Does anyone have any experience with these? They look too good to be true. We'd love to have a toilet down by our pool. Thanks, Mary

 

Mary, no experience with them, but after inspecting their website, they are cute, and would work fine on a boat or space craft, but by a pool, I'd use blue water. It breaks it all down and doesn't smell once the breakdown is complete. You will have to consider new wiring for an outlet to handle the current needed for this device, and it would probably have to be a dedicated circuit. I'd also consider some sort of cover around it, just for modesty's sake. Having worked at Atlanta's airport for a number of years, the first rule of the "lav" truck (which emptied the waste, and provided drinking water in one operation) -- "don't drink the blue water". And for $1700 we country boys could use the money better and as for a bathroom...., well, nevermind.

 

I have installed one in an office trailer, and it does work as advertised. It's a well-built unit & the catalytic exhaust does take care of the smell. On one occasion, when it 'on', there was a power outage. It stunk to high heaven. Cleaning the ash can is not too bad, but no-one ever wanted to do it. I don't often install a circuit breaker and mark it 'toilet'.

Since it was a bit of an oddity, we rigged a CD player to turn on whenever the bathroom door was opened; it played 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash. You'd have to see the Incinolet in action to understand.

I give it a 'thumbs up'.

 

Does the catalytic part only work on cycles of flushing, or is it a constant "burning" situation. How practical would it be for occasional use, like the OP stated, around a pool? Since you have experience with one, would it be cost effective or merely a convenience item? Interesting item.

 

You push a button to 'flush', which turns on the burning element and a fan that directs the 'products of combustion' through a catalytic converter. It goes through the burning cycle & shuts off. The element looks much like a large 220 VAC element from an electric stove & it does the job.

Is it cost-effective? I don't know. Probably cheaper than running a 3" drain & a water line over to the pool. You need a 220 VAC circuit, and I imagine that it should be GFI. As I mentioned earlier, we had it in an office trailer. The bathroom drained into a holding tank & pumping that tank once a week was expensive. The Incinolet was very cost effective in that situation.

 

OK,one more. Combustion chamber....is it vented, and where does it vent? I know you said catylitic, but surely it vents to the atmosphere at some time.

 

It has a 4" vent outlet that you pipe to the outside, to a regular dryer vent termination, with 4" sinlge-wall. You can stand outside near the vent when it's running and there is not much, if any, odor.

 

Cool.....I mean catalytic.