I've built a cloakroom under my stairs in a place where I cannot fit a soil pipe - doh. Trust me, it just won't happen. So I am going to have to go with the devil's own machinery - a macerator. Here's a couple of questions:
1 - Why are Saniflo so expensive and is an Easiflo or Hydrolux a suitable alternative? It needs to take WC soil and a basin waste only.
2 - My boiler sits on a wall in my garage through which my macerator waste needs to pass. In the past the boiler tech fitted my condensate in 22mm plastic through garage wall and into cast iron soil stack about 500mm above ground by stitching and silicone. It's a good join and has never leaked. It is a well used stack and so corrosion should not be an issue as there regular flushing of the condensate at that point. Can I buy a 22mm outlet macerator, plumb the outlet into the garage and then after about 1500mm or so T it into the condensate pipe to make use of the existing inlet into the cast stack? This would save an awful lot of fussing with cast iron that I do not want to do (and no I do not want to replace the whole stack with plastic - it crossed my mind and now I have all the gear laying in the garden but would rather not do it - wanna buy some soil pipe?). I would intend to fit one way, on-return valves on both lines so that neither condensate could drip toward macerator nor poop could back up into the boiler - yuk! Both seem very unlikely scenarios but better safe than sorry. Seems like a really smart option to me but I bet someone can come along and snag it - that's why I'm posting.
Thanks
1 - Why are Saniflo so expensive and is an Easiflo or Hydrolux a suitable alternative? It needs to take WC soil and a basin waste only.
2 - My boiler sits on a wall in my garage through which my macerator waste needs to pass. In the past the boiler tech fitted my condensate in 22mm plastic through garage wall and into cast iron soil stack about 500mm above ground by stitching and silicone. It's a good join and has never leaked. It is a well used stack and so corrosion should not be an issue as there regular flushing of the condensate at that point. Can I buy a 22mm outlet macerator, plumb the outlet into the garage and then after about 1500mm or so T it into the condensate pipe to make use of the existing inlet into the cast stack? This would save an awful lot of fussing with cast iron that I do not want to do (and no I do not want to replace the whole stack with plastic - it crossed my mind and now I have all the gear laying in the garden but would rather not do it - wanna buy some soil pipe?). I would intend to fit one way, on-return valves on both lines so that neither condensate could drip toward macerator nor poop could back up into the boiler - yuk! Both seem very unlikely scenarios but better safe than sorry. Seems like a really smart option to me but I bet someone can come along and snag it - that's why I'm posting.
Thanks