I ordered our Toilet and Woodstove today from Vanessa at Tiny House,{Big Life}.
The Nature's Head Composting Toilet will let us life in the Tiny house without a septic system or blackwater tank (excellent videos on what living with a composting toilet is like are available from the excellent RVers blog, Gone with the Wynns)
The Kimberly Woodstove is one of the most efficient small space woodstoves on the market. Truthfully, this woodstove is incredibly expensive, costing as much as our trailer, but I think that it's a good investment. We'll be living off-grid through cold New England winters in a 120 square foot house that's got 13 windows and two skylights. If we were to get a smaller BTU propane unit and the temperature dropped or we ran out of propane, we couldn't just plug in an electric space heater to keep our pipes from freezing. I'd much rather spend more on a reliable woodstove than have to worry about how well we'll be able to heat the house during the winter.
The woodstove costs about $4,000 and the toilet just under $1,000, bringing the total cost of this particular purchase to about $5,000. I'll have to spend another $500 or so (guestimate) on the chimney for the woodstove in a week or so.
That's our Tiny House update for the week.
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