Tiny Flush Camp Toilet

You would not believe how many people ask me about the toilet arrangement in my Tiny Home. Like they're obsessed with thinking about their poo and what to do with it. And they can't believe when I tell them I take care of business in a corner behind a screen.

You see, we built our Tiny Home in November, just before the coldest winter in history. So my first weekend, there was no way I wanted to go outside in 2 foot snow just to use a loo. We considered composting toilets, and will probably purchase one this spring and build some kind of little house around it beside our Tiny Home. But they aren't cheap ($800), and more importantly, they don't work in the cold. We heat the Tiny Home when we visit, but not when we're not there. So in the winter, composting toilets aren't a great solution for us.

Instead, we purchased this little camp toilet. It's a Dometic toilet purchased at Canadian Tire in the camping section for $170. It has 2 reservoirs - one on top with a special RV Plumbing antifreeze liquid for flushing and one on the bottom to gather the pee and poo plus flushing liquid. This bottom container is sealed off, so there's really no smells between uses. We empty it out on the farm with the other animal manure when needed, depending on how often we use it.

We don't have running water, but we keep hand sanitizer handy, and really it feels quite civilized and convenient. It doesn't take much room, but gets the job done for us. (And don't you adore the little floor rug to keep our feet warm that my great grandmother made from rags many years ago?)