Advice on installing a Macarotor.

devonmark

I am in the middle of installing a new kitchen, utillity room and hopefully a down stairs Loo!!!!

I am looking at putting a Downstairs Loo in but i need to know if i can put a macarator (Saniflo) in and plumb it into a normal waste pipe or does it have to be plumbed into a Soil Pipe??

Any advice would be gratefully excpeted. :beer:

Mark

Mikeyorks

Macerated / minced or otherwise - it's still sewage, so needs to feed into the soil pipe (or direct to the sewer). Can't go into a waste pipe that could discharge into an open grate / hopper etc.

The outlet from the unit is 22mm or 32mm pipe. Some downloads that might help on the Saniflo site :-

http://www.saniflo.co.uk/downloads.aspx

PS

Look, in particular, at the '10 Golden Rules' Brochure on that link. Elaborates the soil pipe connection - but also some gradient issues on the input / output pipes

Mikeyorks

Might have misunderstood?

The output from the Saniflo ultimately has to go into the soil pipe. But it does not have to do that directly - if that was the question? It can happily get there via 22mm or 32mm pipe - and into a boss on the soil pipe.

ozskin

Just a thought from a saniflo engineer who was fitting in our store. always go for 32 mm never 22mm unless you have no other choice. Also saniflo not the best macerator on the market, try vortice if i remember right its a while since i sold one

moonrakerz

I am having one put in:- a couple of tips from my plumber

1. Only use it for "solid" waste if you really have to.
2. Flush it every day, even if you haven't used it. This will stop any "solids" solidifying even more in the piping and blocking it.

Other than that he says they are good.

Avoriaz

8 hours and no !!!!!! jokes yet.

BobProperty

Previously on MSE : http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=224939

I'd do anything to avoid putting one in.

Ozskin - I think one of the Saniflow range is specified as being for 22mm only, but I may be wrong or it may have changed.

Bossyboots

Our builder advised very strongly against getting one of these and having stayed at a guest house where there was one in the en suite to our room, I am very relieved that he did.

If there is no other choice then so be it but it would be better to explore the options of a full flushing system first.