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Plumbing for a Basement Bathroom

Basement toilets and showers need special equipment to pipe water and waste up and out to the sewer. Bob talks with Robert Lechner of Saniflo about the macerating toilet and other special piping equipment being installed in the bathroom. Lechner explains how water and waste is evacuated out the back of the toilet into the macerator. The macerator contains motorized blades spinning at 3,600 rpm that liquify any solid matter. This slurry can then be piped out of the basement. The toilet has a European-style bowl and a 1.6 gallon tank. The pipes require almost no maintenance but objects other than waste products should not be flushed down the toilet to protect the macerator. The suggested retail price for the entire package including the macerator, piping, and toilet is $869. It is one of the most affordable solutions available for locating a bathroom below grade. The addition of this half-bathroom should make a big improvement in the quality of life for this family of four.

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Plumbing for a Basement Bathroom

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" In a basement if you want to install a bathroom and toilet you're usually gonna be too low below the ground to be able to have stuff go out to the sewers -- you have to install a specialized toilet that involves pumping and macerating. Bob tell us about the design of this toilet it's unusual that it looks different from anything we're used to seeing."

" Pleasant Al mentioned it tobacco toilets is that so that the waste can be evacuated from the bowl into mastery over railings that. Inside the master here is saying motor with the stainless steel blades that spin at 3600 -- cans so there are solid wastes are being. Churned up in turn into liquefied yes. Yeah that allows us to pump out of a three quarter inch -- So that's been very difficult thing for some people understand that we are pumping. PowerPoint we're not proposing any songs all the paper. And waste is turned into most worries him speak -- exactly now the the actual design of the bowl seems different. It's a European -- us style -- and it's. The company's been based in -- fifteen years it's of many of the manufacturers make this special -- and elongated. In design -- is an elongated bowl that firm that we we have around front in this particular models are elongated as well."

" Al going to bring it and -- so. OK now with the front of what have you water conservation and honest -- this conform to that is the one point six gallons when it gives best. Again no no kind of rubber flange or anything there. There is a tank to bowl seal I see it yet to stay in the tank okay. And then again you bolt it down to the base that's correct. Above get having a pump attached to a toilet when we worry about maintenance and stuff I mean it."

" Virtually no maintenance needs to be done really there are certain things that you don't want to. Do with us you want to flush down. It's because it is a grinder -- flush things down here that you wouldn't flush down an ordinary toilet you have to be careful what you put in yes and what about the cost. Cost -- just retail list price is 869. Dollars for this year including the mastery of the -- rendering for the whole package there. Well it's it's absolutely terrific is it's really the only way to locate a bathroom in the basement situation. Below grade to continue thousands of dollars -- that. Any other method of installing a bathroom in the basement below -- terrific."

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