Flojet Question

I have a 100' hose with flojet with a slight downhill. Works great! I think the downhill makes it possible.

Tried the dumping you're describing a couple years ago at a campground. Used 1 inch swimming pool hose with PVC couplings to go from the Flojet to the dump station (about 100' and slightly up hill, maybe a foot of rise. Didn't work so well as the swimming pool hose would easily kink and stop the flow. I believe it would work on your application. The drop you describe you may even be able to dump using just the swimming pool hose without the FloJet. The 100 + feet I bought rolls up into a plastic storage bin just a bit larger than a shoe box.

lawrosa wrote:
The flo jet uses a lot of water to drain the tanks.. You will be doing your septic system harm by stirring up more solids then usual. These will/may get out to the leach field and cause failure..

FloJet is a Macerator and doesn't use any extra water as it is motor driven.

Think you might be confusing it with the 'Sewer Solution' which uses high pressure water as prime mover.


I have a Portable FloJet Macerator that I use at my sisters house.

From RV to septic clean out is 75' with a 2' rise.
I pump 50 gallons of black then let motor cool down for 15 minutes then pump 50 gallons of grey....cool for 15 mins and finish up with last 28 gallons of galley tank and rinse water

Had my FloJet for 8 yrs now

The flo jet uses a lot of water to drain the tanks.. You will be doing your septic system harm by stirring up more solids then usual. These will/may get out to the leach field and cause failure..

I use a flo-jet portable with a 50' 3/4 inch black rubber hose (NOTE THE COLOR) have occasionally spliced an additional 25 feet on it (That's my gray hose, we were only dumping gray that day)..

No problems save one::::

After first use if it's not used very often the rotor will size up.. To fix (now this is way easier than you think) take a quarter, or a flat bladed tool.. on the BOTTOM (non pump end) of the motor is a slotted shaft.. The outlet tends to suggest a direction of rotation, Turn shaft in that direction using tool.

Now hook up, plug in and go

there is a fuse holder in the base of the switch module.. Be aware of it. Have spares.

Finally, if you are worried. Try to get a 1" hose. they do make them but you will have to adapt to one.

I trenched and buried a 1 1/4 inch 130 feet long pvc pipe with a male hose fitting on each end. I ran the pipe to green valve box on each end and use two short 3/4 inch hoses - one to connect to the macerator and the other to the sewer clean out. After flushing for about 5 minutes with fresh water per the macerator instructions I store the 3/4 inch hoses in a plastic tub.

corvettekent wrote:
I used one last year at a friends house. He had a 100' 3/4" hose and it would trip the circuit breaker after about 5 minutes. This was all on level ground.

If you really want this to work for you, you should forget the 3/4' hose and use 1.25" PVC pipe. I would also replace the 12 gauge wire with 10 gauge.

Thanks, but I am not gonna run pvc pipe for 100' and have to connect/disconnect and store it somewhere...a 100' hose will be much simpler.

I think the gravity should work just fine. It's probably at least a 20' drop of elevation over 100'.

I used one last year at a friends house. He had a 100' 3/4" hose and it would trip the circuit breaker after about 5 minutes. This was all on level ground.

If you really want this to work for you, you should forget the 3/4' hose and use 1.25" PVC pipe. I would also replace the 12 gauge wire with 10 gauge.