Nature's Head® Self Contained Composting Toilet with Foot-Spider Handle

Love it, works extremely well, lasts for up to 7 months if only one person uses it, urine bucket needs to be cleaned every day, if you pour few tablespoons of RV enzymes to the urine bucket it is easy to clean and has no odor at all.

So we have bought some remote, off grid property, no water or electric. We bought this composting toilet with the intention of building its own little outhouse. After some thought, we repurposed a deer blind that the previous owner had left and it made an awesome little outhouse! The toilet has built in electrical fans and a bare input jack wire that allows you to directly wire it to a battery or a 12 volt plug in that you can buy separately. I also bought a small Jackery to run them when we are working out there. We are using peat moss from the garden center at Lowes for the composting part. Set up took very little time. Figuring out how to wire the electrical plug was a little harder as I have no electrical experience. The booklet is a little vague on the wiring. However, it works and we love it.

I was a little skeptical at first about using a composting toilet, because I thought the smell and cleaning would be awful living in the Deep South with the humidity, but I'm now a believer. I live off grid full time in a tiny house and I love this composting toilet. I had a little learning curve with getting the coco coir to water ratio figured out, but the owner's manual covers that in detail. The installation was simple and straightforward. I did spray a little Ortho Home Defense on my coco coir to deter any flying insects or other insects from wanting to visit and I also added a cup of water with a splash of bleach to prevent any smells in the urinal tank, because who wants to smell week old pee.

Let me start by saying that I was very skeptical about using a composting toilet! I am a convert! This toilet is so convenient and really not nearly as gross as I expected! There is minimal odor and maintenance is very manageable.

Ive had this toilet for about 3 years. Before I had one I made with a bucket and urine diverter. I hate this toilet so much. It comes with a fan built in, but no connection to a battery or plug in. All those holes in the underpart of the top. Knats keep getting in. I'm using Coco coir. I can't use a brush or anything in there to clean the knat eggs out. I'm sitting it in the sun as long as I can go without using the bathroom. My bucket toilet was more sanitary than this. It's too much money to have to do this every two weeks. I hate it. And believe me, I've test drove it! Make your own for around 80 dollars!!! Much more sanitary. The second picture is the one I made with a urine diverter in it. Around 80 dollars for the whole thing.

My concerns are about installation. We had to put this where our conventional Rv toilet was. Since the toilet is taller than the old one and has to go up on the platform where it was, it is difficult to get up there and awkward to sit there. Thinking of putting a “ThtoneRoom” sign on the door

works great, not smell, easy to clean

I have lived FT in my Class A RV for 7 years and decided to stop using my toilet/black tank system, and so I used my Nature's Head toilet for 8 weeks now. The solid waste does not have time to compost between daily use (even after using it for 8 weeks), and so what you really end up with is poop mixed with peat, maybe dessicated from the exhaust fan, maybe not dessicated (and so still obviously poop mixed up with peat). This is not an issue with this brand product, as ALL of the other "composting toilets" will also not actually compost given the time frame and frequency of use (if daily used). I'm pretty sure if two people use this daily, then the composting will be significantly less since the exhaust fan will even less likely be able to keep up with the moisture. At this point, 8 weeks, I just now need to empty the poop container, and I'm NOT looking forward to that since it's mostly damp poop. Yes, it's great that I did not need to empty a black tank for 8 weeks, but... There are also some design issues in my opinion. The top to bottom latches are upside down. When you unlatch them you MUST hold them out of the way when you open the top, otherwise when hanging free they grab the hook again, and you cannot open until you hold the female side away from the hook side. I also end up with some urine in my poop section, so the flap that closes the poop secion, and is supposed to direct any urine to the urine bottle is not 100% functional, result is the poop area begins to smell like Ammonia (and so likely disrupting the composting process). The exhaust fan does work to ensure none of the smells escape into the RV, but FOR SURE you will need to use the exhaust fan 24/7 and plumb it to the outdoors. I'm also not thrilled with the urine collection system, not all urine drains into the jug, some remains in the bowl area (does not go down either of the 2 holes). As well, the urine area under the bowl, above the bottle, is not ever cleanable, and will become mineral encrusted and will super-stink if not for the exhaust fan. So, I've tanken to pouring a small amount of water into the urine part of the bowl to so at least the urine does not dry there every time. This of course means that your urine jug fills up a tad faster. I get about 2.5-3 days before the jug needs emptying, ideally if you can pipe this to an existing black tank, it makes the NH product much less 'maintenance' intensive. Ideally, this urine section would be removable to allow for reasonable cleaning (currently, some part of this is silicone glued in place). In just looking at the other "Composting Toilet" products offered today, I think this might be the best design overall, but none of them is actually composting much of your daily contribution. So, while I think this product has much room for improvement (esp. for $1k for 20lbs of plastic), it does seem like the most viable option available at this time.

funktioniert einwandfrei