By this point some serious hot-weather induced shit pressure had built up, and flipping open the flapper door resulted in a huge upwards explosion of our shit into my face as I was peering closer for a look. Most of the toilet/shower room was covered, but my face took the brunt of it.
Don't do that.
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Re cassette toilets.... They're rank. The emptying stations are almost all rank. The chemicals used are rank.
I built a dry-separating toilet (trockentrenntoilette auf Deutsch), buying only the funnel bit and cutting it to size. Built a box in which sits a canister for the piss and a bucket with a bin liner for the poo. This is enclosed in box in the van. In the underside of the shitter is a hole which lines up with a mini 12v computer ventilator which extracts to the underside of the van.
Do you business. Toilet paper, if you're feeling posh use a wet wipe or two and chuck a little saw dust on top of your feeling flush.
No stinky air in the van. Emptying is a car of pouring the piss down a toilet. The solid waste can be bagged and chucked into any bin, just like you do with your doggy bag.
Much better than fannying about with a chemical toilet and other people's excrement.
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I'll stick with the porta potti and a no poo rule. We use a single 'eco' chemical which works well, and you don't need much of it.
By this point some serious hot-weather induced shit pressure had built up, and flipping open the flapper door resulted in a huge upwards explosion of our shit into my face as I was peering closer for a look. Most of the toilet/shower room was covered, but my face took the brunt of it.
There's a valve that equalises the pressure as you open the flap. It can get blocked though or stop working as I think you discovered. It happened on ours when I was a kid but we found out on the actual holiday so just a bit of a pop until it was fixed.
As for stink - modern toilets that work properly are fine.
^^^fully capturing the glamour of the modern gypsy lifestyle
Have previously had Overland prepped Defender before rooftents were a thing - was great at the time.
Nowadays we want more comfort so have a small T@B320 caravan. Tows well, actually plenty of room, well built. We leave it stocked and just throw a bag of clothes in.
If it's just me and doggo then I chuck a tent in the car.
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The poo, I sort of get, cos there's the ick of emptying it, but it's not that bad
Yeah. It's easy, just do it regularly, especially if it's hot. Anyway, we did have a caravan, not for holidays, but for living in during some building works. Having done a summer in it, some of house was habitable so we moved in and in the excitement/work of doing so forgot about the caravan for a few hot weeks in September. Anyway, I finally remembered and went to check how full the cassette was by opening the flapper door. By this point some serious hot-weather induced shit pressure had built up, and flipping open the flapper door resulted in a huge upwards explosion of our shit into my face as I was peering closer for a look. Most of the toilet/shower room was covered, but my face took the brunt of it.
Don't do that.
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