How to make a toilet in the country with your own hands? Site selection and construction stages

The first building that appears on a summer cottage is not a house or a shed for inventory, but an outdoor toilet. You cannot do without this uncomplicated building just a few hours after you appear at the dacha. But before asking the question: "How to make a toilet in the country with your own hands?" and to start building, albeit a temporary, but not the simplest structure, you need to study your own site well and understand where it is better to build a toilet, and what structure it will be.

And only then you can look for drawings, prepare building materials and take up a tool.

What is the best toilet for a summer residence?

Even in a fully equipped area where there is a house, many summer residents prefer to have both a street and a home bathroom.

• The toilet in the house is indispensable at night and in bad weather. You cannot do without it if the dacha is used all year round.
• A street toilet for a summer residence is very convenient in the midst of garden work, allowing you to quickly relieve yourself and not bring dirt into the house.

Types of outdoor toilets

1. Toilet with a simple cesspool. When the pit is full, the house is moved to another place, or cleaning can take place with the help of sewers.
2. The backlash closet also has a cesspool, but here it is sealed and can only be cleaned with a special machine.
3. Peat toilet
   applicable where aquifers are closely located. Here, instead of a pit, there is a container for collecting feces under the toilet seat. Filling with dry peat or sawdust after each use saves the smell.
4. Country toilets, which operate on biological additives or chemicals, can be equipped both outdoors and indoors.

Making a toilet in the country with your own hands is not difficult. The main thing, when choosing its device, is to take into account the level of groundwater under the site. If the water layers here are deeper than two and a half meters, then you can safely build a toilet of any design. Otherwise, a toilet with any cesspool can turn out to be a dangerous structure.

Rules for placing a toilet in a summer cottage

Before starting the construction of a toilet in the country, it is important to determine its location, taking into account the existing restrictions, which, first of all, relate to structures with cesspools.

And here, in addition to the groundwater level, attention should be paid to:

• to water bodies, wells or other sources of water was at least 25 m;
• before baths
  or a shower arranged on a plot of at least 8 m;
• the toilet was located below the water intake point;
• to the house, cellar or basement was at least 12 m;
• up to trees - 4 m, and up to fruit bushes and fences at least a meter;
• a car could drive up to the cesspool, the pumping hose for which most often has a length of 7 m.

When choosing a place, the prevailing wind direction and the location of the toilet door are taken into account so as not to annoy neighbors and loved ones with unpleasant odors and other awkward moments.

With your own hands

It will not be difficult to equip a toilet if the summer resident even has the initial skills to work with various building materials and tools. You need to start building a toilet in the country with the selection of a drawing or with his own development. The easiest way to calculate and build a toilet without a cesspool. There will be no need for the construction of the foundation, nor the inevitable earthworks.

The dimensions of the toilet house are selected so that the structure is easy to use.

The most common version of a country toilet has:

• width from one and a half meters,
• depth not less than a meter,
• the height at the highest point is not less than 2.2 meters.

If desired, the dimensions can be increased.

Country toilet drawings

You can use one of the ready-made drawings available now on the Internet, the main thing is that the toilet for the dacha in the photo is accurately calculated, fits in size and fits into the selected area. If there is the necessary preparation, then the calculation can be carried out independently.

What is the best way to make a toilet?

Although the most popular are wooden toilets for summer cottages, other materials are used along with boards for cladding country toilets. These are metal siding and slate, plywood and other materials, toilets are also built from bricks.

Asking the question: “What is the best way to make a toilet in the country?”, Many summer residents choose sheet materials that can reduce the time for sheathing the frame. However, it is much more comfortable to be in a wooden toilet house, since the tree breathes, carrying out air exchange and removing excess moisture. However, it should be remembered that all wooden parts, and especially those in interaction with moisture, must be treated with a special impregnation.

Toilet foundation

A country toilet most often does not require the arrangement of a large-scale foundation, since the structure itself is made of fairly light building materials. It is worth pouring the foundation for the toilet only when it is erected from bricks or from blocks, as well as when constructing a concrete pit.

For supports, both wooden beams and concrete structures are used, which turn out to be more durable due to their resistance to moisture, temperatures and other environmental influences.

• First, the construction site is marked out, determining the corners of the toilet house.
• Then, asbestos-cement pipes of a suitable diameter, coated with bitumen mastic, are driven into these points to a depth of 50 cm. At the same time, the depth depends on the structure of the toilet for the dacha and the characteristics of the soil.
• Then the pipes are poured one third with concrete, which is carefully compacted.
• Now pillars of wood, concrete or corner are inserted into the pipes, and mortar is added again to give the structure strength. These pillars can serve as vertical guides for the frame, which means that their location should be verified using a level or plumb line.

If the supports on which the frame is to stand are made of blocks or bricks, then before installing them, you need to remove a 30-centimeter layer of soil and tamp this base. Additionally, the bottom can be compacted using sand backfill, on top of which concrete blocks are installed, or a brick base is made.

Toilet frame

The frame for a toilet in the country with your own hands is easy to make from a bar not thinner than 50x50 mm or metal corners.

With a traditional toilet design, the frame consists of:

• four vertical supports that carry out the bearing function;
• roof straps and at the level where the toilet seat is supposed to be made;
• frame for the doorway;
• diagonal braces on the back wall and on the sides of the toilet.

Already at the stage of building the frame, it is important to calculate the height of the toilet seat. To do this, you need to indicate the level of the future floor, and then count up 40 cm, taking into account the thickness of the strapping.

Toilet roof

The roof is made from any available materials, for example, metal or sheet metal. With wooden lathing, the roof is made of roofing material or other material that provides reliable protection against moisture. The roof can be gable or pitched, the main thing is that it is reliable and does not retain moisture. We must not forget about the hole for the outlet of the ventilation pipe, which is sealed to avoid leaks.

In a toilet for a summer residence, a ventilation pipe is taken out from under the floor level, from a pit or a container for collecting feces. Moreover, it should be higher than the roof of the toilet house.

Toilet wall cladding

The next stage in the construction of a toilet in the country is to cover the erected frame. At this stage, you can choose any of your favorite materials. More often you can see wooden toilets for summer cottages - such structures are convenient, practical and quite durable. When using wood for sheathing, it is better to take boards from 15 to 25 mm thick, which are tightly fitted and attached to the frame. To exclude moisture leakage, it is better to place the boards vertically.

Chair and floor

When calculating the toilet seat, it is important not only not to be mistaken with its height, but also to make a hole at a comfortable distance from the edge. The frame of the toilet seat is carefully sheathed with boards and processed with sandpaper and painted. The toilet seat cover is convenient to make on hinges.

Toilet door

The door in a wooden toilet for a summer residence is made of the same material as the walls. The structure is hung on hinges, the number of which depends on the weight and size of the structure. Both from the outside and from the inside, any closing mechanism is mounted, be it a hook, latch, latch or other device.

Another door is made on the back wall. It can be used to remove a container with waste or to immerse the sleeve of a sewage machine.

To provide at least a little, but natural light, a window is cut above the door.

When the construction is completed, drainage must be performed around the house, especially if the toilet for the summer cottage is arranged above the cesspool.

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