Unusual and interesting toilets from all around the world.

Toilets of the World

Toilets of world leaders, artists, and authors: The Ottoman Sultan Woodrow Wilson Leon Trotsky Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Dwight Eisenhower Robert Kennedy William Shakespeare Edgar Allan Poe Vincent Van Gogh Jim Morrison Lady Gaga

How to Buy and Install Your Own Squat Toilet in Your Home

People ask me from time to time, "How can I install a squat toilet in my home?" These might be people who have recently moved to the U.S. Once in a while it's someone like a U.S. Air Force veteran who was stationed at Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey and came to prefer squatting. Sometimes it's someone squatting for health reasons. You can purchase squat toilets in the U.S. The difficult part is getting them installed and, in some places, getting the installation approved through health or building safety inspections. A few alternatives or workarounds are available. Here is everything I have been able to find on the topic.

If you want to have a squat toilet in your home or office, there are three possible solutions:

  1. Buy and install a squat toilet.
  2. Buy and use a portable squat toilet.
  3. Buy or build an elevated squatting platform contraption. Try not to fall off of it and hurt yourself.

Read more about installing your own squat toilet, including U.S. squat toilet regulations »

Today's Featured Plumbing
King Agamemnon ruled the region's most powerful kingdom from the palace at Μυκήνες or Mycenae around the 14th Century BC. According to the legends, his brother was Menelaus, whose wife Helen was abducted by Paris of Troy. Agamemnon then commanded the Achaean forces (mislabeled as "Greek" today) in the Trojan War.

The picture above shows the innermost chamber of the main palace on Mycenae's hilltop citadel. This is where Agamemnon's bed and chamber pot would have been.

The page of Mycenae's plumbing details Agamemnon's chambers as well as the citadel's large cisterns used to withstand protracted sieges. It also shows the public latrines and cisterns of the nearby Bronze Age citadel of Τίρυνς or Tiryns.
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Who is the Toilet Guru?
Bob Cromwell seated on the ancient public toilets in Ephesus.

Who is the Toilet Guru? Is he obsessed? What is it like to be the Toilet Guru? Why does this site exist?

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