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I am thinking about installing a macerator in a downstairs cloakroom.I have no other option but are they good or a bad idea. 
BAD. 
Think about maintenance and servicing it. If the macerator is pumping upwards, in the upward stretch of pipe, there will ALWAYS be waste in the pipe. When you disconnect the macerator for whatever reason you get showered with 5h1 . . . . 
We have a macerator handling ALL our waste as we are below the level of the main sewer. In 26 years we have had to work on it about 3 times.
Agreed it is bigger that than the compact ones fitted behind toilets but if you get a good quality one designed to pump upwards it should have a non return valve fitted as standard.
Some are intended only as a way to use a small bore pipe where a normal soil pipe cannot be installed horizontally. Some of these can only pump to a couple of feet of head.
Agreed it is bigger that than the compact ones fitted behind toilets but if you get a good quality one designed to pump upwards it should have a non return valve fitted as standard.
Some are intended only as a way to use a small bore pipe where a normal soil pipe cannot be installed horizontally. Some of these can only pump to a couple of feet of head.
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you say bad why?noseall said:BAD.
noisy
unpredictable
always conking out
useless in a power cut
use only as a last resort.
antisocial, especially when people are sleeping.
unpredictable
always conking out
useless in a power cut
use only as a last resort.
antisocial, especially when people are sleeping.
One of my customers had one fitted.
I'm there carrying out an annual emergency light test when my mate comes in and tells me he's blocked the toilet and there's s**t everywhere!
Turns out that the macerator was fed off the local lighting circuit and I'd turned it off to test the ems!!
I'm there carrying out an annual emergency light test when my mate comes in and tells me he's blocked the toilet and there's s**t everywhere!
Turns out that the macerator was fed off the local lighting circuit and I'd turned it off to test the ems!!
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Just how noisy are they?Can i put the wc one side of a single skinned 4inch block wall, plumbnoseall said:
through the wall and install the macerator the other side.This way the macerator will be in the garage and the wc in a cloakroom i am hoping to build as part of an extension
If you are going that far then consider using a small tank that takes several flushes and then under control of a float switch pumps up a "bulk" quantity to the sewers.
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I have only got enough room under my floor boards tobe able to run 40mm pipe to the soil stack.bernardgreen said:
If you have to use a marcerator I would only use it on the toilet. Use conventional plumbing for the sinks, shower and bath if possible. The nose it makes is short and predictable with a loo but long and noisy if you're having a shower etc...
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Have you had expierence with one thenEdmundo said:
I installed one in an upstairs loo. I needed the marcerator as the loo is in the middle of the house so it would be very hard to plumb the soil pipe in (no verticle pumping). I have a sanitop which the sink plugs in to aswell.
The sanitop works fine, it's quite noisy (abit like a full blender going off) but thats to be expected. It pumps for about 8 seconds after a flush, not too bad, we just don't flush it at night. Sometimes poo's take a couple of flushes!!!
The problem with the sink is that when you are running the tap the sanitop pumps for about 1 second every 6-10seconds or so which is an annoying sound and you risk waking people up at night. In my case when I did the plumbing it wouldn't have been that hard to use traditional pipe work for the sink.
My saniflo comes with an onsite 2 year gaurantee and so far has been fine just be careful what goes down the loo, I'm not looking forward to the day that it needs to be unblocked! Hopefully will have moved by then!
The sanitop works fine, it's quite noisy (abit like a full blender going off) but thats to be expected. It pumps for about 8 seconds after a flush, not too bad, we just don't flush it at night. Sometimes poo's take a couple of flushes!!!
The problem with the sink is that when you are running the tap the sanitop pumps for about 1 second every 6-10seconds or so which is an annoying sound and you risk waking people up at night. In my case when I did the plumbing it wouldn't have been that hard to use traditional pipe work for the sink.
My saniflo comes with an onsite 2 year gaurantee and so far has been fine just be careful what goes down the loo, I'm not looking forward to the day that it needs to be unblocked! Hopefully will have moved by then!
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Thanks for the info I think I might go for the sanibest which according to saniflo website should cope with i want to do.I will not have no vertical pump but i can get under my floor boards.Did you have to inform building control about installing xtra loo.Edmundo said:
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