Building a toilet trailer

[WC1]

100 flushes, you mean?

You can get 4 litre full flush/2.6 litres half-flush toilets (Ideal Standard Alto eco, for example), which may help, though they might need more regular cleaning.

We're reliant on the customers understanding how to use the facilities correctly to minimise water usage, which may be a bit much to expect.

It would be interesting to know the regulations for non-water based systems. You can certainly get waterless urinals. My concern here, is that if you deem a roadside cafe to be a private event, I'm not sure you are going to be able to design your own system to a standard that will satisfy any of the relevant regulations.

Sorry, you are correct, I meant 100 flushes.
What would you have to charge to make it viable even at say a 4 litre flush?
Dealing with that amount of waste economically doesn't add up.
Imo you would have a lot of problems with blockages at 2.6 litres on a "festival diet".

 

[Elvis Green Wood]

Do you require hot water?
Do you have electricity available.


Is there water available?

No hot water just cold and only lighting for electric. So water available so it would all be stored in a header tank

 

[Elvis Green Wood]

There is no better alternative to the chemically operated, blow moulded "turdis" imo.

What do you think these are then

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[Elvis Green Wood]

Sorry, you are correct, I meant 100 flushes.
What would you have to charge to make it viable even at say a 4 litre flush?
Dealing with that amount of waste economically doesn't add up.
Imo you would have a lot of problems with blockages at 2.6 litres on a "festival diet".

A 1000litre tone would be a good ball park figure I suppose
If the toilets where plumbed straight into the tank which would be directly under the toilet then no bends in the pipe

 

[Ric2013]

What do you think these are then

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An alternative that isn't better, in his opinion, presumably.

 

[gmartine]

A header tank in a lightweight vehicle? That should be fun...

 

[Elvis Green Wood]

I'm going to leave this forum now

 

[gmartine]

A header tank in a lightweight vehicle? That should be fun...

That was actually a legitimate question, toilet trailers carrying their own water supply will be using pumps to supply cisterns and taps. No header tank, imagine 100's of kilos sloshing about and what it would do to the centre of mass of the vehicle...the DVSA would have a field day.

 

[SimonG]

Oh come on, nobody else going to do it?

Ok.


Elvis has left the building!

 

[Ric2013]

That was actually a legitimate question, toilet trailers carrying their own water supply will be using pumps to supply cisterns and taps. No header tank, imagine 100's of kilos sloshing about and what it would do to the centre of mass of the vehicle...the DVSA would have a field day.

He needs a second header tank low down and then a pump to bring it to a higher tank when he's parked up. It's starting to look expensive.

 

[gmartine]

I don't see why you would do that, besides the space taken up as well as the cost you'd then have to empty or pump back the water to the main supply tank before you set off again. We are not talking about trimming fuel loads on aircraft here, a pump based system to feed cisterns and taps would probably do.

 

[gmartine]

He doesn't know or will accept it but we've saved the OP a ton of ball ache and money. Elvis if you still want to pursue this this have a look at the water system and controls on a decent caravan and how it's done.

Running water taps, flushing toilet, pumps, water storage, grey water and sceptic tanks...not all of it will be available at Wickes.