Noisy macerator

[Assettrail]

Hi guys, and thank you for a wondrous mine of information. I have a problem with our new house, in the en-suite there is a macerator fitted to the loo/shower/bath and sink, one unit to serve all four items. I am not a plumber and this is the first macerator I have ever come across. Thankfully we have a first floor bathroom which gets most of the use. The problem is the en-suite is right next to my little girls room, she's only three🙂, and when the macerator kicks in it is very noisy, it sounds like it is bouncing all over the place. It scares the **** out of her, lucky she's near the loo🙂, but she won't go in there to use it.
Please let me know your thoughts, I can't move her to another room, she's next to mum and dad, and her brothers all occupy the first floor.
best wishes
to all for 2010,
Daz
Assettrail

 

[carpstu]

chuck it away and have it conected to the mains

 

[Assettrail]

😡 Well what an amazingly helpful comment ,not. Since asking the question I have taken the macerator apart, cleaned it out and oiled all the moving parts - which is incidentally the type of answer I was expecting. And all is good now, not a nice job but someone has to do it.

 

[Puddle]

Pleased all now is well,was something stuck in it?

 

[oldplumber]

prehaps the idiot should have looked into his problem further and cured it before coming onto the forum. maserators are noisy normally and a horrible invention that no plumber likes working on or with and if you consider the answer, it is the best solution if not a tad costly.

 

[carpstu]

i took the one out i was working on as the landlord thort that it was better in the long run to take out and chuck it away and connect to the mains as tennants dont look after

well i was happy anyway as i got a good earning job out of it anyway