Comments on: I Google-Own Incinerator Toilet

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:51:42 +0000

I’ve had the 220 volt (industrial) Incinolet in my cabin for several years. It does give off an odor when burning but is much better than dealing with the composting toilet installed previously. The main problem is capacity. We sometimes have 25 or 30 people over after a bike ride for a pot luck. Needless to say, the ladies don’t like it when liquid in the pot over flows. This has happened even when I make sure that the burn cycle is on constantly. The rule during the party is: go in the woods unless you NEED to use the pot. For perspective, the women prefer the woods to the over flowing pot.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:05:07 +0000

hi im planning on using a small wood stove..
place a stainless heavy guage pot in it …
with waste in a bio bag…placed in it….

plumb a propane nozzelburner thru the sidewall of stove,,and pointed into the pot…and was thinking of a second smaller ring burner placed above the pot..to act as a oder baker.. as it rises up and out…

…use stainless vent pipe with 1 90 degree bend out then up..

the stove is an air tight style …

use timer to remind to turn off propane…

anyone with ideas and pictures.. please mail me…

this is for small waterfront cabin..for boater friends to useon shore..by dock.

paul skypilot340@hotmail.com

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:32:54 +0000

Check out the comments on one of my other related posts.

By: Nicolas Uribe

Nicolas Uribe — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:22:04 +0000

Hi, all.
I’m planning to build an RV for travel through South America (where I live). There are no RV facilities down here, and hence no place to empty a black water tank. It would seem that an Incinolet would solve the problem.
HOWEVER – wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to be able to use a propane burner instead of electricity from an on-board generator???
Any suggestions from knowledgeable readers?
Thanks

By: Missy

Missy — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:59:05 +0000

I don’t know about all this, I was thinking about getting two, one for our farm and the other for a pool house, since our home is stone and it would be almost impossible to get water lines, septic etc. through the wall. But hey on the bright side we do still have a 2 hole privy, WPA style, and I think if the wasps and hornets will let us, we will just use it and save some money and headache, and when the pit gets full the honey wagon can back right up and drop a line. Thanks for the info.

By: someone

someone — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:29:52 +0000

heys wells the thing is i wanted to know WHICH TOILET PAPER BRAND ABSORBS THE MOST and you didn’t give me that ????

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:18:51 +0000

I suspect you could, but the main value of the Incinolet liners is that they have just enough water proofing to not let liquids seep through until you have had time to finish up and open the trap doors (which, by tradition, must be accompanied by a shout of “Release the hounds!”). Since regular paper absorbs liquids quickly, the steel doors would get wet, making for more clean up work. Too much water proofing, though, and the liners might not break down completely to ash.

Also, there is the issue of any dangerous chemicals that might be released by burning an alternative liner, such as sheets from a roll of regular household waxed paper. Of course, I’m just assuming that burning the Incinolet liners doesn’t release hazardous chemicals. I really have no idea.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:44:39 +0000

Is it possible to use something other than the paper liners that Incinolet supplies? Maybe newspaper or something?

By: nanci

nanci — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:50:13 +0000

Just found this blog and I am seriously looking into
an Incinolet. I had a Sun-Mar in a cabin on the
an island and I hated it! If for some reason it
wasn’t quite working properly etc. Cleaning it
was really gross. Not for me. What’s the usual
cost of one for a small cabin.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:06:05 +0000

Yeah, based on my experience with the incinerating toilet at my cabin in the woods, I don’t think I would put one on a boat in a marina, assuming other boats were close by. We have only one close by neighbor, and their cabin is about 250 feet away from ours. Their cabin is also about 30 feet lower in elevation, so I expect it’s pretty rare that they would ever smell the exhaust from our toilet. They’ve certainly never mentioned it to us.

I’m kind of surprised about the ashes coming out of the vent. Maybe your neighbor hasn’t done a very good job of venting it or the toilet is just defective. I have never seen ashes coming out of the vent of ours. Then again, maybe he has done too good of a job of venting it, and he has a fan that is sucking up the ashes, instead of allowing them to just settle at the bottom of the pan.

At least for the ashes, maybe you could ask your neighbor to put a better cap on the exhaust pipe. We have a spark arrester on the chimney that has a screen that is supposed to catch hot ash. Maybe he can find a vent cap with a tight enough screen to catch the ashes.

As for the smell, I’m not sure what to suggest, other than to set up a big fan that blows back toward his boat. I don’t want to suggest an escalating arms race, though. That seems to always end up bad for both sides.