How about one of these with the drain tapped into the drain for your garage sink?
Mini Eco Urinal Waterless Odorless - For Home Garage Boat Trailer Cottage & More
That looks similar to the urinals that are in a porta-john.
Redneck Urinal Plumbing
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That looks similar to the urinals that are in a porta-john.
What about a shop vac, you could charge your buddies to use it and make enough to pay for a working septic? I'm thinking one of those 20 gal plastic barrels full of holes will work good for you. Like someone said, T a line off your eaves trough and it'll rinse things out good.
Coolerman
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Figured I would update this thread with my results.
Several things like work and life got in the way of me doing the 55 gallon drum thing for the sink and urinal. I read that post about tying into the gutter drains and that sounded like a plan.
I plumbed my sink with a trap, ran it through the wall, teed into a 2" standpipe vent where one end goes down into the 4" gutter drain and the other goes up about 3' and has an elbow facing out. That is just to help vent the sink drain line to promote faster sink draining.
I then took a large funnel, attached a 1/2 vinyl tube to it, and made a bracket to hang it above the sink.
Need to peed? Just grab the funnel, put the hose down the sink drain, do your business then rinse the funnel out!
Two years, and at the end of the drain (about 40') where it comes to the surface on a slight slope, there has been NO smell! The grass below it grows like crazy due to all the organic **** that gets washed down the sink drain and of course the extra water from the gutter and sink. YMMV!
Several things like work and life got in the way of me doing the 55 gallon drum thing for the sink and urinal. I read that post about tying into the gutter drains and that sounded like a plan.
I plumbed my sink with a trap, ran it through the wall, teed into a 2" standpipe vent where one end goes down into the 4" gutter drain and the other goes up about 3' and has an elbow facing out. That is just to help vent the sink drain line to promote faster sink draining.
I then took a large funnel, attached a 1/2 vinyl tube to it, and made a bracket to hang it above the sink.
Need to peed? Just grab the funnel, put the hose down the sink drain, do your business then rinse the funnel out!
Two years, and at the end of the drain (about 40') where it comes to the surface on a slight slope, there has been NO smell! The grass below it grows like crazy due to all the organic **** that gets washed down the sink drain and of course the extra water from the gutter and sink. YMMV!
Moose97
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I think your best bet would be to dig a hole big enough to fit a 5 gallon bucket. Fill that full of charcoal, drill 8-10 holes around the bottom of the sides and bury in hole with the lid on. Run pipe from garage wall to top of bucket lid and drill a hole. You will likely never smell a thing.
FYI - If you are inside a municipality and get caught you will get in trouble. No idea as to extent but this is absolutely against TCEQ regulations. Just so you know.
FYI - If you are inside a municipality and get caught you will get in trouble. No idea as to extent but this is absolutely against TCEQ regulations. Just so you know.
Weird Tolkienish Figure
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Official Riley Martin Piss Jug
http://www.rileymartin.com/store/index.php/official-riley-martin-piss-jug.html
http://www.rileymartin.com/store/index.php/official-riley-martin-piss-jug.html
sberry
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I have hand washing on mine too, its 20 or 30 ft of 4 inch pipe and somewhat floods when it rains hard which is alright. There is a trap in it for smell.
Hornman
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Richard D,
In Texas City the depth of your water table is probably measured in inches, not feet. Burying a 55 gal drum vertically sounds like an experiment in finding out how high.
Commercial waterless urinals use an acidic solution (added manually) to keep the smell down. So, add a trap and splash some white vinegar in periodially.
In Texas City the depth of your water table is probably measured in inches, not feet. Burying a 55 gal drum vertically sounds like an experiment in finding out how high.
Commercial waterless urinals use an acidic solution (added manually) to keep the smell down. So, add a trap and splash some white vinegar in periodially.
I thought about thiss when I did the floor in my shop. Originally thought of making it a floor drain, but didnt have the depth. so now is just a 2' pipe that sits next to the back wall, that elbows out of the building and is capped for later usage.
GH85Carrera
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If the water table is as high as you think, just dig a pit, fill it with large gravel for a few inches, smaller gravel and then sand on top covered by top soil. Unless you have a beer fest drinking party with a lot of friends you will be fine. Pour some water down it when you are done for the day. The ground water will mix with it and no smell.
fsae0607
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I have a small bucket from Leslie's pool chemicals I use. I pee in it and at the end of the day dump it in the front where the plants and rocks are. Rinse with the hose.
paddy1
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Back in the 80's I was station in Honduras. Our latrine consisted of a 55 gallon barrel cut in half and a 6" PVC tube buried 6-8' in the ground with a fly screen at the top and filled with stone. Come late summer early fall, talk about stink. They redrilled and moved the urinal about every 30 days.
i got armidilla under the slab, so I drill through the slab and stuck a transmission funnel in the hole. now i just pee on their head to piss them off
59 wagon man
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waterless urinal from sloan.or a bunch of manufacturers have them now. put in a sink upstream of the urinal dump it into an infiltrator panel or two and your done
Radix2
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Ree75
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if you wanna be redneck, get an old folgers coffee can
Rocky98Formula
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Google "waterless urinal". The use a special cartridge that uses a specific fluid that has a different density than urine. It allows the urine to pass through and then creates an odour seal once you're done. Just don't pour coffee or pop etc down them. I first saw them in some local pubs and couldn't figure out how they worked til I looked them up.
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Radix2
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I'm still peeing off the porch. Keeps the bears away
zcar751
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I grabbed a urinal out of a port-0-let and attached it to the wall for that finished look then piped it out side to a five gallon bucket. I dug a hole and lined the bottom with sand then gravel set the bucket in place and lined the sides with gravel three quarters of the way up. Once the top was in place and pipes hooked up filled with top soil and put a 18x18 concrete walking block to cap it on top. When I use it I have a gallon jug with water next to it and I will hit it with a splash to rinse it down. No smells to date and its been in use for four years now.
AldeanFan
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I use the back corner of the garage, under the overhang and where the downspout empties on the ground to "flush"
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The One
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How are you guys plumbing the drain through the wall? I'm air sealing and insulating my garage so I'd like to do it "the right way".
Nowater
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i WOULD LIKE TO KNOW TOO. Here in Florida we have flying cockroaches an inch and a half long that can swim and hold their breath under water for thirty minutes. I call them the Florida state bird, but it takes them two years to reach adulthood.
Falcon67
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Our old house had the kitchen sink drain through the wall because there wasn't space in the wall, and it had been in place since around 1956 anyway. Same/same with the exterior drain for my shop compressor. Spot your exit, use a long 1/4 drill bit to run a level/straight pilot hole through the wall, then hole saw the inside and outside with a saw that is tight to the diameter of the pipe. Caulk and done.
I grew up with a shop with 2 Clorox bottles nailed to the studs
One high and one low.
Garden hose through the wall and into the grass.
Nobody worried about bugs in a shop with the door open all the time.
One of the marks for being treated like a man was being able to use the high one.
One high and one low.
Garden hose through the wall and into the grass.
Nobody worried about bugs in a shop with the door open all the time.
One of the marks for being treated like a man was being able to use the high one.
zcar751
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I just add a splash of water with every piss to clear the p-trap and it stays fresh.
The One
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I ended up going with this plastic urinal from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0MEKGG/?tag=atomicindus08-20
It's super nice this time of year not having to go out into the cold.
https://i.imgur.com/AoZEKfx.jpg
It's super nice this time of year not having to go out into the cold.
https://i.imgur.com/AoZEKfx.jpg
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