My man cave is an entire apartment I rent out in the city. We have two bathrooms - one attached to the rec room, the other attached to the main bedroom.
My man cave is an entire apartment I rent out in the city. We have two bathrooms - one attached to the rec room, the other attached to the main bedroom.
Buy a port-o-John
Get a large slurpee at 7-11. You bought a eco-friendly, reusable, and portable urinal.
Install an upflush toilet. http://www.saniflostore.com/Saniflo-Sanitop-Pump-White-Elongated-Toilet-Kit-017-007-005.htm When It gets full enough, the pump comes on and pumps the waste out. Install the waste pipe through your garage roof and put an elbow on the end pointed towards your neighbors yard. If you need water for the toilet, you can either keep a filled 2 gallon jug to pour in the tank or run a water hose from your outside faucet. You should be all set.
flushless urinal, bro.
SoCal so no gutters.
If you had a downspout, though, cut a hole in it, glue a funnel there, paint it to match, and have a small, tall wood fence to block anyone seeing you pee into a downspout, which you have running toward the street. Then it rains, and cleans all out. But again, SoCal, so forget that.
The Man 1.0 wrote:
Yourapean wrote:...I'm thinking about running a PVC pipe out into my lawn, terminating in a drain 18 inches below ground, and fashioning a urinal inside my man cave that drains into that...
So, I work for my city's Public Works department and we see morons do this all the time. Define "Drain." If that is a city non-sewage drain and you get caught you will incur a huge fine. Heck, if it is a city sewage pipe you plan to tap and you get caught without a permit you will be fined.
If you plan to just terminate the pipe and let it "flow" into the ground you will inevitably have issues on the surface. All this and not to mention the wonderful surprise you will "encounter" one day if a vent isn't used...
Thanks for this info. And some entertaining and educational responses from all!
Yes, this is the moranic solution I was planning - draining directly into the ground, with no venting. The venting is easy enough. For this option, I'll think about how to avoid the "issues on the surface". But I'll now probably avoid it altogether.
There's water available for the garage, from the pvc-based irrigation system that runs over the whole property. But the fully plumbed, fully permitted option is not feasible. First, the detached garage is > 150 ft from the home plumbing, so it would be a lot of work to tie into the home's drainage system. Second, adding plumbing to the 400 sq. ft. garage makes it "living space" and triggers a reassessment that would increase my property taxes by $2k/yr. So that ain't gonna happen.
I like the options that the upflush toilet
http://www.saniflostore.com/Sa...07-005.htmmentioned here would allow. This got me thinking and searching, and after comments here about having a real toilet, that's what I want. I'm leaning toward the RV-type solution, with the toilet on a raised platform and a portable wastewater tank underneath, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdVhDjRr2A. Then I can unload it into a nicely private 4-inch sewer cleanout in my side yard.