ESCAPE TO THE WILDERNESS | OFF-GRID LIVING | DIY Compost Toilet Build #1

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We left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain, to live off-grid. We’ve spent 2 years alone, renovating an old stone house and restoring the abandoned land.
Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, our toilet experience has been primitive and, at times, traumatic.
We spent the first year on our homestead going to the toilet in the bushes, with a shovel and a knife, fighting for our place amongst the grunting wild boar.
The second year on our homestead, Emilia made some improvements. A make shift compost toilet built from pallets, scrap wood and a thoroughly cleaned out bucket of paint.
However, winter is coming and Robbie has had enough bucket emptying to last him a life time. Emilia says that as we will be using a compost toilet for the rest of our lives, (she loves compost and the environment) we must build a compost toilet that will last FOREVER! Two years of thought has gone into this design, and probably 1,000 KZfaq videos…. We are so excited to see the result, and never have to empty a bucket of poo again.
Join us as we continue to build our off-grid homestead, and become self-sufficient from the land.
0:00 Intro
00:29 Tour of Emilia’s current toilet
00:56 Problems with Emilia’s toilet
01:16 Designing the ultimate off-grid compost toilet
02:05 Bringing up materials
02:24 Emilia being dangerous with a chainsaw
02:47 Heated discussions
03:34 Poisonous caterpillar
03:53 Harvesting 1 of our 2,000 almond trees
04:55 Making a concrete floor slab
06:10 Emilia shows us how to pour concrete
07:33 No going back - we messed up the design
08:14 Centipede in Robbie’s boxers
08:24 Cultivating a new piece of land
10:16 Giant vultures circle around Sage
11:30 Concrete slab reveal
12:39 Emilia vs blowtorch
14:31 Robbie bought a door and Emilia hates it
15:04 Searching for bats, wild sheep surprise us
15:51 Sage picking up chickens
16:47 Robbie nearly cuts finger off making a door
18:42 Emilia touches a snake
19:57 Emilia loses her block laying virginity
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@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

Here we are building our dream compost toilet after spending the first year on our homestead going to the toilet in the bushes, with a shovel and a knife, fighting for our place amongst the grunting wild boar. Anyone have any other interesting wilderness toilet experiences? Would you consider switching to a compost toilet for the rest of your life like I’m forcing Robbie to do?

@lexnite22 Ай бұрын

Get into making bio-charcoal! Great for your composting toilet and chicken coop. It helps reduce the smell while absorbing the nutrients in the matter, then you can use as compost on your plants. As your creating the bio-char you can even use the heat and cook things too.

@djazt.8053 6 ай бұрын

There are channels with videos, then there are a few channels with videos and a few outtakes, and then there is this channel with … only outtakes? 🙃You're a seriously funny family and a breath of fresh air on KZfaq. I enjoy your videos a lot!

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind comment! We are glad you’re enjoying the videos! We have absolutely no idea what we’re doing, it’s interesting that our videos feel like outtakes. I guess we just don’t want them to feel boring, so try and keep the bits we find funny!

@djazt.8053 5 ай бұрын

@@ladyandtheowlman It seems to work, your videos are never boring! And it gives them a unique style that I haven't seen anywhere on KZfaq. Unique is probably a good thing when on KZfaq, so just keep doing what you're doing and see where it takes you?

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for all your feedback! We really appreciate you taking the time to comment 🤩

@TheMadManPlace 5 ай бұрын

I have seen men, over 6'6" bodybuilder types, reduced to shivering, high pitched shrieking like a 3 year old girl and crying and wailing when they encounter a snake unexpectedly. So you have got absolutely nothing to be ashamed of - yes you were shaken BUT you handled yourself pretty damn good under the circumstances - congratulations.

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure my scream could be heard from the other side of the valley when I first touched it! BUT thank you anyway! 🤣

@tessakennedy7156 6 ай бұрын

Contemplating the Bernia whilst on the job will make for a sublime experience

@andrewharris1837 4 күн бұрын

Woah the snake was long & looked venomous.Thank god u not get bitten. When we had a big old colonial house here in Singapore,a cobra ate our cat which we could'nt find for days until the snake fell thru the ceiling into the lounge with the cat in its stomach 😮

@tessakennedy7156 6 ай бұрын

Hmmm.....getting cheekier 😊

@xo6910 Ай бұрын

The word that comes to mind when watching these videos as an architect from the United States is “pluck” - this small family has fortitude and heart in profusion. Enjoyable to watch! Thanks for sharing

@ladyandtheowlman Ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! As an architect, what do you think of our compost toilet design? We will be adding a green roof in our next video!

@LarryLawfer Ай бұрын

I have been re-cooperating from a new left knee replacement and have enjoyed this journey.Sage is learning skills at his age that will make this journey faster should he ever embark on creating his own Utopia. Just like my only child, I bet he would like a sibling, if only to commiserate with as he grows under your tutelege. Watching your physical efforts is an inspiration.

@ladyandtheowlman Ай бұрын

Oh goodness, we wish you the best with your knee recovery Larry! Sage has definitely got some impressive skills already, it's amazing to see how fast he learns! Hopefully he'll have some siblings in future to adventure with too!

@burakb806 23 күн бұрын

what a great job of living offgrid and love your dedication on the things that you are building. BUT be careful with the CEMENT DUST especially with your kid, it could cause serious and irreversable damage on your lungs. peace be with you all

@ladyandtheowlman 22 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words, it really means the world to us! And thank you for the advice on cement dust, we're taking more precautions now with Sage, and we're all being more careful. Peace be with you too!

@HeyMichaelLeo 6 ай бұрын

Now that's love.

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@drobbins678 5 ай бұрын

Great progress on the toilet build - looks like it's a family affair, you all work together so well including Sage! Kudo's to Robbie for a great, well thought out design and Emilia for Master Builder 🙂 Continued success!

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

Yes - having Sage there does help to keep the peace between us as well! Have to wait for the next part to see if Robbie’s design is a success 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ We really appreciate your kind words and support 😊

@mrmorry 6 ай бұрын

It's just great that such young guys know how to work with their heads and hands. I follow you with interest. Take some more, don't throw it away. good luck.

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

We’re definitely finding more sanity working outside in the sun compared to our old lives stuck in a dark office in London! We’re learning how to build everything for the first time, makes you realise how competent professional builders are! Thanks for following us 💫

@adamtash2891 29 күн бұрын

oh my you have so much animals.....so cool

@ladyandtheowlman 22 күн бұрын

Haha thank you Adam, love the passion for the animals, you sound like Robbie!

@johannwolf1 29 күн бұрын

Hilarious visionary smash cutting at 1:40. We are clearly the same. Thanks for this really!

@ladyandtheowlman 22 күн бұрын

Haha thanks Johann! Robbie really is a little insane when it comes to designing things, some high levels of passion! So funny to see how young sage looks in that clip as well, wow! He'll be 5 years old by the time we actually finish this compost toilet haha!

@TimezoneJunkies 6 ай бұрын

Hey there guys! We had no idea you had a youtube channel! We (Malin and Alex from Casas Ibanez) love watching your videos, you guys are so natural on camera 🙂 We were in our own bubble so much during the time of your construction doing our van that we completely missed out on coming to see you guys up there! It's nice for us to see the valley from a different perspective and we are really enjoying seeing your progress! Whenever we are back we would love to come and have a look. Can't wait for the next video! Oh by the way, Sage is soooo cute!

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

Hey Malin and Alex! Great to hear from you guys. We had no idea you had a channel either! 😅Haha well yeah, we made a channel because our friends kept asking for updates on what on earth we were doing in Spain, so we thought maybe just make a KZfaq channel so they could follow along and anyone else who wanted to watch! Hope you’re enjoying your adventures in India. We loved hearing of your travelling around Sri Lanka in a tuk-tuk. Definitely give us a shout when you’re next here and we can show you around! Sage is hilarious, and an absolute handful at the same time 🤦🏻‍♀️

@VeraMMartins 5 ай бұрын

Amazing videos guys 😊 funny and realistic !!! And what an amazing place that is!

@royvanzyl1253 5 ай бұрын

Real living, awesome content .

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment Roy, really appreciate the support! 🌈

@timshimmin3468 6 ай бұрын

Fascinating content. Keep up all the hard work and resilience. Concrete footings pro tip......measure diagonals.❤

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

Ah yes good idea, hard to do that with one person when the other one is on baby duty! Wish we had one of those really big metal 90 degree set squares!

@OMURTOPARLI 23 күн бұрын

Yeeeeea🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@swjan6831 6 ай бұрын

❤樂觀及活力的生活😊，令人佩服

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@philvale5724 6 ай бұрын

Hi,👋, L&T, O, M, 😂, I think there is a song about that , 😂, thank you for sharing your amazing experience living off the grid, a the land , And erecting your compost toilet, it is a pity you are a little bit too far away, I have two or three pieces sanitary wear bits that you could have for nothing, about seven or eight years ago, I was In a builders merchant back in the UK, ordering some materials, some bits and pieces for job I was doing, I noticed that somebody was taking bathroom, suite et cetera apart, So I made some enquiries with the management, and it appears they were removing five or six of the bathroom Show unit appliances and they were going up for sale, so I asked them how much they wanted for the whole lot ha ha, 😂, they came up with a figure, and I said I’ll take the whole lot, It took me two trips, but I managed to collect everything and bring it across to France, if you have a chance and you see showrooms in building merchants, you want to make them enquiries to see whether they are going to be exchange or replaced it any time as great possibility you will get them for less than half price, Give you an idea , I brought the kitchen made of solid oak, without the appliances was over £18,000, I paid £2000 for it, but I had to wait nearly 3 months for them to dismantle and get it all prepared for me, I did spend another bit of money on some extra work Top as there was not quite enough, as I wanted to build a centre Island in the kitchen with a breakfast bar off the back of it, Sometimes you have to be a little bit cheeky , and you know what being a bit cheeky is like don’t you?, 😂 . There was a couple of scenes in your, video, where I had to reconnect my pacemaker, as you’ve got my heart racing a bit too much ha ha, 😂, cheeky, 😂, I see your chicken coop is a lot safer now , especially with the buzzards and Eagles 🦅 hovering about, Stay safe, keep up the great work , colder weather is now coming in, I’ve had frost nearly every morning this week so far, in the Correze France , I/we look 👀 forward to seeing you all on the next stage of your journey, stay safe, Phil from the moulin France ,

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

Hey Phil! Good idea about getting discount prices from showrooms, we will ask next time we’re in! Harder to be cheeky with builders merchants when we won’t speak fluent Spanish! But we’re getting better each time, you’ve got to hustle. We add something new to the chicken house next episode to prevent more eagle attacks. Hope you’ve got a good log fire to keep you warm!

@philvale5724 6 ай бұрын

@@ladyandtheowlmanHi 👋, good luck with builders merchants, not sure whether they have showrooms over there like they had in the UK, I purchased a very large kitchen from a place called K2 B, that stands for kitchens and bathrooms, the kitchen was on display I think around £18,000, without the appliances, I paid, I think 2 1/2 thousand for it, but then I spent another 2 1/2 thousand pound, purchasing some more granite worktop, and I bet you can’t guess where that came from, Portugal, That came all the way from Portugal up to Newmarket in the UK, it was two sizes I wanted and then I brought it all the way across back to France again, because I had a large business, I used to go quite a lot to different builders merchants, and it was just a case of been at The right place at the right time, and of course the money, so if something came up that I thought I could use, I will get it, I hope all goes well with your chicken coop, And you managed to stop eagles, buzzards, coming down and helping themselves to free range chickens, 🐓, good luck for the future, I just remembered you said about a fire, I’m sitting here at the moment with blankets around me trying to keep warm as I didn’t think it was worth light on the fire around about half 6 o’clock 7 o’clock in the evening, I am sitting here with a nice glass of wine though, Stay safe, keep up the great work, ❤ Phil from the moulin.

@sedataktas2209 6 ай бұрын

Your'e perfect :)

@muli66 4 ай бұрын

great!

@ladyandtheowlman 4 ай бұрын

Thank you 🤩🧡

@robertcarkeek8391 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful filming!

@ladyandtheowlman 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words Robert! 🌟

@paolomasteryachtpaolodegio5335 4 ай бұрын

Great job

@ladyandtheowlman 4 ай бұрын

THANK YOU 🧡🧡

@MakerNZ 6 ай бұрын

Keep up the fantastic work, pizza oven next ??

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Emilia would like a WHOLE outdoor kitchen, pizza oven FOR SURE. Maybe in 5-10 years time 🤦🏻‍♀️

@letrolltwo5625 6 ай бұрын

Yay new vid from you :D

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

We’re excited too! 💫

@user-gs7sn9ko1q 6 ай бұрын

终于等到更新了~！

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

❤️💫

@climbskibikenz 6 ай бұрын

You guys are great. Is that lime powder that you're throwing around at one point? Be careful with breathing that stuff...

@ladyandtheowlman 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the love! It’s called Yeso rapido, it’s a plaster, all the builders around here use it to quickly stick stuff together. It’s pretty amazing stuff, dries very quickly, and is very strong. Not sure what it’s made of, but we’ll be more careful with it now you’ve mentioned it - thanks for the advice!

@JoseRomero-qg3fw 3 ай бұрын

Cuando podáis tenéis que venir por Castellón.Morella ,Culla y Ares en els Ports es una zona de montaña muy mediaval así conocéis tierras valencianas.........seguro que os gustará

@ladyandtheowlman 2 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias por el consejo, ¡definitivamente visitaremos estos lugares!

@Vixth14 2 ай бұрын

"he's a massive lump"🤣😂

@tylodescaensipe2106 6 ай бұрын

Hello,beautiful Mountainview at 4min52sec...what is the name of this King of the Mountains?Whish you a great Time!!!!

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

Hello thanks for your well wishes! The name of the mountain is Sierra Bernia

@tylodescaensipe2106 6 ай бұрын

Thank you verry much!🤩@@ladyandtheowlman

@jupitertobe5727 Ай бұрын

This is very good, I want to make it like this... may I know which country this is in...? I'm from Indonesia..I really enjoyed your video..thank you

@ladyandtheowlman Ай бұрын

Hello 🙋🏻‍♀️ Thanks for the support. We are in the south of Spain, in the Valencia region.

@daveffs1935 6 ай бұрын

The owl man? Who? Who?

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

🦉

@ikinvogor 16 күн бұрын

Hi! Do you have internet? Good luck!

@ladyandtheowlman 10 күн бұрын

Thanks for the comment Nikita! We really appreciate the love. Yes we have internet connection via a dish on the house that luckily can point to a small mast between the mountains! Otherwise getting internet here would have been a bit tricky!

@robertlee6479 3 ай бұрын

There are much better solutions for that. Dig a pit about 5 ft deep 4 x 6 ft concrete the bottom then brick the sides, not forgetting to put your inlet pipe near the top on one side and your outlet pipe 6" below on the opposite side. A steel plate on the top for access incase of blockage. It's called a soak away

@ladyandtheowlman 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for comment Robert! This does indeed sound like a simple solution. Robbie tried to make us do this in the beginning, but I told him I wanted to store the compost so we can move it around the land and feed our trees (after a couple of years of fermentation of course,) that’s how we came to the idea of the bin system. Also the toilet is quite near our spring, so we were a bit worried about hazardous things going into the soil!

@robertlee6479 3 ай бұрын

@@ladyandtheowlman Not the best idea as human waist contains a lot of chemicals and metals from the food we eat, so far better to let it drain away slowly and if you do get blocked then call the council to come and empty it and do not,,, use and bleach or other such things down the loo as it stop the muck from decaying as it kills all the good bacteria. Trust me I have had a soak away on my last 3 farms.

@wdwdHenry9022 3 ай бұрын

whereabout in spain is this place? looks cool

@ladyandtheowlman 2 ай бұрын

Hey! We are in the south of Spain. In the Valencia region ☀️☀️

@wolf3799 4 ай бұрын

I enjoy watching your videos, but I would to suggest you to always use gloves , eye protection and dust mask specially if you’re are mixing harmful chemicals, concrete mixing. Hope to see more videos

@ladyandtheowlman 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment Wolf! And thank you for recommending we take more care! You're absolutely right. It’s easy to forget when you're doing it everyday. Robbie is usually pretty good with his safety, and me & Sage generally try and stay away from the chemicals! We've spent so much money on good gas masks in the past, the replaceable filters are a real investment, but we will be sure to get more next time we go to the shops!

@salvatoregiardina90 6 ай бұрын

Buongiorno ....ma i sottotitoli in italiano ?????

@ladyandtheowlman 6 ай бұрын

Scriviamo manualmente i sottotitoli per ogni episodio, quindi speriamo che siano abbastanza accurati! Hai provato a fare clic su "traduzione automatica" nel pulsante delle impostazioni in fondo alla pagina?

@petersauer9496 8 күн бұрын

Why not dig hole 6. deep and about 3' square from side to side when it is full you cover with dirt and dig a new one.

@ladyandtheowlman 5 күн бұрын

Well Peter.... this is a good idea. Haha. This is at least what sensible people would do. Although we do like the idea of having a safe place from the mosquitos, would you have a moveable structure (water proof house) with your design that you can move to the new toilet location? With our design I guess what sold us was reading the 'humanure handbook' and we liked the idea of storing the compost and using on our trees in future