Condensate Pumps

[Mr Fizzion]

Are they any good and how much noise do they make?

I am looking at the Saniflo Sanicondens

Has anyone had any experience with one of these?

TIA

Mr F.

[Lurch]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:23:55 +0100, Mr Fizzion scrawled:

Oh dear.

Personally, I'd stick to somethong not made by Saniflo. I have on my list of things to do 'fit condensate pump to boiler' and I was goiong to use the Worcester one, and I think someone else do a one at a good price, but I can't remember the make, it's written down somewhere.

[TheScullster]

Where are these used? Are they for pumping condensate away from a condensing boiler that doesn't have a local drain gully? If so how can the boiler be used without one? Does it collect in a bucket for manual draining?

Phil

[Doctor Drivel]

On a condensing boiler, below the drain level, or far away from a drain pipe.

See above.

When full it pumps the condensate out to a drain or outside to a soakaway, etc. So, a condensing boiler can be fitted just about anywhere. With 30 metre flue lengths and these pumps, no excuse.

[rat]

[Lurch]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:01:24 +0100, "TheScullster" scrawled:

Somewhere at a lower point then the exit of the condensate drain.

Yes.

Pipe the condensate to a drain.

Pardon? Does what do the what what?

[Doctor Drivel]

When the drain is too high or too far away the pump is needed.

[John Rumm]

Any time you need the condensate to flow "up hill" toward the drain (i.e. boiler in basement etc and below the level of the drain)

You can go a fair distance even without a pump as long as the drain level is below the level of the boiler.

The boiler usually has a small plastic "S" trap into which the condensate empties. This is connected via plastic pipe to a suitable drain. Gravity does the rest.

[John Laird]

Can't you just pass it through a magnetic conditioner ? Then it will flow uphill on demand, come when whistled at, sit, beg, etc. And it won't fur up the pipes.

HTH. HAND.