Best foundation to put a 12/16 on?

[Slade]

I’m buying a lot in black sands, & putting a 12/16 what is the easiest way to put it on a foundation? Like sonotube or concert blocks, & how do u make a out house on lava?

[maud gonne]

How do you make an outhouse on lava? Dig, baby, dig! Find a good puka, and expand it...
Edited to add, outhouses are illegal, and for good reason - pollution of the water table and "it" all flows quickly into the ocean...

[randomq]

Easiest way, IMHO, is to put it on 9 concrete house blocks with straps. Beam can rest on your highest corner or a short 4x4+ post of 1-3ft height. Then level the beams with scrap wood shims, and cut posts for the rest of the blocks. Add Simpson ties and diagonal bracing at 45°. Then build your floor box on top of that, with or without a little cantilevering.

[Slade]

How much do u charge an hour?

[dobanion]

If you are building a outhouse, you are breaking the law, regardless. That being said, you could be a better neighbor by building a vermicomposting outhouse. Elevate it over a IBC tote (275gallon water container). Fill said tote with organic material and throw in some red wiggler worms. No waste will escape to the ground. All will be consumed by the worms. Listed below is the concept with a flush toilet, which generates more liquid (obviously), and needs a basic effluent field. If you just did the business directly into the container, there'd be no need for that.

Just a thought.

http://www.vermicompostingtoilets.net/de...nstruction

[Slade]

Thank u , yes I don’t want to harm the environment or piss people off, how is the smell & how long to decompose

[MarkP]

Use a bucket toilet/loveable loo. Bury contents in a compost pile. Cover with sufficient grass clippings or wood chips and nobody will ever know.

Even in the rain, sometimes the inside of the pile is dry so you are literally not generating ANY black water, treated or not, so it is literally better than a cesspool, septic system with leach field, or municipal wastewater system as long as you really build a decent pile and provide sufficient cover materials. To be fair considering how dis-functional large slices of the population can be I understand why the county demands tried and true systems where user input is not a factor. Don't do it right and you're just throwing poo around. Do it right and I honestly think it is the cleanest and best system. There is plenty of room to screw it up but doing it right is well within the abilities of just about anybody with even a minimal work ethic.

Don't just poo in the bucket. Put a couple of inches of wood chips, peat moss, or grass clippings in the bottom. Add cover material as needed for sufficient cover and you can go days on one bucket with no odor.

[dobanion]

I have done both, vermicomposting method, and the "humanure" approach MarkP describes. The humanure method works fine to get started, but you always gotta deal with the whole dumping a bucket of crap thing. If you don't mind doing that a couple times a week, its fine. He's certainly correct that nothing leaves the pile. It all composts up right there. Far from up to code, but nobody can make the claim you are contaminating ground water or the ocean (which is very true of thousands of cesspools on the island).

By vermicomposting, the worms essentially drastically accelerate the decomposition time, reduce the bulk by 10x, and do all the mixing and aerating for you. They will home in on poo like a guided missle, and promptly digest and deodorize it. If you should ever have odor, it's a sign to give it organic material (carbon). Perhaps once every several YEARS the chamber will need to be emptied, but most reports are that they just keep pooing, and the worms keep eating, and the container never seems to fill up. I suppose the ability to slide one IBC tote out from under the outhouse and replace with a new one would be helpful, perhaps annually. The full container could be left for a month to finish composting before use.

In both cases, and (more easily) if you are male, don't pee in your outhouse. Go find a tree. You actually get more fertilization (nitrogen) by "direct use."