Kia
Ora and welcome to our site
 What
we do
We
manufacture aesthetically pleasing compact composting toilets that
can be used in baches, cottages, campervans (movans), boats,
and caravans as well as most remote applications.
The
Kiwi Bog is built to comply with New Zealand and Australia
standard AS/NZS 1546.2:2001 which is a joint standard for
waterless composting toilets.
Kiwi
bogs works on the urine separating principle.
·
Uses
almost no water
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Full
size seat
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Straight
forward installation
·
12
month warranty
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Compact
all-in-one design
·
12v
and 230v models
·
No
smell in normal use
·
Shower
proof
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Hand
made for your (Ahem)
convenience
10%
of profits (if
we ever make any)
to
the Kiwi Recovery Program
News
Thursday
11th April 2013
We
are having quite a bit of trouble with our kiwibog.com website
because someone (who shall remain nameless) forgot to update the
site registration. So in the meantime we have purchased
kiwibog.co.nz so that you can still access everything online.
Update:
12th;
We are back online here as you can see and will now keep both
sites as mirrors of each other. Sorry for any problems experienced
during our outage.
Sunday
17th Feb 2013
Well
we have been slack. No updates for quite a while although we have
been busy making bogs throughout this time. We continue to make
around 2 a month. The first significant change is that the urine
tray is now made from fibreglass and is much more solid. It is now
bolted into the bog top with stainless bolts. Unfortunately the
second change is to our prices. Our costs keep rising and we have
no choice but to pass them on.
A
further change to models in the last few years is that the top is
free of the bottom of the bog as urine drops from the tray outlet
to be received by a funnel on a stalk rising from the urine outlet
in the bottom of the bog. This makes bag changes and cleaning much
easier while assisting with odour removal as there is an air gap
between the urine outlet and the funnel so that the fan removes
any odour.
Thursday
30th September 2010
With a GST increase due tomorrow we have amended our price
list. We have absorbed the increase on some items but have had
to increase our bog and tray prices as these have not been raised
for many years although our costs for componentry have. Hope you
will still find our prices affordable. We have manufactured and
supplied around 150 bogs to date.
Wednesday
2nd July 2008
Can't believe it is so long since we last updated these
pages We have been busy making bogs and finding new people and
firms to do our fibreglassing. Finally things have settled more
and a new revision of this site is underway but obviously not
finished as yet. When time permits it gets attention. We keep
improving our bogs a little with each one and now have a very
classy product although it still retains its hand-made appeal. We
have attached stainless latches to each side of the bogs and are
planning to revert to plastic just for the urine trays. This means
that trays may be available again as we have had to turn away many
prospective purchasers while we weren't making them as a separate
item.
Thursday
10th May 2007
Our move didn't really happen. It is still a possibility but
not likely in the near future. We would still love to live and run
Kiwi Bog from off grid but are staying where we are for the time
being. Fibreglass bogs continue to be the norm although we
are also looking into rotational moulding too. A hacker got into
our site last month but has been seen off by our hosts. Some may
have got a message from google advising of our infection. Be
assured it is gone now.
Saturday
3rd February 2007
Fibreglass bogs are now a reality and are far more rigid
than the plastic. The urine trays are now glassed into the bog
top. Although they are rougher inside they are still easy to clean
and retain their elegant good looks.
Kiwibog is on the move for the foreseeable future.
From early March for an indefinite time kiwibog will be on the
road. First in the North Island till 20th March then in the South.
Mostly round Nelson and The West Coast. This means you will need
to catch up by email or cell phone (027 4491 699) until we
re-establish ourselves with a land base (we may not get a landline
again)
Tuesday
7th November 2006
We have finally been forced to raise our basic bog price to
over the thousand dollar mark this has followed significant price
increases for all the bog components over the last four years
which mostly seem to have risen with the cost of petrol.
Fortunately we remain about 700 dollars cheaper than our nearest
known compeditor. We are now forced to make our bogs from
fibreglass exclusively as the plastic sheet we first used and had
manufactured especially for us is now prohitively expensive. We
have changed our bog too: whereas we used flexible pipe from the
urine tray to the outlet we have now replaced this with a funnel
so that the top of the bog is no longer tied to the bottom and can
now be completely removed for cleaning or changing buckets and
bags.
Sunday
11th June 2006
One of our customers has appeared on the Nation radio
Country Life programme or 2nd of June
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/countrylife
They are the peel forest outdoor persuits centre who have two bogs
in their eco lodge and are intending to purchase more. They
describe theirs as working well and their desire to purchase more
speaks for itself. We are delighted to get such positive feedback.
Friday
26 May 2006
I can't believe its well over a year since updating this. Oh
well. We unfortunately have had to increase our price for our bog
made from plastic sheet as the cost of both the moulding and the
raw sheet has risen astronomically with the rise in petroleum
products. The good news is that we now have available bogs made
from fibreglass that are still at the old price. This is because
fibreglass is cheaper for us than the plastic sheet we have had to
have made especially to our specifications. These new bogs are
identical to those made from plastic sheet with the exception that
the inside surface appears rougher. It is still easily cleaned and
I am advised that it is 'food grade'. We have now included our
manufacturing check list on this site
so you can see exactly what comes with a bog. We have recently
upgraded our manufacturing process to include as short length of
urine pipe with a right angle bend to even further ease the
installation process for our customers.
Wednesday
16th March 2005
Well a while since last updating these pages and a lot has
been happening. Good sales of the bog continue including to
Australia. We find an increasing need to support do-it-yourself
bog makers. We are selling the urine diversion tray to those who
already have toilets of their own construction who now want the
improvement of urine separation. This dramatically reduces the
maintenance time as faeces alone accumulate much more slowly than
faeces and urine together. In addition we are now able to supply a
kitset to those who wish to do some of the work themselves or want
to use their own cabinet. We find that with the poor weather our
solar kit is not sufficient in some areas so we have added a new
"super solar kit" with doubled charge and storage.
We have made a few changes to the bog itself too; the height
is reduced by about 50mm so as to make the need of a stool
redundant (and easier to mold) and we now only supply a rotating
vent as an optional extra. We supply a roof shroud and passive
vent of our own design as standard. The height change only effects
the bottom of the bog and moves the top closer to the floor.
Again we are planning a sales trip to the North Island for
July or August. Anyone wanting to see a bog is welcome to give us
a call and we will see if we can make it to your area.
Despite increasing costs of materials and molding we are
able to hold the price to $995.
New brochures will be out in the next few months.
Friday
21st May 2004
Sales continue unabated with great feedback from our
customers who have nothing but success to report from their bogs.
We are planning another display at the Nelson EcoFest and hope to
travel in the North Island again later this year. More details as
they come to hand. We have been trialling a worm based composting
solution for people whose bogs get a lot of use. The results are
reported in our new web page treating
outputs. Our next move is from plastic bags to starch so that
there is never again a need to empty the bag.
Monday
1st March 2004
Our first customers have now purchased their third bog for
their far north home.
Wednesday
26th January 2004
Finally back to work after a good break. Hope everyone has
had a great Xmas and new year. We are getting an increasing number
of enquiries from Australia so have investigated the cost of
shipping a bog to a customer there. Door to Door airfreight costs
around $NZ 270 and the bog without our GST is $NZ884. Therefore
Australian customers should be able to buy a bog for around not
much more than $AU1000 even with your own GST.
Wednesday
19th November 2003
Well. Another wild few months. Good sales up North, some
continue back home too and more for yachts. Many sales using the
solar supply. We have decided to offer a 30 day money back
guarantee to anyone buying a bog site unseen. We are now getting
quite a few sales from people who trust us enough to not need to
see the bog in person. So to show how much we believe in the bog
we have undertaken to refund any purchaser who buys a bog unseen
and returns it to us within 30 days of purchase in good condition.
We know of no one who would have returned theirs so we are pretty
sure of our offer.
Sunday
7th September 2003
Just to confirm that we are travelling in the North Island
from next Sunday (14th) until the 1st of November. If you would
like to see a bog give us a call on 027 4491 699. The EcoFest was
another great success with even more people than last year. We
noticed a more serious attitude generally toward green
alternatives.
In return for a bottle of good whisky, Daryl Crimp has done
a cartoon to fit under the bog seat lid to dissuade males from
urinating while standing. This sticker
is now supplied with each bog.
Forgot to mention below that we had tested the bog on a
person of more than 150Kg weight with no problems.
Tuesday
22nd July 2003
We are now recovered from the circuit of the South Island in
June. Heaps more sales and really enthusiastic response,
particularly from people on the coast. In Hokitika a council
officer sought us out to express his delight that we are
manufacturing our bogs here. We have also continued to receive
orders from all over the country. Most notable for us is our very
first customers purchasing their second bog almost a year after
their first. They are replacing an American composting toilet and
commented when placing their order that they "want something
that works". There can be no better recommendation.
Our next show and tell trip is becoming more defined. We
intend to travel to the North Island mid September and to return
early November. We will have stock with us and are happy to call
on anyone interested in viewing a working bog. We expect to visit
both coasts as well as the middle of the North Island. We will
travel North of Auckland if there is sufficient interest there
again from potential customers.
Catch if you can the Nelson ecofest the 23/4th of
August where we will again have a caravan with an installed and
working bog on show.
Friday
25 April 2003
Dates for our show and tell trips are more fixed. South
Island occupies the whole of May. The first two weeks on the West
Coast, Queenstown, Wanaka, Southland with the latter weeks Otago,
Canterbury and East Coast to Blenheim before returning to our base
in Nelson. For the North Island we have six weeks or more planned
for late September, October and early November. More precise
details of the North Island places later this year.
Friday
4 April 2003
Sales continue unabated and we are now planning show and
tell trips for later this year. North Island should be September
and we may do the South Island before then. More details in due
course. We are also responding to customer suggestions on our site
with more detailed photos of some specific areas. There is a new
area philosophy to give me space for the
sort of mindless rants for which I have become famous.
Friday
30 January 2003
I've done a bit of work on the site. Hope that you find the
improvements worthwhile. The links page is
particularly improved. Don - your webmaster and general factotum.
Monday
27 January 2003
What a rush before Xmas. Sorry to be so long in updating
this site. We circumnavigated both the North and South Islands
with our caravan. Building bogs as we went filling orders,
checking on our existing customers and taking orders for bogs to
be supplied in the new year. We are now just getting underway
again with the good news that our problems with bog moulding have
now been resolved by a local supplier. Its great to have the work
done here in Nelson where we have closer control. We have now
supplied 19 bogs to customers and now have nine bogs in stock. Not
too bad since our start August last. We have one yacht customer
who has just reported success with their installation and how much
better it is than the alternatives. They just love the absence of
smell even when the bog is in use. Some advice; sugar apparently
can neutralise the odour from urine, it just takes a teaspoon or
two washed down the urine path. If you add garden or composting
worms to your faeces before settling them to compost the end
result can become a lovely thick mulch.
Monday
14 October 2002
Now some six weeks later. A time filled with attention to
our bog's mass production. We are just returned the manufacture of
our plastic components back to Nelson but with a new company that
seems to work the way we do. We had a disastrous experience with a
Christchurch plastics moulder. Nice mirror-glass building but.
We continue to receive an average of two enquiries a day. So
we are just waiting on the repair of our caravan to undertake
quick circuits of both the South and North Islands. We will call
on those who would like to see a working bog and our existing
customers to ensure that all is well for them. We intend to make
it as far north as Kaitaia and south as Dunedin and Queenstown. A
huge number of recent enquiries have been from the deep south.
More details of our impending travels as soon as we can.
Wednesday
28 August 2002
Well - here we are back again after a very successful trip
as far north as Kaitaia and south as Christchurch. Delivering bogs
to those who had placed orders, showing to others checking with
suppliers etc...... Just today attended a seminar in Chch on
Composting Toilets organised by Andrew Dakers from Lincoln
University. The seminar was attended by about 20 interesting
people with diverse roles and experiences. One of the more
interesting people was Johannes Heeb who is president of the
international Ecological engineering society. He had some great
ideas for urban use of composting toilets including the idea of
separating faeces and urine at the toilet but allowing the urine
only to flow through the present sewerage pipes for collection,
storage and utilisation as a fertiliser. Can we get a trial going
here - what chance?
As our first customers install their bogs I will be able to
report their experience and opinions through this site. I also
plan to do quite a bit of work to clean up the site and to get the
links menu option going again soon.
Wonderful response from everyone we met. All universally
impressed with the aesthetic appeal of the bog. John Kenderdine at
the Far North Environment Centre was extremely hospitable and
supportive. We now plan a mail out to all the environment centres
who are ideal sources for people with an interest in composting
bogs.
Thursday
15 August 2002
Our trip north stopped before it had really started with a
crash on the way to Picton. This rolled our caravan and did
considerable damage but fortunately none to us. We have rebooked
and are trying again tonight on the Straitsman. In Wellington
tomorrow without the Caravan or the opportunity to see or smell a
working bog. None-the-less we will have a few bogs with us for
demonstration and sale. Contact us on cell phone 027 449 1699 if
you would like us to call on you.
Wednesday
14 August 2002
We are about to head toward the North Island for a whirlwind
tour of just over a week. If you live there (our condolences) and
we could call in to show you the bog in person. Just contact us on
027 449 1699 or email us at info@kiwibog.com
for attention within a day or so.
We are in Wellington on 14th,15 of August, Auckland around
18,19 of August and even will be in Christchurch on the 26th.
Monday
12 August 2002
Our bogs were launched at the Nelson EcoFest on Saturday
last 10th, August by Nelson's newest MP. Mike Ward for the Green
Party. This was as a result of the counting of special votes and
Mike himself had first learnt of his success only a few minutes
earlier. The launch of our kiwi bog became his first official
duty.
We achieved great publicity and quite a number of orders
with even more prospects for the future.
Saturday
10 August 2002
We have our base 7mm ABS plastic material made for us and
nearly 100 sheets arrived today just in time to build some bogs to
take north next week.
launched at the Nelson EcoFest on Saturday last 10th,
August by Nelson's newest MP. Mike Ward for the Green Party. This
was as a result of the counting of special votes and Mike himself
had first learnt of his success only a few minutes earlier. The
launch of our kiwi bog became his first official duty.
We achieved great publicity and quite a number of orders
with even more prospects for the future.
We are about to head toward the North Island for a whirlwind
tour of just over a week. If you live there (our condolences) and
we could call in to show you the bog in person. Just contact us on
027 449 1699 or email us at info@kiwibog.com
for attention within a day or so.
We are in Wellington on 14th,15 of August, Auckland around
18,19 of August and even will be in Christchurch on the 26th.
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