I have a basement to finish off and the customer wants a bathroom installed. The waste will have to be pumped up about 6 1/2 feet and over about 8 feet.What kind of systems are out there to accomplish this. Any help would be great.
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Do a Yahoo search .... Check out "sanitary for all'
Also, "sani plus"
In my area, the most common system is a sewage ejection system. It's basically a fancy sump pump. A tank (About 20 gal.?) is recessed into the basement slab. Waste from the bathroom drains into it. A float switch activates a pump that lifts the waste up to the house sewer system. The pump should probably have its own electrical circuit and the tank needs a proper vent.
Al Mollitor, Sharon MA
Mojo,
Can we put an air cannon on that ejected end like a pumpkin chunker?
Love your neighbors.
On Breaktime, anything is possible. I prefer to put rockets under the seat and explosive bolts on the skylight.
Al
Thanks!
If you have enough ceiling height, you might be able to use this.http://www.zoeller.com/zcopump/products/homeimprove/qwikjon.HTM
You can try this (I think they advertise in Fine Home Building Magazine)
http://www.saniflo.com/
Seems a bit easier than having to bury a waste ejection tank (having helped my father put one in I can assure you that it's not fun.)
In my cabin, I used the Zoeler quick jon. This has been in for 2+ years with no problems. With this unit, the bathroom floor is elevated by the height of a 2x6, so there was no need to jack hammer out the floor for a below-the-floor unit (Zoeler has thees too).
Hope this helps,
Roger <><
My entire house is on a sewage ejection pump - my guess is the plumbing was done before they realized that the main sewer line in the street is only a few feet deep. I would never voluntarily chose this type of system. The pump is extremely expensive, servicing it is expensive, one can't flush the toilet during a power outage, any drain clogs become a guessing game as to whether it is a problem with the drain or the pump, and no seal is good enough to seal in the smell always. These things are so rare around here that the master plumber (I wanted to say 'head plumber', but some folks might be offended at the pun) came out to look at it - none of the others had ever seen one before. Since one month after I moved into this house almost 7 years ago (when the pump died and we discovered its existence) I have been saving money to try and replumb the main level of the house. I may be stuck with a pump for the basement, but I'd like to have a straight run to the city sewer from the main floor.
Just remember, with this type of solution the pump is something that is going to need replacing. And when it does, it is literaly covered with sewage because it couldn't pump the stuff out. Yucky, messy job that I don't envy the plumber for.
Slightly off topic, but my whole house is also on a sewer pump.But the tank is out in the yard and I think that it is about 69-80 gal capacity so that power outages or not a problem.But the city maintains it and because there are about 350 of them have a tank on the truck and a pump if needed to empty the tank. And the pumps are all on a slip joint and have hoisting ropes so that they change out quickly.
Berts,
I did this in a house last winter. A sewage ejector pump and tank. Do what Mojoman says plus a check valve on the discharge line and a valve with a union so the whole works is easy to dismantle when you eventually need to service or replace the pump. If the power goes out pee upstairs!
Cliffy
You've probably already ruled this out but just about all of our basement baths use the main sewer drain; jackhammering concrete and connecting into it is a crappy job but we do it all the time.