Up Flush Toilet

Welcome to the up flush toilet page. An up flush toilet system is a great concept if you have that extra space in your basement, They require a little more thought in the planning stage. This article will help you make the right plans and decisions.

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Are you outgrowing your home, really in need of more space, but are not able to move or upgrade to a larger property, regardless of the reason. Needing another bathroom, or toilet, or indeed both, or perhaps want to make space for guests or family when they are visiting over, and only have a basement available.

Then there is a solution. If you just want to add another bathroom, or make the basement into a small, self contained apartment, but the water and more importantly, the drain is about ten feet above the basement floor, then why not consider bringing the project to reality, and install what is known as an up flush toilet system.

Up flush toilets are designed to be used in basements or garages where the is no direct access to a main sewer or a septic tank, whether because the sewer is above floor height, or is outside the building, with no access from inside the property.

There are several options available if you find yourself in this situation, but by far and away the easiest, cleanest and trouble free option is to opt for an up flush toilet. Fitting one of these is not particularly easy if you have no DIY skills, but the suggestion is to get some clear cut advice from a specialist stockist or registered master plumber, and while you will have to pay for fitting, better to let a professional carry out the work, culminating in a guarantee if anything goes wrong, i.e. leaks or odors.

When it comes to any type of plumbing, let the individual who is the professional plumber take the strain, because water, gray water or otherwise, will find a place to leak from if it is available, as many a “Sunday plumber” has found to their cost.

Up flush toilet systems, pro rata, are much the same cost as a good vitreous china standard flush toilet, and is pretty much similar in operation, except for one thing, the fact that the bulk goes the other way.

Each model of up flushing toilet usually contains a discharge pipe, a tank or sump, which is either fitted at floor level, or into a pre formed hole in the concrete floor, and to this is attached a small, electrically driven pump unit, which will pump the waste “up hill” through a narrower pipe than would normally be used, and this pipe then connects to the sewer either upstairs or outside. A sewage ejector and a grinder pump are installed as well. This helps make sure the waste doesn’t clog up the drains on its way up. A setup that breaks up the waste is also known as macerating toilet systems.

The advantages of an upflush toilet over a chemical or composting toilet is that it is powered by water, fed into a tank as on an ordinary toilet, in that the waste management operation is self contained and enclosed, there are no buckets or containers to empty.

Trusted online retailers like Amazon sell a number of up flush toilet units online, most at lower prices than anywhere else. A number of Saniflo systems are available online like the Saniflo SFA003 Upflush Basement Toilet Bowl and the Saniflo SFA M200 Turboflush Grinder Upflush Toilet Pump (23% off of the sticker price.)

These units are in fact perfectly suited for that basement conversion job.

Basement or below ground toilets are a really great idea that used to be a little tricky to instigate. These days, however, there are plenty of models available. So create extra space in your home with an up flush toilet.