Removing a macerator

[Liam Pike]

Hi,

I've just moved into a new property and the bathroom has a macerator that takes all the waste water out of it. From there the run is about 8 metres horizontally out to the waste pipe.

I know next to nothing about plumbing but I do know that macerators are an absolute nightmare. As such I'd like to remove it completely. I was just wondering whether this would be feasible or not. Has anyone tried something like this before?

Thanks
Liam

 

[Jackrae]

110mm diameter and a downward slope all the way - see if you have a suitable routing.

But maybe not if the previous owner used a shyte-gobbler

 

[endecotp]

Presumably this is not the main bathroom. Do you want to keep it as a bathroom or convert it to something else? Cupboard is OK. Shower room with no loo is also a possibility.

Personally I’d say that “absolute nightmare” is over-the-top. Just make sure the users are well-trained, i.e. it’s not used by visitors, and resident women are told that unblocking is their job.

 

[Mottie]

In my case, fitting a macerator in a newly created downstairs loo compared to digging up my drive, forming manholes and breaking into the sewer pipe had a cost differential of around £3K so it was a no-brainer.

 

[just pumps]

Hi,

I've just moved into a new property and the bathroom has a macerator that takes all the waste water out of it. From there the run is about 8 metres horizontally out to the waste pipe.

I know next to nothing about plumbing but I do know that macerators are an absolute nightmare. As such I'd like to remove it completely. I was just wondering whether this would be feasible or not. Has anyone tried something like this before?

Thanks
Liam

Thinking 6m is the max or is that for something else? (Sub stack?).

 

[dilalio]

Removing a macerator!

More fun than putting one in

 

[durhamplumber]

In my case, fitting a macerator in a newly created downstairs loo compared to digging up my drive, forming manholes and breaking into the sewer pipe had a cost differential of around £3K so it was a no-brainer.[/QUOTE
Until you have the cost of unblocking it a few times.and repairs.

 

[Liam Pike]

Presumably this is not the main bathroom. Do you want to keep it as a bathroom or convert it to something else? Cupboard is OK. Shower room with no loo is also a possibility.

Personally I’d say that “absolute nightmare” is over-the-top. Just make sure the users are well-trained, i.e. it’s not used by visitors, and resident women are told that unblocking is their job.

Unfortunately it's the only bathroom in the flat hence why I'm so keen on removing it!

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

If there is a feasible route for a 110mm pipe, with a fall all the way, then that would be by far, a superior solution. If the macerator has been fitted for convenience of installation previously, if its been fitted as there is no practical route for a 110mm pipe, then I think you may be stuck with it.

 

[just pumps]

Unfortunately it's the only bathroom in the flat hence why I'm so keen on removing it!

Thought building regs said every dwelling must have access to bathroom on main drainage.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Not sure I've seen it in the regs, but always been an unwritten rule I think. If we get a job in that involves 'loss of toilets' its gets immediate priority.

 

[just pumps]

Thought building regs said every dwelling must have access to bathroom on main drainage.

This is what I was told a long time ago and it makes sense to me as in say somebody converts a large house into flats, what are you going to do if there is a power cut?
(Expecting the usual comedians to appear).

 

[HERTS P&D]

Sh1t in a bucket!



Andy

 

[dilalio]

Sh1t in a bucket!



Andy

Quite a few HMO’s are occupied by those for who that is the norm and quite accepted in their country of origin

 

[durhamplumber]

Sh1t in a bucket!



Andy

I would find that preferable to a shyte masher in the house