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Your fault, @Yokosuka Mike , you thought this was a good idea!😛
So, a warning. This is not the creation of a professional quality darkroom in a backwoods-style privy. It's the ongoing meanderings of an arch-muddler who has collected random darkroom bits over the years and finally has a bit of time to devote to his dream. It won't be perfect. It might not even work very well, but I'm having fun doing it, and I'll pick up the experience to know what to do better as I go. I am only an expert in the sense of combining "x" - the unknown - with "spurt" - which is a drip under pressure.
So, the "outside toilet". My house was built as social housing in 1946ish. When the house was constructed, there was a flat-roofed area at the rear separated from the back wall of the house by a passageway, but still roofed over. In this was almost certainly a coal storage area, and a toilet. Sometime since the passageway has been blocked off at one end, and a door fitted at the other to bring it - just! into the house. So it's not really outside any more, but I call it that as it's a fair description of where it is compared to the bathroom we actually use.
I refer to this as "the back passage" because it's a passage, it's at the back of the house, and I have a scabrous sense of humour.
The back passage by gray1720, on Flickr
Behind the red door is the loo. It's not coming out because if we ever sell the place having two loos will add value. Having a second loo that you can use without freezing your bum off, and having to wash your hands in the kitchen, would probably help a lot more, but I'll leave that bit to the estate agents. Hence why the porcelain has stayed. It's been used three times in nine years - when the local archaeology group did a test pit in the back garden, when my Dad visited (he couldn't climb stairs any more), and when the other bathroom was being refurbished. So it's no great shakes having it harder to use.
Thus far I've built the shelf. It's the leftover kitchen worksurface that was cut out to fit the sink in, and it was *just* wide enough - I had to cut about 4 inches off. It's also held down by gravity - again, for easy removal. It's going to be quite high to work at, but I needed to keep the cistern as well as the pan.
Outside bog by gray1720, on Flickr
Note the black material - window blind swiped from a skip where I used to work, from one of the old microscope suites. It's heavy and lightproof, and there's a piece already cut to cover the window.
More as it happens...
So, a warning. This is not the creation of a professional quality darkroom in a backwoods-style privy. It's the ongoing meanderings of an arch-muddler who has collected random darkroom bits over the years and finally has a bit of time to devote to his dream. It won't be perfect. It might not even work very well, but I'm having fun doing it, and I'll pick up the experience to know what to do better as I go. I am only an expert in the sense of combining "x" - the unknown - with "spurt" - which is a drip under pressure.
So, the "outside toilet". My house was built as social housing in 1946ish. When the house was constructed, there was a flat-roofed area at the rear separated from the back wall of the house by a passageway, but still roofed over. In this was almost certainly a coal storage area, and a toilet. Sometime since the passageway has been blocked off at one end, and a door fitted at the other to bring it - just! into the house. So it's not really outside any more, but I call it that as it's a fair description of where it is compared to the bathroom we actually use.
I refer to this as "the back passage" because it's a passage, it's at the back of the house, and I have a scabrous sense of humour.
The back passage by gray1720, on FlickrBehind the red door is the loo. It's not coming out because if we ever sell the place having two loos will add value. Having a second loo that you can use without freezing your bum off, and having to wash your hands in the kitchen, would probably help a lot more, but I'll leave that bit to the estate agents. Hence why the porcelain has stayed. It's been used three times in nine years - when the local archaeology group did a test pit in the back garden, when my Dad visited (he couldn't climb stairs any more), and when the other bathroom was being refurbished. So it's no great shakes having it harder to use.
Thus far I've built the shelf. It's the leftover kitchen worksurface that was cut out to fit the sink in, and it was *just* wide enough - I had to cut about 4 inches off. It's also held down by gravity - again, for easy removal. It's going to be quite high to work at, but I needed to keep the cistern as well as the pan.
Outside bog by gray1720, on FlickrNote the black material - window blind swiped from a skip where I used to work, from one of the old microscope suites. It's heavy and lightproof, and there's a piece already cut to cover the window.
More as it happens...
