Tennentslager

Great wee project. Have you had much use out of the hut yet?

I've just done some sums.

So you paid £4K for the lease of the plot, £9k to build it, and £90 per month ground rent for 20 years which is another £21600

So a grand total of £34,600 for 20 years, or an average over the period of £144 per month

It's probably like owning a boat, you should NEVER add up all the costs of ownership and never ever write it down.

18 hours ago, Crofter said:

Great wee project. Have you had much use out of the hut yet?

We are up there all the time. Family use it too...it's a bit of a party hut! 

Had 14 sleeping over one night.

And the kids love it, got the kayak out now the weather is good and its only 30m down to the lochside??

That was a really interesting read. Thanks.

I hope you get many happy years of use out of it. A home-from-home when you're away. Something that will become part of the fabric of your family life. Brilliant.

Ian

I somehow missed this awesome post - what an inspiring project!  Really great attitude to building.

I somehow missed the part where I recommended the Hitachi gas nailer under my pseudonym. 

"Sparrow Fart" for the uninitiated. 

Thanks again, Ian . 

Well done - what a great project and nicely documented blog - thank you

It was all going so well, then I spotted the obvious building control infringement which could jeopardise the whole project...............

Yup, that Justin Bieber poster . I'm trying to bring out new legislation banning such items. 

"Is it too late to say sorry?", yes Justin, it is 

 

I think that is exceptional for 10k or thereabouts.

Love the 3 or 4 frying pans. 

Amazing project, well done!  - love the idea of the maps.  Just one quetion - what was it that was £100 per metre?  You bought 4 m and grouted it? 

On 06/07/2016 at 21:51, jack said:

The pics are a bit out of order 

£100 per metre refers to the slate tiles behind the stove

Think he gave me the 4m he had spare for 70 squids!

They were 15/20mm think and really heavy. They act like a storage heater after the stove has been on all evening they radiate heat through the night.

thay look the same as the tiles down on my kitchen floor in our renovation house.  They are really heavy.  Some were laid on wooden shelves and as I took the shelves off, they fell off and narrowly missed my tootsies.  God job I had my dickies boots on. 

Shame they are all coming up when we redo the kitchen.  You could have any I manage to get up in one piece....

Thanks but think I've got two spare?

A question about the compost loo, if I may @Tennentslager..

 

How often do you need to change the bucket, and do you have dozens of buckets composting? Is it one per weekend staying there say?

 

The application I am debating elsewhere is whether a compost loo is suitable for an allotment, and I thought of this system. I guess the issue will be whether enough compost can be generated to be worthwhile, and whether one or two allotment-holders generate enough poo to fill a bucket quicker than it gets too smelley to be pleasant.

 

Any comments would be most welcome.

 

Cheers

 

Ferdinand

 

We don’t compost it at all as the other alternative is to burn it. 
Generally it needs emptied after a couple of months and I store it sealed under the hut then when I have a big garden fire going I pop it on at the end of the night and it turns to ash

Its probably 90% sawdust and paper so burns quite well

28 minutes ago, Tennentslager said:

We don’t compost it at all as the other alternative is to burn it. 
Generally it needs emptied after a couple of months and I store it sealed under the hut then when I have a big garden fire going I pop it on at the end of the night and it turns to ash

Its probably 90% sawdust and paper so burns quite well

 

Cheers.

So it is quite happy to sit there under the thunderbox with no lid on the bucket for a couple of months, and the smell protection provided the liquid / solid separation, a handful of sawdust, the toilet lid and the fan (in the case of your posh one)?

 

And if you were composting it would be about 10 buckets in total.

 

Thanks

Edited September 15, 2020 by Ferdinand

We have a garden compost loo using tall plasters buckets (£7 from B&Q) sitting on a frame. We don't bother separating and use a handful of wood shavings (horse bales cost about £10 and will last a long time) after each use. It really absorbs the smell well.There's a book called 'Humanure' which explains the different types. You could experiment with this very simple low cost set up and see how long it lasts, I'm suspecting most people just want a quick pee at the allotment after their cup of tea?!