You have purchased a private house or cottage. Immediately, plans appear to rebuild the premises and the site itself to suit their own understanding of beauty and convenience. This includes the construction of a bathhouse, a summer gazebo, a small pond with a decorative stream and a recreation area. Lots of work in the garden and in the garden. Don’t forget about the amenities on your site. Even if a residential private house or country house has a warm toilet and central sewage system, a summer toilet in the garden will not be superfluous. And it probably needs to be built at the beginning of your major alterations on the site. When working on the construction of outbuildings or in the garden, it will be very convenient to use a summer toilet, rather than running into the house every time. Most owners of private houses and summer cottages have leftover building materials on their farms - bricks, boards, crushed stone, etc. There is no need to throw them away; everything will come in handy around the house. Before building a summer toilet, you need to think about its place in the garden. The path to the toilet should not be difficult from all corners of your site and at the same time it should be removed from residential buildings, a swimming pool, a sports area and a recreation area. It is also necessary to consider the design and materials from which you will build the toilet.Of course, you can build a toilet-type toilet from old boards or plywood, but this is not modern or beautiful. Let's build a toilet so that it looks great and fits into the overall landscape of your site.
How to build an outdoor toilet in the garden with your own hands
Having chosen the construction site, we proceed to marking. Let's focus on the option of a summer toilet made of cement blocks with a toilet, a water supply for the warm season and electricity. It's a little expensive, but it will look modern and beautiful. We choose the dimensions of the pit 2 by 2.5 and 1.5 meters deep. We do not concrete the bottom of the pit, but lay out the walls with red brick with gaps between the seams at the bottom of the wall. This is done so that the moisture itself goes into the soil. We lay the formwork on the upper perimeter of the pit walls, leaving a hole with a diameter of 150 mm. for flushing the toilet and 50cm. at the rear for the sump hatch. We lay steel rods on the formwork to reinforce the toilet floor and pour a 10cm layer of concrete.
The concrete will completely harden in a few days. If the weather is hot and sunny, the concrete should be periodically watered to prevent cracks from appearing. Now we lay out the walls from cement blocks 12 cm thick. They are used in construction for the construction of internal walls in houses. It is first necessary to level the frame of the doorway and secure it with jibs.
If desired, install a window frame into the wall. We install formwork and ceiling joists on top of the walls with a slope for the roof.
After the mortar screed on the top of the walls has hardened, you can cover the roof and line the ceiling with plastic inside. We hang the door and install the window.
Inside, we lay ceramic tiles on the floor and walls, install a toilet, make an vent in the wall and cover it with a decorative mesh.
We supply water and electrical wires. The peculiarity of a summer toilet is that in winter it is not used and the pipes and toilet can defrost. You will have to turn off the water for the winter and drain it from the system. Therefore, it is better to carry metal-plastic pipes through the air. An exhaust pipe should be installed from the cesspool to prevent unpleasant odors from penetrating inside the toilet and a cesspool cover should be fitted.
The interior walls of the toilet can be painted above the tiles with water-based paint, and the exterior walls can be decorated with decorative stone.
This summer toilet is convenient and will look beautiful in your garden.
