Outside toilet!

Wehey! We going retro and having a outside lav, like me Nan used to have! Has anyone got any pictures of outside lavs hanging about in their lofts? if so I'd really like to take a peek to give me some idea of how they used to look!

Ta!

steve

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r.p.mcmurphy
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Alan J. Wylie

Cold, dank, draughty, stinking of shit, with a splinter ridden board complete with hole propped over a galvaniused bucket of someone elses poo, and completed by the torn up copy of the 'sun' on a nail, usually with just one sheet left...

Later on they got upgraded to an over head cistern and ceramic carrpper, but that merely moved the smell down the garden to the cess pit, and left the dunny smelling of stale urine only.

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The Natural Philosopher

Once I lived in a house in Lancs with an outside toilet in a brick outhouse, which was ironic as the house was built with a conventional bathroom and toilet. There was no U-bend or flushing mechanism, the hole just went straight down into a just-visible underground stream/sewer.

-- Stephen Chalmers

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Stephen Chalmers

used to? there are lots still in use, and probably millions still there but not in regular use.

Typically a small brick room, occasionally asbestos sheet. Usually bare brick, but may be painted, or in some cases even plastered. Roof is typically 2 or 3 large slabs of stone, but could also be slate tile or asbestos sheet. Ledged braced door compulsory. Never seen one with heating rare, lightbulb optional, very small window with plain glass sometimes fitted fairly high up. Often seen ones with no light or window. Concrete floor usually. England: high cistern wc. France: open pipe.

NT

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bigcat

Don't put a lock on the door. Traditionally, it is kept shut by bracing one foot against it.

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johnty

Ahh lovely! hehe! Got any pics from the outside?

Ta!

steve

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r.p.mcmurphy

Oh yeah! i remember seeing them with small windows! used to be where the spare bog roll was stored wasn't it. Oh i will defiantly be fitting a knocked up ledged and braced door...with a thumb opening door latch! wonder if i should pop a diamond shaped hole in the door like they had in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?!

steve

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r.p.mcmurphy

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Ours was whitewashed. It was always flaking, mother used to re-do it every year.She needed to,we used to pick off the flaking lime!

We had no light or window. But the door didn't fit100% so there was enough filtered light. If we had to go during the dark we had a bike lamp - but that wasn't allowed during the war.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

No. That's pure Hollywood. Remember that windows allow people to see in. Do you have such a hole or window in your indoor lav?

We never had spare paper, when the squares ran out we children were given more papers to tear. News of the World and News Chronicle in our house. I'm not being funny, we were poor.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

But you have a lock which only works from outside so that you can prevent unauthorised peoplefrom using it.

Mind you, it wouldn't matter in one's own garden, it did when they were down the street.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

'Fraid not. The door is off a narrow alleyway:

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- the view of the door is totally obscured by the soil pipe.

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Alan J. Wylie

Still got mine and it's fairly original. Many Victorian houses round here were built with them in addition to an inside one.

It's still got the original Thomas T and two piece bowl. But I've tiled it all over and added one of those wash basins partially set into the wall.

The dimensions are about 1 x 1.5 metres.

IIRC, some method of hand washing had to be added when I applied for a house improvment/repair grant many years ago.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Mine isn't big enough to have the door open inwards. So I'd guess you'd just whistle.

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Dave Plowman (News)

That's because there's no lock on the door, so a quick peek stops you from walking in on someone (you can only see their head through the little window) :-)

Reply to
Rob Morley

Not if you get the angle right.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

No pics as such (neverhad an outside toilet) but I remember reading this book years ago not only did he describe various building methods he gave you the ethos behind each decision see if you can get a copy (ebay,old bookshop etc), should get the ideas flowing.

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soup

The site contains the following information:

The Specialist and its sequel, I'll Tell You Why, are available from Chic's son Dwight who runs

The Specialist Publishing Company

109 La Mesa Dr. Burlingame CA 94010

$6.50 a copy in North America, don't know if he'd ship over the pond, email him at snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net

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Rob Morley

Just like ours.

Ours had a little window, but at night (if we didn't use the bucket or pot (guzunder) ) we had a candle in a little blue candleholder/tray thingy, but had to be careful it didn't blow out en route, or else you just used your memory to find where it was.

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