connect my sewer lineinto my home sewer system

[Yeates689]

I have been interested in trying to find out if I would be able to connect my sewer line into my home sewer system. I have just been told by my contractor that it is not something that can be done because I would be told to remove it if discovered.I thought it would be possible to access the sewer line at my house to be able to dump the tanks from my RV at home as I have seen and heard of from other owners. I live 5 miles north of Boston Massachusetts and live in the house that is very old and want to know if anyone nose of a difference point of view or if it can be done. Not if it can be done physically but if it is a wild and how would it be done at my house.as I stated it is a very old house and does not have an external sore back up cleaneraccess point outside like some houses have. It would be great to install something like this because I can find local places to dump Blackwater if I want to go away for a couple of days here and there. Please help!

[Dakzuki]

A clean out and RV dump look remarkably similar. Have your contractor install a clean out in a location you can use as a dump.....end of problem.

[k9-keno]

I use a clean out in my city system. Works great just pull up dump and go pretty cool. IF you dumping in the house and dumping in the clean out it all goes to the same place. You know what they say **** goes down hill....

[mlts22]

Here in Austin, it is similar. A sewage clean-out is perfectly OK. In fact, it is encourage to have more than one due to oak tree roots getting into lines. However, if that access to the sewer is called a dump station, the fur will fly. Neighbors will be calling every LEO saying there is a biological contamination hazard, etc.

Calling it a clean-out and being discrete about using it (preferably having it not visible from the road) for its real purpose will go a long way.

[Mocoondo]

When I did mine, I just had them tee in a length of sewer line right into the main at my shop. It goes underground, then tee's in at a 45 to the main line. Pull right up, hook up, dump, done.

[John_M1]

We set up ours this way:
Our basement floor is lower than the sewer line going out to the sewer under the street. The builder installed a crock in the basement floor for the water from the washing machine and laundry sink. The crock has an ejector pump that pumps the water up to a level above the sewer line and connects to the house's drain pipes.
I installed a 1-1/2 inch PVC pipe that goes through the outside wall near the RV, across the basement ceiling (at a pretty good slope) and then goes down into the crock.
To dump the RV, I use a sewer solution and stick it's hose into the PVC line.

Everything except for the small capped PVC pipe on the side of the house is inside. When we dump, the RV blocks the view of what is going on. Nobody's business but ours.

Works for us.

[TyroneandGladys]

If you have a sewer clean out just open and run your RV sewage hose to it and dump. Do not leave attached as you could run into code issues. If you do not have a sewer clean out or the one you have is not accessible to the RV check with a plumber for a price to add it to your line and do not call it a RV dump it is a sewer clean out only and after the SEWER CLEANOUT is there then you can use it for dumping your RV.

[D_E_Bishop]

Yeates689,

You don't say where you live in CA and while I don't know how every town, city and county works, I do know about some of them. Most sanitation dept's don't really give a crud if you use your cleanout to dump your tanks. I didn't have an easily accessable cleanout in my homes sewer system so I installed one. It just so happens that it is where I can access it with twenty feet of one inch Sewer Solution discharge hose. The cleanout I installed is a 1.5" abs pipe with a coupling on the outside of the house. I used a sewer test plug to cap it off. Not a good idea, it would be better to use a slip - FPR coupling. The slip - slip coupling I used has deformed from the probably excessive pressure from the test plug. I try not to dump when there are any City employees around, which is very seldom on our street. Actually I don't give a rats a$$ if they see me. The cleanout is properly installed and meets code.

If I were you, I would just install the clean out and use it when needed. But I have been known to mentioned the fact that I worked for the City for 33 years and sweet talk employees out of stuff.

I use a Sewer Solution instead of a 3" slinky or a macerator pump. I have to pump over a planter that is about 18" high and it works pretty good. The original manufacturer sold to someone, maybe Camco, I,m not sure and of course the price is three times what I paid and the customer service supposedly sucks. My waterhose quick disconnect broke and the only place I could find a replacement was the manufacturer. A tad Spendy. Oh yeah, the SS has several adapters to fit different sizes of common sanitary waste pipes, mine is 1.5" but it goes up to 4.0 inches. This gives you an air tight coupling of your drain line and the sewer line.

[Yeates689]

yes, but my question remains- whre do i dump it to?

[Bill___Kate]

Poop is mostly water - assuming your diet is anywhere near normal. Most of the recognizable shapes break up in the black tank as things slosh around. The function of a macerator - whether it be a chopper pump or a high pressure venturi - is to completely break up whatever is left - think garbage disposal - and push it on to the sewer. As seen in the video - brownish water with small chunks in it ...

I have worked in the sewer industry for over 30 years, and what ends up coming to the sewer plant looks a whole lot different than what you flush down .....

[Yeates689]

for example see this video. whre the heck does the poop go? it seems every one understands this but me. befre i buy something like this i need to know where it all goes to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUUggzO-jw

[Bill___Kate]

Yeates689 wrote:
Would a macerator pump work if my toilet is on the second floor?

Probably not. From street level all the way up to the second floor is most likely more than a standard macerator can handle.

Instead of asking your plumber to install a RV connection, ask him to install a "clean out" somewhere handy - basement, front yard, wherever it makes sense. The sewer drains have to get from the second floor toilet to the street somehow, and there must be a place to install a clean out. Ours is right between the curb and the sidewalk - we just pop off the cover, and put the hose from the macerator right down the pipe.

[Yeates689]

Would a macerator pump work if my toilet is on the second floor?

[wcjeep]

There has been some discussion previously on this. Basically, if you tell the city you want an RV dump access point it becomes a big problem depending on your municipality. If you have a sewer clean out for maintenance purposes typically no problem. Research your local laws/rules if permit is required for the clean out install.

[E_mc2]

If you are just dumping the rv, most sewer agencies will not have a problem with that, the one I work for doesn't, we figure if you are dumping it probably means that for the last x amount of days you were not contributing so it is a wash so to speak. The problem usually comes when it is permanetly connected and the rv is being used as a second residence on the property. I would use my cleanout in a heartbeat and use the above argument if I was "Caught." Keep in mind this is how we operate here. If you don't have a cleanout, then you should anyways especially if it is a old house.