After each of us there remains not only household waste, but also waste products. In the city, few people think about the problem of their disposal, but at the dacha this question sometimes acquires simply epic outlines.
The smell, flies and the usual sense of disgust somehow do not contribute to the creation of an ordinary
cesspool, and therefore, toilets for summer cottages look much better against its background. They will allow not only not to smell bad, but also to turn feces into very useful and valuable compost.
Principle of operation
As a rule, most of these toilets are based on the action of some kind of adsorbents. They absorb moisture and odor, preventing them from offending your sense of smell. Most often, peat or peat briquettes are used as such a substrate. All dry closets for summer cottages based on them are good not only for their cheapness, but also for their hygiene. The fact is that peat itself has an extremely acidic pH reaction, which makes the development of bacteria impossible.
In addition, the sphagnum moss underlying this substance is known to botanists around the world for its unique absorption capacity. Only a kilogram of this material can absorb up to a dozen liters of liquid, which is extremely important in organizing a toilet.
How do they look and how do they work?
Most often, dry closets for summer cottages are designed for installation inside a living room, and therefore they are a kind of large toilet equipped with a ventilation pipe. Instead of water, its storage tank contains a stock of dry peat, which the metering device throws out each time in the reservoir for the accumulation of feces.
So that the mass in this compartment does not turn into slurry, special drainage pipes are installed in it, designed to divert the liquid fraction into the external environment. To do this, it is desirable to dig some kind of storage well, carefully isolating it from contact with the external environment.
Modern models
Depending on the size of your family, dry closets for summer cottages are designed to be emptied every two to three months. There are some modern models that even connect to the mains. They are special devices for the biological decomposition of waste, resulting in the formation of high-quality compost.
Note that if you use simple tank toilets, then the mass that you have to rake out from them every few months should not be immediately laid on beds or under fruit trees. It must be composted for at least several years.
Thus, a peat dry closet for a summer residence, the price of which starts from three thousand rubles, can become a stable source of high-quality and effective fertilizers.
Alternative varieties
Other varieties deserve special attention. As you understand, this is a chemical dry closet for a summer residence, which uses special substances that decompose feces to a homogeneous mass, deodorized and disinfected. True, the prefix “bio” in their name no longer corresponds to the nature of their work, but they do their job perfectly.