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Toilet Keeps Clogging: Macerating Toilet Effective Solution?

MtnMike
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In our 2016 Jayco Pinnacle 36FBTS, the Front Toilet Keeps Clogging. We've used various methods to clear the clogs; plunger, plumber's snake, toilet wand, septic-safe chemicals. Once cleared, though, it will clog again within a few days, even with family members claiming that they flush with a lot of water, even flushing twice, when flushing septic-safe and rapidly dissolvable toilet paper. The clogs all appear to occur where the sewage line from the toilet makes a 90 degree turn (or perhaps more than one 90 degree elbow) about 8 feet down the line (based upon how much plumber's snake is worked down when trying to clear the clog). One neighboring rig owner told me his coach uses a macerator toilet and he's never experienced a clog in the year's that he's be living full-time in his rig. An in-line macerator, beneath the toilet, would reduce all flushed items to a slush to easily make the bends in the lines beneath the floor. Is there such a solution, or must I replace the existing Thetford porcelain toilet with one of their macerating models? Do they make a porcelain macerating toilet? Has this solution resolved this constant clogging issue in anyone's experience?
MtnMike
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westernrvparkow
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To quote the great Howard Wolowitz: " It just wasn't designed for Russian cosmonauts and their potato-based diet."

dave17352
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Interesting problem. I can see this happening with a 90 degree bend and such little water usage. Interesting they would design it that way. Seems like it is designed to fail. I hope I am wrong.JMHO
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darsben1
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Have you consulted Jayco about problem? If it is a design problem you are probably not the first complaint; I would also ask on the Jayco's owners forum.
Could there be an obstruction in the line? How far from the end of line does the clog occur?
Can you use something like this
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to inspect the bore to see if the piping is clear?
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Old-Biscuit
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"...... even with family members claiming ....."
Is it time for your medication or mine?


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stickdog
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I bet if you google it you'll find out.
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newman_fulltime
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to much tp is being used at once