Hi, all, it has been a while!
We continue to putter away at the homemade houseboat, take short day and weekend trips in it, and by popular grandchild demand, use it as a fine backyard guesthouse.
I see the trials and tribulations of traditional heads continues to be a popular topic, so thought I'd toss this out there.
After much research (thanks, Vic!!) we were ready to spring for a fancy waste-treatment type head, when our NC politicians decided to outlaw them.
Holding tanks seemed bulky and heavy, pumpouts inconvenient and disgusting, so we opted for a C-head composting head.
total investment was $500.
Brilliant! After two years of light-to-moderate use, we remain quite pleased. It is easy to use, simple to clean and maintain, and remains entirely odor-free, bug-free, leak-free, and chemical-free.
The head is compact, about the size of the shoreside toilet, needs no special installation or carpentry, and is lots less expensive than the more well-known brands.
We use cypress shavings in the solid waste receptacle, as we have lots of it readily to hand, free, but many people like the compressed coco-fiber bricks. When it is time to empty it, after several weeks, it takes about the same time as emptying the kitchen trash to dump the dried, odorless lumps and peat into a secondary vented bucket and add fresh fiber or sawdust to the primary receptacle.
Urine is funneled into an ordinary plastic gallon milk jug, easily replaced, discretely disposed of. It is easier and far tidier than dealing with a cat box.
We appreciate the C-Head's sturdy, common-sense simplicity, are quite relieved to have nothing to break, clog, jam, permeate, replace, or trouble-shoot at the worst possible time.
When the traditional toilet technology gets too burdensome or smelly, you might check this option out!
We continue to putter away at the homemade houseboat, take short day and weekend trips in it, and by popular grandchild demand, use it as a fine backyard guesthouse.
I see the trials and tribulations of traditional heads continues to be a popular topic, so thought I'd toss this out there.
After much research (thanks, Vic!!) we were ready to spring for a fancy waste-treatment type head, when our NC politicians decided to outlaw them.
Holding tanks seemed bulky and heavy, pumpouts inconvenient and disgusting, so we opted for a C-head composting head.
total investment was $500.
Brilliant! After two years of light-to-moderate use, we remain quite pleased. It is easy to use, simple to clean and maintain, and remains entirely odor-free, bug-free, leak-free, and chemical-free.
The head is compact, about the size of the shoreside toilet, needs no special installation or carpentry, and is lots less expensive than the more well-known brands.
We use cypress shavings in the solid waste receptacle, as we have lots of it readily to hand, free, but many people like the compressed coco-fiber bricks. When it is time to empty it, after several weeks, it takes about the same time as emptying the kitchen trash to dump the dried, odorless lumps and peat into a secondary vented bucket and add fresh fiber or sawdust to the primary receptacle.
Urine is funneled into an ordinary plastic gallon milk jug, easily replaced, discretely disposed of. It is easier and far tidier than dealing with a cat box.
We appreciate the C-Head's sturdy, common-sense simplicity, are quite relieved to have nothing to break, clog, jam, permeate, replace, or trouble-shoot at the worst possible time.
When the traditional toilet technology gets too burdensome or smelly, you might check this option out!