- On 2025-09-20 I bought a dark blue ceramic chamber pot at a second hand store, and started measuring our feast gear box, made from one of the plain wooden boxes from Jula, to determine what alterations would need to be made to make a good camping toilet to have in the tent, and made a paper mockup of what I wanted to do, which is shorten the box so that the chamber pot fits exactly in the base, then add a flat plywood sheet with a correctly sized hole to use the chamber pot, and the original lid over that. The next time we were in town, we bought another of the plain wooden boxes:
- Some days (weeks?) later Keldor cut it down for me to the size I wanted, and cut the piece for a seat, both of which I painted with the same beige wet-room paint we had used for the Waterproof the downstairs bathroom project.
- 2026-02-19 I added foam to keep the chamber pot from sliding around I am really pleased at how well it fits, if I pick up the box with the lid in place the chamber pot doesn’t move at all, no matter which direction I tilt it.
- 2026-02-20 new knife blades, old photos did some testing to see the best way to seal the foam for cleaning. Put some scrap foam on some scrap wood, and one piece I used some of the wet room spackel to close up the holes in the foam, and the other I painted directly over the foam with the same beige wet-room paint I used to seal the box itself. Verdict: the spackel isn’t a good idea, as it cracks later.