Saniflo Macerator Repairs and Problems – Sewing Machines Los Angeles

The three (3) biggest problems you are likely to face when you have problems with your Saniflo or any macerator that is not working, is:

1. The smells coming from the broken macerator and/or minor flooding.
2. Finding a engineer that can complete the work quickly and will have parts with them.
3. The Cost, some times the repair bill can be more than the price of a new macerator.

So exactly what can you do, here are few tips:

1. For the smell all you can really do is open the loo room window and close the loo room door to keep the smell contained in one room and some fresh smelling spray could help, this is only for a broken macerator, if your unit is working OK and the smell is the main or only problem then there are other options available to you, like internal cleaning, new carbon filters and leading a breather pipe to the outside of your property.
2. There really is very little point in calling a engineer that does not have all the major parts for your macerator on board as stock. Many people who have problems with their macerator just call a local or friend or plumber, but they simply will not have the parts or fully understand how the macerator works and will often just condemn a perfectly fixable macerator, by far your best option is to call some one that really understands the macerator and will have spare parts with them and preferably some one that will offer a reasonable fixed price repair service.
3. The cost of repairing a macerator is normally around £100 – £150 + parts, and parts are not expensive if you do need them. But many people will end up paying a lot more than £150 and most of that charge will be for the extraction and re-installation of the macerator, the cost of the macerator repair can always and I really mean always be kept to a minimum with a bit of consideration at installation and planning as to how will the macerator be taken out for maintenance.
4. If you think your installation may pose a few problems with extraction and/or re-installation, and remember this is different from the actual repair even though in most cases you would be charged one continues charge, the repair of some macerators in some installations can not start until extraction is complete, then ask, “if there is a extraction charge, what is it? ” you can expect this to be hourly as the engineer in most cases could not know how long it will take, but usually even in the most extreme cases less than 1 day and in some cases you will not be charged for simple extractions where there as been good future planning for maintenance as extraction will be quick and easy or not needed

Often when a macerator is installed there is very little consideration as to how repairs will be carried out, this can be a very expensive mistake, there is one sure fact you can be assured of, and that is that all electrical or mechanical items will stop working one day and your macerator is no different.

We all want our bath room/loo looking as nice as possible, but just like you would not permanently tile in and fix in your washing machine so that it could not be taken out for repairs with out taking out the kitchen tiles and kitchen cupboards, it is nearly always a very expensive mistake to install your macerator in this way, this can be easily avoided with simple planning and by remembering the rule below when planning.

The rule is “last in will be first out and the first in will be last out”, this simple rule along with saniflo’s published 10 golden rules can save you hundreds if not thousands of pounds in repair bills, what it means is that when installing your macerator and bath room/loo the last thing to be installed will nearly always be the first and easiest thing to take out and the first thing to be installed will nearly always be the last and hardest thing to take out, for this article were talking mainly about tiled rooms.

Example 1: if you do your planning, put your macerator in place first, connect the pipes up, push up the loo against the macerator, complete the tiling up to and around the loo and macerator, when you need repairs, and one day you will, you may need to lift some tiles to be able to remove the loo so that the macerator can be taken out and repaired.

Example 2: if you plan for maintenance, then you would complete the floor tiling first and put both the loo and macerator on top of tiles making sure there is adequate room to easily remove the macerator with out the need to remove the loo or any tiles, any boxing in would be held in place with short screws and sealant making it easy to remove for future repair work

As you can see in example 2 the first thing to be fitted would be the tiles and the last thing to be installed by the plumber would be the macerator and loo, so when maintenance is needed, it is quick and easy to get access to the macerator with out the need to remove the loo or tiles, every installation is unique and different, so its up to you to ensure the planning for future maintenance for your specific installation, but remember the rule

Simple as this may sound, many people do not realise that their macerator as been installed as in example 1 until it develops a fault and and the repairs start, but also many people do not have tiles down and have easy access to the macerator, in both cases finding a macerator engineer with fixed prices that carry adequate stock parts is a good idea, as a engineer without parts is more likely to just condemn the unit for their own benefit, I have also include a link below to a contact that will offer you the fixed price macerator repairs service