Buying a flat with Saniflo system?

fairy_lights

My neighbours have one in their en suite, which would be ideal, except it's so noisy they can't use it at night without waking up half the street and have to go and use the loo in the main bathroom instead, which makes the whole concept of having an en suite pretty pointless.


My boss rents out a flat with a saniflow which has been blocked/suffered messy mechanical failure several times after the tenants kids have overloaded it with loo roll. So you don't just have to be careful not to flush the wrong things, you also have to make sure you don't flush too much of the right things either.

HouseBuyer77

One question you should ask is where does the saniflow drain to? If its a house converted into flats maybe the route from saniflow goes up and across to the soil stack. This means that should you need access to that pipe it means taking up the upstairs neighbours floors which will cause obvious problems unless you have particularly obliging neighbours.

bouicca21

Doozergirl, perhaps I should rephrase: liquid waste and that which is needed to deal with it. No brown stuff ...

Doozergirl

bouicca21 wrote: »

Doozergirl, perhaps I should rephrase: liquid waste and that which is needed to deal with it. No brown stuff ...

I'm talking about brown stuff too. My husband doesn't use half a roll of toilet tissue to dab the end of his appendage! :rotfl:

sxp842

Thanks for the replies everyone, it doesn!!!8217;t seem to be a very popular system!

2 of the bedrooms are quite small because of the location of this bathroom. So if you can!!!8217;t really use the bathroom properly on a regular basis I kind of wonder what the point is.

It!!!8217;s a shame because it is a really nice property and it was nicely done up, which I think sold us when we looked round. However in hindsight there are a few niggly issues, and I!!!8217;m wondering if this Saniflo is going to be more than a minor annoyance or an actual problem. Because we!!!8217;re paying a premium for property as it!!!8217;s recently been redone, I!!!8217;m reluctant to do any more serious work to the bathroom etc.

The Saniflo box is in the cellar, just below the toilet, as it!!!8217;s a ground floor flat. I don!!!8217;t think the pipes would go into any other flat.

I!!!8217;m not sure if I!!!8217;m worrying too much about this, but I didn!!!8217;t expect to have to think about how useable the toilet is when buying a house lol

sxp842

Wow this web site really does not like apostrophes!

p00hsticks

sxp842 wrote: »

Wow this web site really does not like apostrophes!

Currently a bug experienced when posting from Apple devices, I believe...

Doozergirl

sxp842 wrote: »

Thanks for the replies everyone, it doesn!!!8217;t seem to be a very popular system!

2 of the bedrooms are quite small because of the location of this bathroom. So if you can!!!8217;t really use the bathroom properly on a regular basis I kind of wonder what the point is.

It!!!8217;s a shame because it is a really nice property and it was nicely done up, which I think sold us when we looked round. However in hindsight there are a few niggly issues, and I!!!8217;m wondering if this Saniflo is going to be more than a minor annoyance or an actual problem. Because we!!!8217;re paying a premium for property as it!!!8217;s recently been redone, I!!!8217;m reluctant to do any more serious work to the bathroom etc.

The Saniflo box is in the cellar, just below the toilet, as it!!!8217;s a ground floor flat. I don!!!8217;t think the pipes would go into any other flat.

I!!!8217;m not sure if I!!!8217;m worrying too much about this, but I didn!!!8217;t expect to have to think about how useable the toilet is when buying a house lol

You can use it properly. None of us should be putting baby wipes or sanitary products down our toilets. Any bodily waste is perfectly fine and, as I've said, it can handle toilet roll perfectly well. Toilet roll is made to break down. The problem is with items that aren't. If you put way too much loo roll in any toilet then you are likely to block it before the U bend. That means half of it doesn't even get to the Saniflo anyway.

If you have a choice of somewhere else and *all other things are equal* you would pick one with traditional waste disposal because it is largely maintenance free. Of course, all things are not equal and one thing here may be better than another thing there and vice versa, but I certainly don't think it is an outright deal breaker on the second toilet in the house. We all have mechanical things that need maintaining like washing machines and tumble dryers etc. It's another one of those things.

martindow

I know a couple of people who have Saniflo for a second bathroom. After several expensive blockages and because of the noise they make neither of them use those loos.

Kinski

We had one in our last house and it was in one of the bedrooms. It did it’s job but it was very noisy and broke down at least once a year, we also had to replace the motor a couple of times even though it wasn’t used that much. I would never want to have one again it was a pain in the backside.