Anyone out there with an Envirolet toilet? What happens if you leave the boat with no power to it for any time?

whats an envirolet toilet then?

It's a composting toilet! Apparantly (look away if you are eating breakfast!) the fluids evaporate off, and whats left decomposes to soil, that you riddle out. Apparantly they only need emptying every 9 months. But it needs heat - from your electric supply, hence the question!! Sounds great instead of the cassettes and the pump outs / listing etc..!!

PS Thanks NB Willawaw, any help is gratefully received.

Great !! - and there's me been trawling their site, and couldn't find it !! Many thanks. I think there is a 12 / 240v unit as well, that seemed a good idea for a narrow boat, as it would switch "down" the power for times when it's on its own! Don't like the idea of a swivel cowl on the roof - that will spoil lines of a nice boat very quickly!! I was / am hoping that it can be disguised as a stove chimney!! Before long you could have a boat sprouting chimneys everywhere!
Thanks for the research....

Well an interesting one that. I am also intrigued. Watch this space as they say.

I imagine what would happen is that the decomposeing of the material just slows down as the temperature drops which should not be a problem as no new material would be added.

We shall see!

Thanks Harvest - would like to keep up with your "experiment" once you have fitted it if possible.. I'm in design stage at the moment - and would need to leave a bigger space for the Envirolet!! But it seems a good idea!
Thanks

I know this topic was a couple of months ago but I have only just joined!

I am very interested in this idea and hate our current (inherited) chemical porta loo thing. We don't want a pump out toilet either.

Can someone explain the sort of dimensions we are talking about, both the toilet unit itself and the holding tank? Does it work by putting sawdust down as the 'on land' sort do? I was a bit concerned about the electric requirements when the boat is unattended as we always disconnect ours as we are (perhaps unreasonably) paranoid about electrical fires whist she is unattended.

Our bathroom needs a complete revamp at some point so planning at this stage would be good.

Liz

[quote="ejwebster"]I know this topic was a couple of months ago but I have only just joined!

I am very interested in this idea and hate our current (inherited) chemical porta loo thing. We don't want a pump out toilet either.

Can someone explain the sort of dimensions we are talking about, both the toilet unit itself and the holding tank? Does it work by putting sawdust down as the 'on land' sort do? I was a bit concerned about the electric requirements when the boat is unattended as we always disconnect ours as we are (perhaps unreasonably) paranoid about electrical fires whist she is unattended.

Our bathroom needs a complete revamp at some point so planning at this stage would be good.

Hey - hiya ej! The enviro loo does need constant power. From my research so far, if you switch it off comletely, it's likely to smell after a while. I'm not convinced they are great unless yours is a live aboard. There is a 12v version that might help, that runs the same as a fridge. They are larger than "normal" loos and potti's - about 3 foot wide from memory, so your refurbished bathroom needs to be planned around it. I'm struggling to fit one in unless I have a through bathroom - something I wasn't so keen on initially.
Anyway be interested in seeing how you do on this.
regards