Dial House, Essex, a Centre For Dynamic Cultural Change...
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Planning & design stage...
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The artist's studio. The compost toilet is annexed to the east wall of this self-build wooden building
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The site before work begun...
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Creating the foundations from bricks & slate
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King Pan.. er... Pen seated upon his throne- design clients Penny Rimbaud & Gee Vaucher
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Ron & Pen creating the base of the structure using 2 discarded pallets
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Laying the felt skirt damp course
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Floorboards are then laid over the top of the felt skirt
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Putting the framework together
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The completed frame
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The sides of the structure are then added using feather edging salvaged from the roof of the Dial House kitchen
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Ron adding the roof panels. These will later be waterproofed with felt
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The completed structure... Stain glass window courtesy of a skip in shoeburyness!
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The compost toilet structure is finished!
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This old school desk is shortly to be recycled as a compost toilet...
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After conversion... The desk was cut to size and tongue and groove paneling used to create a box, then a hole cut in one of the desk lids to fit the toliet bucket
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The right hand lid is lifted to facilitate removal of the bucket when full, whilst under the left lid is storage of 'soak' material (eg, straw, sawdust, etc). The whole unit is free-standing so that it can be easily removed for cleaning, etc
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No comment!
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Entrance to humanure composting area. When the bucket is full it is emptied here to compost for at least a year to destroy pathogens
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flowerbeds
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A watchful spirit guards the veggies...
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The vegetable beds
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Penny Rimbaud's retreat...
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Mr. Punch
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Healthy vegetables
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The toolshed
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Another guardian of Dial House...
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More veggies
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