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Vrboska
Hi
I would be grateful for an advice on the sewage problem in my summer house abroad.
I plan to build a toilet on the first floor of the house but the only option to connect to septic tank, outside the stone house, is through 50 mm water pipe situated in cellar on ground floor. This pipe gets water from the first floor sink and goes under kitchen floor in length of 5-6 meters to the septic tank outside.
So there is no option to take the wc sewage waste in pipe of 100 mm to the outside septic tank
because between cellar (where this pipe would come from the first floor) and septic tank is the kitchen with 50 mm water pipe under.
Our builder says that the 6-7 meters long sewage pipe of 100 mm diameter from wc would allow waste to dissolve before entering the 50 mm water pipe under kitchen on way to septic tank.
He says that he has seen this scenario in many old houses and advised not to install a macerating pump because:
· wc is on the first floor
· sink drainage 50 mm pipe can accept dissolved waste from 100 mm wc pipe ( as it would be dissolved in horizontally laid pipes long 6-7 meters before entering 50 mm pipe).
This option would make life easier in a place where plumbers are inexperienced with installation and repairs of macerating pump.
Is this possible please and what would be your views on this issues; do we need a macerating pump in these circumstances or we can rely on our builder’s theory?
He might have made this up as he was the one who forgot to install 100 mm pipe under kitchen floor for future toilet when we were renovating kitchen some years ago.
Thank you.
I would be grateful for an advice on the sewage problem in my summer house abroad.
I plan to build a toilet on the first floor of the house but the only option to connect to septic tank, outside the stone house, is through 50 mm water pipe situated in cellar on ground floor. This pipe gets water from the first floor sink and goes under kitchen floor in length of 5-6 meters to the septic tank outside.
So there is no option to take the wc sewage waste in pipe of 100 mm to the outside septic tank
because between cellar (where this pipe would come from the first floor) and septic tank is the kitchen with 50 mm water pipe under.
Our builder says that the 6-7 meters long sewage pipe of 100 mm diameter from wc would allow waste to dissolve before entering the 50 mm water pipe under kitchen on way to septic tank.
He says that he has seen this scenario in many old houses and advised not to install a macerating pump because:
· wc is on the first floor
· sink drainage 50 mm pipe can accept dissolved waste from 100 mm wc pipe ( as it would be dissolved in horizontally laid pipes long 6-7 meters before entering 50 mm pipe).
This option would make life easier in a place where plumbers are inexperienced with installation and repairs of macerating pump.
Is this possible please and what would be your views on this issues; do we need a macerating pump in these circumstances or we can rely on our builder’s theory?
He might have made this up as he was the one who forgot to install 100 mm pipe under kitchen floor for future toilet when we were renovating kitchen some years ago.
Thank you.
