Staying for the weekend at end of this month ... anyone 'used' the compost loos? Was it an horrendous experience or quite a pleasant one?? Thoughts please as a bit concerned ...
Crossways Caravan Club - Dorset - compost loos???
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hi lisa
never used compost loo but have a look
here http://www.lowimpact.org/factsheet_compost_toilets.htm
never used compost loo but have a look
here http://www.lowimpact.org/factsheet_compost_toilets.htm
Aha ... interesting, at least now we know what to expect should we be brave enough to venture into their loos! Thanks.
We stayed there last autumn. The compost loo's are nothing to worry about! Better than many traditional loo's I have used. Remember you need the environmental fluid for you on board loo!
Site is convenient for the railway station. A couple of hundred yards. We used it to travel to Poole and. Weymouth.
Also the site can be a bit wet in places.
We shall be back there late September if all is well!
Site is convenient for the railway station. A couple of hundred yards. We used it to travel to Poole and. Weymouth.
Also the site can be a bit wet in places.
We shall be back there late September if all is well!
We stayed there last autumn. The compost loo's are nothing to worry about! Better than many traditional loo's I have used. Remember you need the environmental fluid for you on board loo!
Site is convenient for the railway station. A couple of hundred yards. We used it to travel to Poole and. Weymouth.
Also the site can be a bit wet in places.
We shall be back there late September if all is well!
Sorry to be a bit vague but do you mean the pink and blue loo chemicals have to be different environmentally friendly ones? Thanks - Lisa
Site is convenient for the railway station. A couple of hundred yards. We used it to travel to Poole and. Weymouth.
Also the site can be a bit wet in places.
We shall be back there late September if all is well!
Sorry to be a bit vague but do you mean the pink and blue loo chemicals have to be different environmentally friendly ones? Thanks - Lisa
Yes the chemicals you use in the loo need to be ones that environmentally friendly. We use one called 'nature calls' which we get from go camping. It is no dearer than the blue and pink stuff. Sorry I cannot be more specific than that, as they are up in our caravan.
Enjoy your stay at Crossways!
Enjoy your stay at Crossways!
... and just to think that the salad you ate on the day of arrival on site you can buy back at reception on departure as a bag of compost for your garden.
Very eco friendly
Very eco friendly
Lord Braykewynde you made me spit my tea out laughing!!!!!!!
Now, where to buy this environmentally friendly loo stuff from????
Now, where to buy this environmentally friendly loo stuff from????
Don't bother buying any tomato seeds. Tomato seedlings will be popping up all the time in your nice, smooth textured, chocolate coloured compost
soldlisa04 said:Stop it LB ... I am at work now and they are wondering why I am laughing out loud!!!
Tell your work colleagues you are laughing because you've just hit upon a money making idea and ask them if they would like to be your part time sales reps, on a commission of course, selling tomato plants
Hmmm work in a Primary school - could see a money making plan forming here with grown your own tomato plants for sale ... literally grow your own!
Ah interesting topic, we have a local fishing lake that has had a composting loo for a few years now, and seems to work very well as long as the last occupier remembered to use the saw dust
at certain times of the year there is bumper crop of WILD tomatoes and strawberries.
after reading LB's comments I dont think I will be partaking of the freebies this year though.
regarding using enviromentaly friendly fluids in the thetford loo been using them for years since we stayed at a farm site that had a reed bed sewerage system and was the only fluids allowed on site, I can confirm they are just as effective and cost little more than the blue stuff, and it is allways worth doing something to try and stop chemicals entering the water system.
at certain times of the year there is bumper crop of WILD tomatoes and strawberries.
after reading LB's comments I dont think I will be partaking of the freebies this year though.
regarding using enviromentaly friendly fluids in the thetford loo been using them for years since we stayed at a farm site that had a reed bed sewerage system and was the only fluids allowed on site, I can confirm they are just as effective and cost little more than the blue stuff, and it is allways worth doing something to try and stop chemicals entering the water system.
We've had to cancel our trip to Crossways this coming weekend as we just didn't realise how far it would be for basically a Saturday with the family
but we have managed to transfer the booking to the Cirencester Caravan Club site and intend to walk through the park into Ciren and have lunch with friends and celebrate OH's birthday. It will be our first trip out in van where we are not travelling with friends or meeting friends - it will be just the two of us ooer ...
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