Options for a bathroom in a barn?

[Alan W.]

Why would you do something like that? A 1000 gallon tank is just a tad less than $1000. By the time you致e got the float alarm you致e easily spent $1000. The tank is the most expensive part adding 100 foot of fill line wouldn稚 cost over a few hundred. In my area it痴 around 250 foot of leech field for a 3 bedroom house but considerably less would work for a barn. Or you could do a first class half way job for $1000.

Not knowing his soil type or grade cant say on leach line cost. He could have trees not wanting to disturb
Ive had to bring in topsoil to cover chambers that I could only place 2 inches deep.
Others Ive had to put in a wetland system that then went into a leach field.
For a limited use area such as he is describing they should be quite lenient on what they require.
Built a fellowship hall for our church where the old parsonage was demolished. To have rebuilt a house I would have had to proved the field size but he determined it limited use and signed off on it with tank location only.

 

[TnAndy]

I put a 1/2 bath in mine....toilet/sink. Very handy.

Used the 500 gallon septic tank/field bed I put in for our mobile home for the year we lived in it while building the house (trailer then went down the road). Put a 3 gallon, AO Smith bronze tank 120v under counter water heater for the sink.

 

[BHD]

an old sprayer tank will work for a septic tank,

I would guess an ICB tank would work as well, if you want a multiple compartment use two of them, or three, in a line,

fill with water before backfilling, and support the top, with something other than the plastic, top, of the tank, even a light or thin 2 or 3" fo a concrete mix, over the top, so the top does not crush,
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I do not agree 100% with this fellow but I think he is on the right track for small septic system, I have always used a T in the out let so solids do not go down the drain field, not an open pipe,

 

[lilranch2001]

When I am in the barn I use the bathroom "around the corner and over by that tree"

 

[fried1765]

Eddie has it right . . . with a small use bathroom . . . don't make it complicated.

You have got it right!

+1 for Eddie Walker, 4570Man, and you (Molalla1)

The KISS concept fits this issue perfectly.

My advice (former civil engineer -changed careers long ago).

Get NO Septic permit!
Ask no septic questions!
Install nothing obvious until any/all other inspections have been completed.

Do Precisely as Eddie Walker has described!
Anyone who has a pig named Oscar, would never steer you wrong!

 

[4570Man]

Not knowing his soil type or grade cant say on leach line cost. He could have trees not wanting to disturb
Ive had to bring in topsoil to cover chambers that I could only place 2 inches deep.
Others Ive had to put in a wetland system that then went into a leach field.
For a limited use area such as he is describing they should be quite lenient on what they require.
Built a fellowship hall for our church where the old parsonage was demolished. To have rebuilt a house I would have had to proved the field size but he determined it limited use and signed off on it with tank location only.

I wasn’t trying to engineer a proper code passing system. I assumed he wasn’t building in woods or a swamp but that would definitely complicate things. I’d put 100 foot of line in 50 foot of trench. That’s about a fourth as good as what’s required for a house but 1/100 of the service load. The line is about $1 a foot plus a couple hundred for gravel. If I was him I’d backfill with the same dirt he took out. Again I know sometimes that’s not approved.

 

[orezok]

My shop is a couple of hundred feet from my house septic system. I installed one of these and ran a 2 pressure line to the septic tank. No problem for 15 years. Everbilt 1/2 HP Submersible Pre-Plumbed Sewage Basin System-THD175 - The Home Depot

 

[Alan W.]

We are all tossing out ideas, most of which will work for a given situation. But we do not have the needed info to say yes this will work and this wont.

Does he need a permit to build and if so which ones.
Some electric inspectors are required to see the plumbing sewer finals before signing off.
What is his surroundings, lay of the land.
Distance from existing home and septic.
Does he have the equipment and skill set to do what needs to be done.
I do enjoy the sharing of ideas and Lord knows I learn heavily from all of you but we are guessing at this point.

 

[Molalla1]

We are all tossing out ideas, most of which will work for a given situation. But we do not have the needed info to say yes this will work and this wont.

Does he need a permit to build and if so which ones.
Some electric inspectors are required to see the plumbing sewer finals before signing off.
What is his surroundings, lay of the land.
Distance from existing home and septic.
Does he have the equipment and skill set to do what needs to be done.
I do enjoy the sharing of ideas and Lord knows I learn heavily from all of you but we are guessing at this point.

Alan . . . he probably needs a permit to stick a shovel in the ground , for anything like this, I believe he is out in "the country" soooo, fried gave good advice and Eddie gave the solution that both of us agree with, simple.

 

[lilranch2001]

I think many good potential options have been thrown out here, depending on so many things that none of us are clear on.
One thing as I have read over the tread, no one has brought up the fact that the OP had mentioned in his opening that it will be used for family gatherings.....
That being said, if he needs a bathroom in it now, the next thing they may want is a kitchen, then who knows, laundry facilities?