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Just bought a house. Originally bungalow with upstairs dormer conversion completed in 2011. It has SaniFlo for the upstairs bathroom (en suite and shower room). We knew it had them and thought we'd just have to see how they went and hopefully replace them at some point. One is fine but the other is terrible, blocked up three times already and as it's in the shower room means we cannot shower when it's blocked. Last two times it fixed itself (eventually drained) but this time has not done so.
What we want to understand is why was the SaniFlo put in in the first place, and is it possible to redo the bathroom (something we want to do anyway) to include a normal toilet? I had a builder round for a different job and mentioned it to him, he had a look and couldn't understand why the SaniFlo was added and not a normal toilet.
This is the bathroom layout, with a small access cupboard behind the toilet:
You can see the SaniFlo pipe going off out to the back of the house:
Comes out of the back of our house and is pinned down the side into our soil stack. The stack sits much further out from the rest of the house due to the fact there is a 1970s extension on the back of the property, and the drains were moved at that time (as evidenced by some old drawings we discovered). Offending bathroom window is on the left upstairs:
Any ideas why the SaniFlo was added? My guess is soil stack too far away from the house? Any ideas on how to change that? We'd like to, in the future, build an extension to replace an old conservatory that would fill in this "nook" where the SaniFlo pipes emerge from.
What we want to understand is why was the SaniFlo put in in the first place, and is it possible to redo the bathroom (something we want to do anyway) to include a normal toilet? I had a builder round for a different job and mentioned it to him, he had a look and couldn't understand why the SaniFlo was added and not a normal toilet.
This is the bathroom layout, with a small access cupboard behind the toilet:
You can see the SaniFlo pipe going off out to the back of the house:
Comes out of the back of our house and is pinned down the side into our soil stack. The stack sits much further out from the rest of the house due to the fact there is a 1970s extension on the back of the property, and the drains were moved at that time (as evidenced by some old drawings we discovered). Offending bathroom window is on the left upstairs:
Any ideas why the SaniFlo was added? My guess is soil stack too far away from the house? Any ideas on how to change that? We'd like to, in the future, build an extension to replace an old conservatory that would fill in this "nook" where the SaniFlo pipes emerge from.