I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.

"stork" wrote in message
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I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.


Open heart surgery with a (blunt) chainsaw would be more pleasurable than
owning a Saniflo.....

Tim..

On 26 Mar, 21:36, "stork" wrote:
I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.

Check the water level in the cistern, if this is too low it would of
course affect the clearing of the pan.

stork wrote:
I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.

the fact that it has a mascerator is irrelevant to the flushing.
That is to say, even if it was going directly into a soil pipe instead of
the saniflo, it would still require 2 or 3 flushes, this is because there
is:
1) too much waste in relation to the flushing water.
2) not enough water being flushed each time, which is similar to number 1
(no pun) - maybe you can increase the amounmt of water being flushed? - the
old handles used to be 'let go' for a half flush and 'hold down' for a full
flush.

stork wrote:
I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.

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Enjoy. ;-)

I actually have one that's behaved perfectly for years so they're not all
bad. Occasionally someone puts something down that won't macerate properly
(wet wipes, sanitary towels etc).

The cure is simple, pop the top off and clean it out. Not necessarily
pleasant, but not too difficult.

Tim

Tim.. wrote:
"stork" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.


Open heart surgery with a (blunt) chainsaw would be more pleasurable than
owning a Saniflo.....

Tim..

Hummm, I've got 5 std. and 2 industrial, pump only saniflo's at work,
I'd rather not have them, but sometimes pumping is the only way when
drains are above outlets...

On 26 Mar 2007 13:36:07 -0700, "stork"
mused:

I have a saniflo unit attached to a toilet in a cloakroom. It requires
two to three flushes to clear the waste from the toilet pan. Can
anyone advise a solution.

Get rid of the saniflo and either dig out\route a soil pipe to the
toilet or move the toilet to a point above a mains sewer.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:59:21 +0100 someone who may be Lurch
wrote this:-

Get rid of the saniflo and either dig out\route a soil pipe to the
toilet or move the toilet to a point above a mains sewer.

Entirely unnecessary. If a macerator is looked after properly it
will give years of service, just like any other item of equipment.

No doubt people were equally dismissive about that new fangled
electricity at one time. Rip it all out and put in some nice pipe to
feed gas lights.


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