Outhouse Ideas

My neighbors are embarrassed to have a redneck like me living next door. I thought about building a small outhouse for a garden shed just to mess with them. But I don't feel like getting a zoning permit for that small of a shed.

My uncle used to tip over this old womans outhouse every Halloween, the next day he would go back and set it up. When he got his drivers license he stole the whole thing. The police caught him putting it on the courthouse steps. She wasn't mad, she told the police to let him have his fun and he could bring it back when he was finished with it.

"Officer what am I charged with"

. ."Putting a outhouse on the courthouse steps" . . . . . . . . .LOL . .LOL


thanks that made my day.....................


Many a year ago I heard grandpa telling of many outhouse shenaigans . . . .
Takes some effort to put a outhouse up on the barn roof . . . . .LOL

So what were outhouses constructed of back in the day? What kind of wood/boards were used? (probably depends on geographic location and availability)

How were the boards made back then, were they made on a mill or rough-sawn and scraped by hand?

This thread is so timely! I'm on my deck sitting next to the sawdust toilet my son just built for me! It's going out to our 35 acres to be placed in a discrete spot near the garden and orchard. It's going to have sides at least up far enough to provide some privacy but may turn into a full fledged out house. All I need now is a container to hold toilet paper, hand wipes and a great big can of spray to kill spiders before anyone sits down! Hopefully it will be on the property before the UPS man shows up and sees it on my deck (talk about redneck!).

An outhouse can be a good and nessesary thing in the country. City folks used to have them. (Small Citys)
Everyone I knew back in the 30s and 40s had one.
I knew familys with up to 13 kids, but I never heard of the first kid falling in. Once they see what is going down there, you couldn't force one down there.
If you would like to have one but don't want people to know you got it, build it in the shape of an A frame. Lean a couple old garden tools against the front and call it your garden shed.
If you really want to throw them off, put it in your front yard.

I like mine cause, When I have to use it, I can sit and look around at what ive accomplished, to a limited amount, or see something that needs doing, or pick up a Lehmans catalog and brose through a few pages of it. NO I use TP for the job LOL.

nother thing for u married guys. Wifie gets mad atcha, and you dont want to antagonize her by letting her see ya for a good while, if ya got an outhouse, you can use it and keep outside, outa view, outa mind. If ya dont have one, and you hold off till your bustin, then rush in, Your liable have your mind on makeing it without an accident, and not on the mud thats on your shoes. NEW fight comein up.

Im looking to buy a new farm. Its got an OLD outhouse on it thats falling down. They built a slab, Put a pipe in the middle and concreted it in, and put a stool lid on top/ WELL, If the electric dont work, we wont be able to use the indoor rapper while working on the house roof, and windows, ect, and so haveing the outdoor one would be a blessing. Ill take the lid off of that one, and remove the remains of the old outhouse, and situate mine up in front of the slab, with it laying down, and just have my kids and me raise it up carefully fitting the hole in mine over the standing concrete hole.

Container to hold T.P. An old lunch box works pretty well for me.

maybe if it is too small for a chicken coop you could add on to the back of it, so the front sitll looks outhousy..or build it into a fence for a out of the way shed

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One of the nicest outhouses I've seen belongs to a friend who has it at his horse camp. It's big, has a wall cabinet to hold everything, a skylight, and stained glass in the door! Best of all, the vent tubing must be just right because it never smells.
Edcopp, the lunch box is a good idea.

We use a coffee tin for the toilet paper. I have seen people hang the toilet paper from a rope which had a disk thing that came off to add more rolls. I just prefer a tin box or can. The lunch box is a good idea.

We had trouble with mice getting in our Out Houses. So - we do the Peppermint Essential Oil treatment. We just drop one drop of the Oil on the wood of the Out House on each side. If you put the oil on the wood, it will stay there forever and animals can smell it even when a human can no longer smell it.

We put the oil on each side, one drop about every two weeks. At times we alternate and drop the oil on the ground but just up under the house. That way the soil will have oil in it too. The Peppermint seems to repeal the mice and rats.

Now....if I can just keep the mosquitoes out of there.....

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I'd like one by the pond for the fishing poles & stuff

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