Unfortunately, the house that I recently bought has a Saniflo fitted in the downstairs loo. I don't know much about these, other than they are an absolute pain and often go wrong (some of my sites at work have them fitted).
Surprise surprise, mine has now gone wrong. In short, I flushed the toilet yesterday and instead of the pump kicking in and the water draining away, the water did not drain and filled right to the top of the bowl. You can hear a repeated click noise from the unit and a very faint whirr as if it;s trying to work (click whirr, click whirr...). I've left it for a day and it's still making this noise and the level in the pan has dropped by about half.
This toilet gets used very little, mainly because it's usually freezing cold, as it's off the utlity room, which itself is just the back half of the side garage, walled off, so it's not properly insulated. I'm thinking this may be the problem - i'd say it probably hadn't been used for the past 2/3 weeks through the freezing weather - could this have affected it (although it always worked fine before)?
When it does get used, not to sound too horrible, but nothing solid goes down through it (except toilet paper), or at least not since I've had the house (August) as I didn't want to tempt fate!
The unit itself has a little red button on the front side of it, which I've tried pressing, but nothing happens. Is there anything I can try to get it working, or am I going to havr to get someone in to strip the whole thing down?
Surprise surprise, mine has now gone wrong. In short, I flushed the toilet yesterday and instead of the pump kicking in and the water draining away, the water did not drain and filled right to the top of the bowl. You can hear a repeated click noise from the unit and a very faint whirr as if it;s trying to work (click whirr, click whirr...). I've left it for a day and it's still making this noise and the level in the pan has dropped by about half.
This toilet gets used very little, mainly because it's usually freezing cold, as it's off the utlity room, which itself is just the back half of the side garage, walled off, so it's not properly insulated. I'm thinking this may be the problem - i'd say it probably hadn't been used for the past 2/3 weeks through the freezing weather - could this have affected it (although it always worked fine before)?
When it does get used, not to sound too horrible, but nothing solid goes down through it (except toilet paper), or at least not since I've had the house (August) as I didn't want to tempt fate!
The unit itself has a little red button on the front side of it, which I've tried pressing, but nothing happens. Is there anything I can try to get it working, or am I going to havr to get someone in to strip the whole thing down?
