having an office through the cupboard in the bedroom with a water heater that kept me awake made me think what if..............................................................
what I would really like for Christmas was a roll top bath I could soak in after a long cold cycle ride, but baths are not supposed to be eco freindly are they, and we do nothing if its not organic, fairtrade, reused and recycled and generally good for the planet.The garden outside our bedroom is south facing, and I wanted to put another water butt below the bedroom window anyway, so how about if we connected a recycled bath, bidet and basin to a water butt and used our grey water for the garden? The office is better in the back of the sitting room anyway, but I didnt realise how long it was going to take to strip out and find new homes for all that junk Dave had in his office. Changing the old cupboard louvre doors for a nice new FSC timber one means I dont have to hear the heater any more, and Im rather proud of reclaiming the wallpaper and dado rail and pelmet from inside the wardrobe to finish the bedroom wall to match the rest. Dave has stripped out and reused all the old electrics now and Ive finally got the horrible old nylon carpet out and the walls stripped of paper. We got the bathroom suite on ebay for a total of £53.98 for all three from Darlington and Hartlepool so once the holes are filled, the electrics and plumbing can finally start to go in and its nearly Christmas again...............
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Sounds like you are just the person to start the "Ban the Flush Toilet Campaign" Now we are all up to our necks in water and the hosepipe bans are finally lifted. The world and his wife will forget all about water conservation till "Next Time". WE are about to install a static caravan on our oyster farm near Herne Bay and how I wish I could buy an "off the shelf" or even decent DIY plan for a self composting toilet that "wouldn't cost the earth" . The American ones are around £2000! There's got to be a better way than wasting all that water. Sir Thomas Crapper has a lot to answer for, not that he cares now of course! Answers on a postcard please. Lani lobster
We have built a composting toilet in to the small garden shed. Runs on sawdust and cost very little to make. The worst bit is going to BnQ late at night to try sitting on all the containers to find the best height, the security staff must of been in stitches. We found a large one with wheels, along with a cheap loo seat and a hand full of brass hinges. You need to feed it with sawdust at 3 to 1 and the experts say you can use this on the veg patch after a year (something we've not yet tried)
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