Plastic toilets for a country toilet today have ceased to be something exotic. The desire to take care of creating basic amenities is expressed by people for whom the suburban area is the place of infrequent outings, and those who prefer seasonal accommodation outside the metropolis. Improvement of the toilet, located in the house or included in the composition of street amenities, is a serious and important task.
In order to comply with hygiene requirements, it is worth considering the purchase of appropriate plumbing fixtures with a drain tank or in the form of fully autonomous tanks.
Features
When we choose a toilet bucket and other plastic models for a summer residence, the number of users, the type of material, and the features of the installation of construction become of great importance. It is worth paying attention to the fact that many models are adapted for use together with cesspools or a sewage system and, according to their ease of use, differ little from the classic accessories for arranging a toilet.
Aesthetic solutions are also quite diverse and allow you to turn a standard country bathroom into a place where you can conveniently make the departure of all the natural needs of both the owners and guests.
A plastic toilet for a country toilet is the optimal solution that can easily be adapted for use in an outdoor bathroom, installed separately from the premises of the house. In some cases, it is located in an unheated extension to the building or may be located at a certain distance from it.Even if there are no buildings at all on the site, in any case you have to take care of creating a toilet first. Needless to say, the requirements for plumbing equipment for a summer residence will be relevant.
The main features can be noted.
- Strength and frost resistance of the material. The product should have sufficiently thick walls and maintain elasticity in all weather conditions.
- Hygiene Plumbing equipment is very important to keep clean. It should be easily cleaned of impurities, and here plastic is the best choice.
- Direct discharge. Since the connection to the sewage system is not used in plastic toilets, it is most often used not a curved drainage arrangement, but a direct one.
- Universality. Most of the options are installed even without a drive, has its own small tank and does not require additional maintenance with regular emptying.
- Minimum Installation Requirements. You can simply place the product on the floor of the toilet with an appropriate size slot. Even a person without special practical experience will cope with such a task.
All these points make plastic toilets a good solution for use in a summer cottage or suburban area.
Advantages and disadvantages
Country plastic toilets have their advantages and disadvantages. The list of benefits is quite extensive.
- A variety of color schemes.
- Availability of seat and cover included. Actual for such designs as a toilet bucket.
- Ability to use without flushing. The bottomless design allows direct discharge of waste.
- Various forms, including the original, looking modern.
- Minimum weight. The product is suitable for ready-made booths and does not require reinforcement of the structure.
- Resistance to wear. A plastic toilet will last as long as any other product made of polymer materials.
- Simplicity and ease of use.
- The minimum costs. A plumbing fixture for a country toilet in any design is cheaper than the most affordable faience option.
The disadvantages include the presence of a specific smell, which is completely difficult to eliminate. In the winter, such a toilet can become fragile due to the peculiarities of plastic. When using a cesspool, it will have to be emptied regularly as it is full. If you are using a construction with a bottom, you need to think in advance where the collected waste will be disposed of.
Varieties
There are several popular varieties of plastic toilets for a country toilet. Almost all of them have a simple shape and design, are combined with a drive or cesspool, from which the contents are subsequently evacuated.
With wooden stand
The most popular option is a combination with a tree. In this case, an elevation resembling a curbstone is formed in the space of the toilet cubicle. An oval hole is made in it, over which a traditional seat with a hinged lid is installed. The wooden surface is painted, varnished or other decorative materials.
In this case, the plastic part can be improved by inserting a toilet bucket with a remote bottom inside the slot. This solution has all the advantages of a classic wooden toilet, but is more hygienic and easier to clean. At the cost of building a structure from combined materials is often not very expensive.
Plastic dry closets
They are made of a polymer material of increased thickness and consist of 3 parts: a storage tank at the bottom, the toilet itself with a drain hole and toilet seat, and a water tank. It is worth noting that absolutely all dry closets require the purchase of special fluids for the proper operation of the equipment.
Such designs are mobile, hygienic, ideal for use in the country or in suburban housing, where the owners are infrequent. In winter, you can take a place in the house under the dry closet - he does not need a cesspool, it is enough to empty the tank regularly.
Toilet Buckets
Sealed solution with bottom, seat and cover. It can have different sizes, the capacity usually does not exceed 15 liters. The design is intended for temporary use, while the owners are away, it can easily be stored. In some cases, for such a product, a wooden base is created in the toilet, in which the plastic bucket is securely fixed.
With direct access to the cesspool
The toilets look like freestanding constructions, trapezoids expanding to the bottom. Along the edge of the housing adjacent to the floor, there are mounting holes for fixing the product. As a rule, such a plastic toilet is two-layer, with an external and internal contour, sewage discharge is carried out directly into the pit, the seat and cover are included.
Peat constructions
Roller models are available to facilitate emptying of the tank. Instead of water, peat placed in a special tank and filled up inside the storage tank is used to eliminate an unpleasant odor in such a toilet. Plastic toilets of this type are quite massive, made of durable polymers similar to those used in casting molds for ponds and other artificial ponds. The design provides an opening for ventilation - a pipe is inserted into it, extending outside the toilet cubicle.
Dry closet with a conclusion to a septic tank
Plastic toilets of this type are rather unusual, they are more massive than usual and are located in the annex to the house, with a sewer outlet laying in the septic tank. The tank has a metered piston system that saves water. Basically, such solutions are used in areas used for permanent residence of people. A septic tank with special bacteria acts as a treatment plant in them, the resulting waste can later be used as fertilizer.
Installation
When installing a plastic country toilet, you must necessarily focus on the type of its design. Almost always, the cottage toilet is already installed on the prepared cesspool or above the tank - a sealed container for pumping. It can be a barrel or a tank. In this case, a floor is mounted inside the toilet cabin, in which a hole is cut for the diameter of the bottom of the country toilet. Under the construction of buckets, a podium elevation is installed, which increases the rigidity of the product and its reliability.
Next, the selected model of a plastic toilet bowl is simply placed at the selected point, fixed in the floor with self-tapping screws. In the future, care for such a bathroom will consist in the periodic pumping of sewage from the cesspool. To combat odor and accelerate the decomposition of waste into harmless components, you can use special preparations with live bacteria that are poured inside.
If the toilet and storage tanks or openings above the cesspool have different diameters, you will have to make an additional transition cone. It is mounted between the elements of the sewer system. This ensures directed discharge of waste. The easiest way to make it is from a galvanized sheet rolled up and fastened at the right angle.
Peat models and dry closets for summer cottages are installed on the ground, a special cleaning door is arranged at the location of the sewage tank. Through it, the lower part of the tank is removed and installed back.
How to choose?
When choosing a country toilet with a plastic toilet, there are moments that you need to pay attention to.
- Stage of construction of the toilet. If the "house" is already on the site, you will have to focus on its features and design.
- The presence of a drive or cesspool. If there are none and it will not be possible to build (for example, due to the high cost or high level of groundwater), it is enough to buy a toilet bucket with a bottom or a dry closet, a peat variant with an emptying tank.
- Budget. The smaller it is, the higher the likelihood of buying the simplest toilet bowl with a bottom or direct discharge into a hole.
- Design mobility. If the country toilet has a temporary, seasonal design, it is better to buy options that can be dismantled and put into storage.
All these recommendations will help to find the right solution when equipping a country toilet with a modern plastic toilet.
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