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There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and powerline
adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet that is closer
than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I have a
feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans use.
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They mean using a saniflo.
You'd have to run mains water down there and electricity, although the
electricity would presumably be there anyway for your radio equipment.
It then requires a waste pipe running back to the drains, this is normally
about 25mm

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There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and powerline
adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet that is
closer than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I have
a feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans use.
Brian

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They mean using a saniflo.
You'd have to run mains water down there and electricity, although the
electricity would presumably be there anyway for your radio equipment.
It then requires a waste pipe running back to the drains, this is normally
about 25mm

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There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and powerline
adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet that is
closer than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I have
a feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans use.
Brian

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The simple option for No 1's is a bale of straw, which makes a good
addition to a compost heap when saturated.
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They mean using a saniflo.


Putting a Saniflo in a wooden shed has the great advantage that it is
much easier to set fire to the shed when the Saniflo blocks (which it
will) than is the case with a brick structure.

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On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:44:15 +0100, Phil L wrote:

They mean using a saniflo.
You'd have to run mains water down there and electricity, although the
electricity would presumably be there anyway for your radio equipment.
It then requires a waste pipe running back to the drains, this is
normally about 25mm

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There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near
the bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and
powerline adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet
that is closer than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I
have a feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans
use. Brian

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If you are going to run a waste pipe down the garden, presumably buried to
protect from frost, then you might as well run the real thing.

Otherwise a cassette toilet as found in caravans is fine as long as you
are prepared to empty it regularly.

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They mean using a saniflo.


Putting a Saniflo in a wooden shed has the great advantage that it is
much easier to set fire to the shed when the Saniflo blocks (which it
will) than is the case with a brick structure.


When I saw you had followed up, I knew exactly when you were going to
say before clicking on the message ;-)

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The simple option for No 1's is a bale of straw, which makes a good
addition to a compost heap when saturated.


Or keep the watering can down there. Pee into it, and at the end
of the day, fill it with water and water the garden/lawn. Very
good on lawns, but must be diluted as if too concentrated it stops
roots absorbing any nutrients and kills the grass.

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 13:44:15 +0100, "Phil L"
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They mean using a saniflo.


Putting a Saniflo in a wooden shed has the great advantage that it is
much easier to set fire to the shed when the Saniflo blocks (which it
will) than is the case with a brick structure.


It's a wonder they can sell the things with all the commentary they
attract.
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Peter Parry writes:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 13:44:15 +0100, "Phil L"
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They mean using a saniflo.


Putting a Saniflo in a wooden shed has the great advantage that it is
much easier to set fire to the shed when the Saniflo blocks (which it
will) than is the case with a brick structure.


When I saw you had followed up, I knew exactly when you were going to
say before clicking on the message ;-)


So did I!
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Brian-Gaff wrote:
There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and powerline
adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet that is closer
than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I have a
feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans use.
Brian


I should get a cheap caravan bog, but when you want a **** go ****
somewhere else most times. Just **** in the caravan bog often enough to
cover the turds.

Bill


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On 06/07/2015 20:27, Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:20:10 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

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Peter Parry writes:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 13:44:15 +0100, "Phil L"
wrote:

They mean using a saniflo.

Putting a Saniflo in a wooden shed has the great advantage that it is
much easier to set fire to the shed when the Saniflo blocks (which it
will) than is the case with a brick structure.


When I saw you had followed up, I knew exactly when you were going to
say before clicking on the message ;-)


So did I!

And me! And I have a saniflo.
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Brian-Gaff wrote:
There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing
near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and
powerline adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a
toilet that is closer than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I
have a feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that
caravans use.
Brian


I should get a cheap caravan bog, but when you want a **** go ****
somewhere else most times. Just **** in the caravan bog often enough
to cover the turds.

Bill


Surely - plan your Number Two before going to the Radio Shed.
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Ah thought so, thanks, one assumes it just mashes up the waste and pumps it
away then.
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They mean using a saniflo.
You'd have to run mains water down there and electricity, although the
electricity would presumably be there anyway for your radio equipment.
It then requires a waste pipe running back to the drains, this is normally
about 25mm

"Brian-Gaff" wrote in message
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There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but
appeared to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and powerline
adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet that is
closer than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I have
a feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans use.
Brian

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Or keep the watering can down there. Pee into it, and at the end
of the day, fill it with water and water the garden/lawn. Very
good on lawns, but must be diluted as if too concentrated it stops
roots absorbing any nutrients and kills the grass.


Even better on the compost.

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When I saw you had followed up, I knew exactly when you were going to
say before clicking on the message ;-)


I was thinking it was abuut time for the annual Saniflo warning.

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Ah thought so, thanks, one assumes it just mashes up the waste and pumps it
away then.
Brian


They don't mash, they macerate ;-)


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Ah thought so, thanks, one assumes it just mashes up the waste and
pumps it away then.


They don't mash, they macerate ;-)


Enough of the euphemisms.

They're turd-mincers.
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There was an ad on the radio the other day which I did not catch but appeared
to be saying now you can have a toilet anywhere.
Is this true, as I'm considering putting a timber megashed thing near the
bottom of my garden well away from nasty interfering psus and powerline
adaptors for my radio listening etc, and might need a toilet that is closer
than 150 feet away!

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I have a
feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans use.
Brian


Saniflow and there is only one thing worse than a Saniflow - that's a
Saniflow with long discharge pipes.

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On Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:31:06 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Saniflow and there is only one thing worse than a Saniflow - that's a
Saniflow with long discharge pipes.


I'll see your saniflo and raise you a saniflo with long discharge pipes going upwards and running internally in the house.

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On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 12:27:44 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
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I was thinking it was abuut time for the annual Saniflo warning.


There is nothing wrong with a saniflo that cannot be cured by a low
yield nuclear weapon. Given the maximum level pumping distance is
quoted at 160ft and that "up to" in sales documents usually means
"nowhere near" the chances of reliably pumping 150fts worth of mashed
muck through a 22mm pipe is probably as close to zero as makes no
difference. In the event it wouldn't matter as someone will have
dropped into it one of the 7,893 articles which can stop this French
abomination from working.

Fixing this will entail removing the festering contents of the pan
plus the waste pipe and having 150ft of 22mm diameter effluent
discharging into the shed. Therefore the best place to install the
unsanitary abomination is probably outside and about 75 ft from the
house or shed.

Installing it in something like the old BT canvas huts linemen put
around roadside cabinets so they could work in the damp rather than
the wet would be ideal as this would provide through flow ventilation
and could easily be incinerated on the spot when the not sani decides
it won't flow.

This thing was designed by the French for heavens sake. The nation in
the world with the least idea of sanitary plumbing. The nation which
thinks a piece of wriggly tin on legs makes a really neat street
lavatory as you can chat to passers by while using it.

The imbecile designer chose a motor with the starting torque of a
dyspeptic spider and coupled it to a pair of disks with lots of teeth
- so anything with fibres causes it to stall and burn out. Cotton
wool is obviously instant death to the machine but even a diet high in
dietary fibre can be too much for it. Anyone considering using it
should be asked to certify that they have been on a bland fruit and
vegetable free diet for at least the previous week. The only drink
allowed would be liquid paraffin. Even looking closely at it will
make it fail. Owners often take to gluing and screwing the seat lid
onto the pan to discourage use. Some embed barbed wire into the seat,
others use caltrops or coat the seat with Nitrogen Triiodide.

Plumbers won't go near them unless they are paid at least 10 times the
going rate and even then its only those with 9 ex-wives and 43
children to pay support for who will descend to this sort of work.
Saniflowers have about them a certain miasma. Their vans carry
neither markings nor phone numbers. Shunned by their fellows and not
allowed in any self respecting hostelry they live a solitary and
lonely life their sleep constantly interrupted by nightmares of
deluges of minced effluent. Many went to help in Chernobyl and
Fukushima Daiichi. The slow lingering death of radiation poisoning
being a sweet release from the dreams of malfunctioning saniflos.

To check which houses in a street have a saniflo simply record one in
operation and play it back in the middle of the street at about 03:00.
You will hear strangled screams coming from possessors of saniflos
followed by lights coming on, screams and gunshots followed by the
bodies of wives and children falsely accused, convicted and executed
for using it being cast upon the ground. The witches of Salem trials
were models of legal purity compared with the instinctive reaction of
a saniflo owner who thinks it has actually been used.

For your application more sanitary, more reliable and MUCH cheaper to
repair options include :-

A bucket.
A shovel.
A gap behind the bushes.



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I was thinking it was abuut time for the annual Saniflo warning.


There is nothing wrong with a saniflo that cannot be cured by a low
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On 08/07/2015 18:22, Peter Parry wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 12:27:44 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
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I was thinking it was abuut time for the annual Saniflo warning.


There is nothing wrong with a saniflo that cannot be cured by a low
yield nuclear weapon. Given the maximum level pumping distance is
quoted at 160ft and that "up to" in sales documents usually means
"nowhere near" the chances of reliably pumping 150fts worth of mashed
muck through a 22mm pipe is probably as close to zero as makes no
difference. In the event it wouldn't matter as someone will have
dropped into it one of the 7,893 articles which can stop this French
abomination from working.


When my father got too old to cope with the stairs we fitted a saniflo
in a downstairs room, it was infinitely better than a commode and worked
every time. I did use a 32mm pipe and fitted it with a tee with a drain
on the bottom before the vertical bit just in case but never had to use it.

The shower was also fitted next to it and used a pump to get rid of the
water, it used a 15mm flexible pipe.

Saniflo do a service contract so you don't have to do the dirty job if
you don't want to.



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On 06/07/2015 13:44, Phil L wrote:
They mean using a saniflo.
You'd have to run mains water down there and electricity, although the
electricity would presumably be there anyway for your radio equipment.
It then requires a waste pipe running back to the drains, this is normally
about 25mm


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With a bit of ingenuity and some valves, you could half-duplex a single
pipe to take water in one direction and sewage in the other.

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 12:36:47 +0100, Brian-Gaff wrote:

I don't want to get involved in pipes running down the garden, but I
have a feeling the only way is one of those portable jobs that caravans
use.


Saniflow would need power and water. Rain water would do but you
might need quite a big tank to get you through the summer depending
on the summer rain fall where you are. Most storeage under or in the
shed pump up to the bogs cistern as required. Power I guess you'll
have that for heat, light and radio kit.

Well insulated the rain water storeage tank and use it as a heat
store but rain water won't be clean and keeping it at nice bug
growing temperature might not be a "Good Idea".

All rather complicated, aside from the possible blockage problems
which I suspect only occur when fed material, other than soft toilet
paper, that hasn't transited the human digestive tract first.

So KISS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet

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Peter, that piece made my day. Thank you!


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