toilet - electric macerator 600W £59 new

[DBA Forum (B) - David Barrow]

Hi David,
If you haven't purchased a toilet yet you might look into a compost toilet. I live in the USA and have done some research on these. All they require is a vent. There is no plumbing or power required. It's definitely worth looking in to even though they run about $800.00. Good luck.
Have a great day,
David

http://www.google.com/webhp?nord=1#nord=1&q=marine+compost+toilet

[DBA Forum (B) - Pete. Milne]

[quote="David Barrow" post=56671]
If you haven't purchased a toilet yet you might look into a compost toilet. I live in the USA and have done some research on these.
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A search for 'composting' in the Forum will find many comments on people's experiences of these on boats. Most recent (May) was
"Try searching the forum for Separett. You should find a few emails from those of us who have one and think they are great."

Pete

[DBA Forum (B) - Balliol Fowden]

I had a job as a toilet & pump-out machine salesman once so you can imagine the business lunches, and I spent too many years unblocking toilets and holding tanks on hire boats (artificial insemination gloves are your friend here) so I have a pretty strong stomach, but if it were my choice, David, I would pay the £300.00 in the hope that you don't have to strip or bin the macerator too often. We have a macerator in our spare bedroom ensuite at home (installed in a fit of laziness rather than poke 4" holes through walls) and I can't wait to change it to a proper soil pipe when we extend the house next year. It's one of those areas where undue economy can be ill advised.

Balliol.

[DBA Forum (B) - Colin Stone]

Balliol,

Post by DBA Forum (B) - Balliol Fowden
but if it were my choice, David, I would pay the £300.00 in the hope that you don't have to strip or bin the macerator too often.

Noooooo - get the £59 one and give it a proper barge test.

Nought wrong with stripping down heads - a good dose of sodium hydroxide will clear out the pipes etc. At least the soil vent pipe from a sewage treatment plant doesn't exit at the top of a mast. As one warship discovered when the STP fermented vigorously and the brown froth poured down the mast sides.

Colin Stone
KEI
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[DBA Forum (B) - Nigel Crompton]

"a good dose of sodium hydroxide will clear out the pipes "

Colin, could you expand on this please ? Do you use this to clean effluent from pipes, etc and, if so, at what dilution ? And, it being toxic and generally unfriendly to organisms, do you allow it to enter the ecosystem ??

[DBA Forum (B) - Colin Stone]

Slosh of Mr Muscle. In 10 years I have had to dismantle heads/pumps 3 times.
Probably less unfriendly than NOX and PMs etc from elderly diesel engines?

Colin Stone
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[DBA Forum (B) - David Beaumont]

Someone told me these units (inc the expensive ones) include an outlet to pump fresh water into the toilet. Is this correct, I can't see it? If not I will have to arrange a separate pump wired to the same switch and possibly some early time-out or even a separate switch.

I will get one of the cheap ones, if the price difference was not so much I might consider the expensive ones but they are 5 times the price! Everything even expensive stuff seems to be made in China now, sometimes they just stick a UK known brand on it and 5x the price.

David