Oleanna Composting Toilet

While we were in the process of getting a new narrowboat built we decided to go for a composting toilet. We had experience of a macerating pump out toilet on our old boat and whilst it worked fine we were concerned about the rising costs of a pump out as well as the fear of it breaking down at an inconvenient moment. Also if we were to become iced in or immobile for some other reason we would have a problem with emptying the tank. We had no experience of cassette toilets but generally didn’t fancy the idea of having to frequently find an elsan point to empty the cassettes. We decided on a Separett Villa toilet. We have friends who have one and spoke well of it. We didn’t like the look of an Airhead, preferring a more “normal” looking toilet and we weren’t aware of the Kildwick range at the time (2015). The boat builders (Finesse Boats) had never fitted a composting toilet before but were quite happy to discuss the idea. They looked at the spec of the Separett Villa and they came up