Macerator - Which One
- Thread starter Holly64
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Noise will be the least of your worries. If you must have one, I'd stick with a better known brand that has Service Agents, for when, (not if), you need one.
Not what I wanted to hear 
My situation is the house I have just bought has a downstairs wc. Their is an upstairs wc, but it has been put in place by stealing a bit of a bedroom - making it very small. This wc is located at the back of the house - as is the soil pipe.
The bath and washbasin is at the front of the house - no soil pipe. There is enough room to put bath, washbasin and wc altogether and restore the bedroom back to a proper sized room. Are there any other solutions available to me so that I don't have to use a macerator? I really don't want to leave the toilet where it is as it is taking up needed bedroom space.
My situation is the house I have just bought has a downstairs wc. Their is an upstairs wc, but it has been put in place by stealing a bit of a bedroom - making it very small. This wc is located at the back of the house - as is the soil pipe.
The bath and washbasin is at the front of the house - no soil pipe. There is enough room to put bath, washbasin and wc altogether and restore the bedroom back to a proper sized room. Are there any other solutions available to me so that I don't have to use a macerator? I really don't want to leave the toilet where it is as it is taking up needed bedroom space.
There is a pipe outside the front of the bathroom window and it runs into a drain. The bath and sink flow into this pipe.
Under no circumstances should you leave yourself with a macerator as the only toilet in the house. It WILL go wrong at some point. That much you can guarantee. Not much worse than not being able to even use the loo in your own house!
First thing I'd be doing is looking at the existing drainage. If the bath and basin already have drainage outside, then you may be lucky. (Need to check though they haven't been connected to a rainwater drain, as this is very illegal and the nice people from the Water Company can tell you off and make you connect it properly to a foul drain. 
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Assuming it is foul, then simple answer is to remove the gulley, connect a stack to the drain, and then W.C. etc connect straight to this. If unsure on the drainage situation, lift manhole covers and see which way pipes run.
) Assuming it is foul, then simple answer is to remove the gulley, connect a stack to the drain, and then W.C. etc connect straight to this. If unsure on the drainage situation, lift manhole covers and see which way pipes run.
Macerators: yum yum yum yum yum... Cough, splutter, spew... Yuck!!!
It isnt the only toilet. Its just the only one upstairs.
I am going to look into the other pipe that the bathwater is going into, if I am not lucky the macerator loo will only be used for number 1's. Number 2's downstairs loo only lol.
Reminds me of one about 5 years ago... It packed up and I agreed (reluctantly) to clear it out whilst fitting a new kitchen for the customer... Found it full of olive pits... Told customer and asked who'd been throwing them in the toilet? She replied, whilst blushing with embarrassment, that it was her son... Who has always eaten olives and swallowed the pits... Now that was 'the pits'!
Makes a mockery of the macerator rule: if it doesn't pass through you, don't flush it!!!
Makes a mockery of the macerator rule: if it doesn't pass through you, don't flush it!!!
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