Fun weekend ahead with broken macerator

If anyone is thinking of installing a second loo/bathroom which involves a Saniflo macerator, don't do it. They aren't sanitary and they don't flow - however careful you are. They were invented by a mad Frenchman with a grudge. :xmasmerry:

 

Oh ClaraLou. Yes, I have heard bad reports about those macerators before. I hope you get your plumbing problems sorted out tout de suite .

 

One of the toilets at my last place at work had a macerator. It broke down...the results were not pretty...

 

Marley, :euw: Fortunately ours only gets used by our son - he has a loft room with wash facilities - but even with very light use the darn thing has still managed to go wrong. The shower cubicle is gradually filling with dubious looking and smelling liquid. My husband, being the absolute star that he is, has bought a replacement unit and plans to spend this weekend - er - going beyond the call of duty :hehe:. However, having had a look at the new unit he says it is a pathetic piece of rubbish which is very badly designed and will just go the way of its predecessor :( . He is currently trying to design his own valve - one which might actually have a chance of working. I'm glad I married a physicist :D.

 

John, unfortunately the only way we could get a loo and a shower in the loft was by using the wretched macerator. Actually I now think chucking the contents of a chamber pot out of the window would have been more hygienic. At least it's not our main bathroom - that would be absolutely awful.

 

Of the many bed & breakfasts i've stayed at while working away, any with macerators always had notices about not putting anything but loo paper down them, followed by a call out charge of £150 for a plumber if you do.

 

If I was a plumber I'd want more than £150!! I think I'd insist on the B and B being thrown in as well.

My sister didn't find out until after she'd moved into her new home that there was a macerator on the only loo in the house. She said it affected her social life! She stopped inviting people to stay because guests would arrive and she'd have to say:' Hi, hope you had a good journey, great to see you, here's the spare room, and here's a list of very personal things you can't do to my lavatory or else the weekend is SOOO over.'

 

I suppose this is a bit of a dense question but as I don't really often pay attention to loo's and haven't really had the need to understand how it worked being just glad it did, but what's a macerator?:o

 

Are you sure you want to know, Aesculus? Look away now if you've recently eaten. Basically it's a mashing system which allows waste to be pumped through a small pipe in places where it's not possible to have a conventional system.

 

Get it removed and make son walk downstairs to use the family bathroom like everyone else!

 

Bet I could work out how to do it properly.

 

What and let son use my bathroom? Nooooooo.

Ziggy, I don't think even you could have found a way of fitting a bathroom up there without the wretched masher.