Anyone got plans for a "state park" outhouse?

[VERN in IL]

I would like to build a outhouse like they have at state parks. The simple outhouses.

Is there plans available?

[beaglebiz]

Maybe you should build one like we have at the Delaware Water Gap
http://www.theplumber.com/outhouse.html
can you smell the pork??

[HomesteadBaker]

Originally Posted by beaglebiz

Maybe you should build one like we have at the Delaware Water Gap
http://www.theplumber.com/outhouse.html
can you smell the pork??

Yeah, that sounds like something PA would do!

Kitty

[watcher]

The last one I used at a park was nothing more than a seat over the access hole of a septic tank.

[T-Bone 369]

http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/...Plans/6396.pdf

[Danaus29]

Which state and which park? Some in Alaska have porta-pots, some in Colorado are almost as nice as the one in the link, some in Ohio are simple but still pretty expensive to build. None of the ones I've been to at state parks are cheap and simple to build. There are even some in Kentucky that have outhouses with no water inside but a spigot on the outside so you can wash your hands. Most have raised concrete bases over huge holding tanks.

[ErinP]

Originally Posted by T-Bone 369

http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/...Plans/6396.pdf

That's the one I just built.

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by watcher

The last one I used at a park was nothing more than a seat over the access hole of a septic tank.

That's what they do here in Minnesota, too. The DNR simply builds the outhouses over concrete septic tanks. When the tank gets close to full, they pump the contents out.

[farminghandyman]

http://focusindustries.ca/drawings/T375L.pdf

http://focusindustries.ca/drawings/4...0Tcomplete.pdf
plans are from the below company
the company does not ship to the USA, http://focusindustries.ca/versafast.asp


As far as I can see these company's deal with both USA and Canada
toilet pedestals since the pictures are the same they may or may not be sister sites,
http://www.farnorthfiberglass.com/cones.html

http://www.yukonalaska.com/outhouse/


edit a few more
http://www.in.gov/isdh/22475.htm
http://www.in.gov/isdh/files/PrivyDiagrams.pdf

this may be the same but diffrnet lay outs

http://www.in.gov/isdh/files/sanitary_privy.pdf

[FreightTrain]

Originally Posted by ErinP

That's the one I just built.

ummm, isnt the picnic table a bit close to where ya poo?

[wy_white_wolf]

Originally Posted by FreightTrain

ummm, isnt the picnic table a bit close to where ya poo?

It's the waiting area for when the outhouse is occupied.

[Bonnie L]

Read "The Humanure Handbook." Lots of good ideas in there.

[Stephen in SOKY]

Have the ready-mix plants quit pouring outhouse seats? We had one at the milk barn to comply with regs. Had another at one of the tennant houses that lacked indoor facilities. They were cheap as the plant used leftover materials to pour them rather than throwing out over run concrete.

[How Do I]

Originally Posted by wy_white_wolf

It's the waiting area for when the outhouse is occupied.

I've known some fellars where ya wouldn't want ta be waitin' so closely...

[ErinP]

Originally Posted by wy_white_wolf

It's the waiting area for when the outhouse is occupied.

It was the scaffolding for tinning the roof, ya wisenheimers.

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by ErinP

It was the scaffolding for tinning the roof, ya wisenheimers.

Just a tip for your next outhouse roof. Next time, consider using translucent or opaque corrugated fiberglass as opposed to the corrugated tin. It makes the inside of the outhouse a whole lot lighter....which is necessary when you do a lot of reading.

[ErinP]

But that would have involved actual purchase.
As it was, all we bought was the ply and the seat.

[Wis Bang]

Originally Posted by HomesteadBaker

Yeah, that sounds like something PA would do!

Kitty

Worse! That was the FEDS in the recreation area that wasn't flooded by building the Tocks Island dam.

PA DCNR built a two-holer in the 'nature center' they created next to my families cabin so people could study a re-generating forest. Thank goodness PA is cheap; they clearcut 85 acres, built the outhouse, a pond and several trails. The county conversancy built a maple sugar shack [the sugar bush is between our cabin and the cut] and that is the only thing that was maintained +/or improved in the 30 years since the state cut the place because the county conservancy runs the sugar shack, the state doesn't spend a dime there after the initial project.

The outhouse is over a big rectangular holding tank, his & hers back to back and is bult from cement blocks w/ simple screen ventalation by screening the roof peaks. Durn place is so skanky that the Maple Sugar demo, put on by the county, hauls in Porta Johns. My dad cousin will stand in it to hunt in the rain...I don't know how he can stand it!

This place made us lock our outhouse since the state made us put a septic tank under it that we have to have pumped so we don't let anyone else use it. Since the state is SO cheap, they didn't take our lease and make us tear down our building and make a 'real' nature study center...we did appeciate that!

Ours is built on top of the tank, it is a rectangular 1000 gal tank left about 6" above the ground. Our sink drain runs in the front inlet [state made us dio that!]. The vent is 3" PVC sticking up from the outlet cleanout. the inlet cleanout and outlet had to be sealed. Dad used all leftovers 'cept the tank was new. He knew the maker and took him a section of 12" tera cotta chimney flue which the maker placed in the center of the pump-out lid mold making a nice riser. The outhouse is pannled & insulated w/ a suspended ceiling made of plastic translucent pannels drilled w/ a few vent holes. A vanity top makes the seat platform just over the fluepipe. You can just reach around to the nuts on the seat when it needs replacing. There is an outlet & lights. Up in the roof peak there is an eve vent.

In hunting season, first guy awake turns on the porch light energising the outhouse lights and outlet turning on the electric heater under one side of the seat. 15-20 min makes it nice and warm even at 10 degrees! We have pumped it out twice since 1974 so the lock was a good idea!

[wyld thang]

THere's a way cool outhouse at a fire lookout where we go ride motorcycles. It's about like 8x7, has the toilet hole throne thing over the big hole, and a sink with simple pump from a 15 gallon barrel which also had a shower head and hose hooked up to it, the barrel also. THe floor was concrete with a drain, so you just shower inside, doesn't matter if stuff gets wet. It was a really nice set up one for the fire lookout guy. He kept lime to scatter over the stuff when he went too. It was big enough you could sleep in there if you wanted to. ANyways, just an idea for a really spiffy outhouse to include the sink and shower head inside.

[VERN in IL]

Yes, it's basically a 5x5 shack on a holding tank. with clear plastic at the top to let the light in.

My question is the ones at the park never stink, they got a 6" or 8" vent pipe, and I am wondering how does the ventilation of the holding tank happen without the smell coming up thru the toilet?

In a compost toilet the sawdust keeps the smell down, but how does this work with the outhouses with holding tanks? Do they use chemicals?

"A DROP TUBE HELPS ELIMINATE ODOURS" How does that work?