The wife keeps banging on about converting a box room at adjacent to our bedroom into an en-suite shower/wc. Unfortunately the box room is at the front of the house and the bathroom is at the rear (and on a slightly different level) What would be the best approach? put in a new soil stack at the front or use a macerator wc?
Thanks, Ian Perthshire
Yes.
Or take advantage of the slope and run it down along the joists out to the back. Make sure you keep the switch for the macerator and the one for the shower in different locations.
For past experience of a macerator read
Mungo
On 11 Mar 2006 06:38:52 -0800 someone who may be "ianw" wrote this:-
The best approach depends on your precise circumstances. If you can run a suitable drain then it makes sense to use "traditional" plumbing, as there is less to go wrong. It is worth going to some trouble to do this, including having holes dug to make underground connections. At the front of the house the stack would be best inside, would this be a problem, what is the floor made of?
However, there are circumstances where a suitable "traditional" drain will be difficult or impossible to provide. This is where macerators are useful. It is much easier running a 22mm waste pipe through the house, it can be routed in much the same way as other water pipes.
You will hear people complaining long and loud about macerators. Their moaning reminds me of the moaning of "experts" when single pipe drainage was introduced after the Second World War. If one listened to them then single pipe drainage was going to cause all sorts of problems, but if it is designed and installed properly single pipe drainage works fine. The same is true of macerators. The real thing to watch is that things which shouldn't be put down ordinary toilets are not put down the macerated toilet, sanitary towels and cotton buds being the two main examples. These belong in rubbish bins.
Have you thought how you will provide hot water to the basin? Long pipe runs are not ideal for hot water to basins. A local electric heater would probably be better (they can be fitted under sinks). Depending on the hot water system the shower might be better as an electric one or fed from the hot water supply.
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