungal liquid
- How to make a toilet in a summer cottage? To keep your country toilet stable and not blown away by gusts of wind, securely fix the bottom of the building.
- Install the structure about 20 centimeters above ground level.
- Do not clad the building over the pit: install the floor and toilet seat first. After aside, build a frame, and transfer it to the finished base. You can't do this alone - you need the help of two more people.
- Control the vertical and horizontal level at all stages of installation.
- The door block must open outward, otherwise the entrance to the building will be difficult.
- Take care of the light window so that you do not turn on the light during the day.
- Between the wooden frame and the stone base there must be a waterproofing layer (roofing material).
- If the walls are not sheathed with vinyl clapboard, they are painted with paint.
- Do not forget to treat the wooden canvas with an antiseptic.
As you can see, it is not difficult to build a good septic tank in the yard on your own. You only need to have the skills to use working tools and draw up a detailed drawing.
We do everything fun and to the music, this is how professionals work:
You should also calculate the amount building material so as not to go once again to the construction market. The most optimal design for a country restroom would be a hut-style house. A cesspool drain is best made of concrete rings. As for the drainage system, you decide for yourself. But for clean air better fit absolute waterproofing than drainage.
Before you equip a toilet house in a summer cottage, you need to find out what type of toilets are. There are several common options:
- powder closet;
- pit toilet;
- play closet;
- dry closets (chemical processing of waste).
Backlash closet is a sealed type design. It can be quite large. Such a toilet in the country is cleaned by a sewage machine. The bio-variant of the toilet (bio-toilet) uses special bacteria to process waste. Bacteria break down impurities. The peculiarity and advantage of such a system as a dry closet is that it does not pollute the soil and groundwater.
Popular varieties
Powder closet - a design of a toilet seat and a special container. It needs to be released periodically. Each use of such a toilet house requires the use of peat. Peat sprinkled with stool. This option is quite easy to build, but cleaning the system is a difficult and very unpleasant matter.
The simplest and most common option is an outdoor toilet with a cesspool. If you decide to build it, consider a number of nuances.
Note! Work cannot be started spontaneously by choosing a random place on the territory of the dacha. To begin with, be sure to draw up a thoughtful project and do not forget about the details.
Country toilet step by step: diagrams, dimensions, design
Step 1- The construction of the toilet begins with taking into account the remoteness of wells, lakes, wells, rivers. The minimum distance between them is 25 meters. It is important to take into account your own, neighboring and common sources of water. If the ground relief on the object is complex and uneven, the structure must be installed at the lowest point. This solution will avoid the runoff of feces into groundwater.
The project must take into account the remoteness of the structure:
- from an outdoor shower, sauna, bath for 8 meters or more;
- from cellars, houses, cellars at least 12 meters;
- from bushes by 1 meter;
- from trees by 4 meters;
- from sheds and buildings for animals at least 4 meters;
- about 1 meter from the fence.
This takes into account the entrance to the booth. It should not be located in front of the neighbors and the street. If you work on the construction of a toilet house in stages, you must first choose a place, and then equip a cesspool.
Note! It is very important to correctly calculate its dimensions. The optimum depth level is 2 meters. The length and width parameters should not be less than 1.5 × 1.5 meters.
Features of creating a cesspool
Step 2- Drawing up a drawing for the construction is optional. You can dig a recess yourself. The result obtained needs to be strengthened. Planks can be used to support the walls. In the video attached below, it is easy to follow the intricacies of doing such work. Also on this stage suitable for strengthening walls:
- old tires;
- concrete rings;
- a barrel with the bottom cut off;
- brick.
Step 3- If you decide to use boards, they must first be treated with an antiseptic. When brick is used, masonry implies a checkerboard pattern. The last 6 rows must be laid out in a continuous order. 
On a note! When building a backlash closet in a summer cottage, it is necessary that the cesspool be sealed. To do this, it is recommended to fill its bottom with crushed stone or pour a concrete screed.
Important nuances
Step 4- The brick version requires pouring floors from above. For the design to be functional, you need to create a formwork from boards and timber.
Step 5- Any option requires the obligatory creation of a hole. It will be required for ventilation and installation of the toilet. Additionally, you need to equip a hole through which cleaning will be carried out in the future.
Building a toilet frame
Having decided to build a toilet in the country with your own hands, it is very important to correctly approach the construction of the frame. For it, use a wooden beam in a section of 8 × 8 or 5 × 5 cm. More massive and solid beams for an outdoor toilet are not needed, as this is a small-sized design. The frame is erected using metal corners necessary for fixing wooden elements.
The project of a wooden toilet for a summer residence, when creating a drawing, must take into account other points:
- the need for a roof;
- features of the construction of the rear wall;
- the importance of bearing supports, which should be 4;
- the presence of a chair.
The frame of a wooden toilet in a summer cottage should be as strong as possible. To do this, use the diagonal type jumpers on the rear walls and side elements.
Door frame and roof hardware
The front of the cabin includes a door frame. To do this, you can use a pair of vertical bars of wood. Their height should reach 1.9 meters. Between them, a horizontal bar is installed from above. The construction of a toilet in a summer cottage implies the obligatory presence of a toilet seat. For him, you first need to make a strapping. The bars for this design are arranged like struts of a bearing type. The chair should be placed at a comfortable height. This is approximately 40 cm from the foundation and the floor of the structure.
A country toilet, like a shower, cannot be built without a roof. To build it, it is recommended to perform a strapping based on the longitudinal bars. They will protrude from the walls of the booth by about 40 cm.
As a material for the roof, tiles or slate are suitable. It is optimal if the front side of the roof is made with a visor. The back side can be sloping, which will allow rainwater to flow down freely without touching the walls of the booth. In the photo above you can see the features of the roof project of this structure.
Having decided to build a country toilet with your own hands, it is necessary to take into account the features of the installation of the frame. For him, you can adopt a columnar or strip foundation. It is extremely rare that the structure is based on the ground.
On a note! To create a waterproofing, lay a strip of roofing material between the soil and the foundation. On its base, fix a few anchor bolts that will not allow the country toilet to tip over.
We hang the toilet door and make the trim
The next step is to create a door. You can hang the part on 2-3 loops, (depending on the severity).
It is very important to provide for the creation of constipation, which can be:
- latch;
- hook;
- latch;
- solid lock.
It is equally important to provide for the penetration of light into the booth. To do this, a miniature window is cut above the door or in its array. To prevent snow and rain from entering the structure, the opening must not be left empty. It deserves to be sealed. This will also prevent insects from entering the room.
Skin subtleties
When the frame is ready, you can proceed to the plating stage. From the inside, insulate the walls with polystyrene foam or mineral wool. When developing a project, it is recommended to provide for transverse strips. They need to be fixed at a height of about 40-50 cm. A toilet seat will be fixed here.
The frame of the walls also needs to be sheathed from the outside. From the photo and video, you can see that natural materials are in great demand. That is why the easiest option is to use boards. Since the toilet in the country must be solid and durable, the material must be selected appropriately. The optimal thickness of the boards is 1.5-2.5 cm. They are nailed to the walls with nails so that there are no gaps between them. In relation to the ground, the material is fixed vertically. At the back wall, wooden boards fall a little lower.
Finishing can be done using other materials:
- profiled flooring;
- metal sheets;
- block house;
- slate.
Such materials will make the toilet in the country an organic element of the overall design of the backyard territory. In addition, the material is easy to install. On the back of the booth, in any case, it is imperative to make a hinged cover. The part is necessary for the convenience of cleaning the cesspool so that feces do not get into the groundwater. 
Toilet seat equipment
Then a toilet seat is constructed, for which boards or lining are suitable. The material is fixed to the base. Then the part is sheathed and painted. A convenient hole is created in the center of the podium.
The main thing to remember when building a toilet in a summer cottage is its relevance, convenient and correct location, plus ease of operation. In fact, there is nothing complicated in the construction of such a structure with your own hands.
A separate toilet is almost an obligatory part of the cottage. This is no longer an easy “birdhouse” with a hole in the floor and a kind of toilet seat, now quite modern and hygienic toilet bowls are being produced for country toilets. How to choose a country toilet for an outdoor toilet so that the “amenities” are comfortable?
Why do you need a street toilet in the country
An outdoor toilet in the country can be both main and spare. It can only be used in the summer so as not to enter the house, but it can unload the home bathroom, especially if guests have arrived at the dacha or if the family is large. Two toilets are more convenient for a large family and for the reason that the second one can be used when the main one is busy.
In the street country toilet they no longer make a hole in wooden floor or a slight rise. This option is inconvenient and unhygienic. For a country toilet, you can choose a comfortable toilet that is convenient for people of any age to use.
Types of country toilets
The main types of toilet bowls in the country for an outdoor toilet are porcelain and plastic. Some install ordinary toilets designed for an apartment, but there are also more practical varieties designed for the features of a toilet in the country, where there is often no full flush. The "apartment" option has significant drawbacks:
- if it is placed on wooden base, it may not withstand the severity of the structure, and reinforced concrete is quite expensive,
- such a toilet can cost more than the toilet itself.
Porcelain
Special porcelain models for summer cottages are smaller than apartment options and do not have a drain tank. They also do not have a bottom, they are designed to be installed above a septic tank. The hole at the bottom of the toilet bowl should be wide so that sewage can easily fall into the pit, and it is easy to clean it.
An example is the toilet bowl of the Country model, shown in the photo. It has a seat, a cover, it is possible to supply water for flushing.
Attention! Even the country version of the toilet bowl is quite heavy, so it can only be installed on a concrete base.
Plastic
You can also buy a plastic toilet bowl for a country toilet. They are lightweight, durable, easy to wash and remove to clean the pit (septic tank). They look neat, they are on sale big choice colors and shapes.
Such models can be both with a bottom and without it. To install above the septic tank, you need a model without a bottom, or you can cut it out.
However, there is a problem with installing such a toilet bowl for a country toilet on a plastic septic tank in the form of a barrel. The difficulty is that the toilet bowl is usually oval, and the barrel opening is round.
For installation, you will need additional materials:
- mastic - automotive or silicone,
- metal galvanized sheet,
- boards.
For installation, the metal sheet is rolled into a cone, one base of which corresponds to the size of the hole in the barrel, and the other to the size of the toilet bowl. The cone is placed in the hole of the barrel with one end, and the other end is fixed to the base of the floor. The joint of the cone with a plastic barrel is covered with mastic. Next, lay the wooden floor. They put a toilet bowl on it and circle it with chalk. This hole must be cut, for example, with a jigsaw.
Advice! For a more aesthetic appearance the toilet seat for the country toilet is attached to the subfloor, and after installing the toilet bowl, it is finished.
DIY
The simplest wooden version of the toilet with a plastic seat can be made independently. To do this, you need a toilet seat from a regular toilet and a board. If the toilet does not yet have a floor, then half is covered with boards, then a horizontal beam is installed at a height of 40 cm from the floor and the boards are nailed from it to the floor and horizontally to make a kind of “counter”. A hole is cut in it to fit the toilet seat and the seat is fixed. This option is more hygienic than the traditional hole in the floor, the plastic seats are easy to clean and disinfect.
You can adapt an unnecessary but durable chair for the toilet. This is rather a temporary option, but if you use an unusually shaped chair, the bathroom will turn out to be quite creative. The seat is removed, thick plywood is put in its place and a hole is cut out. From above, you can screw a plastic toilet seat. Around the legs, the chair is sheathed with plastics or plywood. The legs of the chair are attached to the floor with metal corners.
Another cheap option is to use a metal pipe. It should be galvanized and 30-35 cm in diameter. The height of the pipe is about 40 cm. The upper part is cut with metal scissors in the form of petals. Next, a seat is cut out of thick (from 8 mm) plywood and fixed to the pipe. The resulting structure is installed above the pit. The pipe for such a toilet can be rolled up on its own, then it is better to make it oval.
Dry closets
Another option for a bathroom for a summer residence is a dry closet. It can be placed both outdoors and indoors.
Peat dry closet
The cleanest option is a peat dry closet. It is a toilet in the form of a container, and not over a cesspool, which is convenient when there is no sewer or septic tank.
After each visit, the contents of the container are sprinkled with peat using a special mechanism located where a conventional toilet has a tank. Therefore, this option is also called powder closet. Peat absorbs moisture and odor, accelerates the decomposition of waste.
A peat dry closet can be either small, slightly larger than a standard toilet bowl, or large, with a bulk container, which can have wheels for ease of transportation.
Mounting such a toilet is easy, you just need to assemble it from separate blocks. It is comfortable, it does not smell, but it is not very cheap, in addition, you will have to buy peat from time to time. Such a toilet can be made independently, for this you can use containers with a volume of 10 liters or more with replaceable liners made of plastic bags.
Important! For a peat dry closet, it is necessary to install a ventilation pipe.
portable dry closet
This option involves the processing of waste under the action of chemical reagents. It also needs water.
In the upper part there is a seat and a container for pure water. At the bottom is a waste tank where they are recycled. The processed sewage in the form of a liquid devoid of an unpleasant odor is then drained through a special plug-in pipe.
The problem with this variety is that the reagents can harm the environment, the ammonium compounds that they contain are harmful. Therefore, chemical dry closets are replaced with biological ones - in them, waste is processed by bacteria into fertilizer that can be safely used in the garden.
When choosing a dry closet for a summer cottage, pay attention to the flushing method. It can be piston, pump-action.
The piston version requires some physical effort, but it is simpler in design, allows you to get a metered portion of water, and you can repair it yourself.
The pump version is more complicated, it requires less effort when using, but water is not dosed, and repairs are carried out only by a specialist.
The electric dry closet is powered by batteries, they will have to be changed regularly. This is the most convenient option, for flushing, just press the button.
Electric dry closet
A more expensive and complex type of electric dry closet is connected to a 220 V network. Electricity is needed to operate a compressor that dries solid waste. Liquid waste is disposed of into the sewer. The ventilation is also powered by electricity.
This type of dry closet does not require any liquids and reagents. Solid dried waste can be composted.
How to choose a toilet
- The bottom of the toilet should have fasteners that allow it to be firmly fixed to the floor.
- Installation should be easy.
- The hole at the bottom should be wide so that it is easy to clean the country toilet with a toilet bowl.
- For installation above the pit, choose a model without a bottom.
- The price should not be too high or too low. The best option is the average price category or slightly lower. Domestic-produced ceramic models cost about 2,000 rubles, while plastic ones are cheaper.
Conclusion
In the country, you can install both a regular toilet above a cesspool or a septic tank, and a dry closet in which all waste is processed in a container. Toilet bowls can be plastic and porcelain, you can also make your own wooden or metal ones. It is important that it can be easily installed and removed, and most importantly, washed.
