I’m continuing to work on the caravan and the job in hand is the ‘salle d’eau’ or toilet for the non-French speakers. When I acquired it there was no toilet – just a wash basin – and I will need both a toilet and a shower facility. Originally the caravan would have had a fully fitted toilet, probably a Thetford model, but someone must have removed that a long time ago and built in a horrible flip-top cupboard arrangement in its place.
The trouble was that as well as the cupboard not being waterproof (and also most unhygienic), whoever did the job also left a gaping hole in the side wall of the toilet compartment into which the original Thetford would have fitted, as shown in the following pictures.
My aim was to come up with an idea for some kind of unit that will not only provide me with a toilet but will also rectify the above and will be waterproof so I can take showers without worrying about causing damage through water seepage into the toilet compartment walls and floor. It has taken me several days so far to do it and I’m not yet finished, but here’s the state of play as of today.
I recently acquired a Thetford 365 Porta-Potti chemical toilet (much loved by caravanners) and eventually it will sit on the main platform with a small cupboard with a flap-up lid on its left as you look at it, for the chemicals and so on. Getting to the present point has been the hardest part of the project and from now on it should be plain sailing to finish off the build in-situ.
Everything will have been varnished to make it waterproof and all that will then be necessary will be to seal all around its joints and edges with waterproof mastic and fit a couple of shower curtains, one shorter one to pull across in front of the toilet and the other full-length one to cover the toilet compartment door. I just hope that I haven’t overlooked anything in my plans 😉
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