in need of macerating toilet options advice.

whjco wrote:
We have a custom bus in our fleet that has a macerating toilet. It looks like a standard porcelain toilet but when the button is pushed, it first runs additional water into the bowl and then the grinder starts and the toilet flushes. It works fine if only toilet paper is put into the toilet, but if a tampon or other kind of solid material of that type is put into the toilet, it causes a malfunction that requires pulling the whole toilet off of the floor and manually cleaning out the grinder. Our maintenance crew just loves it.

The toilet dumps into a holding tank that located directly under the toilet so one would probably mount in place of your present toilet. However, I'm wondering if the hassle of the macerating toilet might not be offset by just using a wand through your toilet to wash down the tank and maybe use a digesting treatment in the tank?

Hey thanks for the reply, curious if you know what brand it is?

I am actually also considering another option, we have a fresh water flush port where I can hook a hose up outside to a port to spray the tank down, wondering if I could plumb the 12 volt pump to it with a button inside, obviously with a back flow preventer, but not sure it would spray the right way or be strong enough.

wow amazing what people will toss in a toilet without thinking or caring, but if someone in my family puts a tampon in the toilet they can sleep outside, I have taught them better then that LOL.

Kind of surprised a tampon will stop that, but its probably because its 12 volt, I have a macerating sump in our basement and that thing could grind a box of tampons ( I probably just jinxed it LOL)its the only toilet our son is allowed to use at home hahahaha
Thanks again!