Plumbing

Fitting a Saniflo, slightly off-spec.

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.51 PM

I need to use Saniflo's ability to pump sh*t uphill so I can link a toilet into the next-door property's sewage system - the property I'm fitting the toilet in doesn't have a sewage system. The buildings are in open country on a hillside. The Saniflo installation instructions (and their robotic technical adviser) say the unit (a Sanitop) will pump 5m vertically and then 20m at a 1% gradient. Doing exactly this will be difficult and unsightly. I need the effluent to go less than 5m vertically but considerably further than 20m horizontally. What I'd like to do is run the effluent about 3m horizontally (to exit the building) then to follow the gradient of the hill and dump it into a chamber (less than 20m away in total) from where I can run it by gravity through a 4" soil pipe to the next door property. Has anyone done anything like this, or had any similar set ups and experience? Obviously being off spec I'll have no come back on anyone should I go ahead with it.